The Graduate@Carleton newsletter is typically distributed every Thursday morning. The next newsletter will be sent to you on Thursday, June 30.  If you have any questions, please email us at: fgpa_newsletter@carleton.ca.

On June 30, I will be editing TheGraduate@Carleton newsletter for the last time. I am retiring after more than 20 years at Carleton, 11 years with Graduate Studies. I want to say what a joy and honour it has been to support graduate students over the years, especially being able to write stories and share news about interesting grad student initiatives and research. And now, as one of my last acts, I would like to introduce the new editor Ellen Tsaprailis.

Ellen is joining Graduate Studies from her most recent role as Research Communications Coordinator with the Office of the Vice-President (Research International) where she focused on promoting faculty achievements and industry partnerships. Before that, she worked at the Department of University Communications for four years. A former journalist, Ellen has extensive writing and editing experience. We are excited to have Ellen bring her storytelling and communication perspective to Graduate Studies.

I wish all of you an exciting and successful future.

Regards
Lin Moody

In light of the recent announcement from Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and the evolving recommendations from Ottawa Public Health, Carleton will be pausing its mandatory mask mandate starting June 25, 2022 – at the end of both the early summer term and our Spring Convocation season. Read more by clicking here.

This week, Carleton is celebrating Convocation for the Class of 2022. Information about the ceremonies and graduates is posted on our Convocation website.

We are sharing stories about some of our graduates, including the following:

• Medallists Discuss Their Academic Journey at Carleton
• Graduates Reflect on Life at Carleton as They Receive Diplomas
• Meet Some of the Amazing Graduates From the Faculty of Public Affairs.

More stories are posted here.

On May 31, Graduate Studies hosted its annual GRADflix contest in which students had to prepare a video that described their research in one minute or less. Here are four more submissions.

• Kelsey Ulrich-Verslycken (Applied Language and Discourse Studies): Building Willingness (to Communicate)
• D’Arcy O’Farrell (Management): Community Investment Theory
• Meg Lonergan (Legal Studies): The Difference Between Being and Playing Dead
• Cathy Malcolm Edwards (Design): Coping on Campus

The fall and winter 2022-2023 class schedule and registration course planning tool are available in Carleton Central. Registration for returning students begins on Friday, July 8 based on pre-assigned time tickets. Your exact time ticket will be available on Carleton Central (log in through Carleton360) approximately one week preceding the registration time period.

The 2022-23 Carleton University Graduate Calendar is available by clicking here. As there may be updates, everyone is encouraged to visit the updated pages regularly for reference and advising purposes. You can view Special Topics on this web page.

The Paul Menton Centre (PMC) is continuing to offer weekly virtual writing support for graduate students with disabilities over the summer. The Graduate Student Writing Group meets every Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. until August 16. Please register here. Before attending, you need to review the PMC group meeting guidelines. Registration with PMC is not essential for participation in this group.

The Paul Menton Centre (PMC) would like to learn about your experiences as a graduate student with a disability at Carleton University. Please tell us how the PMC can better support your needs by completing this survey by tomorrow, Friday, June 24 to be entered into a draw to win a $50 campus gift card. The PMC intends to use the results from this survey to:

1. Identify existing accommodations and supports for graduate students with a disability;
2. Identify gaps and systemic barriers limiting access and participation;  and
3. Collaborate with campus partners to improve accommodations and supports that are more tailored to the needs of graduate students with disabilities at Carleton.

If you have any concerns or questions about their survey, please contact Somei Tam at SomeiTam@cunet.carleton.ca

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.

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.

Carleton’s Ethics and Public Affairs (EPAF) program is hosting its sixth annual multidisciplinary graduate conference with the theme Building Back Better: Opportunities and Risks. This will be a hybrid face-to-face and online event. Graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for presentations related to one or more aspects of the conference theme from the perspective of political philosophy, ethics, political science, economics, social work, law, public health, public policy, and other related fields. The deadline for abstract submission is July 31, 2022.

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Are you a new international student starting at Carleton this summer or fall? Do you have questions about accessing services, study permits, work and navigating campus or Ottawa? The International Student Services Office (ISSO) is here to help! Check out the next Ask Us Anything information session on June 28 at 9:00 a.m. by clicking here.

