Listen to CBU faculty and students as they share their interesting research with CBC Information Morning Host. Check back monthly for a new segment.
Sharp Thinking
Our feature on Research at Cape Breton University continues, today, we focus on injection drug users and how a network of volunteers are helping them stay safe. The research project pairs CBU with Addiction Services.
Pardon My French
Dr. Bernard Mulo Farenkia is a linguistics professor at Cape Breton University who's studying how being polite varies in different forms of French in Cameroon, Canada and France.
Liquid Language
In our on-going look at interesting and innovative research being done at Cape Breton University, we meet Professor Dana Mount who's been looking at the words the world uses when discussing water and the impact of that. And she's prepared a document for the United Nations on the topic
Applied Psychology
Professor Heather Schmidt talks about her research methods in a discipline called community psychology in this column featuring research projects at Cape Breton University.
Cheryl Bartlett - CBC Leadership Series
Dr. Cheryl Bartlett has become an educational innovator by marrying ancient knowledge with Western Science. She's one of the founders of the Integrative Science Program at Cape Breton University, a program that's unique in Canada and the world for incorporating aboriginal knowledge with standard science curriculum.
Dr. Bartlett holds the Tier One Canada Research Chair in Integrative Science, a seven year renewable grant worth 1.4 million dollars. And, she's also part of a research team that's been awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant of 1 million dollars for Aboriginal Health Research.
Dr. Bartlett grew up in Duchess, Alberta.
Civic Minding
Meet a Cape Breton University professor who's received a social sciences grant to study how youth understand civic engagement. Dr. Tanya Brann Barrett explains what she hopes to find in the research.
Her Daily Bread
Cape Breton University student Nicole MacDougall is studying references to grain in a series of medieval plays called "The Chester Cycle", we find out why, in our CBU Summer Research series.
Facing The Music
Meet Heather Sparling, a Professor at Cape Breton University, who's been studying songs about disasters and what they tell us about the way we grieve, as our summer series on research at CBU continues.
The Business Of Community Groups
Cape Breton University researcher Amanda Tarr from Sydney is working on a study that's looking at a a sector of the Nova Scotian economy that's often overlooked - the social and community enterprise sector.
Liquid Molecules
In our summer research series, we meet Dale Keefe, a Professor of Chemistry, and the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at CBU, and student Margaret Gillis, they are studying molecular interactions in liquids.
Search And Assist
Mapping the future by preserving the past. As part of her summer research job, Heather Green is a CBU grad who's getting hundreds of maps in order at the Beaton Institute to make them more user friendly.
Making Research Waves
Bruce Hatcher is the Chair of the Bras d'Or Institute at Cape Breton University, we find out how the designation of the Bras d'Or Lake as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve will affect their work at the Institute, as our summer series on research continues.
From South Africa To CB
Dr. Sean Modesto is the new Chair of the Biology Department at CBU. He has just returned from a sabbatical where he spent time in South Africa investigating extinctions that happened millions of years ago, even before the dinosaurs.
Living Near Living History
Emily MacLeod is a master's student at Concordia University, a CBU alumnus and the student research coordinator at Cape Breton University this summer. She wants to know how people in Louisbourg interpret their own history living in the shadow of a Parks Canada National Historic Site.
Minding Her Ps and Qs
Dr. Erin Robertson is a Psychology Professor at Cape Breton University who's putting a scientific twist on the study of grammar. She's doing research this summer by studying peoples brains as they detect errors in grammar.
Itching To Know
Samantha Lawrence is a recent graduate of Cape Breton University. She has a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in biology. Currently, she is studying the family of parasites that cause swimmers itch, meet her in our continuing series on summer research at CBU.
A Bridge To The Past
In our continuing series about summer research at CBU, Professor Ian Brodie and research student Jessie MacDonald are studying when the high school tradition of painting the Sydney River Trestle started... we ask them what they know so far and why they want to know more.
Speaking About Public Speaking
A Cape Breton University researcher, Rebecca Blackie, speaks about her findings when it comes to anxiety surrounding public speaking.
