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Percussionist Jesse Stewart, a professor in the school for studies in art and culture, explores the sonic world in projects that range from the profound to the seemingly bizarre. Combining the perspective of a writer, visual artist, academic and musician, Stewart creates works that expand on notions of space and sound. Charting a career path in four portrait-profiles
Matthew Edwards, BArch/08, MArch/11, wants you to tap in to sonic spaces. The intern architect was part of a group of electronic artists who created Polylectures, a city soundtrack for self-guided explorers
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It has been a lounge, a coffee house, a bar and a cybercafé—no matter the guise, Rooster’s has been meet-up central for students wanting to decompress, study or start a movement. Charting the history of Carleton’s sometimes notorious, sometimes neglected undergraduate oasis
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You may know of Carleton’s mascot, Rodney the Raven—he has been part of campus life for decades. But did you know that Rodney didn’t always fly solo?
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Percussionist Jesse Stewart, a professor in the school for studies in art and culture, explores the sonic world in projects that range from the profound to the seemingly bizarre. Combining the perspective of a writer, visual artist, academic and musician, Stewart creates works that expand on notions of space and sound. Charting a career path in four portrait-profiles
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Stuart Hickox wants to get inside your toilet to see if it’s leaking. It’s not glamourous work, but it makes a difference. Stop a leak here and there, and you’ll save some dough and some water. Get thousands to do the same, and it’s a movement with a message. Unpacking the mantra of Hickox’s non-profit eco org one change
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Art and science meet in the work of artist-academic Cindy Stelmackowich. Contrasts abound as she churns up beauty from the abject. The resulting works show that attraction and repulsion can coexist
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Career shifters quit their day jobs to write what might be the next great Canadian novel. Others put their life’s research into bound format in current affairs, media, poetry, history and sexuality. Not just a listing of recent publications, here is a summary of dreams realized by Carleton University faculty and graduates
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Keeping Up With Your Classmates. Career highlights, reinventions, product launches, marriages and births.
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Quick eats for on-the-go intellects range from vending-machine manna to table served treats. An overview of new nosh and standby favourites from your student days
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Instead of travelling, CEOs and business leaders could pilot a remote robot body and be in two places at once. Entrepreneur, tinkerer and unicyclist extraordinaire Trevor Blackwell, BEng/92, says his telepresent robots could revolutionize the way people communicate and do business
The landmark structure overlooking the historic Rideau Canal was designed by Ritchard Brisbin, BArch/81, above, a principal with BBB Architects (Ottawa, Toronto, New York City). With its undulating glass surface, itís been described as anything from a giant disco ball to a glass spaceshipóno matter your perspective, youíll react to the spectacular new Ottawa Convention Centre
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School spirit manifests itself in many ways, from cheering on the home team (loud and proud) to more intimate expressions such as sporting your ìI Heart Carletonî pin (quiet and proud). Each is an expressive booster. For one alum, charting his campus experience was best done in song. The soundtrack to an undergraduate life
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Pub gains political notoriety after recent election
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A collection of Carleton-led ideas, research, theories, did-you-knows and big pictures. Follow our “genius feed” on Twitter for more daily sparks from researchers and thinkers at Carleton University
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His no-nonsense, nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy seemingly runs at cross-purposes with his flair for court-side dramatics. Understanding the ante—and the antics—of Taffe Charles, the coach who brought Ravens women’s basketball out of a slump
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Eager to step back from teaching and administrative work for a spell, these professors will get back into the thick of their research, pursuing intellectual passions and ways of bettering the world, as well as the mind. Before leaving on sabbatical, four academics let us into their offices to document their big-picture pursuits in words and tableaux
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Instead of travelling, CEOs and business leaders could pilot a remote robot body and be in two places at once. Entrepreneur, tinkerer and unicyclist extraordinaire Trevor Blackwell, BEng/92, says his telepresent robots could revolutionize the way people communicate and do business
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A selection of recently published works by faculty and grads covers harrowing personal struggles, the joys of animal life, Bollywood and biotechnologies
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Keeping Up With Your Classmates. Career highlights, reinventions, product launches, marriages and births.
