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Queen's in the News Archive

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December 20, 2011

Christian Leuprecht (Political Studies) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies, in the National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Calgary Herald, Toronto Sun, Kingston Whig-Standard, and many other newspapers across Canada, CBC.ca, Sun News Network, Charles Adler radio show (carried on 15 stations across Canada), CKNW (Vancouver radio) and many local Global TV News websites.

Lonnie Aarssen (Biology) – Study finds men want boys and women want girls, in TheAtlantic.com, National Post and United Press International (UPI.com).

Bill Flanagan (Law) – Canadians living with HIV should no longer face a possible prison sentence for failing to disclosure their infection to sexual partners, in the Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette.

Ned Franks (Political Studies) – The final session of Parliament, on CTV News Channel.

Carolyn Harris (Phd History student) – Year-in-review story about Will and Kate’s royal visit to Canada, on the Sun News Network.

Allan English (History) – Rare Avro Arrow ejection seat is on sale, in the Waterloo Record and Guelph Mercury.

Heather Evans (English) – The war on Christmas, on CKWS TV.
 

August 31, 2011

Kate Harkness (Psychology) – People with mild depression may be better at judging other people’s emotions, in the Toronto Star and on CKWS TV.

William Flanagan (Law) – Growing shortage of articling positions has left hundreds of law grads scramling to find jobs, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine.

Kim Nossal (School of Policy Studies) – Why Canada hasn't banned Syrian oil, in Embassy magazine.

Chris Simpson (Cardiology) – Queen’s/KGH research team is the sole Canadian winner in an international funding competition for stroke research, in the Kingston Whig-Standard and on CKWS TV.

Kevin Michael (Cardiology) – Queen’s/KGH research team is the sole Canadian winner in an international funding competition for stroke research, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Maja-Lisa Thomson (Mathematics and Statistics) – Week-long camp promotes mathematics for girls, on CKWS TV.
 

August 2, 2011

Ashlee McGuire (Kinesiology and Health Studies) – Incidental physical activity such as sweeping floors can have positive benefits, in the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and Globe and Mail.

Kathy Brock (School of Policy Studies) – Future of the NDP Party without Jack Layton, in the Globe and Mail.

Jean Cote (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies) – Kids’ soccer league tries ‘silent soccer’ for a week, in the Globe and Mail.

Elaine Power (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies) – How food banks are making the battle against poverty more difficult, on CTV News Channel and CTV.ca and in the London Free Press.

Andrew Grant (Political Studies) – The drought in Somalia, on CTV News Channel and CKNW (Vancouver radio).

Marc Epprecht (Global Development Studies) – The drought in Somalia, on CTV News Channel.

Erik Knutsen (Law) – Supreme Court rules federal government doesn’t have to pay billions in tobacco lawsuit, in the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Toronto Sun and more than 25 other newspapers across Canada.

Nick Bala (Law) – Increase in litigants without attorneys is threatening family court system, in the Toronto Star and Lawyers Weekly; the trial of Texas polygamy sect leader Warren Jeffs, in the Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun and 14 other Sun Media newspapers.

Udo Schuklenk (Philosophy) – How much should Jack Layton publically reveal about his medical condition, in the Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Free Press, Moncton Times & Transcript, Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader Post.

Sidneyeve Matrix (Film and Media Studies) – President Obama asks people on Twitter to lobby politicians to avert the debt ceiling crisis, in the Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Free Press and Ottawa Citizen; scathing resignation letter goes viral, in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post; study finds men are better at networking than women, on CKNW (Vancouver radio).

Bev Baines (law) – The trial of Texas polygamy sect leader Warren Jeffs, in the Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun and 14 other Sun Media newspapers.

Steve Maynard (History) – Op-ed on the rumour that famed soldier-poet Lt.-Col. John McCrae was gay, in the Ottawa Citizen.

Frances Bonier (Biology) – Research done on stress levels of tree swallows could have human implications, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Don Stuart (Law) – Supreme Court Justice Louise Charron’s retirement leaves big hole in criminal law, in Lawyers’ Weekly.

Bill Flanagan (Law) – The shortage of articling positions for law students, in Canadian Lawyer magazine.

Tom Courchene (Economics) – America is declining as a global economic superpower, on Radio Canada.

Carolyn Harris (History) – The 30th anniversary of Charles and Diana’s royal wedding, on YahooNews.com.

Phil Jessop (Chemistry) – Finding a fast, and economical way to make methanol from waste CO2,, in Chemical & Engineering News.
 

August 16, 2010

Sharryn Aiken (Law) – Tamil refugees arrive in Canada, in the Penticton Herald, Kamloops Daily News, Vernon Daily Courier, Waterloo Region Record, and on CTV National News, CBC national radio, CKNW Vancouver radio and CTV.ca.

John Pliniussen (School of Business) – Technology companies want access to lucrative emerging markets, in the Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Winnipeg Sun, 15 other daily newspapers, and on Canoe.ca.

James Miller (School of Religion) – Taoist tai chi, in the Toronto Star.

Sidneyeve Matrix (Film and Media) –Social media and mob mentality, in the Toronto Sun, London Free Press and Kingston Whig-Standard.

Bill Flanagan (Law) – The consequences of the Conservative government’s decisions, in the Kingston Whig-Standard; expanding prisons around the country, on CKWS TV.
 

May 12, 2010

Ken Wong (School of Business) – The HST, in the Globe and Mail and on CTV.ca.

Louis Gagnon (School of Business) – Cause of recent stock market plunge, in the Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun and several other dailies across Canada.

Sidney Eve Matrix (Film and Media) – Canadian internet usage, in the Kirkland Lake Northern News and Stratford Beacon Herald and on Vancouver 980 AM radio.

