FGPA is Number One

Congratulations! A team from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs beat out the competition to win the Carleton University Healthier Challenge. The “Gradufits” team was made up of Donna Byron, Christina Noja, Judith Srna and Glendy Wong. Although weight-loss was one of the criteria, other important health measures such as blood pressure, cholesterol and ... more

Posted on May 15, 2012 in News Feed for all posts filed under News

Legal Studies Grad Students Awarded Prestigious Scholarships

The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to congratulate three of our Legal Studies graduate students on their recent SSHRC awards. Master of Arts in Legal Studies graduate Mariam Sheibani received a four year SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her research in the area of Islamic legal theory and the constants and variables of ... more

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Honorary Degree Recipients Named for Upcoming Carleton Convocation

Carleton’s spring convocation will take place June 5-8 in the Fieldhouse. The morning ceremonies begin at 9:30 a.m. and the afternoon ceremonies begin at 2 p.m. June 5 Afternoon Ceremony: Elijah Harper will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Tuesday, June 5, “in recognition of ... more

Posted on May 15, 2012 in News Feed for all posts filed under News

PhD Student in the Toronto Star

Recently, Vic Toews, minister of public safety, announcement that the Harper government intends to “restore balance” to the criminal justice system and increase “offender accountability,” by taking measures to reduce the amount of income prisoners can earn while incarcerated. PhD student Leah DeVellis had this reaction in the Toronto Star.  Read Here.

Posted on May 14, 2012 in News Feed for all posts filed under News

Carleton Takes Part in the Africa Initiative Graduate Research Program

Carleton will be participating in the Africa Initiative Graduate Research Program by welcoming Ms. Prisca Kamungi, a top doctoral student at the University of Witwatersrand’s African Centre for Migration and Society, one of the world’s leading scholarly centres on migration and refugees in Africa.  Through short-term academic opportunities for cross-continent research, the Africa Initiative Graduate ... more

Posted on May 14, 2012 in News Feed for all posts filed under News

June 2012 Teaching & Learning Symposium

            Please join us for the 2012 Teaching and Learning Symposium on Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Invited Keynote: Dr. Eric Mazur, Harvard University We invite faculty, instructors, and upper-level graduate students from all over to participate in this inspiring event. This symposium is free to attend for the entire Carleton ... more

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Child Care – Part 12 in Our Series on Services for Grad Students

Forty years and counting. That’s how long the Colonel By Child Care Centre has been operating at Carleton University. The centre accepts children between the ages of six months and five years and offers four separate programs – infant (6 months to 18 months), toddler (18 months to 2.5 years of age), junior preschool (2.5 ... more

Posted on May 14, 2012 in News Feed for all posts filed under News

Protecting Canadian Instrastructure – First Student to Graduate from Carleton’s MIPIS Program

Terrorism, security, explosives – these are all themes that attracted Kyle Van de Vooren to sign up for Canada’s first Master’s degree in Infrastructure Protection and International Security (MIPIS). And this June, he will be the first person to graduate from the MIPIS program offered by Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the ... more

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Trillium Scholarship – From Korea to Carleton

One day, as she was conducting her master’s research at SungKongHoe University in Korea, Jiyoung LeeAn came across a book called Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System by Carleton sociology professor Daiva Stasiulis. That chance reference led LeeAn to contact Stasiulis. “I was already researching how marriage migrant women had to ... more

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First Two Students Graduate From Master’s Program in Sustainable Energy

June Convocation is on the horizon but two master’s students expedited their studies to graduate in February. Diana Ioan and Beat Riedener are the first two people to graduate from Carleton’s master’s program in Sustainable Energy. “This program offers a unique experience which allows you to explore topics not covered in typical engineering programs,” says ... more

Posted on May 10, 2012 in Grad Student Research Feed for all posts filed under Grad Student ResearchNews Feed for all posts filed under News
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