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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Lest we forget

Third year PAPM student Olivia Tran is back at Carleton after spending the Fall term in France, working for Veterans Affairs Canada as an interpretive guide at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and Vimy Ridge National Memorial, the only two Canadian memorial sites not on Canadian soil.  "It was such a great opportunity," she says.... More

Thursday, December 20, 2012

The forest and the trees

Life after the B.PAPM: Over the next 15 months, Kroeger College graduate Rene Toupin-Piper (2010) will be working in Cameroon for the African Model Forest Network (AMFN). Based on an idea born here in Canada, the AMFN is an initiative in participatory sustainable forest management, working with the affected communities, government and industry to... More

Friday, December 7, 2012

View from the North

The latest issue of Northern Public Affairs is now available, featuring articles by federal Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq, NDP MP Niki Ashton, and Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, along with an interview with Yukon Premier Darell Pasloski.  This is the second issue of the journal, which was co-founded and edited by B.PAPM graduate ('07)... More

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sugar rush for a good cause

Cupcakes, butter tarts, brownies and cookies -- the students of Kroeger College baked and gorged themselves over two days to raise money so that a less-privileged family can enjoy a festive Christmas.  The two-day bake sale raised some $200 for the cause, which is administered by the Shepherds of Good Hope.  Fundraising efforts continue. ... More

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Designing for the disabled in Africa

The Arthur Kroeger College is proud to co-sponsor the Peter Kruus Memorial Lecture, Thursday November 8.  The speaker is Noel Wilson, lead designer for San Francisco based Catapult Design, a company that specializes in helping developing world communities craft tools to alleviate poverty.  The lecture coincides with an initiative in which... More

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Allan Gregg makes political waves

Kroeger College adjunct professor Allan Gregg, chair of Harris/Decima, opened the academic year and the university's new River building with a public address titled "Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2012: the assault on reason."  The speech decried what he sees as a recent turn in Canadian and American political culture in which evidence and reason have... More

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Fighting racism in the high Andes

In May, the Arthur Kroeger College selected six PAPM students (second, third and fourth year) to intern for six weeks with Nexos Voluntarios, a non-governmental organization devoted to the social development of Peru. The students were (from top left): Skyler Brooks, Matthew Banning, Erika Muñoz, Belinda Kato, Leslie Muñoz and Terhas Ghebretecle.... More

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Two Kroeger students win Killam Fellowships

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... More

Monday, June 11, 2012

Allan Gregg and David Coletto join Kroeger College as adjunct faculty

Two of Canada’s most astute pollsters and political analysts are returning to their alma mater as adjunct faculty.  Allan Gregg, the chair of Harris/Decima and host of TVOntario’s Allan Gregg in Conversation With, joins the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs and the Clayton Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management as an adjunct... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Six grads win medals for academic excellence

The Kroeger College Class of 2012 took their degrees at the morning Convocation ceremony on June 6, and six also were awarded medals for exceptional academic performance.  Alex Hunsberger received the University Medal as the top graduating student in Public Affairs and Policy Management.  Senate Medals for Outstanding Academic Achievement went... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Grad wins Fulbright Fellowship

2012 B.PAPM graduate Raphaël Guévin-Nicoloff has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to pursue his Master's degree in International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.  Though the main campus of Johns Hopkins is in Baltimore, the School of Advanced International Studies is... More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Adjunct professor on Quebec student protests

Adjunct faculty member David Coletto writes on the national implications of the Quebec student strikes in the latest edition of iPolitics.  The CEO of Abacus Data, Dr. Coletto surveyed Canadians across the country and found a marked generational divide in attitudes toward the protests.  "When asked which side they are most likely to support,... More

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