{"id":54191,"date":"2019-03-07T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=54191"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:12:35","slug":"celebrating-carleton-women","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/celebrating-carleton-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Carleton Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A balanced world is a better world, and celebrating the achievements of women is a step toward a more gender-balanced world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s one of the messages shared on the website of International Women\u2019s Day<\/a> (IWD), which is held annually on March 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women\u2019s network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women\u2019s Day,\u201d declares the site. \u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action \u2014 whatever that looks like globally at a local level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With these ideas in mind, Carleton University is highlighting the work and accomplishments of 10 outstanding female faculty members, a small cross-section of the hundreds of women whose research, teaching and leadership contribute to the campus and community year-round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brexit. Refugees and migrants. Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although conflict in the Middle East, Donald Trump\u2019s presidency and the mushrooming economies in China and India remain in the media spotlight, Europe has started to attract more attention from Canadian academics, politicians and journalists in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the continent has never lost its global or domestic significance \u2014 the European Union is Canada\u2019s second biggest trading partner, trailing only the United States \u2014 Carleton\u2019s Centre for European Studies (CES)<\/a>, co-directed by Prof. Joan DeBardeleben<\/a>, is poised to help us develop a deeper understanding of Europe\u2019s central economic and political issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome people may think other parts of the world are more dynamic or more important, but all of the news coming out of the European Union these days is generating a lot of interest,\u201d says DeBardeleben. \u201cIt\u2019s a rapidly changing environment that\u2019s not shielded from the tensions impacting the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s little surprise that many incidents of sexual harassment happen in the workplace, whether those are film sets, office buildings, the House of Commons or an RCMP detachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Angela Dionisi<\/a> of Carleton\u2019s Sprott School of Business has been closely tracking the \u201cMe Too\u201d movement and her focus on workplace sexual harassment has led to some unsettling insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Abacus survey findings made a strong case for Canadian workplaces as crucibles of power imbalances. Twelve per cent of survey respondents reported that sexual harassment of women was \u201cquite common\u201d in their workplaces and another 44 per cent said it was infrequent but did happen. These perceptions were shared almost equally by male and female respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Dionisi thinks the problem is even bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe survey question didn\u2019t define \u2018sexual harassment,\u2019 but that term is usually interpreted to mean sexual coercion or pressure to comply with sexual requests,\u201d she says. \u201cIn fact, sexual harassment typically takes the form of hostile verbal and non-verbal behaviour, such as undermining or insulting a woman\u2019s competence or addressing women in terms that disparage them. This type of behaviour is much more prevalent than explicit or overt forms of misconduct, so it\u2019s very likely that the real numbers of sexual harassment at work are even higher than the survey suggested. It\u2019s a huge problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lenore Fahrig<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Biology Prof. Lenore Fahrig<\/a> was awarded the 2018 Miroslaw Romanowski Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Romanowski Medal is the only Royal Society medal that is specifically for environmental research,\u201d she says. \u201cGiven the high calibre of environmental research across Canada, and at Carleton, I feel extremely honoured to receive this medal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award recognizes contributions to the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems or important improvements to the quality of an ecosystem in all aspects \u2014 terrestrial, atmospheric and aqueous \u2014 brought about by scientific means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe award is a telling recognition of Fahrig\u2019s remarkable accomplishments and an invitation from her colleagues to further the leadership she has already shown in advancing knowledge in Canada,\u201d says Rafik Goubran, Carleton\u2019s vice-president (Research and International).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shireen Hassim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Shireen Hassim<\/a>, an internationally renowned expert in feminist theory, politics, social movements and collective action, spent the 2017-2018 academic year as a distinguished visiting professor<\/a> at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After returning to her faculty position at the University of the Witwatersrand in her native South Africa for a few months when the Harvard fellowship finished, Hassim arrived at Carleton for a seven-year term as Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics \u2014 part of a $117.6-million federal program<\/a> to create two dozen<\/a> new research chairs and enhance the country\u2019s efforts to become a destination of choice for leading scholars and scientists from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hassim\u2019s position at Carleton will contribute to the university\u2019s pursuit of research excellence, and it is a coup for the Institute for African Studies<\/a>, her academic home on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarleton\u2019s African Studies scholars are well known across Africa,\u201d says Hassim, who did her PhD at Toronto\u2019s York University. \u201cThe chance to work with some great historians, anthropologists and literature scholars was a very attractive opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nThinking globally and building mutually supportive connections come naturally to Prof. Luciara Nardon<\/a>, and she\u2019s bringing those strengths to her role as director of Carleton\u2019s Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work<\/a> (CREWW).