About Queen's

Fostering collaboration, connecting people, promoting innovation, and nurturing ideas.

A highly residential community of scholars

• 85% of students live within a 15-minute walk to campus; 90% of first-year students live in residence
• More than 500 student clubs, organizations, associations, and societies

A leader in student assistance

• Queen's consistently ranks high among Canadian universities for the percentage of its operating budget directed to student financial assistance. These funds, combined with the generous support of donors, provide students with nearly $40 million in total assistance each year

Outstanding students...

Tiffany Chui, MBA'10. The Health Council of Canada's health innovation award competition challenged college and university students to propose ways of renewing and sustaining Canadian health care. Tiffany Chui, MBA'10 earned second place in the contest with her report "Improving Emergency Room Wait Times and Patient Quality Care with Mashup Technologies." Tiffany suggested an integration of current technologies such as global positioning systems, e-health and social media networking with 911 dispatch systems could facilitate a better flow for communication.

Jamaica Cass. A masters student in Microbiology and Immunology, Jamaica Cass was the only Canadian university recipient of the 2011 Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awards, presented by the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR). This enabled her to attend the largest cancer conference in the world, the AACR's annual meeting in Washington, DC, where she was also the only Canadian invited to speak at a symposium for undergraduate cancer researchers.

Erin Tolley. 2010 Trudeau Scholar recipient Erin Tolley, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Studies, is exploring the factors that contribute to the disparity in the proportion of visible minorities living in Canada and the proportion who are elected to Parliament. Trudeau Scholarships are among the most coveted awards of their kind

Contributing to the community....

The practicum projects for masters students in Occupational Therapy were done in partnership with 28 agencies and organizations in and around Kingston. Each student spent 175 hours working with a community organization on strategies to help individuals who have difficulties realted to physical, mental health, or other challenges. Projects tackled issues like bullying, behaviour, accessibility, healthy living, and healthy aging.

Commerce students provided a brighter holiday season for underprivileged families in the Kingston community through their first-annual holiday hope campaign. The student-led initiative, run in partnership with Kingston Children's Aid Society, raised gifts and donations to benefit more than 50 families.

Living Cities Company, a not-for-profit venture started by students Nathan Putnam and Marlaina Meinzinger, helped Queen's launch a vermicomposting program in its residences in fall 2009, making Queen's the first university to do so. Living Cities Company also runs an urban farming initiative that uses city spaces to grow fresh organic produce, a rain barrel program, and a number of educational programs.

Fourth-year psychology student Nicole Enser's work with autistic children and cancer patients earned her Queen's Civic Responsibility Award and $2,500. Her volunteer work includes being the race director of the Autism Partnership's fundraising run/walk, a member of the AMS Kaleidoscope program, and mentoring students at a local elementary school. She also volunteers at the Quinte Thousand Islands Cancer Lodge and Kingston General Hospital, and launched an after-school playgroup for children with autism.

Outstanding teaching

TVO's Best Lecturer Nominees. Eleanor Macdonald (Political Studies) and Virginia Walker (Biology), both nominated by students, were selected from a large nomination pool of 690 candidates as two of Ontario?s top ten lecturers in TVO?s Annual Best Lecturer competition for 2010. Professor Kip Pegley (Music) was also among the top twenty finalists.

Dr. Richard Ascough, 2009 Chancellor A. Charles Baillie Teaching Award. Don't be alarmed if you walk past Richard Ascough's classroom and see him standing on his desk. He is most likely demonstrating his point about scholars' theories of walking on water, miracles, and submerged sandbanks. That's just one example of the inventive teaching style that has earned Dr. Ascough the praise of countless students. Learn more about Richard Ascough...

David Strong, 2010 winner of the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching. After 22 years as a successful design engineer, David Strong, Sc'81, returned to Queen's in 2003 to become its first NSERC Chair in Design Engineering. His innovation as a teacher has wins high praise from his colleagues, students, and industry clients for his role in turning students into well-rounded engineers. reportedly, graduates from Strong's innovative and multidisciplinary design stream courses are effectively a year ahead of other new employees in their apprenticeship of engineering. Learn more about David Strong...

Sidneyeve Matrix, Assistant Professor, Film and Media. Innovative. Relevant. Stimulating. That's how students describe Dr. Matrix's media and pop culture course, which attracts more than 650 students from dozens of programs and departments on campus. Using game show style clickers,students vote during each lecture, giving them the opportunity to see what their peers think about current trends in advertising strategies, social networking, television programming, magazines and news media, music videos and the like.

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World class programs & facilities

• Queen's Learning Commons creates a full-service learning centre that integrates student learning needs, from information technology to essay writing instruction
• The Queen's Centre, a multipurpose complex that integrates sport and recreation, student club and leisure space.
• Chernoff Hall, one of the largest chemistry complexes of its kind in North America and winner of Research & Development Magazine's High Honours in the 2003 Laboratory of the Year competition
• State-of-the-art Integrated Learning Centre (Beamish-Munro Hall), which functions as a "live building" for students to participate in a multidisciplinary learning model in engineering education with an emphasis on team-oriented and project-based learning
• Goodes Hall, home to Queen's School of Business, one of North America's top-ranked business schools.
• Bader International Study Centre (ISC) at Herstmonceux, England, features small interactive classes instructed by European and North American faculty, integrated with a comprehensive field-studies program
• Cancer Research Institute, home to the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Group, is one of 16 Queen's-based research centres
• Exceptional library resources: consistently ranks very high (Maclean's University Rankings) in the medical-doctoral category for library acquisitions, library holdings per student, and total library holdings
• The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, one of the province's largest art galleries, houses two of the country's six Rembrandt paintings
• Queen's University Biological Station, the largest inland university field station in all of Canada, with more than 3000 hectares of land holdings for hosting researchers and students from around the world.

Coming soon...

• A $40 million expansion to Goodes Hall will create more classrooms equipped with the latest teaching technology, breakout rooms designed to foster group discussion and teamwork, two new research centres, and over 50 additional faculty offices. The expansion will also see the addition of student offices and common areas, a multi-purpose room for conferences, guest speakers and corporate recruiting events.
• Isabel Bader centre for the Performing Arts (IBCPA), a new performing arts facility providing better recital, theatre, screening and rehearsal space for Queen?s and Kingston, to serve as the new home for the departments of drama, art, film and media, and the school of music.
• A home for the School of Medicine, a state-of-the-art building that will bring together medical education, research, small group teaching, simulation and integrated science labs.