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Monday, June 22, 2020
PhD student Jean Ketterling said her heart rate shot through the ceiling when she clicked on an email notification to check the 2020 Vanier scholarship results. “Once my heart rate went back to normal, I was thrilled!” says Ketterling. Ketterling is one of three Carleton University students to win a Vanier Graduate Student Scholarship... More
Carleton PhD student David Luong was part of the team that published the world's first laboratory results on microwave quantum radar. The team found that the potential gains could be massive. Luong explains that radars are typically designed using classical physics, which works very well in everyday life but does not describe the full... More
Antoine Genest-Gregoire, a Carleton PhD student in Public Policy, is one of three Carleton University students to have won a 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. This extremely prestigious scholarship is awarded to Canadian PhD students who conduct exceptional research. It is valued at $50,000 per year for three years during a student’s... More
Friday, June 19, 2020
Systems and Computer Engineering student David Luong, Legal Studies student Jean Ketterling, and Public Policy student Antoine Genest-Gregoire, all doctoral students at Carleton University, have won 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. These extremely prestigious scholarships are awarded to Canadian PhD students who conduct exceptional... More
Monday, June 1, 2020
--The following story was written by Taia Goguen-Garner. Robyn O’Loughlin, a PhD Candidate in Legal Studies, is researching the effects of Ontario’s anti-bullying framework under the Education Act in regard to so-called bullying behaviours. She is looking at how these legislative frameworks impact Indigenous students who move to attend high... More
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Gemey Kelly, a PhD student in Cultural Mediations, has been awarded the Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation (SHMF) Scholarship. The 2020 Sheila Mackay Advanced Studies Scholarship is awarded to a prominent member of the New Brunswick arts community. Kelly is preparing a dissertation on the New Brunswick painter, Jack Humphrey Jurors had high praise for... More
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Carleton University’s Noah Schwartz, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, is among the top 25 finalists of the national Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Storyteller competition. Schwartz’s SSHRC-funded research, supervised by Mira Sucharov, seeks to better understand the impact of the National... More
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
“Women in STEM have a hard time finding role models and mentors. As a result, women may find it hard to imagine themselves in positions of influence and are prone to imposter syndrome. So being resilient and keeping our values in mind should be helpful to help us have the amazing careers that we... More
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Reaching financial goals can be tough, especially when you are prone to impulse buys. Mariya Davydenko, a PhD student in Psychology, is researching self-control strategies to help people reach their financial goals. She is particularly interested in whether people use self-control strategies in their daily life and whether these strategies are... More
--The following story was written by Ebere Ahanihu The care of people with intellectual disabilities, and the impact of social policy on their lives and families, is one of the themes of Anna Przednowek’s PhD research in Carleton University’s School of Social Work. Przednowek is challenging the mainstream discourse in policy-making that... More
---The following story was written by Taia Goguen-Garner. Museums are full of cultural artifacts. These artifacts are often circulated, displayed, and seen throughout the world. The reality of this is that some of these artifacts were stolen from their homelands. PhD student, Pansee Abou Elatta in Cultural Mediations is researching the history of... More
--The following story was written by Taia Goguen-Garner. Violence and incarceration have become very normalized within society. This violence and imprisonment can also be framed as being for the greater good of the state. Master’s student Kyla Piccin is researching carceral abolition in Canada through the lens of Canada’s newest pipeline.... More
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