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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Language enthusiast helps international students with Canadian conversation

By Lori Tarbett Jesse Ward may have been born and bred right here in Ottawa, but he is no stranger to foreign languages and other cultures. The linguistics and applied language studies undergraduate has been working with ESL (English as a Second Language) students since high school. He taught in Tokyo, Japan for a... More

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Environmental Studies takes President Runte’s service request to the streets or the shoreline to be exact

By Lori Tarbett In response to President Runte’s request to see Carleton members volunteering in the community, Patricia Ballamingie enrolled her second year environmental studies class in a service learning activity: the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, a nation-wide initiative and the second largest cleanup in the world. Approximately 55... More

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Engaging the community outside the classroom

By Lori Tarbett Second year environmental studies student Jessica Pelow is taking her love for the environment beyond the classroom and into the community. Among the many other community initiatives she participated in throughout high school and university, Pelow became involved in the Children’s Garden project at Lady Evelyn Alternative School... More

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

It’s about the journey – words of wisdom from Beijing Olympians

By Lori Tarbett Mark Oldershaw and Angus Mortimer know more than anyone that the journey is often more important than the outcome. This was one of the messages the two Beijing Olympians delivered to first year Faculty of Arts and Social Science students last week. After six months (and four years) of intense training... More

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Calling the tune

By Nicole Findlay Composer, musician and recent graduate Adam Saikaley is calling the tune quite literally. Saikaley, BMus/08, successfully beat out applicants from across Canada for a coveted and rare spot on CBC Radio Two. As an associate producer for Canada Live, Saikaley is able to feed his passion for eclectic music which runs... More

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Beyond imagining

By Nicole Findlay You’ll likely find Jonathan Gagné sitting at the edge of the Rideau River contemplating human imagination. Along with his supervisor Jim Davies, he is attempting to unravel the mysteries of how we can visualize all the things we do, especially when we have never seen some of these things. If you... More

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Conservation from biofuels to birds

Advocating for a national bird, surveying perspectives on biofuels and launching a media campaign to raise awareness of conservation practices are all in a day’s work for Andrea Robson. The fourth year environmental studies major is logging 90 hours in volunteer work at Nature Canada, a not for profit organization, as a research assistant.... More

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Psyched about Carleton

Natalia Manay has relocated from St. Catharine’s to spend her summer working in Ottawa. The fourth-year Brock University psychology major received a 3rd Year Undergraduate Summer Research Assistantship grant from the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet). Manay applied for the funding so that she could conduct research... More

Friday, February 1, 2008

From so much to so little

By Nicole Findlay Only half way through her undergraduate program, Ashley Armstrong is already a veteran of international humanitarian work. A second year student majoring in linguistics and human rights, Armstrong will return for the third summer in a row to Honduras. This year, she will spend May and June in the capital city,... More

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Memorial road trip

By Nicole Findlay Students enrolled in Deidre Butler’s seminar in religion embarked on an unusual road trip last November. The 11 students were not satisfying a light hearted wanderlust or taking advantage of a strong Canadian dollar when they got in their cars and headed down to the United States. Instead, they journeyed back... More

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Intimate connections

By Nicole Findlay Jeff Beyer has spent the past few years playing a virtual game of international hopscotch. He began his travels in Ghana, then toured through Southern Ontario, alighted in New York and Washington, and finally moved on to Egypt. Last Wednesday, he embarked on a trip to Indonesia, and this September he... More

Thursday, November 29, 2007

A magazine with bite

By Nicole Findlay In/Words, Blank Page, Mot Dit, and the Chapbook Project welcome a sister publication to the collection. The first student produced feminist magazine, Vagina Dentata, was recently launched in a joint initiative between students of the Department of English and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s Studies. Vagina Dentata was... More

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