An estimated 6,000 people gathered on Tindall Field and other vantage points across Queen’s campus to share in the wonder of a total solar eclipse at 3:22 p.m. on Monday, April 8.
For months prior to the rare celestial phenomenon, the university and local partners were engaged in planning and preparation to ensure the community was ready for a safe and educational eclipse experience.
Queen’s University has appointed Gordon E. Smith as director of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts for a two-year term effective July 1, 2024.
Dr. Smith has served as interim director of the Isabel for the past two years. During this time, he oversaw the planning of the 10th anniversary season of the Isabel and has provided leadership in advancing the Isabel’s strategic priorities of Indigenization, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility in its programming and operations.
Every great transformation starts with a big idea. Jane Philpott, Dean, Queen’s Health Sciences, Director, School of Medicine, and CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization, is sharing one that she hopes will change health care in Canada for the better.
Four students are receiving one of the most prestigious honours at Queen’s.
Niki Boytchuk-Hale (ConEd’24, MEd'26), Kyla Gibson (Artsci’25), Tara Rezvan (Com’23, MSc’24), and Meena Waseem (Com’24), have been announced as this year’s recipients of the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award.
The award is given annually by the Office of the Rector to students for “valued and distinguished service, leadership, character, and community impact.”
Queen’s Health Sciences (QHS) is adapting its MD Program admissions process to create a more inclusive entry point for all applicants, minimize systemic barriers to becoming a doctor, and increase student diversity.
The renewed medical student admissions process will launch this fall, for 2025 admissions, and includes a pathway for lower socioeconomic status (SES) applicants and adjustments to the current Indigenous pathway. A new comprehensive approach to support the recruitment of Black students will launch in a second phase of this admissions change.
The School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (SGSPA) recently hosted Research Week, an annual celebration highlighting the impact and ingenuity of the research being done by the university’s graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
This year’s Research Week included a series of events, including the final of the 3-Minute Thesis, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Research Day, and the 3-Minute Research competition for postdoctoral fellows.
A group of students from Smith Engineering at Queen’s University recently had the opportunity to meet with a Canadian astronaut who is scheduled to travel to space and serve at the International Space Station in 2025.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk met with approximately 80 students and Smith Engineering faculty and staff on Friday, March 22 at Ingenuity Labs in Mitchell Hall.
A Queen’s University student club is making a statement against cancer, a big one. Cure Cancer Classic, based in the Commerce Society at Smith School of Business, has just finished raising more than $620,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, an incredible 40 per cent increase over last year’s already impressive total of $450,000.
A date is now set for the start of construction that will completely transform the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University and make it into the largest public university-affiliated museum in Canada. Work will begin on May 13, 2024, with the new space scheduled to open in 2026.
Agnes’s new three-floor building will double the existing gallery space. The historic Etherington House will also be turned into a live-in artist residency and community-facing culture hub. Throughout the new space, Western and Indigenous worldviews will sit side by side as equal.
Amidst the global push for climate action, the spotlight intensifies on nuclear energy as a pivotal player in the low-carbon revolution. Canada and Ontario, already relying significantly on nuclear power, face an escalating demand for expansion, amplifying the urgency for innovative solutions to address the stress on existing systems and propel new developments in the nuclear energy sector.