When:  Thursday, March 11, 2021 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Registration: https://alumni.carleton.ca/event-registration-thursday-night-live-athletics-town-hall/.

The Town Hall launch will include major players in Carleton Athletics, including a welcome and update from Jennifer Brenning, assistant vice-president (Recreation and Athletics) and a Coaches’ Circle discussion representing our varsity teams and a special guest.

In addition, a unique halftime event will focus on the global phenomenon that is esports and celebrate Carleton’s leading role in this dynamic new virtual space.

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Katharine Bausch
Professor, Pauline Jewett Institute for Women and Gender Studies

Email: KatharineBausch@cunet.carleton.ca

Bausch is a feminist historian and interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections of gender, race, popular culture consumption, sex and class. Her earlier work considered the ways in which white U.S. artists and activists from the 1940s to the 1970s appropriated imagined black masculinities into their work.  Her current project examines the ways in feminism and feminists have been represented in U.S. popular culture since the 1930s. Bausch is an advocate of feminist activism in educational communities inside and outside of the university and works closely with high schools to introduce feminist learning.

She is available to speak about students learning about gender bias, teaching about women’s achievements and commemoration, as well as pop culture and gender bias.

Clare Beckton
Executive in Residence, Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work (CRIW) Carleton

Email: clare.beckton@carleton.ca

Beckton has extensive experience in a broad range of areas, including leading large organizations, strategic planning, governance, leadership to change systems, risk management, gender, diversity, inclusion, Indigenous policy issues and advancement of women’s leadership. She is the author of Own It, Your Success, Your Life, Your Future.

She served as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada, managing the departmental agency and providing advice to ministers. She led the development of public policy for the advancement of women and helped non-profits seek funding to benefit women.

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In addition, Razvan Gornea, professor in the Department of Physics, will be working on a CFI funded project led by the University of British Columbia entitled Enabling the search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in Xe-136 with nEXO.

“Carleton would like to thank our partners and CFI for its vision in further strengthening this ongoing Canadian physics project and for funding the new Abilities Living Laboratory (ALL),” said Rafik Goubran, vice-president (Research and International). “This major investment in innovative, world-class research will benefit all Canadians.”

Boulay, professor in the Department of Physics, and his partners at the University of Alberta, Laurentian University, Queen’s University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, SNOLAB and TRIUMF are enhancing Canada’s leadership in dark matter searches by enabling next-generation liquid argon experiments at SNOLAB. Liquid argon’s unique properties allow strong background suppression, enabling very large and sensitive detectors.

The mystery of dark matter has been around since the 1930s, when it became apparent that the normal matter we know of, made up of mostly protons and neutrons, can only account for about five per cent of the universe. Searching for dark matter particles by looking for their interaction with atomic nuclei is now an international scientific priority—understanding the nature of dark matter is one of the most important unsolved problems in science.

“This funding allows us to continue the search for the elusive dark matter that makes up most of the universe but has not yet been directly observed,” said Boulay. “It enables improvements to the DEAP-3600 experiment at SNOLAB—currently the world’s most sensitive liquid argon dark matter detector—and the development of an even larger next-generation experiment, Darkside-20k.”

Located two kilometres below the surface in Sudbury, Ont., SNOLAB is the deepest cleanest lab in the world. It provides an ideal low background environment for the study of extremely rare physical interactions. SNOLAB’s science program focuses on astroparticle physics, specifically neutrino and dark matter studies, though its unique location is also well-suited to biology and geology experiments. SNOLAB facilitates world-class research, trains highly qualified personnel and inspires the next generation of scientists.

Chan, director of the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) training program, and his partners at the University of Ottawa will use the funding to support ALL at Carleton. ALL brings together some of Canada’s top minds in science, engineering, design, health, social sciences and the humanities to create innovative community systems that enable a fully inclusive and accessible Canada.

“I’m thrilled about this opportunity,” said Chan. “Carleton has engaged in many projects that have contributed to a more accessible society for persons with disabilities. ALL will provide cutting-edge technology and infrastructure to accelerate accessibility research.”

