{"id":26539,"date":"2021-05-28T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=26539"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"sami-islam-receives-summer-2021-edi-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2021\/sami-islam-receives-summer-2021-edi-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Islam Receives Summer 2021 EDI Research Award"},"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                        Sami Islam Receives Summer 2021 EDI Research Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce that Sami Islam, a third-year Journalism and Law undergraduate student, is a recipient of a 2021 Carleton University <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/awards-funding\/student-edi-research-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award<\/a> valued at $10,000. Congratulations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full wp-image-26545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Sami-Islam-300x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Sami-Islam-300x450-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Sami-Islam-300x450-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Sami-Islam-300x450-1-240x360.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sami Islam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Sami Islam for his EDI Research Award. Over the summer Sami will be studying prosecutorial discretion and the over-incarceration of racialized people. His project promises to generate some fascinating discussion on an important and timely topic,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/diana-young\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Diana Young<\/a>, who will be supervising Sami\u2019s research project this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research will look at the discretion exercised by prosecutors and how it may change based on directives from attorneys general. \u201cMy hope is that this project will prompt further investigation on discretion which results in a new approach to exercising discretion which creates a more equitable justice system that does not disproportionately affect people of colour and those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged,\u201d explained Sami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Sami!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/edi-student-research-awards\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can read more about this award and all six winners.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce that Sami Islam, a third-year Journalism and Law undergraduate student, is a recipient of a 2021 Carleton University Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award valued at $10,000. Congratulations! \u201cI would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Sami Islam for his EDI Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,26,28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-student-research-grants","category-ug-awards","category-undergraduate-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26869,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions\/26869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}