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Join President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and the Carleton community for an in-person Remembrance Day service. Flags will fly at half-mast and wreaths will be placed near the flag poles.

Date: Friday, Nov. 11, 2022
Time: 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: The flagpoles on Library Road near the Azrieli Theatre [map]

Members of the Carleton community are encouraged to attend and observe a two-minute moment of silence at 11 a.m. to honour Canadian soldiers who have served throughout our nation’s history, many paying the ultimate price. Please note that Library Road near the flagpoles will be closed to traffic from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and will reopen when the service is completed.

Congratulations to all students who are receiving their graduate degrees! We are #CUProud of your great accomplishment!

Fall Convocation will be held on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. There will be three ceremonies between 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. View the schedule here.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is hosting a number of question and answer sessions for the CGS M programs all in Eastern Standard Time:

• Thursday, Nov. 3 (in French): 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, Nov. 8 (in English): 10 a.m. to noon
• Thursday, Nov. 10 (in English): 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
• Tuesday, Nov. 15 (in French): 10 a.m. to noon
• Thursday, Nov. 17 (in English): 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

These sessions will be hosted as live Q&A WebEx events. They are supported by a series of informational videos available on the NSERC YouTube channel. These videos are intended to completely replace the presentation portion of the NSERC sessions, allowing NSERC staff and applicants to engage in a more in-depth and detailed Q&A session. Participants should watch the videos in advance and come to the Q&A session with specific questions in mind. Please attend any of the sessions that best suits your schedule. Registration is not required.

International students who are taking virtual classes from outside Canada may not be required to have a Universal Health Insurance Plan (UHIP). If this applies to you, please apply to opt out and, upon review, the UHIP fee may be removed from your student account. You may also be eligible to opt out of the UPass. Contact the International Student Services Office for more information.

The Psychology Wellness Centre is a virtual centre staffed by psychology graduate students who are trained peer wellness coaches. If you are looking for non-urgent assistance with goal-setting, time-management, support to improve wellness goals, and information on other available wellness services at Carleton please complete the request form to meet with a peer wellness coach.

Join Carleton University and 16 leading industry and government partners at our Women in STEM Career Fair on Nov. 24, 2022 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (ET)!

The event is for women students in STEM who want to establish and grow their professional network. Attendees will get to speak to representatives who work at leading engineering and IT organizations. Participants will learn: what these organizations do, future employment opportunities, and how to establish employability skills. In this safe, exclusive environment, you will have the chance to speak with up to 50 representatives from Trend Micro, CAE, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, CGI, Gastops, Leonardo DRS, Lockheed Martin, Amdocs, Blackberry QNX, CIRA, EllisDon, Ericsson, Fullscript, Nokia, Ross, and Solace.

*BONUS* Attend the event to enter to win one of three prizes – a pair of Air Pods, a Carleton sweater, or a food-related prize.

Register at: https://carleton.ca/engineering-design/career-fair-for-women-in-stem.

Join the Centre for Student Academic Support (CSAS) this Fall 2022 term for their Academic Writing for English Language Learners sessions on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pick and choose the session that works for you or join all of them! Next session on Nov. 9, 2022 will focus on nouns (specifically Articles – a, an the). For questions, email: csas@carleton.ca

You’ve heard about it, but are you prepared for the upcoming winter weather? Join the ISSO for one of our information sessions where you can learn more about weather conditions, how to dress for the cold, and seasonal changes that can impact your well-being. You will also meet ISSO volunteers who will share how they make the most out of the winter season. Attend either the in-person session on Nov. 18, 2022 or the virtual session on Nov. 25, 2022. To register for either session visit: https://carleton.ca/isso/new-students/preparing-for-winter-with-the-isso/

Nominations are now open for our annual Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards! We love to hear about how a professor has impacted your experience at Carleton and tell others how valuable mentors can be!

For more information click here and nomination forms are found here. The Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards will be held in winter 2023 and nominations are open until Dec. 7, 2022. Check out previous recipients here!

The Mer Bleue Bog, a conservation area in Ottawa’s east end greenbelt, is a popular destination for people who want to immerse themselves in birdsong and natural beauty.