It is anticipated that this research program will lead to the design and development of new assistive and rehabilitation devices, public environments and facilities, and experiences that are more accessible and inclusive.

About CFI

For more than 20 years, CFI has been giving researchers the tools they need to think big and innovate. Fostering a robust innovation system in Canada translates into jobs and new enterprises, better health, cleaner environments and, ultimately, vibrant communities. By investing in state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in Canada’s universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research institutions, CFI also helps to attract and retain the world’s top talent, to train the next generation of researchers and to support world-class research that strengthens the economy and improves the quality of life for all Canadians.

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When: Thursday, March 11, 2021 (English event) and Friday, March 12, 2021 (French Event), from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

For information on how to join the events visit:

March 11: https://events.carleton.ca/public-services-safety-for-lgbtq2-older-adults-and-workers/.
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LGBTQ2+ older adults and LGBTQ2+ workers have fought for decades to make long-term care facilities, libraries, drop-in programs and other public services accessible and safer spaces.

Together, Egale and CUPE partnered with Carleton researchers Christine Streeter and Braedley to review the academic and community literature, produce an environmental scan of promising initiatives happening across Canada, and hold interviews and focus groups with LGBTQ2+ workers and LGBTQ2+ older adults from five provinces.

The final report shares promising practices—interventions, programs, services and strategies that are effective or show potential—that will improve safety and accessibility in public services for LGBTQ2+ communities.

Panellists include:

English Panel:

Elias Chaccour is a doctoral student at York University’s School of Health Policy and Management who works with the SSHRC partnership, Age-Friendly Communities-in-Communities. He has more than 10 years of experience in health-care administration and policy in Ontario and Quebec. His current research focuses on investigating promising practices in trauma-informed care for older adults.

Braedley is an associate professor at Carleton and associate director of the SSHRC partnership, Age-Friendly Communities-in-Communities. Her research focuses on care work and health and aging. She has more than 10 years of experience conducting research in long-term residential care and community care settings.

Streeter is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton. As a social worker she is committed to improving insecure working conditions for care workers in the social work and social services work sector. Her research explores changing working conditions in the public and non-profit social services for seniors.

Gina McKay is a proud CUPE member and labour director at the United Way of Winnipeg on Treaty 1 territory. Her work focuses on building stronger and more inclusive labour movements. A queer Métis activist, McKay has over 18 years’ experience in community health and social services.

Robert Nelder is a member of Toronto’s Senior Pride Network (SPN), a program for seniors at the 519 Community Centre and he is on SPN’s Education Committee. He is a past member of the National Seniors Advisory Council to Egale Human Rights Trust.

French Panel:

Chaccour

Dean Power is a long-term care worker in Caraquet, New Brunswick. A member of the LGBTQ2+ community, Power is active in the union movement and currently serves as secretary-treasurer for his CUPE local.

Denise Veilleux is a senior and volunteer for Fondation Émergence’s Aging Gayfully program.

Julien Rougerie, is the program manager for Aging Gayfully at Fondation Émergence.

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Spearheaded by the Faculty of Engineering and Design, with financial support from 9 industry and government partners, the WiE&IT program will provide key learning and development opportunities for undergraduate and graduate-level women students within Carleton’s wide array of engineering and information technology programs.

Beginning in fall 2021, the program will include events to foster relationship building and mentorship, a network of ambassadors and volunteers, and a special fund to support the work of allies in meeting their equity, diversity and inclusion goals.

Partners supporting the WiE&IT program at launch include Trend Micro, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, CGI, Gastops, Leonardo DRS, Lockheed Martin Canada, Amdocs, EllisDon, and Ross.

“Carleton is strongly committed to developing and promoting a culture that supports women in engineering and IT at all levels,” said Larry Kostiuk, dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Design. “By collaborating with a variety of partners through this initiative, we will connect students to industry professionals, equip students with the tools and knowledge to succeed in the workplace, and foster inclusion in engineering and IT.”

