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April 13 Edition

Graduate Student News

Tentative Agreements Reached with CUPE 4600
Carleton University and CUPE Local 4600 unit 1 (Teaching Assistants, some Research Assistants and Service Assistants) and unit 2 (Contract Instructors) both reached tentative Collective Agreements last week. Visit the Bargaining website for the latest updates and FAQs.

End of Winter Term
The winter term exam period takes place Saturday, April 15 to Thursday, April 27, 2023. Examinations are normally held all seven days of the week.

Summer Term Reminder
Summer 2023 registration is open. The summer term payment deadline is April 25. Click here for important payment information. Late payment charges and late registration charges apply to the student account on or after this date.

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Three Minute Thesis 2023 Competition - Presentations of Finalists are Posted to our YouTube Channel

Click below to see Master of Arts in Political Economy student Julia Sterling present, The Climate Virus: Lessons from COVID-19 Towards Urgent Climate Action in Canada.

Dates & Deadlines!

April 13-14, 2023
No classes or examinations take place.

April 15-27, 2023
Final examinations in full winter, late winter and fall/winter term courses will be held. Examinations are normally held all seven days of the week.

April 25, 2023
Summer term payment deadline. Visit the Student Accounts website for important payment information. Late payment charges and late registration charges apply to the student account on or after this date. OSAP entitlements must be available by this date in order to be eligible for the OSAP deferral. Calculate Amount to Pay will inform students if they have been granted this deferral.

April 27, 2023
All final take-home examinations are due on this day, with the exception of those conforming to the examination regulations in the Academic Regulations of the University section of the Undergraduate Calendar/General Regulations of the Graduate Calendar.

May 4, 2023
Summer term begins. Early summer and full summer classes begin.

May 10, 2023
Last day for registration and course changes (including auditing) for early summer courses.

May 13, 2023
Graduate students who have not electronically submitted their final thesis copy to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs will not be eligible to graduate in spring 2023 and must register for the summer 2023 term.

For a complete list of all official academic and financial dates and deadlines, please go to the Registrar’s website. For all financial matters, go to Student Accounts.

When Will I Find Out if I Have Won a Tri-Council Award?

Students will be informed of their scholarship application status by the following approximate dates:

NSERC, SSHRC & CIHR PhD: End of April
Vanier: End of April

If you are a successful recipient, please ensure you pay close attention to the details on how to accept your award.

Did You Know Grad Students Have Their Own Mental Health Counsellor?

Magda Georgescu is a counsellor with Carleton’s Health and Counselling Services who is focused on helping graduate students.

To make a free appointment with Magda, please call the office at 613-520-6674. Once you call, you will speak with a Patient Care Coordinator who will send you an intake and consent form that needs to be completed before speaking with an Intake Counsellor. This intake session can also take place in person at the clinic, if that is your preference, and then you will be able to meet with Magda.

Don't Forget to Accept Your Scholarships!

External awards application results will be released in the coming weeks. Please pay close attention to details on how to accept your award:

OGS
If you are successful, and you originally completed a paper application submission, you need to fill in this acceptance form and return to jenna.mcconnell@carleton.ca as soon as possible. If you submitted your application online and received a successful result, the acceptance form will be located in your Carleton Central application. If you experience any issues accepting your award, please reach out to Jenna McConnell immediately.
Note: If you have a pending decision from SSHRC, NSERC or CIHR and have been successful in the OGS competition, please accept your OGS offer. If you then receive a positive result regarding a different external award, your funding can be revised.

CGS Master’s
If you are successful, you need to fill out this acceptance form and send to jenna.mcconnell@carleton.ca as soon as possible.

Mental Health Supports

We have many services and resources in place to help you understand, manage and improve your mental health and wellness while at university. The best place to start is to check out our Wellness Services Navigator. This anonymous site is designed to help find you available mental health and wellness resources.

Another good tool to check out is our Resource Guide. This guide is meant to be flexible and offer support and guidance in tandem with the resources mentioned above.

International Student Services Office Info

Coffee with Campus Safety Officers on April 14 at 1 p.m.
https://carleton.ca/isso/cu-events/coffee-with-campus-safety-officers-april-14-2023/

CRIW's 2023 Early Career Researcher Conference: Call for Proposals

The Early Career Researcher Conference is an online, multidisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work (CRIW) to be held on June 19, 2023. Scholars exploring workplace inclusion-related issues among traditionally underrepresented populations, will come together to present their research and exchange ideas.

The deadline for proposal submission is April 26, 2023. Submissions should be sent to criw@carleton.ca with the subject line “Early Career Conference submission.”

Submission Requirements

Pictured Above: Professor Fateme Rajabiyazdi with graduate research assistant Connor Haberl and PhD student Mahsa Sinaei.

Improving Doctor-Patient Communications

The human body is an incredibly complex machine. When it stops working properly, the doctors trained to fix it often need to discuss a lot of detailed information with their patients — a vital but typically rushed exchange in Canada's overburdened health-care system.

But what if, instead of sitting behind a desk, looking at a monitor and telling people about their ailments and potential remedies, health-care providers could share health data in an interactive, visual way? And what if, rather than remaining passive recipients of these reports, patients could provide more data when appropriate and/or play a more active role in the healing process?

To help people become better engaged in their own medical care, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Fateme Rajabiyazdi and her students are developing health information visualization software for large, multi-touch displays.

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