Congratulations to all the recipients of the 2014 Achievement Awards. Read all about why they received the award and how they are going to apply it to their areas of expertise.
Teaching Achievement Awards
The Teaching Achievement Awards were established in 1991 to enhance the teaching of the recipients and the quality of instruction at Carleton. Selection for the awards is based on demonstrated excellence in teaching and on the quality of the teaching development projects proposed.
Alfonso Abizaid
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
This award will enhance the many activities of the Society for Neuroscience (Ottawa Chapter) by providing a grant on behalf of Carleton University to deserving neuroscience students for travel to an international conference that will offer students the opportunity to be exposed to research from around the world and to present their data in front of experts in their field.
Aaron Doyle
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
This project will develop a fourth-year sociology experiential/community service learning course in which several small teams of students work with community partners to address social problems and produce term projects based on their experience. The community work would occur in tandem with academic learning and research in specialized areas such as poverty reduction or violence against women, with particular course content for each student team to be negotiated with community partners and tailored to understanding the particular social issues in question.
Iryna Kozlova
Instructor I
School of Linguistics and Language Studies
This project will provide Russian and Spanish heritage language speakers with an opportunity to become literate in their first language through courses that will utilize a hybrid approach, including asynchronous communication via cuLearn and synchronous communication conducted through 3D Virtual Carleton University. The research results, gathered through a student survey, will be submitted for publication in the scholarly journal and presented at professional conferences.
Leonard MacEachern
Associate Professor
Department of Electronics
This teaching development project will foster innovation in engineering and includes a “Capstone Innovation Portal,” which will be used to track progress in Capstone projects; communicate with Capstone team members and other project groups; manage intellectual property; apply for funding; and showcase excellent project work not only for students, but for all interested parties who want to know about the amazing Capstone projects at Carleton.
Marc St-Hilaire
Associate Professor
School of Information Technology, and Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Building upon teaching expertise in computer networks and research interests in the area of wireless and mobile computing, this teaching project will develop original interactive and multimedia content and make it accessible on a web collaboration platform so that everyone can access everything, from anywhere, at any time. The goal is to improve learning outcomes and accessibility.
Professional Achievement Awards
The Professional Achievement Awards were established in 1989. They are awarded to professional librarians on the basis of a peer evaluation committee, and to instructors on the basis of outstanding performance in meeting their responsibilities.
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Emma Cross
Librarian III
MacOdrum Library
Emma Cross is a member of the Pan-Canadian Working Group on Cataloguing with Resource Description and Access (a new bibliographic metadata standard). She has been active in publishing and teaching workshops for the Ontario Library Association and the Canadian Library Association in this area and is a member of an international committee charged with providing and maintaining contextual and complete examples in the RDA documentation.
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Patti Harper
Librarian IV
MacOdrum Library
Patti Harper is a leader in making archival resources available to Carleton and external researchers, and for championing the use of archival and rare book holdings for use in student projects, practicums and faculty instruction. She continues to explore the melding of technology with archives, such as her work as project leader in Heritage Passages: Bytown and the Rideau Canal. She currently serves as Chair, University Colleges Special Interest Section of the Association of Canadian Archivists.
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Dan Patterson
Instructor III
Department of Geography and Environment Studies
Dan Patterson continues to innovate and create new opportunities for students, including offering new ideas for projects, new partners for students to engage with, and new technologies. He is admired and respected by his students for his clear and direct approach and the challenges he presents, as well as for helping students to achieve in ways they did not know were possible and for providing opportunities for students outside the classroom.
Contract Instructor Award
The Contract Instructor Award was established in 2006. It is awarded to contract instructors on the basis of outstanding performance in meeting his/her responsibilities.
Tom Sherwood
Contract Instructor
College of the Humanities, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Tom Sherwood uses his research data in documentary and verbatim theatre projects and involves students in his “Listening to the Echo” research, as well as in developing scripts for performances, such as “The god Monologues” and “God Verbatim” in the 2014 Ottawa Fringe Festival. In his own words, he says, “Some of the time I may be called ‘teacher.’ However, I expect always to be a learner and I expect to learn for the rest of my life.”
Research Achievement Awards
The Research Achievement Award was established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research conducted at Carleton. Ten awards are given each year to faculty members selected by a committee chaired by the Vice-President (Research and International) and comprised of previous recipients.