By taking part in the WiE&IT program, students will be introduced to women role models, gain an inside look into workplaces, attend industry talks and develop connections with women ambassadors.

“Supporting women in engineering and IT ensures more creative and viable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems,” said Banu Örmeci, Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health and faculty advisor for Carleton University’s Women in Science and Engineering (CU-WISE) chapter. “By connecting our students with industry through the WiE&IT program, we can enhance women’s educational journeys and help to close the gender gap in STEM.”

Interested in Becoming a Program Partner? 

For more information on how you can support the WiE&IT program, please visit Carleton’s Hub for Good.

About Carleton University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design

Carleton University’s research-intensive Faculty of Engineering and Design is recognized as a leader in Canada and beyond, offering one of the most extensive ranges of engineering, architecture, industrial design, and information technology programs in the country. Located in the nation’s capital, Carleton’s Faculty of Engineering and Design offers unique experiential learning opportunities and delivers real-world training through partnerships with industry and collaboration with government departments and agencies.

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March 2, 2021

Good morning everyone,

I can’t quite believe, as we enter the month of March, that we have been dealing with the COVID pandemic for a full year. As always, I am deeply grateful for the immense creativity, flexibility and compassion our community has shown in adapting to this extended and challenging public health crisis.

The second wave seems to be slowly receding, but it is difficult to predict when the pandemic will cease to disrupt our lives so significantly. Ottawa is now in “orange,” but there are indications that we might be moving into “red” sometime over the next weeks. With new variants, a possible third wave and vaccine programs off to a slow start, it is unlikely that the spring and early summer will be very much different from this winter.

Accordingly, last month the Carleton University Scenario Planning (CUSP) Working Group and the Carleton Senate determined that while some campus activities might be possible, the majority of summer courses will be delivered online. In the same vein, regretfully, our Spring Convocation ceremonies have to be postponed. Carleton will offer virtual Graduation Celebrations for the Class of 2021 in June – more information to come – and in-person Convocation celebrations will be held at a later time, when it is safe to do so.

As we look towards the fall, we are starting to see messaging by Canadian universities suggesting preparations for a significant return to campus while at the same time emphasizing health and safety. We deeply share our colleagues’ desire to gather in person again and, like them, we also recognize that there are still many open questions at this time. Will the rate of vaccination accelerate quickly enough to support a significant return in the fall? What rules and regulations will be in place with regards to physical distancing or capacity limits? Will international mobility resume?

Since our first CUSP report in May 2020, we have carefully considered an array of factors before making our decisions. We continue to monitor the developing situation very closely. Our decisions will continue to reflect the guiding principles we originally articulated, including prioritizing the health and wellbeing of our community, aiming to offer the best possible learning experience and providing “as much certainty as possible to students, faculty and staff by making and communicating decisions as early as possible.”

Drawing on broad health and safety, operational and legal expertise, we are setting up the appropriate protocols, procedures and mitigation measures – in line with public health guidelines – for a gradual and safe return of faculty and staff to campus in advance of the fall term. Should epidemiological data, vaccination rates and public health recommendations all go in the right direction, we will be ready for a significant return to our beautiful campus.

As discussed at the Carleton Senate last Friday, the most likely scenario for the fall seems to be a gradual and safe return to campus, as public health regulations permit, and a course and program delivery model that allows for maximum flexibility for students. In all likelihood, large classes will continue online for fall 2021, but we anticipate that it will be possible to offer a significant proportion of smaller classes, labs and tutorials in person or in a blended format. We will be providing more specific information regarding our plans, including the development of the timetable for the fall, as the situation continues to evolve.

Finally, as we look for the proverbial light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, we continue preparations to emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever. Work on the Reputation Enhancement Project progresses with the strategy development phase currently underway. Next up is a creative exploration of how Carleton could better present itself visually. Please keep an eye out for an invitation to weigh in on this important and exciting phase.

As always, any questions you may have that are not answered by Carleton’s COVID-19 information website and its FAQ section should be forwarded to covidinfo@carleton.ca.