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nardon, an international business scholar at the Sprott School of Business<\/a> whose research interests include multicultural workplaces and global leadership, is thinking big about building the centre\u2019s research presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we look at growing research at CREWW, collaboration is a big piece of that,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re already a regional hub for research on women and work, and creating connections with other researchers and other centres across Canada and, eventually internationally, is our next step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve started talking to people and we\u2019re exploring partnerships that will allow work that has a much broader reach and impact.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every 15 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies from a preventable waterborne disease. Globally, 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. In Canada, rural and remote communities, especially in the North, frequently lack clean water and adequate wastewater treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help address these challenges at home and abroad, Carleton Prof. Banu \u00d6rmeci <\/a>has been chosen to serve as the first Jarislowsky Foundation Chair in Water and Global Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWater is essential \u2014 it is life,\u201d says \u00d6rmeci, who leads an innovative and internationally recognized research program on wastewater and biosolids treatment in Carleton\u2019s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Carmen Robertson<\/a>, who is from Saskatchewan\u2019s Qu\u2019Appelle Valley, moved to Calgary after high school. Even though her family is Lakota and Scottish, she didn\u2019t see much Indigenous art growing up on the prairies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, one afternoon, when she walked by the Imperial Oil building in downtown Calgary and looked in the windows, Robertson stopped in her tracks. Shocked by the amazing colours and imagery she was seeing, she went inside to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanging in the lobby \u2014 an unlikely setting for an epiphany \u2014 were the renowned Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau\u2019s<\/a> erotic paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt made such an impression on me \u2014 that\u2019s when I made the decision to study Indigenous art,\u201d says Robertson, who became the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in North American Indigenous Art and Material Culture<\/a> at Carleton last summer. \u201cI wanted to focus on contemporary Indigenous art, which was not easy at the time.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prof. Sarah Todd<\/a>, a professor in the School of Social Work<\/a> has been selected as a recipient of a 2019 3M National Teaching Fellowship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fellowship is the most prestigious recognition of excellence in post-secondary teaching and educational leadership in Canada. The community of 3M National Teaching Fellows embodies the highest ideals of teaching excellence and scholarship with a commitment to encourage and support the educational experience of every learner. Up to 10 fellowships are awarded annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile this award is given to one person, it speaks volumes to the creativity and support that Carleton puts into teaching and learning,\u201d said Todd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are exciting conversations about new ways to teach and support creativity in the classroom. There are always people to talk to about turning things around.  This ensures the classroom doesn\u2019t become stale for educators or students. When the classroom is exciting and fresh, lots of interesting learning happens.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton Physics<\/a> Prof. Manuella Vincter <\/a>has played a leading role in the university\u2019s important contributions to the ATLAS<\/a> project, the largest particle detector ever built and one of four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC<\/a>) particle accelerator, a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets buried beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After logging hundreds of hours onsite in the ATLAS control room, Vincter\u2019s involvement in the enormous international collaboration \u2014 where discoveries have already led to a Nobel Prize in Physics<\/a> \u2014 is expanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 1, the Canada Research Professor in Particle Physics began a two-year term as deputy spokesperson at ATLAS, which is one of the most significant scientific projects in the world and, according to the experiment\u2019s website, \u201cuses precision measurement to push the frontiers of knowledge by seeking answers to fundamental questions such as: What are the basic building blocks of matter? What are the fundamental forces of nature? Could there be a greater underlying symmetry to our universe?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electronics Prof. Winnie Ye <\/a>has being recognized for both her innovative research and her tireless efforts to encourage and support young women to pursue degrees and careers in engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Canada Research Chair<\/a> in Nano-scale Integrated Circuit Design for Reliable Opto-electronics and Sensors, Ye\u2019s research focuses on photonics, the study of light (photos) generation, detection and manipulation. Specifically, she studies silicon photonics, where light carries information using a silicon platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn electrical communication, we use digital zeroes and digital ones to encode information,\u201d Ye says, \u201cbut with photonics, zeroes and ones are replaced with a light flicking off and on. Compared to electronics, photonics offers the possibility to transmit information faster and more efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of her research, Ye has received two landmark awards, including the 2018 Engineering Medal for Research and Development<\/a> from Professional Engineers Ontario. The award recognizes professional engineers who have improved quality of life through the application of their engineering skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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