{"id":101590,"date":"2026-06-15T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/?post_type=cu_story&p=101590"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:46:45","slug":"carleton-spring-convocation-recap","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/carleton-spring-convocation-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at Spring Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last week, the Carleton University community celebrated the achievements of more than 6900 graduates as Spring Convocation<\/a> brought students, families, friends and supporters together on campus for five days of ceremonies. Convocation marks the culmination of years of dedication and academic achievements, with graduates from across the university’s five faculties crossing the stage to receive their degrees and begin the next chapter of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton awarded three honorary degrees. Latha Vishnubhotla was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering,\u202fhonoris causa, in recognition of her distinguished career in advancing networking, security and cloud technologies and inspiring future leaders through mentorship. Kellylee Evans was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music,\u202fhonoris causa, in recognition of her distinguished career as a Canadian singer-songwriter, in addition to overcoming great personal adversity along the way. Bruce Lourie was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws,\u202fhonoris causa, in recognition of his distinguished career as a leader in environmental sustainability and an unwavering commitment to Canada’s net-zero future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look back at some of the many moments of joy and celebration from Carleton’s 2026 Spring Convocation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week, the Carleton University community celebrated the achievements of more than 6900 graduates as Spring Convocation brought students, families, friends and supporters together on campus for five days of ceremonies. Convocation marks the culmination of years of dedication and academic achievements, with graduates from across the university’s five faculties crossing the stage to receive their degrees and begin the next chapter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":101591,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[25],"cu_story_tag":[],"class_list":["post-101590","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-student-experience"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/101590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/101590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101634,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/101590\/revisions\/101634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=101590"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=101590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}