In closing, I want to acknowledge a successful and impactful Black History Month that started with Martin Luther King III speaking to our community, and saw a number of events and communications celebrating the many contributions and achievements of the Black community at Carleton and in the broader society. These important celebrations continue on March 6 with Black History Month is Every Month – A Black History Celebration led by our great School of Social Work. Let me end with an invitation to the official launch of our fully designed new Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan that will take place on March 23.

As always, my sincere thanks for everything you do for Carleton, under what continue to be challenging circumstances. Have a wonderful day!

Benoit

Benoit-Antoine Bacon
President and Vice-Chancellor
Carleton University

When: Thursday, March 4, 2021 from 9 to 10 a.m.
Registration: https://carleton.ca/engineering-design/breakthrough-breakfast-2021/

About the Speakers

Emma Farago is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Carleton. Her research interests include developing wearable assistive devices and biomedical signal processing. Her thesis involves signal quality analysis of electromyograms (muscle signals) to improve smart assistive and rehabilitative devices.

Jin Kang is a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton’s Creative Interactions Lab. She investigates how media and communication technologies can be designed to promote overall well-being and encourage individuals to achieve their better selves. In this talk, she will discuss her projects on chatbot, social media and wearable trackers that fall within this overarching research agenda.

Brittany Allison is currently pursuing a Master’s of Applied Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering at Carleton. Her research on integrated circuits and high-speed communication links focuses on improving Internet access and speed in relation to the increased demand for high-speed Internet with more people working from home during the pandemic.

About the Host

Audrey Girouard leads Carleton’s Creative Interactions Lab and the Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences training program. Specializing in next generation interactions, her research focuses on deformable devices and wearables. Her work has applications in health, accessibility, gaming, creative input and mobile devices.

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When: Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i7lBklSqSKahAx67PM0Zog.

About the Speaker:

Abizaid is interested in the brain processes that integrate information from the environment to regulate feeding and energy balance. His Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funded research is focused on how metabolic hormones like ghrelin influence reward-seeking behaviours via actions on the brain systems related to rewards and fears. His Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded research examines how the hormone ghrelin influences feeding as a coping mechanism to mitigate the effects of chronic social stress. He is also interested in how prenatal factors like diet, environmental pollutants or gestational diabetes influence the development of brain systems implicated in the regulation of feeding and energy balance in their offspring.

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Stephen Saideman
Professor, Norman Patterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA)

Email: SteveSaideman@cunet.carleton.ca

Saideman is the director of the Canadian Defence and Security Network. His current research focuses on the role of legislatures in democratic civil-military relations.  He teaches courses on contemporary international security, civil-military relations and U.S. foreign and defence policy.

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Past winners include author and advocate Margaret Trudeau, retired general Roméo Dallaire, former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson and Olympic skater Elizabeth Manley.

“The stigma around mental health issues remains strong and keeps people from getting the help they need and deserve,’’ says Bacon. “It is our shared responsibility to break that stigma.”

Another Inspiration Award will go to Carleton sociology master’s student Charlotte Smith, who will be presented with the Personal Leader Award for overcoming homelessness and addiction to help others through her research and volunteer work.

Bacon frequently uses his platform as a senior leader to speak credibly and compassionately about his own mental health journey. He set the tone for openness when he was formally installed as president during a Convocation ceremony in November 2018, when he told the audience about his life’s journey.

A year later, at the Excellence Canada Summit in Toronto, Carleton became the first post-secondary institution in the country to reach Gold Level certification in Mental Health at Work, and the university’s Students and Enrolment division earned Bronze Level certification in Excellence, Innovation and Wellness. Bacon’s keynote address at the summit was entitled, My ongoing journey towards resilience, purpose and gratitude.

Carleton received these distinctions thanks to several ongoing efforts, including the Student Mental Health Framework 2.0, a robust Healthy Workplace program and the university’s holistic approach to supporting workplace mental health.

These priorities have gained new emphasis during the COVID-19 pandemic, with mental wellness being challenged in many ways.

