{"id":5242,"date":"2023-11-07T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:16","slug":"mpm-graduate-wins-senate-medal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2023\/mpm-graduate-wins-senate-medal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MPM Graduate Wins Senate Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MPM Graduate Wins Senate Medal\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright wp-image-5243\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Dominic-Besner-Senate-Medal-Fall-2023-cropped-400x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Dominic-Besner-Senate-Medal-Fall-2023-cropped-400x440.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Dominic-Besner-Senate-Medal-Fall-2023-cropped-160x176.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Dominic-Besner-Senate-Medal-Fall-2023-cropped-240x264.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Dominic-Besner-Senate-Medal-Fall-2023-cropped-360x396.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Dominic-Besner-Senate-Medal-Fall-2023-cropped.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dominic Besner with FPA Dean Dr. Brenda O\u2019Neil. Photo credit: Jayden Dill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to Dominic Besner who received his MPM degree and a Senate Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dominic entered the program in Fall 2022 after an extensive career in IT and cybersecurity, working both inside and outside of government. \u201cThree things always guided my motivation for joining the MPM program,\u201d he said, \u201csolving complex problems, serving my country, and not regretting what could have been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After completing his courses, Dominic was recruited to Summa Strategies, where he is now a Research Consultant with the government relations and public affairs consulting firm in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflecting on his time in the program, Dominic said \u201cno one knows if I will have an impact on politics one day. With my new degree and a new career, I hope to go beyond criticizing and get a chance to find and implement solutions. The future is uncertain, and I may fail miserably, but at least I\u2019ll step out of the sidelines and give it a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations Dominic! We\u2019re looking forward to seeing the positive impact we know you\u2019ll have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dominic Besner who received his MPM degree and a Senate Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work. Dominic entered the program in Fall 2022 after an extensive career in IT and cybersecurity, working both inside and outside of government. \u201cThree things always guided my motivation for joining the MPM program,\u201d he said, \u201csolving complex problems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}