Tomorrow, Sept. 30, Carleton is commemorating Orange Shirt Day. This national day of remembrance is held annually to mark the devastating history and intergenerational impacts of residential and day schools and to honour their survivors. Carleton community members are encouraged to wear orange shirts to commemorate the day, attend the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Braiding Truth, Reconciliation and Rights from 10:30 a.m. to noon. and take time to meaningfully reflect on truth and conciliation in Canada – on Orange Shirt Day and beyond.

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When Deborah Young, a Cree social worker and Carleton University PhD candidate and lecturer, heard the horrific news about the recovery of graves at the former sites of residential schools in the spring of 2021, she knew she wanted to do something. 

“I was deeply moved, as many Canadians were moved, because of my own personal connection to the schools,” says Young, whose parents are residential school survivors. “I felt helpless and wanted to do something but didn’t know what it would be.” 

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Sneha Sumanth has won a 2022-2023 Fulbright Student Award. A PhD student in Geography, this award has given Sumanth financial support to be able to live and study at the City University of New York (CUNY) for a nine-month academic year. Fulbright awards are given to students enrolled in a graduate program at a Canadian university that wish to conduct research in the United States that will support their Canadian degree.

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NVivo is a software package for qualitative data analysis that can help you bring order to what may seem like chaos in analyzing and sorting large amounts of unstructured text or multimedia data. You can keep track of all data associated with your academic projects, code your data, create models to help organize your research, run queries on your coded data, and create charts and reports for sharing with others…and it’s available at Carleton! Find out more about NVivo and availability/licensing at Carleton here.

Sign up for the in-person workshop which will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 from 10 a.m. to noon at 252B MacOdrum Library.

The department of Equity and Inclusive Communities is hiring a graduate student to serve as an EDI Speaker Series Coordinator from October 2022 to June 2023. The Speaker Series Coordinator will organize and co-ordinate a year-long speaker series focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion. 16 hours per week, $30/hour. Cover letter, CV and contact information for two references is due by Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2022. For further details about job duties and qualifications, please email: equity@carleton.ca.

Carleton360 is your complete student experience hub. Carleton360 uses single sign on, providing one-stop, easy access to Carleton Central, cMail and Brightspace without re-entering your credentials. Carleton360 is also home to your Intray – an inbox featuring important messages from the university including dates and deadlines, registration information and more. Inside Carleton360 you can access direct links to important university resources, recent news, and explore timely supports and services. https://students.carleton.ca/2022/09/carleton360-convenient-access-through-single-sign-on/

All Carleton students and new grads are invited to attend the Virtual Fall Career Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.! The Career Fair will give you the opportunity to chat with recruiters and professionals one-on-one; explore full-time, part-time and co-op opportunities; discover a range of organizations and practice your networking skills. Click here to register for the Virtual Fall Career Fair.

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.

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

• 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: 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.

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 Oct. 5, 2022 will focus on verb and complements. For questions, email: csas@carleton.ca

Are you a full-time Carleton student who is actively working to launch or grow your company, but need a little help? The Nicol Internship could be just the fit for you. The Nicol Internship supplies students with scale-up funding, experiential learning opportunities, mentorship, and other additional supports to help them reach their company’s goals.

To apply you must be: a full-time Carleton University student during the terms in which you apply for and receive payments; actively working to launch or grow your company; committed to spend the Nicol funds to advance your company goals; and a resident of Ontario. Click on the link here to fill out the application form.

Microsoft is rolling out email security enhancements for all customers, including graduate students using Cmail, but you may need to switch email apps before October to keep accessing your inbox. Microsoft has introduced a new method of authentication called Modern Authentication and, on Oct. 1, 2022, apps that don’t support it will lose access to Cmail. If your email app doesn’t support Modern Authentication you will need to download the Microsoft Outlook app for all mobile, desktop and laptop devices, or switch to Outlook on the Web using a browser. For next steps, visit our information page or contact the ITS Service Desk.

Carleton faculty, staff, and students are invited to the 23rd annual Butterfly Show at the Nesbitt Greenhouse on Oct. 4 to 7 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and a special lunch hour on Oct. 6 from noon to 1 p.m. The show features approximately 1,000 exotic butterflies representing 41 different species from around the world amid lush plants in a tropical setting. Visitors in the greenhouse are limited to 30 people at one time, and the doors close promptly at 4 p.m. Come early and be aware that there could be a line-up! Click here for more details.

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.

Sept. 30

• Last day to withdraw from full fall term and fall/winter courses with a full fee adjustment (financial withdrawal). Withdrawals after this date will create no financial change to fall term fees and will result in a permanent notation of WDN appearing on your official transcript;
• Last day to request Formal Examination Accommodation Forms for Oct./Nov. final 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.

Oct. 1
Last day for academic withdrawal from early fall courses.

Oct. 7
December examination schedule (fall term final and fall/winter mid-terms) available online.

Oct. 10
Statutory Holiday. University closed.

Oct. 14
Last day for summative tests or examinations, or formative tests or examinations totaling more than 15% of the final grade, in early fall term undergraduate courses, before the official Oct/Nov final examination period (see examination regulations in the Academic Regulations of the University section of the Undergraduate Calendar/General Regulations of the Graduate Calendar).

Oct. 15
Last day for receipt of applications for admission to an undergraduate degree program for the winter term from applicants whose documents originate from outside Canada or the United States.

Oct. 21
Last day of early fall classes.

Oct. 24
Deadline for course outlines to be made available to students registered in late fall courses.

Oct. 24-28
Fall break. Classes are suspended.

Oct. 29-30; Nov. 5-6
Final examinations in early fall undergraduate courses will be held.

Oct. 31
Late fall classes begin.

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.