TheGraduate@Carleton

Dec. 12, 2024 Edition

Graduate Student News

Holiday Closure Schedule 2024-2025
Carleton University will be closed Dec. 24, 2024 through Jan. 2, 2025 inclusive for the holiday season, reopening on Jan. 3, 2025. During this time, all campus buildings will be locked. Click here for more details about the restricted access of specific buildings and services.

Winter Term
The Winter Term begins on Jan. 6, 2025. Please ensure your winter term registration is in order by logging into Carleton360.

City Announces O-Train will Resume Operations on Campus Starting Jan. 6
The City of Ottawa has announced that the O-Train Lines 2 and 4 will open in three phases starting Jan. 6, 2025. The first phase will offer five-day service, from Monday to Friday for a minimum of two weeks. The second phase will offer six-day service, from Monday to Saturday, for a minimum of two weeks and the third phase will offer 7-day service. Parallel bus service will be provided through existing bus routes B2 (formerly called Line 2 buses), 99 and 97 while customers become familiar with the new train routes of Lines 2 and 4. Further changes to bus routes will occur in Spring 2025. Details of Lines 2 and 4 can be found on the OC Transpo website.

Dining Services on Campus
Check the Dining Services website to know what is open and closed on campus.

Fall Convocation: Diploma Pickup
If you were unable to attend Fall Convocation, your diploma is available for pickup at Graduate Studies located at 512 Tory Building.

City of Ottawa Closes Pedestrian Bridge for the Winter
The City of Ottawa has notified Carleton that the pedestrian bridge over the Rideau River that links campus to Vincent Massey Park is now closed for the winter. The bridge, which is City of Ottawa property, will not be maintained over the winter. Please respect the barriers that the City of Ottawa has put up on the bridge.

Shape the Future of Carleton University
Are you a graduate student committed to the governance and advancement of Carleton University? Join a Board 101 Information Session to learn more about the vital work of the Board of Governors and how your contributions can drive meaningful change. There will be two in-person sessions on Jan. 14, 2025 and Jan. 15, 2025 from noon to 1 p.m. Please email Amanda Goth to confirm your attendance.

**This is the final newsletter for this term. TheGraduate@Carleton will return to your inbox on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.**

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Thank Your Favourite Professor!

Nominations are now open for our annual Faculty Graduate Mentoring Awards! We love to hear about how a professor has impacted your experience at Carleton and tell others how valuable mentors can be! For more information and how to submit a nomination click here.

Nominations are open until Jan. 8, 2025.

Upcoming Fall Term Deadlines

For the complete list of dates and deadlines, please bookmark and refer to the Registrar's Office website.

Dec. 9-21: Final examinations in full fall and late fall term courses and mid-term examinations in fall/winter courses will be held.

Dec.21: All take home examinations are due on this day

Dec. 24 to Jan. 2: University closed.

Jan. 3: University reopens at 8:30 a.m.

Jan. 6: Winter term begins.

Message from the President: Seasonal Wishes

As the fall term comes to an end and we prepare to say farewell to 2024, I want to express how profoundly impressed I am with our community’s extraordinary resilience and continued compassion. It has been a busy year with some remarkable achievements and in these quieter days to come, I hope you can find some rest and immerse yourself in quality time with your family, friends and loved ones.

As you may know, my time as Interim President is drawing to a close and it has been a great honour and privilege to serve Carleton. The New Year will usher in the arrival of Wisdom Tettey as the university’s 17th President and Vice-Chancellor. I have no doubt that through his leadership and the continued efforts of our community we will achieve a better, more sustainable tomorrow.

I wish you all the very best in 2025 – take care of yourself and each other and enjoy a well-deserved break.

Jerry Tomberlin
Interim President and Vice-Chancellor

Call for Abstracts Now Open for Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium

Carleton’s Department of History is presenting the 31st Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, on Feb. 27-28, 2025. This year’s theme is “Concentricity: Exploring The Doing of History.” The goal is to promote emerging research by graduate students that considers the ways in which we approach the doing of history in and beyond the academy.

