If you missed our new graduate student orientation last week, click here to read the presentation slides and hear the audio recordings.

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TRAJECTORIES is a professional development program that offers graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to enhance their transferable skills and earn non-credit certificates. Participants interested in earning a certificate attend core and elective workshops, complete self-reflection exercises, and prepare a one-year action plan all while receiving individual guidance throughout the process.

For full details on all awards, please visit https://gradstudents.carleton.ca/awards-and-funding/

• Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement – Applications for the October 2022 competition are now open. Internal submission deadline is September 26, 2022.
• Donor-Funded Awards – The Fall 2022 competition is now open! Deadline to apply is September 30, 2022 (11:59PM EST).
• Indigenous Graduate Student Award – Applications are now open! This award is available for Canadian First Nation, Metis or Inuit Master’s or Doctoral graduate students. Recipients will be selected based on demonstrated financial need and academic merit. Applicants will be required to provide supporting documentation to verify ancestry. The application deadline is September 30, 2022 (11:59PM EST).
• Canada Graduate Scholarships:
  Doctoral Program (CGSD) – Applications are now open! Students must apply via the appropriate agency portal. Full details can be found here. Deadlines: NSERC PhD: September 26, 2022 11:59PM (EST); SSHRC PhD: September 30, 2022 11:59PM (EST); CIHR PhD: September 30, 2022 11:59PM (EST).
  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 December 1, 2022 before 8 PM (EST).
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship – Applications are now open! Deadline to apply is November 15, 2022 (11:59PM EST). Referee deadline is December 1, 2022. For full details on eligibility, deadlines and application processes, please visit the Carleton OGS website.

As part of MacOdrum’s interlibrary loan service, if you can’t find what you need at our library, you can use Omni to borrow books or request digital articles and book chapters from other libraries. Alternatively, if you know exactly what you are looking for you can use this form to request the book or article that you are interested in. Please note that only current Carleton University students, staff and faculty in good standing can borrow or request materials from other libraries. Please email any questions to library.services@carleton.ca.

This self-directed training with no deadline for completion, has a choice of two final project options. For details and how to enrol, please email: TASupport@cunet.carleton.ca.

Attention international students! The ISSO is hosting the following events that may interest you:

Let’s Connect Session: Personal Finances:  Tuesday, September 20 at 1 p.m.

Making Friends in Canada (Graduate Students): Friday, September 23 at 1:30 p.m. and Thursday, September 29 at 1:30 p.m.

International Exchange Information Sessions: Tuesday, September 20 at 11 a.m. and Thursday, September 22 at 2 p.m.

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 September 21, 2022 will review types of sentences and punctuation basics. For questions, email: csas@carleton.ca

Want to try your hand at writing an article? 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.

Career Services offers drop-in help from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. daily at 401 Tory Building. Services include helping students find experiential learning opportunities, review resume and cover letters, practice upcoming job interviews and prepare for professional training programs. Booked appointments are also available from 9 a.m. to noon.

Carleton University has been recognized as a top performer in the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index, achieving a top 10 ranking in the impact areas of Water and Wellbeing & Work. The recognition follows Carleton’s Gold AASHE STARS assessment, which was achieved earlier this year.

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When Larisa Galadza was appointed Canada’s ambassador to Ukraine in 2019, the Carleton University graduate was excited about a posting that was the culmination of everything she had done in her career.

Galadza, who has a master’s degree in International Affairs from Carleton, had been a public servant for nearly 25 years, working in increasingly senior roles in departments such as National Defence, Citizenship and Immigration, the Privy Council Office and Global Affairs.

She understood the deep relationship between Canada and Ukraine: there are about 1.4 million people of Ukrainian descent in Canada, including her family, the world’s third-largest Ukrainian population after Ukraine and Russia. Which is one of the reasons Canada became the first western country to recognize Ukraine’s independence in 1991.

In the two decades since then, Ukrainians have been trapped in a tug of war between Russia and the West. Then, last February, Russia launched a brutal invasion, and Galadza’s job became both incredibly intense and vitally important.

“You can’t be ready for something like this,” Galadza says from the Canadian embassy in Kyiv.

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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.