Sarah Brouillette
Associate Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Sarah Brouillette’s research on “UNESCO and the Book” considers how, from 1948 to 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization devised programs to use books in support of its mandate to foster cultural understanding and global security. Her goal is to use UNESCO as a central case within a larger study of the intersections between international cultural organizations and neoliberal capitalism.
Jean-Guy Godin
Chancellor’s Professor
Department of Biology
Animals vary widely and consistently in their behaviour (i.e. “personality” or temperament) within natural populations, but we do not yet have a complete understanding of the origins and maintenance of such variation. Variation in individual basal metabolism has been recently hypothesized to underlie observed variation in ecologically-relevant personality traits, such as exploration, neophobia and boldness, among individual animals in the wild. Prof. Godin will test this hypothesis using a small invasive fish, the guppy, in Australia.
Matthew Holahan
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
While concussive injury in adults has gained a significant amount of attention recently, similar attention seems to be lacking in children. Considering that a developing child may be particularly vulnerable to the long-term adverse effects produced by concussive injuries, the purpose of this work is to determine whether pre-adolescent athletes going through sensitive developmental periods may be at increased risk to long-term mental health deficiencies when compared to the general population.
Elyn Humphreys
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Warming may drive the loss of Arctic soil carbon that had once been protected from decomposition by permafrost. With this award, Prof. Humphreys will develop expertise in a new research tool, a dual isotope partitioning technique that takes advantage of the different natural abundances of 14C and 13C isotopes. This will help identify when and where old soil carbon is a contributor to carbon dioxide emissions at our Arctic tundra research site.
Matthew Johnson
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Energy and Combustion Generated Pollutant Emissions
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Black carbon emission is a critical source of climate forcing, but is challenging to measure. Using pioneering “sky-LOSA” technology developed at Carleton University in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada and the Natural Resources Canada, this project will conduct the first-ever quantitative field measurements of black carbon yields from gas flares used in the upstream energy industry. Measurements will be performed at facilities in Ecuador, in collaboration with the World Bank and Petroamazonas, as a first step toward potential mitigation projects under UNEP’s Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).
Stuart J. Murray
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics
Department of English Language and Literature
The award supports a transdisciplinary, collaborative critical rhetorical and ethical study of Canada’s HIV response, focusing on “treatment-as-prevention” (TasP) and the increased use of Community Viral Load Mapping (CVLM) technologies, which visually “map” and make public individual and aggregate HIV viral loads in and across “at-risk” communities. What are the rhetorical effects of these biotechnologies, and what are the artifactual and ethical implications of these cartographies of “interpersonal hygiene,” as public health was once called?
Margaret H. Ogilvie
Chancellor’s Professor
Department of Law and Legal Studies
This project entails the preparation of a new book on charitable and not-for-profit corporation’s law in Canada, which is currently undergoing considerable change as a result of significant new federal and provincial legislation. This legislation changes the paradigm legal governance model considerably and raises a number of public policy issues which the book will address.
Nicolas Papadopoulos
Chancellor’s Professor
Sprott School of Business
Since the global capital pool for foreign direct investment is limited and the suitors for it many, countries increasingly use branding to position themselves as attractive locations for international firms. However, the factors affecting investors’ location choices are not well understood. This study extends our research program in nation branding by investigating the relationship between investment promotion activities and investor location decisions, and will be of interest to academic researchers, business managers and public policymakers.
Fiona Robinson
Professor
Department of Political Science
Professor Robinson’s research uses care ethics as a critical lens to rethink key ideas and issues in global politics. With this RAA, she will undertake an investigation of the effects of neo-liberalism on perceptions and practices concerning the organization of care, focusing on three areas: structural adjustment policies and care in developing countries; the transnational migration of care workers; and contemporary discourses surrounding women’s labour – from “work-life balance” to “investing in women” to “lean in.”
Gabriel Wainer
Professor
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
At present, policy makers need adequate indicators to adopt public policies for the rational use and production of resources in view of the climate change crisis. We will investigate new methods for combining simulation, GIS and advanced 3D visualization to assess environmental systems (such as forests under mountain pine beetle plagues). We will work on new simulation methodologies and visualization tools to capture both the physical aspects along with spatially explicit demographic dynamics.