For more information about the awards, please go to: https://www.theroyal.ca/get-involved/fundraising-events/inspiration-awards.

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Alex Usher, a post-secondary expert and president of Higher Education Strategy Associates, recently appeared on TVO’s The Agenda to discuss various approaches to online classes, supporting students and faculty, and communicating to stakeholders.

He emphasized that the most successful universities have come through the crisis as a community, kept open lines of communications, shared clear expectations and have asked how best to support students, faculty and staff.

When asked to think about post-secondary education at the beginning of the pandemic versus today and the biggest lessons to be learned, Usher singled out Carleton for praise.

“Carleton is the one that just stands out for me as having had exceptional leadership through a pandemic,” said Usher.

When the pandemic began, Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon began communicating directly with the community through emails, social media and a dedicated web page. For weeks, he shared daily messages that informed and consoled. Bacon continues to share news about decision-making, policy and support, and Carleton’s COVID-19 web page is constantly updated with new information as the situation evolves.

View Usher’s full interview here.

When: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.
Registration: https://alumni.carleton.ca/event-registration-architecture-forum-series-with-mabel-wilson-2/.

About the Speaker

Wilson is a professor in Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a professor in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She also serves as the director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies and co-directs Global Africa Lab. With her practice Studio&, she is a collaborator in the architectural team that recently completed the memorial to enslaved African American labourers at the University of Virginia.

She is a founding member of Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), a collective that advocates for fair labour practices on building sites worldwide.

Wilson is also the author of Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2017) and Negro Building: African Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012).

She co-edited the recently published volume, Race and Modern Architecture: From the Enlightenment to Today (2020).

For the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), she is co-curator of the exhibition, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (February 2021).

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When: Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 7 p.m.
Registration: https://carleton.ca/socialwork/cu-events/celebrate-black-history-month-2021/.

This event is integral to the School of Social Work’s commitment to serve all students at a time when Indigenous, Black and racialized students express feeling invisible in university spaces while also feeling hyper-visible in their differences. These sentiments of being seen and yet unseen relate to their experiences within post-secondary education. The ultimate goal of this event is to create a space that supports culture change in academic settings to assist Black individuals, both in the Carleton community and in the wider Ottawa area to understand the complex issues associated with diversity and inclusion.

The event will feature interviews from a variety of contemporary Black voices in Ottawa, a living portrait of their stories and commentary, as well as conversations that further dissect what it means to be Black in Canada today. There will also be special performances.

About the SSWBHC

The SSWBHC is a collaborative committee comprised of representatives from the Carleton and greater Ottawa communities who have come together in an effort to build bridges between higher education and the people beyond. For the past two years, the SSWBHC has been at the forefront for delivering inspirational and much needed Black history celebrations. Through the Black History Month celebrations, the committee draws attention to the strengths, accomplishments, and concerns of the often-alienated Black communities of Canada.

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However, individuals living in marginalizing conditions such as domestic and sexual violence, unsafe/unstable housing and experience(s) of trauma, are at risk for physical inactivity due to barriers to access and participation. As part of a larger research project which explores physical activity inequities, under the supervision of Francine Darroch, Palladino is guiding the development of a trauma- and violence-informed physical activity “landscape of practice.” Palladino will talk about trauma- and violence-informed physical activity as an innovative approach to physical activity programming. She’ll describe what a “landscape of practice” is, how they have started to lay the groundwork for its development, its mission, goals and next steps.

When: Monday, March 1, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.

Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zyfupf83Tb2N1IrDFTWy1w.

About the Speaker

Palladino graduated with a Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours degree at Carleton and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Health: Science, Technology and Policy. As a member of the Health and Wellness Equity Research Group at Carleton, she is conducting research to guide the development of a Community of Practice that would positively impact the sustainability of community-developed-and-implemented physical activity resources and programs for marginalized individuals.

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During this instalment of the Healthy Cities panel series, Our Built Environment, experts will ask what is the contribution of the built environment to a healthy city and conversely, to the rise of an unhealthy city? The panellists — with backgrounds in Indigenous public education, architectural history and theory, architecture and sustainable heritage conservation — will collectively address the question of what exactly a healthy city looks, sounds and feels like.

