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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Digital Presentation Editor The Globe and Mail 2005 Graduate In the summer of 2005, when I earned my BHums degree and joined The Globe and Mail's copy desk, it felt as if everything and nothing in my life had changed. At Carleton, I had spent four years reading voraciously, analyzing the core ideas behind... More
Monday, June 19, 2023
With a Bachelor of Science in physics and a Master’s in radioastronomy under her belt, Jennifer Murphy entered Britain’s 1960s workforce with a bang. In the years that followed, Murphy built for herself an impressive career in the sciences, moving to Canada to help monitor the Earth through satellite imaging as a physical scientist... More
Friday, February 5, 2021
Pascale Arpin, Artist From article "Hail to The Humanities: Carleton Grads Conquering Diverse Fields" By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Yuli Scheidt and Courtesy of Pascale Arpin When Tim Burton Likes the Way You Paint Pascale Arpin’s career also bridges art and commerce and it sprung from the College of the Humanities, but the similarities... More
Friday, January 22, 2021
By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Yuli Scheidt and Courtesy of Pascale Arpin Hail to The Humanities: Carleton Grads Conquering Diverse Fields... More
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018
By Matt Gergyek If you asked your average working journalist how their profession connects to the field of humanities or vice versa, you’d probably leave them stumped. The ancient worlds of Plato and Aristotle and the study of history, philosophy and art – the foundations of the humanities discipline – aren’t usually seen as... More
Monday, July 31, 2017
I graduated from the Humanities program in 2008 with a combined honours in Biology (in the era before there was an official 'stream' of curriculum geared towards this). With Dr. Laird's encouragement, I applied and was accepted to medicine at McMaster University. There, I completed my MD in 2011 and went on to pursue... More
Monday, May 4, 2015
Graduate Student in Biology/Biochemistry University of Toronto This may seem surprising, but I was not interested in the liberal arts coming out of high school. My interest in medicine made me think that I would follow some friends into programs geared towards medicine at the University of Ottawa. For whatever reason (probably more dumb... More
Sunday, March 8, 2015
High-School Biology Teacher American College of Sofia, Bulgaria I completed the Humanities and Biology program at Carleton in 2011, spent a year teaching in England, then moved to Toronto and earned a Bachelor of Education degree, with biology and philosophy as my teaching subjects. I am now a high school Biology teacher at the... More
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Policy Analyst Health Canada After completing the Bachelor of Humanities in 2001, I began a varied career in the public service. I have worked in five federal Departments in a number of very different roles. I began with a brief stint with Immigration Canada, where, as an Inland Officer, I investigated immigration cases (e.g.... More
Monday, January 26, 2015
Department Head of English Ottawa Catholic School Board Through my years in the Bachelor of Humanities, I met many people who challenged me to question everything and to find out who I would become, not what I would become. My education through the B.Hum. did not train me for a specific vocation, but rather... More
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Fourth-Year Medical Student University of Ottawa I chose the Humanities and Biology program at Carleton University because, coming out of high school, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to pursue the liberal arts or sciences. I saw the Hums and Bio program as the opportunity to do both. As a bonus, I would have... More
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