{"id":1134,"date":"2012-09-01T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:03:36","slug":"two-kroeger-students-win-killam-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/2012\/two-kroeger-students-win-killam-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kroeger students win Killam Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Two Kroeger students win Killam Fellowships\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>B.PAPM students Avery Campbell and Layla Farhat have both won 2012-13 Killam Fellowships. &nbsp;The Killams are awarded to &#8220;exceptional undergraduate students &#8230; to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the United States.&#8221;&nbsp; The Killam Fellowships Program provides a cash award of $5,000 US per semester, an all expense paid three day orientation in Ottawa, and a three day all expense paid seminar in Washington.&nbsp; Only 20 Canadian students are selected as Killam Fellows each year, while 20 American students are selected to study in Canada.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specializing in Communication and Information Technology Policy, Avery&nbsp;is&nbsp;examining how the Internet can be used to streamline patient medical records.&nbsp; He is also interested in the&nbsp;ethical dimensions of&nbsp;policy making and implementation.&nbsp; He will be using the Killam to&nbsp;study at Clemson University in South Carolina for the Fall term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Layla, specializing in International Studies with a minor in Economics, will be spending the Winter term at American University&#8217;s School of International Service and its Depts. of Government and Economics, in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; She spent the summer doing research for the International Agri-Environmental Partnerships and Policy division of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and is currently working to launch a pilot project to increase civic engagement among high school students in Canada&#8217;s National Capital Region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton will also host a visiting American Killam Fellow.&nbsp; Joshua Halpern from American University will be studying Communication, Law and Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.PAPM students Avery Campbell and Layla Farhat have both won 2012-13 Killam Fellowships. &nbsp;The Killams are awarded to &#8220;exceptional undergraduate students &#8230; to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the United States.&#8221;&nbsp; The Killam Fellowships Program provides a cash award of $5,000 US per semester, an all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}