When: Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 at 7 p.m.
Registration: https://carleton.ca/fass/events/healthy-cities/

About the Moderator and Panellists:

Prof. Malini Guha (moderator) is an associate professor of Film Studies at Carleton. She is cross-appointed with the Institute for Studies in Art and Culture and is affiliated with Migration and Diaspora Studies. Guha’s research and teaching are broadly concerned with spatiality and the cinema, with an emphasis on postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement and settlement.

Jaime Morse is Michif from northern Alberta, growing up in Lac La Biche and the surrounding area. Currently, Morse works as an educator at the National Gallery of Canada in Indigenous Programs and Outreach. As a visual artist and dance group manager, Morse is also an active part of Michif cultural heritage through creative avenues. She is the mother of four and the owner of Indigenous Walks, a walk and talk tour through downtown Ottawa exploring social, political and cultural issues from an Indigenous perspective. Morse currently acts as the VP for Ottawa Heritage Connexions, is a board member for the Distress Centre of Ottawa Region and is on multiple parent advisory councils.

Prof. Susan Ross is an architect licensed in Quebec who has practiced in Montreal and Berlin, a former senior conservation architect in the Canadian government, and now associate professor at the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton, with cross appointment to the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism. Ross teaches about sustainable heritage conservation and the historic urban landscape, and her published research includes urban water supply landscapes in Montreal, conservation of modern wood heritage in Vancouver and 1930s apartment buildings in Ottawa. Her current focus examining the relationship between heritage and waste is documented on Waste Heritage Research. Active in local, national and international heritage organizations, Ross is co-chair of the National Roundtable on Heritage Education, and a member of the College of Fellows of the Association for Preservation Technology.

Prof. Peter Coffman is the supervisor of Carleton’s History and Theory of Architecture program, and past president of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. His main area of research is Canadian historical architecture, particularly in Atlantic Canada. His architectural commentary appears periodically in newspapers, on radio and on TV and his architectural photography has illustrated many publications in addition to his own.

Prof. Gül Kale is an assistant professor of Architectural History and Theory. She is trained as an architect and architectural historian. She received her Ph.D. (2014) and M.Arch II degree from the Architectural History and Theory Program at McGill University. She has been awarded the prestigious Getty/ ACLS postdoctoral fellowship in Art History in 2018-2019 and was an AKPIA associate at Harvard University during Winter 2019. She was also granted postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Bonn’s Annmarie-Schimmel Kolleg and the Art Histories Program of the Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin. Her specialties are architectural history and theory with a focus on the early modern Ottoman empire and global intellectual histories and theories of design and the built environment in the wider Mediterranean world. Her book-length project is the first sustained and critical analysis of A Book on Architecture, written by a scholar on Ottoman architecture and on the life of an Ottoman chief architect. Her articles and works in progress range from the relationship between architectural practice, mathematical knowledge and social affairs to the varying definitions and uses of geometry in architecture, and from the social, material, and intellectual histories of inlaid artwork, to the relation between music, architecture, and poetry.

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The team is being awarded for their project “The First Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun’s Food Sovereignty Hub” which seeks to be a capacity-building and empowerment project led by the FNNND, with project activities taking place in both Mayo, Yukon and at the FNNND Farm. It will result in the creation of a network of communal infrastructure and programming designed to meet the community’s food sovereignty and capacity development aspirations. A main objective of the project is to reduce barriers to accessing healthy and culturally relevant foods, while empowering individuals to be active participants in designing their own paths toward food sovereign futures.

“Winning the AIP is a massive achievement for our people and this project,” said FNNND Chief Simon Mervyn. “Building on the foundation of our working farm, we are now positioned to process our farmed and traditional wild foods, and more importantly we can train and educate our citizens using a combination of traditional culture and technology. The future is very bright for our sons and daughters, our grandchildren and neighbors, as we will all benefit in taking yet another step in our goal to achieving true food sovereignty.”