I-Start Orientation is a free, online mini-course designed for new international students studying at Carleton University. Through this course, new students will learn the information needed to help you transition to student life at Carleton and in Canada.  Registration is now open with course launching on July 11. Register here.

Check out ISSO’s Preparing for the Fall 2022 Term post.

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Professor Anne Bordeleau has been appointed Director of the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism for a five-year term commencing January 1, 2023.  She is joining the Azrieli School after 15 years at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo Architecture, where she also served as O’Donovan Director since 2016. 

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As Carleton continues to celebrate National Indigenous History Month, learn more about these new additions to Carleton’s faculty and their dedication to the advancement of teaching and learning, while integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being into their curriculums.

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Métis entrepreneur and scholar Richard Tuck, BIB/01, believes marrying the world of business with Indigenous ways of knowing is imperative in addressing the climate crisis. He explains that Indigenous people deeply consider the impacts of one’s actions on the next seven generations and look at Earth as the giver and sustainer of life.

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Carleton University’s Engiqueers (CUE) society for LGBTQ+ engineering students brings together queer and allied students in a safe space, and recently expanded to include non-engineering and non-STEM students as well. Read the full story here.

Throughout June, visit the Pride Month webpage for stories on 2SLGBTQ+ community leaders and find out how Carleton is striving to support greater inclusion throughout all areas of campus life.

The 1st edition of top scientists ranking for Law and Political science was published by Research.com, one of the major websites for Law and Political science research. Four Carleton University professors made the top 60 list.

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Jevan Cherniwchan is Carleton’s new Canada Research Chair in Economics of Sustainability and Globalization. The focus of his research is to decipher the reasons why pollution from the manufacturing sectors of advanced economies has fallen dramatically in recent decades.

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Mengyao Wu is researching ways in which multi-access edge computing can better support connected intelligence for autonomous driving through his Ericsson Fellowship at Carleton University. Wu enjoys the connected intelligence aspect to autonomous driving and is hoping to figure out how best to implement edge computing.

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Plastic pollution was already viewed as one of the most pressing environmental issues on the planet when, this spring, researchers made some disturbing discoveries: tiny plastic particles were detected in both human blood and human lungs. Microplastics are a mounting health and environmental concern. To help address this problem, Carleton’s Global Water Institute, which is directed by Civil and Environmental Engineering researcher Banu Örmeci, is collaborating with industry partners to develop technologies to monitor microplastics.

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Imagine your home is losing a substantial amount of heat through an exterior wall. The traditional fix might be opening the wall and adding insulation, but this can be a costly, time consuming and disruptive repair. Thanks to research underway by a multidisciplinary team at Carleton University, there may be faster, cheaper and more effective ways of addressing this issue in the future.

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Carleton’s Boris Vukovic and Majid Komeili were given $250,000 by the federal government’s New Frontiers in Research Fund to explore whether artificial intelligence can support the work of disability service professionals in assessing student support needs to benefit both the service providers and students with disabilities.

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Lodgepole and jack pine trees are highly important to the Canadian forest-related economy and can be infested by mountain pine beetles (MPB). Understanding the potential risk of MPB spread across Canada, the magnitude of the risk and figuring out how to help vulnerable areas resist MPB is the task of Carleton Biology Assistant Professor Catherine Cullingham, who is the co-lead of the $6.4-million TRIA-FoR project along with Professor Janice Cooke at the University of Alberta.

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Today, June 23
Financial holds preventing registration will be applied to accounts with an outstanding balance. In order to prevent delayed registration for fall and winter courses, ensure that Carleton has received payment for your outstanding balance prior to this date. Proof of payment will not be accepted.

July 1
Statutory holiday. University closed.

July 4
Late summer courses begin. Full summer courses resume.

July 11
Last day for registration and course changes (including auditing) for late summer courses.

July 8-13
Carleton Central opens for fall/winter registration for new and returning graduate students (be sure to visit Step 1 of Registration in Carleton Central to view your registration start time).

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.