{"id":27125,"date":"2021-01-19T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=27125"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:48:39","slug":"27125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2021\/27125\/","title":{"rendered":"The department mourns the passing of Mara Ostafichuk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The department mourns the passing of Mara Ostafichuk\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently learned of the passing of PhD student Mara Ostafichuk. Mara was&nbsp;<a title=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/people\/mara-ostafichuk\/\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/determinants\/people\/mara-ostafichuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">researching rural health disparities in Canada, Australia, and Iceland.<\/a>&nbsp;The&nbsp;Department of Geography and Environmental Studies&nbsp;community extends sincere condolences to Mara&#8217;s family and loved ones at this difficult time.&nbsp;<a title=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.remembering.ca\/obituary\/mara-ostafichuk-1081438928\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.remembering.ca\/obituary\/mara-ostafichuk-1081438928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Remembering Mara<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-27126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/PhD-Cohort.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/PhD-Cohort.jpg 750w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/PhD-Cohort-160x161.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/PhD-Cohort-240x242.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/PhD-Cohort-400x404.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/PhD-Cohort-360x363.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">2019 Incoming PhD Cohort<br>From left to right: Noreen Cauley, Trudi Zundel, Mara Ostafichuk, Tina Ganji, Monika Imeri, and Yulia Antropova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently learned of the passing of PhD student Mara Ostafichuk. Mara was&nbsp;researching rural health disparities in Canada, Australia, and Iceland.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Department of Geography and Environmental Studies&nbsp;community extends sincere condolences to Mara&#8217;s family and loved ones at this difficult time.&nbsp;Remembering Mara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31817,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27125\/revisions\/31817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}