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Friday, May 11, 2012

2012 grad wins Board of Governors award

B.PAPM graduate Kaitlyn Finner will be presented with the Carleton University Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement at the June 6th Convocation ceremony. The award recognizes an individual’s commitment to the not-for-profit sector while pursuing full-time studies. While completing her degree Kaitlyn volunteered... More

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Life after the B.PAPM

Heather Donald (B.PAPM '09) is back in Canada from Malawi, where she was working as a media and communications adviser with the Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organisations.  Upon graduating, she participated in Carleton University's Rwanda Initiative, working in communications and fundraising with the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. Wanting... More

Monday, April 2, 2012

Indie rock out of Afghanistan

Hearts & Mines, the alt-band formed by B.PAPM student Matt Luloff (lead vocals, guitar) following his military service in Afghanistan, will be releasing their third album at the Rainbow in Ottawa's Byward Market on May 4.  The album is produced by Jordon Zadorozny, who has worked with the Sam Roberts Band and Melissa Auf... More

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Kroeger alum running for the Wildrose Alliance

Garnett Genuis, B.PAPM 2010, is the Wildrose Alliance candidate for Sherwood Park, his hometown, in the Alberta election.  While a student at Kroeger College, Garnett worked in the Prime Minister’s Office as the assistant to the Director of Policy, in Industry Minister Tony Clement’s office as the assistant to Parliamentary Secretary Mike... More

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Ecuadorian voices

Kirsten Williams, third year B.PAPM student, is in Ecuador until April on a study abroad program.  As part of her studies and as director of project management for Recrear, an international youth organization devoted to social entrepreneurship, Kirsten is spearheading a project titled "100 Voices," which will document the involvement of young... More

Thursday, February 9, 2012

From Africa to Utah

Fourth year B.PAPM student Khadija Ga'al has been selected to present a research paper at the U.S.-based National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR), to be held at Weber State University in Odgen, Utah next month.  Khadija participated in the first African Studies Study Abroad course which took place at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's... More

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Out of Africa

Dr. Derek Ireland, who teaches the Winter term of PAPM 1000, spent the last five months of 2011 as Team Leader of a consulting group that worked with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat to improve the design and enforcement of competition policy and law across SADC's 15 member states.  The assignment was... More

Friday, January 27, 2012

Vox populi

Fourth-year B.PAPM student Brittany Dale has been hired as a research assistant to the Citizen's Academy of Ottawa, an initiative intended to facilitate civic engagement and dialogue between the public and municipal officials.  She will be part of a team that includes Maureen Molot, professor emerita and former director of the Norman Paterson... More

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Water management

Fourth-year B.PAPM student Natasha Overduin is in Vancouver this week, attending "A Water Gathering: Collaborative Watershed Governance Conference" as part of the research for her Honours Research Essay.  Natasha writes: "My research aim is to better understand how the emerging model of collaborative watershed governance is applied in practice.... More

Friday, December 16, 2011

Launching an international career

Prof. James Milner of the Department of Political Science, whose research expertise is in refugee issues and who has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, Africa and Geneva, offers advice to students interested in launching international careers.  Watch him here:... More

Thursday, December 8, 2011

For the people of Attawapiskat

Third-year B.PAPM student Graham Shonfield is living in a makeshift tent outside the University Centre for four days to raise awareness about the housing crisis in Attawapiskat.  He is also soliciting donations for Shannen's Dream, an initiative of the First Nations Caring Society. "Shannen Koostachin was a girl from Attawapiskat who had a... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Stabilizing Kashmir

B.PAPM graduate Kavita Bapat (2011) has had a version of her Honours Research Essay published in the latest issue of SITREP: The Journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute (Vol. 71, No. 6).  Titled "Kashmir's Security Dilemma," the article documents the instability of the region and the abuses of security forces, and argues that... More

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