Carleton University Magazine

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Winter 2012

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Cooking Up New Literature For the Post-Narrative Age

The art of storytelling can get lost in the digital age, where the restless intersecting of images, text, and flashy graphics can work wonders or simply add non-conceptual noise to an already crowded field. But the bright side to this distracting picture is the excitement of making road maps into a new storytelling world and inventing methods where none exist yet-that's what the researchers inside The Future Cinema Lab are trying to do

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In this issue:
Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte

President’s Message

A message from the president
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Broadening the Scope

Journalist Maggie Padlewska hits the road—and the river, the rainforest and the village—to pursue under-reported stories in the farthest places. Why? Because few venture out to explore what’s really happening. In the process, Padlewska has carved out a niche and a purpose, rolled into the banner One Year One World. A glimpse at the project plan
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Kosmic Wave

Charting the rise of the architecture school’s legendary party from potluck to super-bash
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Cooking Up New Literature For the Post-Narrative Age

The art of storytelling can get lost in the digital age, where the restless intersecting of images, text, and flashy graphics can work wonders or simply add non-conceptual noise to an already crowded field. But the bright side to this distracting picture is the excitement of making road maps into a new storytelling world and inventing methods where none exist yet-that’s what the researchers inside The Future Cinema Lab are trying to do
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Flip Your Lids

You never know what you’ll find when you open the boxes of history. That was the starting point for a photo essay on some of the rare finds within the buildings on campus. The university’s archivists and collectors preserve diverse bits of history—from newspaper clippings to architectural projects—for study, for teaching, and for posterity. They may seem utterly ordinary but are often of invaluable assistance to scholars in research, storytelling and reflection.
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Science For Dummies

When scientists, policy wonks and journalists wring their hands about the vast ho-hum that goes up when Canadians are asked to think about science, the conversation usually gets around quickly to the public’s befuddlement when confronted with numbers, but innumeracy isn’t the whole story. One of Canada’s top science writers gets to the crux of the issue
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Just Your Type

There’s something for nearly everyone in this roundup of ebooks, doorstops, and reference guides—plus one naughty take on genre fiction—written by Carleton faculty and graduates
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Class Notes

Class Notes

Keeping Up With Your Classmates. Career highlights, reinventions, product launches, marriages and births.
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Bubble, Bubble, Debt’s a Trouble

An out-Rage-ous fist tap for the house lager at the campus pub brings a whiff of politics to every glass
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