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January 19, 2021

Paul Goode Named McMillan Chair in Russian Studies

Paul Goode has been named as the inaugural McMillan Chair in Russian Studies, located in the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) at Carleton University. Goode is a... More

January 6, 2021

Melanie Adrian Appointed to Order of Ontario

Carleton Prof. Melanie Adrian has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour, for establishing the university as a global leader in protecting vulnerable scholars and founding... More

January 6, 2021

MAPA Alumna and Carleton Chancellor Yaprak Baltacioğlu Appointed to the Order of Canada

Carleton University Chancellor Yaprak Baltacioğlu (MAPA '89) was named to the prestigious Order of Canada on Dec. 30, 2020 when the Governor General announced 61 new appointments. Established in 1967, the... More

December 18, 2020

Carleton Welcomes African Women Scholars in Research Exchange

By Karen Kelly Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies will host 17 West African women academics over the next three years as part of the highly competitive QES Advanced Scholars... More

December 15, 2020

Carleton Examines Progress on Fifth Anniversary of TRC Final Report

By Dan Rubinstein Photos by Fangliang Xu and Chris Roussakis Five years ago, Canada took an important step toward a long-term goal. On Dec. 15, 2015, after hearing from more... More

December 15, 2020

CUROP: Systemic Barriers to Social and Legal Support in Ottawa

Undergraduate students in the Faculty of Public Affairs have the opportunity to pursue a summer research project of their choice under the guidance of a Carleton faculty member through the... More

December 3, 2020

A Curator and Civic Leader Build Community While Confined at Home

Linda Grussani is an Indigenous art curator with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history from Carleton. After working at the Canadian Museum of History for three years, she went back... More

December 2, 2020

Carleton University Chancellor Yaprak Baltacioğlu Renewed for a Second Term

By Karen Kelly Carleton University’s Board of Governors has announced that Yaprak Baltacioğlu has been reappointed as Carleton’s Chancellor. An alumna of Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Baltacioğlu was appointed... More

December 1, 2020

Breaking Barriers: Miss World 1970

From Raven Magazine’s Book Excerpts… My master’s thesis, on the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), between Canada, the United States and Mexico, on Commonwealth countries in... More

December 1, 2020

Looking in the Mirror: The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

From Raven Magazine's Book Excerpts... Hate has a name. Hate has a face. Hate has an address. It lives in Canada. The Ku Klux Klan’s more than one-hundred-year presence in... More

December 1, 2020

Cultural Healing: How a Social Work Practicum Helped Me Find My Niche

From Raven Magazine... Andrew Simpson earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work at Carleton. Born and raised in Bancroft, Ont., and of Métis ancestry, he works for Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child &... More

December 1, 2020

Cross-Country Checkup: Co-Op Student Joins the Collaborative Health Care Innovation Secretariat

From Raven Magazine... Last January, Yassen Atallah — a master’s student at Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — landed a co-op position as a policy analyst at Health Canada’s Health Care Innovation... More