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Thursday, March 5, 2009

The “other” Mexico – photo gallery

On Thursday, Mar. 5 Alternative Spring Break participants will be on hand in the Unicentre Atrium from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. to present their photo gallery from Cuernavaca, Mexico. The collection is comprised of pictures taken during the weeklong trip in February and will be available for sale as a fundraiser for next... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

FASS students awarded Nicholas Leroux Memorial Bursary

By Lori Tarbett Two second-year FASS students, Kristin Williams and Nicole Murphy, are the first recipients of the Nicholas Leroux Memorial Bursary. “This bursary will assist students with disabilities and keep Nick’s memory alive, but it is also a tribute to the generosity and selflessness of his entire family,” says Matthew Cole, executive... More

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

FASS students choose service over sun

By Lori Tarbett While many students will be basking in the sun on the beaches of warmer climates, Nana O. Yeboah will be one of the eight FASS students who will be donating their spring break time to help others in Mexico. Known as Alternative Spring Break (ASB), the program is a Community Service... More

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Film student recruited to review university instead of movies

By Lori Tarbett When humanities and film studies student Paul Anderson isn’t watching movies at the ByTowne or Mayfair theatres, as part of film studies research the student protests, he is either blogging for Admissions or working for the House of Commons. Anderson is one of ten students who write regular blogs which are... More

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Warm welcome draws passionate pupil

By Lori Tarbett Paula Saliba was so impressed with her positive experiences at Carleton as a high school student she decided to attend the university as an undergraduate. Saliba spent a day at Carleton in grade 10 as part of a promising students program and received what she describes as an “incredible mini lecture”... More

Saturday, December 20, 2008

FASS sends Rhodes Scholar to Oxford

By Lori Tarbett Twenty-one-year-old Alysia Garmulewicz is still feeling a little overwhelmed after learning she was awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship on Nov. 22, 2008. “I was absolutely thrilled, and it’s still sinking in . . . it honestly was like a dream, and the transition to it becoming reality is completely overwhelming,” beams... More

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Balloon Orchestra blows audience away

By Lori Tarbett Carleton University’s newest musical group, the Balloon Orchestra, thrilled the audience during its debut performance on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. The orchestra was formed as part of music professor Jesse Stewart’s class; Introduction to Instrumentation where he asked the students to think about the notion of musical... More

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Excavating the old world

By Lori Tarbett Anna Avdeeva and Magali Desjardins Potvin rolled up their sleeves this summer and received some hands-on training on how to dig up the past. The two students each spent four weeks participating in archeological digs overseas. Desjardins Potvin, a fourth year classical studies and humanities student, spent the entire time in... More

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Finding your way to GIS Day

By Lori Tarbett Stephanie Shoobert’s “great sense of direction” led to her Carleton’s geography and environment studies department to pursue a geography degree with a minor in geomatics. Now, four years later, that same internal GIS technology has directed her to help execute Carleton’s 10th GIS Day on November 19, 2008. GIS (Geographic... More

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Great graduate Jubilee Jackson

By Lori Tarbett It’s hard to believe Jubilee Jackson had the time to complete both an undergraduate and graduate degree given all the activities she has been involved in over the past six and a half years. The Ottawa native came to Carleton in 2002 to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy... More

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Making the most of the university experience

By Lori Tarbett “I wasn’t involved in any activities in high school and I always regretted it.” Those are the sentiments of third year history student, Jane Thwaits. Thwaits says, “That’s why I made an extra effort when I came to Carleton to become involved and make the most out of my university experience.”... More

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Seeing the obvious in a new light

By Lori Tarbett Seeing the obvious in a new light. That’s what you might be doing if you were a student in Marieka Sax’s first year seminar class, Practice, Experience, Power and Symbol: The Anthropology of Food and Cuisine. The contract instructor, who joined Carleton’s sociology and anthropology department in July, has been asked... More

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