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Carleton Computer Science Grad Lands the Job He Always Wanted

By Kristy Strauss

Before Calvin Lewis even started high school, he knew that he wanted to study computer science at university.

“I’ve always been interested in leading-edge technology,” he says. “I knew what I wanted to do for a while.”

Now, the 21-year-old is receiving his undergraduate degree, with a specialization in mobile and social networking.

Monday, June 2, 2014
Postdoctoral Fellowship Available for September 1, 2014, McMaster University

Post-doctoral Fellowship – Institute of Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University

Monday, June 2, 2014
Carleton’s Mark Forbes Honoured with Robert Arnold Wardle Award

Carleton University’s Mark Forbes, a professor of biology and associate vice-president (Research), has been honoured with the 2014 Robert Arnold Wardle Award by the Parasitism, Immunity and Environment Section of the Canadian Society of Zoologists. The award recognizes Forbes’ outstanding contributions to Canadian-based research on the interrelationships among infectious agents, the response of animals to these agents and the environment in which these relationships exist.

Friday, May 30, 2014
Kim Hellemans from Neuroscience receives the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award

The Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) have announced the eight outstanding educators who have been named 2014 Carleton University Teaching Award winners.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Non Faculty-specific Vacancy on Senate Committee

The Senate Committee on Student Awards has one vacancy for a faculty member. This vacancy is not specific to a Faculty.

The nomination process is to send an email containing a self-nomination OR an email of nomination AND an email from the candidate accepting the nomination to the Clerk of Senate at clerkofsenate [at] carleton [dot] ca no later than Noon on Friday, June 13, 2014. An election, if required, will be held at the June Senate meeting.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Carleton Physics Professor Manuella Vincter Awarded Killam Research Fellowship

Manuella Vincter, professor of particle physics at Carleton University currently working on the ATLAS project, has received one of just a handful of Killiam Research Fellowships given out each year to researchers across a number of disciplines.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Carleton Science Alumnus honoured by the Chemical Institute

Prof. Peter Legzdins (B.Sc. Hons, 1964) is to be honoured early June at the annual conference of the Chemical Institute of Canada in Vancouver, by holding a four-session Symposium in his name.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
David Miller's Research on Combatting Spruce Budworm in Eastern Canada Receives Major Boost

Carleton Chemistry Prof. J. David Miller spoke at a major funding announcement for a $3.2 million facility that will move his work out of the laboratory and into the world. The state-of-the-art laboratory in Sussex, N.B. will produce inoculum for up to 30 million seedlings a year from nurseries in eastern Canada. J.D. Irving President Jim Irving, N.B. Premier David Alward and ACOA Minister Rob Moore also spoke about the importance of science in addressing serious problems in the forestry sector in innovative ways.

Monday, May 26, 2014
Claudia Buttera and Kevin Cheung honoured with 2014 Capital Educators’ Awards

The Faculty of Science is proud to announce that two of its outstanding educators have been honoured with 2014 Capital Educators’ Awards.

Friday, May 23, 2014
Alumni Success Stories

As more graduate students are now pursuing non-academic careers, Grad Studies has been running a series on PhD alumni who are successfully employed in non-academic positions.  You can read the full series by clicking HERE.

Thursday, May 22, 2014