Graduate Student News
The Graduate@Carleton newsletter is typically distributed every Thursday morning. The next newsletter will be sent to you on April 28. If you have any questions, please email us at: fgpa_newsletter@carleton.ca.
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COVID-19 Mask Policy Remains in Place Until Further Notice
If you have not already done so, please read this information about Carleton’s mask policy. Click here to read.
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Grad Student Tells a Winning Research Story
Carleton grad student Marshall Palmer has won one of the 25 Storyteller Awards handed out by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Click here to find out more about his winning entry. SSHRC’s Storytellers Challenge asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. Each finalist receives $3,000 and a chance at one of the coveted Final Five spots, which come with an additional $1,000. The Final Five winners will be announced at an event at the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences on May 16, 2022, View Palmer’s video here.
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Congratulations to the Winners of Carleton's 3MT Competition
Congrats to the following students who won Carleton’s Three Minute Thesis Competition this year in which the participants had to talk about their research in three minutes or less without using any props.
First Place ($1000 prize): Rebecca Pinto, Mechanical Engineering, Can solar energy heat Canadian homes year-round? Watch the video!
Second Place ($500 prize): Jacquie Ballantine, Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, Autistic University Students and the Double Empathy Problem
Third Place ($250 prize): Natasha Kunchur, Biomedical Engineering, Asthma: The Breath Taking Experience. Watch the video!
People’s Choice Award ($250 prize): Sanghy Ramani, Psychology, Metformin—can it help people with multiple sclerosis? Watch the video!
Ballantine will be representing Carleton at the Provincial 3MT contest on May 4 at the University of Guelph. We will post her video in the newsletter after that event.
Click here for more information. In future issues of The Graduate@Carleton newsletter, we will be featuring more videos. Our congratulations to everyone who participated.
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Still Time to Enter the GRADflix Research Competition
FGPA is also sponsoring a second research competition called GRADflix. This research video competition asks graduate students to submit one video about their research, and all videos must be no longer than one minute in length and contain both movement and sound. Your could win $1000. Please visit the GRADflix page for more information. The competition is now scheduled for May 27, with May 18 as the due date for all video submissions.
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Congratulations to the Carleton Ravens Basketball Team!
Another win! What an amazing basketball team. The Carleton Ravens captured championship number sixteen on April 3 defeating the Saskatchewan Huskies 85-72 to win the W.P. McGee Trophy and a third-straight national championship victory. Click here for details. Lloyd Pandi was named MVP.
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Summer Term Tuition Fees
The Summer term payment deadline is April 25. Visit the Student Accounts website for important payment information. Late payment charges and late registration charges apply to the student account on or after this date. OSAP entitlements must be available by this date in order to be eligible for the OSAP deferral. Calculate Amount to Pay will inform students if they have been granted this deferral. Fees for the Summer 2022 term are available at Fee Estimator – Carleton University. Fees for the Fall 2022-Winter 2023 academic year should be posted late May or early June.
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Professional Development Update
This summer, FGPA’s Professional Development team will be offering some PD workshops, including these two:
May 5 at 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Writing in the Workplace
May 25 at 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Writing Reports
To view all of the summer PD offerings, please click here. Also, you can sign up for a one-on-one writing consultation to assist you with writing-related challenges, or to discuss the effectiveness of your research and writing strategies. To request a consultation, please fill out and submit this web form.
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Need Assistance? A Listening Ear?
The end of a school term and exams can create a lot of anxiety. There are several health and counselling resources that you can access. Please click here to see these resources. There are lots of other resources available to you.
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Updated Award Information
Please pay close attention to details on how to accept your award:
- OGS: If you are successful, and you originally completed a paper application submission, you need to fill in this acceptance form and return to jenna.mcconnell@carleton.ca as soon as possible. If you submitted your application online and received a successful result, the acceptance form will be located in your Carleton Central application. If you experience any issues accepting your award, please reach out to Jenna McConnell immediately. Note: If you have a pending decision from SSHRC, NSERC or CIHR and have been successful in the OGS competition, please accept your OGS offer. If you then receive a positive result regarding a different external award, your funding will be revised.
- CGS Master’s: If you are successful, you need to fill out this acceptance form and send to jenna.mcconnell@carleton.ca as soon as possible.
PhD students should be informed of their Tri-council (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR) scholarship status by the end of April. Any PhD student who holds a tri-council multi-year award must fill out an annual progress report in order to receive the next three terms of their award. Reports should be submitted directly to jenna.mcconnell@carleton.ca for processing. The timing of the report is based on the start date of your award.
April 1 – May anniversaries
July 1 – September anniversaries
December 1 – January anniversaries
Forms can be found here: NSERC, SSHRC. For full details on policies regarding holding a tri-agency award, please review the Tri-Agency Award Holder’s Guide.
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Zoom Update Required By May 2
As of May 2, all Carleton University Zoom users will be required to use version 5.10.1 (released March 28) or newer on the Zoom desktop client and mobile app. If you are using an older version, you should update your app by May 2 to ensure uninterrupted access to all Zoom meetings, including those within Brightspace. Download the latest version of Zoom here.
