B.PAPM students Avery Campbell and Layla Farhat have both won 2012-13 Killam Fellowships. The Killams are awarded to “exceptional undergraduate students … to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the United States.” 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. Only 20 Canadian students are selected as Killam Fellows each year, while 20 American students are selected to study in Canada.
Specializing in Communication and Information Technology Policy, Avery is examining how the Internet can be used to streamline patient medical records. He is also interested in the ethical dimensions of policy making and implementation. He will be using the Killam to study at Clemson University in South Carolina for the Fall term.
Layla, specializing in International Studies with a minor in Economics, will be spending the Winter term at American University’s School of International Service and its Depts. of Government and Economics, in Washington, D.C. 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’s National Capital Region.
Carleton will also host a visiting American Killam Fellow. Joshua Halpern from American University will be studying Communication, Law and Economics.