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Industrial designer Teddy Luong gets a head start on his career with the Fishhotel, his first commercially produced design for housewares company Umbra
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California architect Jennifer Luce is bringing a new kind of openness to the workplace. The cliché-busting creator (she proves that her unabashed, industrial style can also be warm and homey) has been putting her stamp on west coast buildings for 30 years. A comment on process, place and the new work-life balance
Carleton’s newest—and greenest— building overlooks the canal
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Recently elected in rural North Dundas, Eric Duncan may be celebrated as the Kid Mayor, but he’s no newbie in the political world
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The Scrubb brothers, Philip and Thomas, keep each other on guard and on the ball
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Carleton’s tunnels are a much-discussed aspect of the campus experience, and there’s more to them than painted concrete. Herewith a guide to underground legends and lore
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Hospital bedside care will be transformed with the launch of an iPad app that will give doctors access to patient information and lab results at the touch of a screen.
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Journalism grads are all over the world map—Kenya, Brazil, France, Canada, and the United States, to name a few locations.
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Carleton students and faculty are raising $10,000 so that musicians can experience playing one of the oldest pianos of its kind. It is one of only eight such surviving instruments and requires substantial repairs to restore it to playing condition.
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Architecture student Steph Bolduc has won first prize in the student design category of the 2010 Ontario Wood Works Awards Program sponsored by the Canadian Wood Council. He beat out 50 other entries from seven competing schools.
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California architect Jennifer Luce is bringing a new kind of openness to the workplace. The cliché-busting creator (she proves that her unabashed, industrial style can also be warm and homey) has been putting her stamp on west coast buildings for 30 years. A comment on process, place and the new work-life balance
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The world needs to prepare for a water shortage—a looming issue that could be the biggest ecological and human catastrophe of our time. Canadians, reared on the myth of abundance, aren’t exempt from it. Water wastage, pollution and the selling off of natural assets are the facts, not the myth, of Canadian water, and a well-known Carleton grad intends to do something about it
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MAIN DUCK ISLAND, a tiny uninhabited spot on Lake Ontario, is the field naturalist’s dream, dominated by birds and animals that are easily seen and ready to be observed in their natural environment. Despite the island’s relative distance from urban life, it has become a platform for observing the impact that pollution and waste are having on the lake. For a look at our changing environment, two biologists and a journalist made the trek to seek answers and find adventure
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A round-up of door stoppers, e-tomes and children’s books written by faculty and grads
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Handmade books glow with a vintage varnish when cast against the sleek gadgetry of the information age
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Dan Bergeron's paste-up works, billboard makeovers and photo installations combine wit and social commentary in a style that hearkens back to the U.K.'s Banksy. As street art gains traction as both a cultural scene and a forum for public debate, we look at a Carleton graduate at the forefront of a movement that takes on perennial issues like art versus commerce and who gets to decide on representation in public space.
Dan Bergeron’s paste-up works, billboard makeovers and photo installations combine wit and social commentary in a style that hearkens back to the U.K.’s Banksy. As street art gains traction as both a cultural scene and a forum for public debate, we look at a Carleton graduate at the forefront of a movement that takes on perennial issues like art versus commerce and who gets to decide on representation in public space
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Editor’s Letter – The way I see it, it is possible to have a fluid balance between the printed word and digital content, with each medium bolstering the other.
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Moved by the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people, Tim Cook began studying the First World War. The author, who published his fifth work on the subject in September, writes history alive, magnifying the dramatic feuds and simmering controversies of the period
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Seasoned NHL player Shaun Van Allen plays the role of a rookie once again. This time as assistant coach of Ravens men’s hockey
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With gutsy spirit and a predilection for pranks, CKCU’s volunteer broadcasters have relied on creative steam and gumption to remain on the air despite often empty pockets. Ahead of the station’s 35th anniversary, we look back at some of the high—and low—points on the air
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Before the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens in Winnipeg in 2013, its curators will have to grapple with the issue of how they will tell Canada’s stories fairly. Turns out, when it comes to political and social issues, there is no shortage of sides or opinions
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You can study bagpiping as part of your music degree
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Ladies and gentlemen, start your broomsticks! Campus swept up by a new sports league
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Gunda Lambton got her first degree at the age of 69 and hasn’t slowed down
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Three generations of the Northover family meet up on campus to swap memories
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Books—and a board game—by Carleton’s grads and faculty for the word lover, the history buff and the commonly studious
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Industrial designer manufactures discourse with his I Am Not Garbage chair
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