TheGraduate@Carleton

March 6, 2025 Edition

Graduate Student News

Student EDI Research Award Applications Open
Applications are open until March 21 for the Student EDI Research Awards. Recipients will have the opportunity to engage in faculty-supervised research projects that use EDI-informed considerations and reflect upon diversity and identities. Two student awards are available (one undergraduate and one graduate), each valued at $10,000, for a four-month project term (May 1 to Aug. 31).

International Women's Day is March 8
On International Women’s Day, Carleton is celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women across the university. Women continue to experience discrimination based on their gender and intersecting identities, which is exacerbated for racialized women, Indigenous women, women with disabilities, trans women and those with marginalized gender identities. Click here for Carleton events and stories celebrating International Women's Day.

Tax Forms
The Tuition and Education Certificate or T2202 is available to each student through Carleton Central. Students can request a T2202 on the web and print out the document. The printed copy meets all requirements from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). T2202s are not mailed out to students.

Ancillary Fee Referendum: Mike’s Place Levy
Mike’s Place Pub has been an important historic and cultural hub for graduate students and the Carleton community since its founding in 1972. Although the Graduate Students Association (GSA) provides various services, it currently does not have a levy specifically for Mike’s Place. This lack of funding has affected the overall GSA operational budget, making the existence of Mike’s Place precarious. This levy fee will enable the GSA to operate the pub at full capacity, ensuring it remains accessible to all community members. Referendum Question: Do you support a $7 per term fee, indexed to the Consumer Price Index, for the GSA to fund Mike’s Place, starting in Fall 2025? Voting days will be held on Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12. Voting will be held online, and all ballots will be conducted electronically and sent to students’ cMail account.

Awards for Teaching Assistants!
Nominations for the 2024-2025 Outstanding TA Awards are now open! Click here for details. Any TA who worked in the spring/summer 2024, fall 2024 and/or winter 2025 terms is eligible. Nominations due by March 31.

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. Celebrate the spirit of volunteerism in our graduate community—nominate someone exceptional today! Deadline for submissions is March 21.

Women’s Nordic Ski Captures Third Consecutive Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Title!
The Carleton Ravens women's Nordic ski team captured their third consecutive OUA title and eighth in the last nine championships on Sunday. The Ravens were all over the podium throughout the weekend earning three of six individual women's medals, two men's individual medals and placing all four relay teams on the podium. Six Ravens men and five women were named OUA All-Stars as Carleton collected nine of a possible 18 medals at the event.

Women's Basketball Ontario University Athletics Finals: Ravens Host Critelli Cup
The Ravens host the OUA Final (Critelli Cup) against the Ottawa Gee-Gees this Saturday, March 8 in the Raven's Nest. The Women's Basketball team has also clinched a spot in the national U SPORTS Final 8 in Vancouver from March 13 to 16. The team was undefeated in the regular season with 22 wins.

MacOdrum Library: AI Tools Now Available in Scopus and Web of Science
The library provides Carleton users with access to new generative AI search and chat functionality in both Scopus and Web of Science with features that provide additional capabilities for exploring, analyzing and visualizing research. If you have questions or feedback on these features, please contact: collectionsfeedback@cunet.carleton.ca.

Updated Thesis Examination Policy
For students working on their theses, please take a moment to review the updated policy for thesis dissertation defences at both the master's and doctoral level.

If you have any questions, please email: thegraduate@carleton.ca.
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Compete at This Year's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition! It’s Not Too Late to Enter!

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) at Carleton is a university-wide competition for graduate students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in 3 minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges. It will take place on March 27. For more info, please visit the Carleton 3MT website.

Upcoming Winter Term Deadlines

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

March 7: Last day to withdraw from late winter term courses with a full fee adjustment (financial withdrawal).

March 15:

Last day for academic withdrawal from full winter, late winter and fall/winter courses.

Last day to request Formal Examination Accommodation Forms for April full winter, late winter, and fall/winter final examinations to the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities.

March 20: Carleton Central opens for registration for Carleton University degree students (graduate and undergraduate).

International Student Services Office

Vanier Sugar Shack Visit
Have you tasted maple syrup yet? Join us for a tasty visit to Ottawa’s urban sugar shack at the Vanier Museopark on March 14 at 9:30 a.m.

Students will have a chance to eat a traditional maple syrup menu, have a guided tour of a sugar bush, and learn about the history of Ottawa’s francophone community.

Experience Sky Woman’s Story and Indigenous Beading at MacOdrum Library

Register for Off the Page and Into Real Life: A Sky Woman Event, presented by the Library and the Office of the Associate Vice-President Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research on March 7.

Enjoy a first-person retelling of Sky Woman’s story in the morning and an Indigenous beading workshop in the afternoon. Space is limited; registration is required for both sessions.

2025 Marston LaFrance Lecture - Unlikely Allies: Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera

On March 13, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Professor Jennifer Evans will discuss the parallel lives of two Jewish middle-aged women photographers and the role of their photographs of the Genoa and São Paulo trans scenes for the way they presaged the visibility politics of the gay, lesbian and feminist social movements of the 1970s and 80s. This in-person event will be held at 2017 Dunton Tower.

Learn more and register.

Carleton’s Tax Clinic is Open for Students!

Worried about filing your taxes this year? Don't be! The Sprott Tax Students' Association (STSA) is here to help with our free annual tax clinic.

To file your taxes at the clinic this March, you must first fill out our client intake form. We will contact you shortly afterwards with the details of your appointment and what to bring. The tax clinic will be held on campus from March 24 to March 29.

If you have any questions, please send an email to president@custsa.com.

Institute of Political Economy Annual Graduate Conference: Hyper-Politics and Anxious Identities

The Institute of Political Economy’s 25th annual student graduate conference will be held on March 21. This year’s theme is Hyper-Politics and Anxious Identities: Seeking Solidarity in Volatile Times.

Details can be found here.