While walking around campus, you may notice the big banners hanging on different buildings that feature various people. It’s all part of the latest CU75 campaign that celebrates great Carleton students, faculty and alumni. Next year, Carleton will host several events in honour of its 75th year.
Engineering innovator and PhD student, Bruce Wallace, is featured in the poster campaign. During 24 years in the communication sector, Wallace worked on advanced technology, new design methods and emerging business applications. His career spanned contributions to the first-ever use of speech recognition in the telephone network through to communication solutions for health-care providers. He maintained a collaboration with Carleton as a sponsor of innovative university research and continued to build his skills by completing numerous educational programs in business and finance.
For his PhD, he is researching sensor and signal processing technology related to human cognition and cognitive decline. A key piece within international collaborations among universities and hospitals, his work will inform technology that will allow individuals to live at home longer and reduce the need for intervention by caregivers.
To find out more about Wallace, click here.
As well, two graduate alumni, Ivan Fellegi and Linda Grussani, are part of the new campaign.
Ivan Fellegi first came to Carleton University in 1957, receiving a Master of Science degree in Mathematics in 1958 and a PhD in 1961, the first student to receive a Carleton master’s and doctorate.
He is a past chair of Carleton’s Board of Governors. In 1985, Fellegi became the Chief Statistician of Canada, a role he held until 2008.
More information about Fellegi can be found here.
Linda Grussani, an art historian and Indigenous art curator, channelled her passion for art into two Carleton University degrees. She received an honours BA in Art History in 1999 and a master’s degree in Canadian Art History in 2003.
“Positioned in the nation’s capital, the MA program provided me with ample opportunity to apply the strong theoretical basis learned in the classroom through practical experiences that have proved invaluable to my past and current places of work,’’ says Grussani.
Grussani recently joined the Canadian Museum of History on an Interchange assignment, serving as curator of Aboriginal Art.
“Each year I look forward to returning to campus to attend the excellent programming at the Carleton University Art Gallery and the stimulating talks held regularly within the Art History Department,” she says. “Carleton University remains part of my extended family.”
To read Grussani’s full biography, click here.
You can find out more about the CU75 campaign by going to this website.
Thursday, October 13, 2016 in Alumni, CU75, Grad Student Research
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