{"id":47852,"date":"2018-06-15T18:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=47852"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:46:37","slug":"spring-convocation-2018-presidents-medal-winner-turned-to-carleton-to-push-career-forward","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/spring-convocation-2018-presidents-medal-winner-turned-to-carleton-to-push-career-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Convocation 2018: President\u2019s Medal Winner Turned to Carleton to Push Career Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Spring Convocation 2018: President\u2019s Medal Winner Turned to Carleton to Push Career Forward\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

The journey to Carleton University for psychology<\/a> graduate Cory Giordani, winner of this year\u2019s President\u2019s Medal<\/a>, was slightly unconventional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giordani had completed two diplomas, one in business and the other in geomatics. He also spent 15 years in the Royal Canadian Navy and the army, where he worked in logistics, data analysis and geographical surveying, travelling North America and even completing missions in the Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After retiring, Giordani wanted to further his career, but wasn\u2019t sure where to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just took a couple of general interest courses to see if university was for me and then I eventually moved on to psychology once I found out about organizational psychology courses,\u201d he said. That became his main area of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giordani said the peer-assisted study program (PASS) at Carleton is an important part of his learning curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPASS really helped me settle in. There was a great instructor and I saw that there was a wide variety of students from various ages and backgrounds, so that put me at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Giordani said he was surprised he won the medal and praised the rest of the Carleton student body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou come across so many bright, young and articulate students [but] it showed the hard work I put into my studies paid off.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giordani will continue his work in the national security sector after graduation, returning to the Department of National Defence (DND), where he\u2019ll apply his broad skill set to administration and logistical tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President\u2019s Medal is awarded annually to the student with the highest standing in a general degree program of studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The journey to Carleton University for psychology graduate Cory Giordani, winner of this year\u2019s President\u2019s Medal, was slightly unconventional. Giordani had completed two diplomas, one in business and the other in geomatics. He also spent 15 years in the Royal Canadian Navy and the army, where he worked in logistics, data analysis and geographical surveying, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47853,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[25],"cu_story_tag":[1920],"class_list":["post-47852","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-student-experience","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-arts-and-social-sciences"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47852","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\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97543,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/47852\/revisions\/97543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=47852"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=47852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}