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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, 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, 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
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
"On Friday the 30th of September, 2016, the Bachelor of the Humanities program welcomed alumni and their families back to Carleton to celebrate the program’s 20th anniversary. Faculty and former students caught up with each other at an informal pub-night and a gala dinner, and seven alumni turned the tables on their former professors... 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, July 7, 2014
A recent scientific study has shown that students who follow their passion in school are much more likely to be successful in their chosen careers than those who begin their studies thinking only about a career. In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Amy Wrzesniewski and Barry Schwartz explain how they looked... More
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Fareed Zakaria, of CNN, gave the graduation speech this week at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, "a quintessential liberal arts college," on "Why the Liberal Arts Matter." He summarized his points on his show, What in the World? The text of his remarks are as follows: May 24, 2014 09:56 AM ET Why the liberal... More
Friday, May 16, 2014
David Helfand, the president and vice-chancellor of the private Quest University, in Squamish B.C., argues that the current trend in Canadian Universities towards jobs training runs against what employers want, and against current trends in the rest of the world. See the Globe and Mail article, Liberal arts is the future of work, so... More
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