But at the end of a narrow boardwalk that most visitors never see, scientists from Carleton and several other universities have spent the past 24 years studying the processes that make this peatland ecosystem healthy and resilient.

Carleton Geography and Environmental Studies Prof. Elyn Humphreys has been conducting research at Mer Bleue since 2005, with an eye toward protecting the important ecological role that the bog plays for decades to come. “It’s a really big store for carbon that’s been taken out of the atmosphere and effectively locked away,” she explains. “It’s a natural, long-term climate solution.”

Humphreys, who also does research in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, a vast wetland between the southern shores of Hudson Bay and the Canadian Shield, is primarily interested in how peatland ecosystems interact with the atmosphere, specifically how they cycle carbon.

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Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Program (CGSM) – Applications are now open! Students must apply through the Research Portal for all three granting agencies. Full details can be found here. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1, 2022 before 8 PM (EST).

Ontario Graduate Scholarship – Applications are now open! Deadline to apply is Nov. 15, 2022 (11:59PM EST). Referee deadline is Dec. 1, 2022. For full details on eligibility, deadlines and application processes, please visit the Carleton OGS website.

Although the deadline has passed for receiving a financial adjustment when you withdraw from a course, you might decide to drop a course to avoid a failure or a poor grade showing up on your student record and affecting your CGPA. This is referred to as Academic Withdrawal.

Academic Withdrawals will create no financial change to fall term fees and will result in a grade of Withdrawn (WDN) appearing on your official transcript. WDN is a permanent notation that appears on your official transcript signifying no academic credit and will not impact your CGPA.

Please note that Nov. 15, 2022 is the last day to withdraw, with no academic penalty, from full fall and late fall courses.

After these dates, you will no longer be able to drop courses in good academic standing. The Academic Withdrawal deadline to drop a full session (fall/winter) course is March 15, 2023. After this date, you will no longer be able to drop full session courses in good academic standing.

Nov. 11

• Last day to withdraw from late fall term courses with a full fee adjustment. Withdrawals after this date will result in a permanent notation of WDN on the official transcript.
• Last day to request formal exam accommodations for full fall, late fall, and fall/winter examinations to the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities. Note: it may not be possible to fulfil accommodation requests received after the specified deadlines.

Nov. 15

• Last day for academic withdrawal from full fall and late fall courses.
• Last day for receipt of applications for admission to an undergraduate degree program for the winter term.

Nov. 18-20
Early fall deferred examinations will be held.

Nov. 25

• Last day for summative tests or examinations, or formative tests or examinations totaling more than 15% of the final grade in the full fall or fall/winter before the official examination period (see examinations regulations in the Academic Regulations of the University section of the Undergraduate Calendar/General Regulations of the Graduate Calendar).
• Winter Payment Deadline. Click here for important payment information. Late charges may be applied to the student account any time after this date.

Dec. 1

• Last day for receipt of applications from potential winter (February) graduates.
• Last day for graduate students to submit their supervisor-approved thesis in examinable form to the department.

Dec. 2
Last day for summative tests or examinations or formative tests or examinations totaling more than 15% of the final grade in the late fall before the official examination period (see examinations regulations in the Academic Regulations of the University section of the Undergraduate Calendar/General Regulations of the Graduate Calendar).

Dec. 9

• Fall term ends.
• Last day of full fall and late fall term classes.
• Classes follow a Monday schedule (full fall and fall/winter term courses only).
• Last day for handing in term work and the last day that can be specified by a course instructor as a due date for term work for fall term courses.
• Last day for take home examinations to be assigned, with the exception of anyone conforming to the Undergraduate Examination Regulations (section 4.1 of the Academic Regulations of the University section of the Undergraduate Calendar or the General Regulations in the Graduate Calendar (section 9).
• Last day to pay any remaining fall tuition fees to avoid a hold on access to marks through Carleton Central and the release of transcripts and other official documents.

Dec. 10-22
Final examinations in full fall and late fall term courses and mid-term examinations in fall/winter courses will be held. Examinations are normally held all seven days of the week.

Dec. 22
All take home examinations are due on this day, with the exception of those conforming to the examinations regulations in the Academic Regulations of the University section of the Undergraduate Calendar/General Regulations of the Graduate Calendar.

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.