The AIP is by the North and for the North and is a community of people and groups, including Indigenous organizations, academia, governments, non-governmental organizations, industry, philanthropy, media and arts and culture organizations, who share a common goal: to recognize northern innovation and excellence and encourage teamwork for the betterment of life in Canada’s North.

“When Carleton President Benoit-Antoine Bacon signed the agreement between FNNND and Carleton last September, we couldn’t predict such an endorsement only five months later,” said Christopher Burn, Chancellor’s Professor of Geography. “The AIP is a far-sighted contribution to reconciliation and self-determination. It is a special symbol of trust that we were invited by FNNND to be part of their prize nomination, it is a great honour to have won the prize.”

A pillar of the AIP is to foster and/or nurture meaningful relationships between Northern and Southern partners, including those such as FNNND’s and Carleton’s MOU. This multi-disciplinary research partnership is centered around Indigenous and Northern studies, community and human development, post-secondary education, research and access for learners. Research projects and teaching programs designed and conducted through this partnership were co-identified by FNNND and Carleton. Traditional knowledge and non-Indigenous knowledge come from two distinct world views that together can inform and enrich research and teaching. Precedence was given to FNNND’s data sovereignty legislation that is currently under development, paramount to the Yukon Science and Explorer’s Act, and FNNND’s mirror legislation honouring ownership, control, access and possession principles, including retention of information.

The parties also respect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and elements of FNNND’s Self-Government Agreement and Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP).

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Carleton University and Environment and Climate Change Canada brought together Canada’s leading conservation experts to identify the type of information needed to best conserve nature in Canada’s. They agreed that Canada must move beyond just collecting information and instead focus more on effective action. As well, the team highlights the crucial role of Indigenous knowledge systems in conservation.

The study has now been published in Biological Conservation: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0006-3207(21)00035-5.

“It was heartening that in a room of researchers and knowledge keepers, the consensus was that we need to move from research to action, to support nature and make room for Indigenous knowledge and rights in the process.” said Rachel Buxton, lead author and post-doctoral researcher in Carleton’s Department of Biology. “We need to make conserving nature part of everything that we do, and we need to do this quickly – human actions are undermining the natural systems on which humanity depends.”

As the global conservation community negotiates a post-2020 biodiversity conservation framework, Canada has an enormous role to play. The country is responsible for safeguarding much of the world’s intact forests, freshwaters and wetlands. Yet, Canadian natural environments are at risk, with many  Canadian species in decline. And while Indigenous peoples and their lands have a critical role to play in maintaining biodiversity, there are still significant barriers to the meaningful and rightful participation of Indigenous peoples in conservation.

“Since colonization, Indigenous ways of knowing and being have been in many ways severed from the landscapes on which they were formed,” said Andrea Reid, study co-author and Nisga’a scholar at The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Indigenous Fisheries. “We need to see a return of power into Indigenous hands, to amplify Indigenous voices, and to cultivate greater public awareness that Indigenous knowledge systems are, in effect, also science.”

Some of the innovative ideas emerging from these discussions relate to using big data for nature conservation. “We live in the information age – we have enormous amounts of data and information at our disposal to help problem-solve,” said Joseph Bennett, study co-author and professor in Carleton’s Department of Biology. “As scientists, we like collecting new data, but with big data being generated by social media and citizen science, often these data are being collected for us.”

“This project was an effort to recalibrate our priorities for nature conservation, and a clear take home message was that some of our biggest information needs are not facts and figures about plants and animals,” said Paul Smith, study co-author and research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. “Rather, we need a better understanding of how to motivate people, influence economies and alter policies in ways that benefit nature. From toxicologists to Indigenous Elders to social scientists, all agreed that interdisciplinary thinking is needed to solve these complex problems.”

“We’re in the middle of a biodiversity crisis, but thankfully many of us are united by our common desire to protect the natural world,” said Buxton. “It’s time to work together, respect a diversity of voices, and move from knowledge to action if we’re going to protect nature before it’s too late.”

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