In light of this year’s theme, we invite MA and PhD submissions from all disciplines that engage with the following themes:
1) Agency (i.e., scholars as active agents, their role in constructing knowledge and participating in broader social, political, cultural, ethical etc. debates, forms and narratives)
2) Exploration (i.e., how can we test the boundaries of our discipline, incorporating new approaches, experiences, methodologies, and understandings; How can we explore and incorporate new and innovative approaches)
3) Shared experience (i.e., how we interface with the past through disciplinary boundaries, individually and/or collectively, what can we learn from the past, other disciplines, and each other, how can we grow as researchers and as people through collaboration and community)

We are particularly interested in work that explores the intersections of these themes and their impact on historical production. We welcome submissions in all disciplines on history-related topics spanning the spectrum of disciplines, methodologies, and formats.

For more details please click here.

Submit your abstracts (no longer than 300 words) to this form by Friday, Dec. 20.

SSHRC Storytellers Challenge has Launched!

SSHRC's annual Storytellers Challenge asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better. The Challenge is open to all graduate students enrolled at a Canadian postsecondary institution to tell the story of a SSHRC-funded research project—their own or that of a researcher at their institution. A jury will then select 20 finalists. These Top 20 submissions will each be awarded $3,000 and additional training in research communications will be offered. In June 2025, the Top 20 will compete for a chance to place among the Final Five winners and receive an additional $1,000.

For more details on this year’s Storytellers Challenge, please click here.

International Student Services Office

Upcoming Information Sessions

Dec. 17: Post Graduate Work Permit Workshop

Dec. 18: Permanent Resident Pathways

Dec. 19: Understanding Your Health Insurance

Research Impact Canada Award

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students!

This award recognizes graduate students in master’s and doctoral programs whose scholarship exemplifies meaningful engagement with the community, incorporates knowledge mobilization (KMb) principles and practices, and demonstrates a commitment to positive societal impact.

Two recipients in the master’s category will receive C$2,000 each and two recipients in the doctoral category will receive C$3,000 each.

Application deadline is Feb. 24, 2025.

Attention Graduate Students: Now Accepting Nominations for the 2025 Board Award!

Are you, or do you know a fellow grad student who has made a remarkable impact through volunteer work? Recognize their dedication with a nomination for Carleton's 2025 Board Award and a chance to win a $2,000 reward.

For more details and to submit your nomination, visit the Board of Governors website or contact Amanda Goth at amanda.goth@carleton.ca.

Celebrate the spirit of volunteerism in our graduate community — nominate someone exceptional today!

Deadline for submissions is March 21, 2025.

Scholarship Opportunity for Graduate Students Researching Food Insecurity

The Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security is now accepting applications for their 2025-2026 Scholarship in Food Insecurity. Four $15,000 scholarships are distributed annually to support master's or PhD students who propose research to advance a better understanding of food insecurity in Canada.

Please click here for details. Proposals are due by midnight on Feb. 24, 2025.

Universities Canada: Tanaka Fund Grant

Universities Canada and The Japan Foundation are pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 competition for the Tanaka Fund Grant to Support Promising Junior Japanese Studies Scholars.

Japanese Studies is defined as a subcategory of area studies centered around social sciences and humanities research on Japan, which includes the study of language, culture, literature, politics, history, religion, economics, philosophy, film, arts, and science.

Tanaka Fund 2025 Competition

Annual value: A total of $60,000 is available through the 2025 competition.
Grant value: Grants up to a maximum of $12,000 are available.
Eligibility: Master’s and Doctoral level students.
Duration: A maximum of three months in Japan.
Application deadline: Jan. 31, 2025.

Program guidelines and information on the application process can be found here.

SOAR Leadership Conference 2025

The Student Experience Office has announced Waneek Horn-Miller will be the keynote speaker for the SOAR Leadership Conference 2025! A Carleton alumni and Mohawk Olympian, you may recognize Waneek from her most recent experience as a CBC Prime Time Host for the Paris Olympics.

Carleton’s Research Excellence Fuels Record Growth

Carleton University has once again been recognized as one of Canada’s fastest growing research-intensive universities in the annual Top 50 Research Universities report by Re$earch Infosource, a leading research and consulting firm.

Carleton continues to excel as a research-intensive university, with sponsored research income surpassing $113.5 million in 2022-23. This achievement secures Carleton’s position among Canada’s top three comprehensive universities and represents a remarkable 108 per cent increase in research investment since 2017.

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