{"id":96412,"date":"2025-06-23T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=96412"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:29:15","slug":"looking-back-at-convocation-2025","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/looking-back-at-convocation-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at Convocation 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last week, more than 5,400 Carleton University students received their degrees as family, friends and the campus community came together to celebrate their years of dedication and academic achievements.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celebrations began with a milestone event \u2013 the <\/span>installation of Wisdom J. Tettey<\/span><\/a> as Carleton\u2019s 17th President and Vice-Chancellor.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The excitement continued across 15 ceremonies, highlighted by the awarding of <\/span>two honorary doctorates<\/span><\/a>. Mona Nemer was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, <\/span>honoris causa<\/span><\/i>, in recognition of her international academic leadership in cardiovascular sciences and her work as a champion for Canadian science research. Faculty of Engineering and Design alum Hassan Ahmed was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering,<\/span> honoris causa,<\/span><\/i> in recognition of his distinguished career as an esteemed business leader and entrepreneur in wireless network technology and telecommunications.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The week concluded with the <\/span>installation of Nikita (Nik) Nanos<\/span>\u202f<\/span><\/a>as Carleton\u2019s 13th Chancellor. His appointment takes effect on<\/span>\u202f<\/span>July 1.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at some of the memorable moments of celebration from Convocation 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week, more than 5,400 Carleton University students received their degrees as family, friends and the campus community came together to celebrate their years of dedication and academic achievements.  The celebrations began with a milestone event \u2013 the installation of Wisdom J. Tettey as Carleton\u2019s 17th President and Vice-Chancellor.  The excitement continued across 15 ceremonies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":96438,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[25],"cu_story_tag":[],"class_list":["post-96412","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\/96412","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":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/96412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99861,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/96412\/revisions\/99861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=96412"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=96412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}