{"id":11961,"date":"2024-02-05T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11961"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:01:38","slug":"donald-roy-wiles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/donald-roy-wiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Roy Wiles"},"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                        Donald Roy Wiles\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Donald-Roy-Wiles-160x196.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Donald-Roy-Wiles-160x196.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Donald-Roy-Wiles-240x294.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Donald-Roy-Wiles-200x245.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Donald-Roy-Wiles.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Donald Roy Wiles Onley received the degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa on November 12, 2011 at 9.30 a.m. in recognition of his \u201clong and distinguished career with Carleton&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don, as he was often called, had a 66-year affiliation with Carleton, beginning as an Assistant Professor in 1959, only two years after the university was established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don was the personification of the university professor. He held positions ranging from assistant professor to professor emeritus. He was the departmental chair of Chemistry for ten years, commencing in 1979. He held visiting faculty positions at Romania, Australia, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He taught ten distinct chemistry classes on campus while also teaching radiation and radiochemistry to diverse groups off campus. He was a prolific author of peer-reviewed articles, books, and technical reports. Don&#8217;s fascination with all things radioactive led to a long affiliation with the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office, which investigated technical elements of high-level nuclear waste disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don was involved in establishing the Carleton University Retirees Association, as well as spearheading the establishment of the Almonte Lectures, a series of monthly talks on diverse themes open to the public. Both of these initiatives are still in operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Don passed away on July 13, 2022.&nbsp; Carleton University will always remember him for&nbsp;his boundless energy, curiosity, community spirit, and generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RsYSKnCCmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Donald Roy Wiles<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Roy Wiles Onley received the degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa on November 12, 2011 at 9.30 a.m. in recognition of his \u201clong and distinguished career with Carleton&#8221; Don, as he was often called, had a 66-year affiliation with Carleton, beginning as an Assistant Professor in 1959, only two years after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13571,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11961\/revisions\/13571"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}