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Have Your Say About Accessibility Practices on Campus
The Coordinated Accessibility Strategy (CAS) is inviting you to share your accessibility best practices with the Carleton community. Individual and group submissions are welcome. Submissions will be shared as part of a campaign that aims to illustrate Carleton’s strong culture of accessibility during National AccessAbility Week (May 30-June 3). The deadline to submit: is Friday, April 29, 2022. To share your best practices, please send an email, photo, drawing or video that tells how you are addressing disability-related barriers and making your course(s), workplace or services more accessible for your peers, students, staff or visitors to AccessibilityStrategy@carleton.ca.
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PhD Students - A "Write" Opportunity
On a regular basis, The Conversation puts out a list of possible story ideas for PhD students and faculty to write about. Click here to find out about the latest opportunities.
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For International Students
Carleton and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Forge a Partnership
Dr. Chris Burn, a Carleton physical geographer, began working in the northern community of Mayo in 1982 and has visited the village every calendar year since. Through his visits, Burn laid the groundwork for a community partnership between Carleton University and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun.
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Alumni Success Story: Life, Love and Resistance
As a playwright, dancer, multi-disciplinary performer, dramaturge, and teacher of drama, Dr. Sarah Waisvisz (PhD ‘14) is an artist through and through. Her award-winning plays are seen by audiences all over North America, with her most recent show, Heartlines, being featured at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa.
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A Discussion with Author and English Alumna Sanita Fejzić
For Sanita Fejzić (MA ’18), writing is a way of life. A graduate of Carleton’s Department of English Language and Literature, she believes that writing can challenge power structures, expose historical blind spots, ignite social change and dramatically amend one’s core values and identity. In a conversation with FASS Communications Officer Nick Ward, Fejzić explains how creating the imaginary can often lead us to better understand what is possible in the real world – a pressing necessity in our current moment.
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Research: Student-Designed Robot Could Change the Future of Common Heart Surgery
Roughly 15,000 people in Canada undergo coronary artery bypass grafting surgery each year, improving heart function due to disease, heart attack or other complications. Recovery from this highly invasive procedure can take up to 12 weeks. But what if there was a more efficient and less invasive way to perform this procedure? A team of three engineering students from Carleton and Ryerson universities may have designed a solution by participating in the inaugural Carleton University Design League Designathon—a fast-paced design competition where engineering students showcase their computer-aided design skills while creating 3D solutions to real-world engineering problems.
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Research: Measuring Methane Emissions One of the Keys to Combatting Climate Change
At the United Nations COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas with an impact on global warming several dozen times stronger than that of carbon dioxide. Carleton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prof. Matthew Johnson, director of the university’s Energy and Emissions Research Laboratory, is in the midst of a multi-year project using airborne and ground-based technologies to measure methane at more than 8,000 active energy production sites from Manitoba to British Columbia.
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Research: Challenging the Declines Associated with Aging Brains
The human brain is the most complex organ in the body and the most powerful computer in the universe. But as we get older, our cognitive abilities decline, impacting our memory, the speed at which we process information, how we handle distractions and our capacity to remain independent. Carleton psychology researcher and Canada Research Chair John Anderson, director of the Cognition and Neuroscience of Aging Lab, wants to help optimize the cognitive performance of older adults.
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Research: Helping Child and Youth Mental Health Through Education
Roughly 1.2 million children and youth in Canada experience mental health challenges, from anxiety and depression to eating disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Although school is one of the places where children learn how to make sense of the world, the education system can be a difficult environment to navigate, especially for those who are already facing obstacles—a concern amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Carleton psychology researcher Maria Rogers brings together two important areas of study for children and youth—mental health and education—to improve our understanding of how they interact. Her ultimate goal is to help nurture success at school and beyond.
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Important Dates and Deadlines
April 25
Summer term payment deadline. Visit the Student Accounts website for important payment information. Late payment charges and late registration charges apply to the student account on or after this date. OSAP entitlements must be available by this date in order to be eligible for the OSAP deferral. Calculate Amount to Pay will inform students if they have been granted this deferral.
May 5
Early summer and full summer classes begin.
May 12
Last day for registration and course changes (including auditing) for early summer courses.
May 13
Graduate students who have not electronically submitted their final thesis copy to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs will not be eligible to graduate in spring 2022 and must register for the summer 2022 term.
May 19
Last day for registration and course changes (including auditing) for full summer courses.
May 20
Last day to withdraw from early summer and full summer courses with a full fee adjustment (financial withdrawal). Withdrawals after this date will result in a permanent notation of WDN on the official transcript.
May 23
Statutory holiday. University closed.
The summer 2022 class schedule is available in Carleton Central and via the public class schedule. Instructors were posted on March 14 and room information will be available on April 25. Registration information, including timetickets and important dates for the summer 2022 term, are posted at carleton.ca/registrar/registration
For a complete list of all official academic and financial dates and deadlines, please go to the Registrar’s website. For all financial matters, go to Student Accounts.
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