Bill Flanagan (Law) – Government decisions and policies, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Arthur Milnes (Archives) – Sir John A. Macdonald music book, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
 

April 28, 2010

Ned Franks (Political Studies) – Speaker's ruling on parliamentary power, in the Globe and Mail and on CTV’s Power Play, CTV national news, CTV.ca and CBC national radio; Profile of Peter Milliken, in the Globe and Mail.

Ken Wong (School of Business) – Popularity of Flintstones vitamins, on Macleans.ca.

Mary Lou Finlay (Centre for the Study of Democracy) – Barbara Budd leaving CBC Radio's As it Happens, in the Ottawa Citizen.

Ian Janssen (School of Kinesiology and Health Studies) – Obesity and physical activity, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

Ena Haltermann, Mark Connell, Steve Morgan, and Mike Vanleeuwen (Education) – The Technological Education Expo, on CKWS TV.

Bill Flanagan (Law) – Potential prison farm closures, in the Stratford Beacon-Herald, Daily Miner & News, Northumberland Today and Portage La Prairie Daily Graphic.

Betsy Donald (Geography) – Local food policy, in the St. Thomas Times-Journal and Daily Miner & News.

Hugh Thorburn (Political Studies) – Local food policy, in the Whitehorse Daily Star.

 

April 27, 2010

Betsy Donald (Geography) – Local food policy and systems, in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Kingston Whig-Standard, several other regional newspapers throughout Ontario and on CBC regional Ontario radio.

Ned Franks (Political Studies) – The Afghan detainee file and Speaker's ruling, in the National Post.

Elizabeth Eisenhauer (Oncology) – Clinical trials, in the National Post.

Bill Flanagan (Law) – Prison farms, in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Calgary Sun, and several other newspapers across the country.

Sergio Sismondo (Philosophy) – Clinical trials in Canada, on CBC syndication radio across the country.

Hugh Thorburn (Political Studies) – Local food policy in the Waterloo Region Record and Fredericton Daily Gleaner and on yahoo.ca and Toronto.ctv.ca.

Peter Ford (Medicine) – HIV in prisons, in the Moncton Times & Transcript.

Erik Knutsen (Law) – Optimism bias in tort law, in Lawyers Weekly.

2010-03-08 12:06:36

Emeritus professor William Marshall (Psychology) – Rehabilitating sex offenders in Japan, in the Japan Times.
John Smol (Biology) – Water quality in the Lake of the Woods area, in the International Falls  Daily Journal (Minnesota).
Peter MacLeod (Centre for the Study of Democracy) – Vancouver Olympics and its place in Canadian history, in the Globe and Mail.
Duncan Sinclair (Policy Studies) – Changes to hospital funding, in the Globe and Mail.
Samantha King (Kinesilogy and Health Studies) – Celebrities wearing ribbons to support charitable causes, in the Globe and Mail.
Bob Ross (Kinesiology and Health Studies) – How exercise affects obesity, in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post, Edmonton Journal, Victoria Times-Colonist, Windsor Star, Prince Rupert Daily News, and on Canada.com.
Sharryn Aiken (Law) – Court decisions on deporting refugees to unsafe countries, in the Toronto Star.
Adele Mercier (Philosophy) – Stephen Harper’s decision to not make national anthem gender neutral, in the Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator and the Waterloo Regional Record.
Ned Franks (Political Studies) – Governor General`s visit to Haiti, in the Toronto Sun, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Sun, Kingston Whig-Standard and 10 other Sun Media newspapers; and Stephen Harper and the budget, in the Vancouver weekly Georgia Straight.
Stephen Waldman (Mechanical and Materials Engineering) – Alternative energy and biomedical engineering education, in the Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Regina Leader-Post, and Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
Julian Barling (Business) – Public apologies, in the St. Catharines Standard, Sault Star, and Stratford Beacon Herald.
William Flanagan (Law) – Prison farms, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
Tammy Babcock (Security) – Humanitarian trip to Haiti, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
Tom Courchene (Economics) – Federal budget, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
Steven Maynard (History) and student Elysia Maludzinski – Queen’s first-year history class starts petition to stop cuts to Lest We Forget program, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
Peter Howat (Music, Visiting International Scholar) – Pianofest, on CKWS.
Kathy Brock (Policy Studies) – Federal budget, on CBC Radio’s Ontario AM and individual stations in Cornerbrook (Nfld.), Windsor, Thunder Bay, Calgary, Yukon, and Vancouver.
Magda Lewis (Education) – Violence against women and cross-culturalism, on CBC Radio 107.5.
Kathleen Lahey (Law) Federal budget, on CHQR Alberta radio; and women falling behind, in the Sudbury Star.
Sidney Eve Matrix (Film and Media) – Weddings and social media, on 98.9 The Drive radio Kingston.

2010-01-08 11:08:45

Ned Franks (Political Studies) – Proroguing Parliament, in the Economist.
Robert Morrison (English) – His new biography of Thomas De Quincey, in the London Independent.
Meredith Chivers (Psychology) – The difference between sexual responses in women and men, in the New York Daily News, and Los Angeles Times.
Douglas Bland (Policy Studies) – Canada’s role in Afghanistan after 2011, in the Globe and Mail.
Dick Zoutman (Pathology and Molecular Medicine) – Private and semi-private hospital rooms reduce the risk of infection, in the Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Province, Dawson Creek Daily News, and Prince George Citizen.
Bill Flanagan (Law) – Proroguing Parliament, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
David Murakami Wood (Sociology) – New airport scanners won’t be foolproof, on CBC.ca.
Sidney Eve Matrix (Film and Media) – Social media can help you keep your new year’s resolutions, on CHUM Radio Kingston and CKWS TV.
Michael Morreale (CFRC) – The 50th anniversary of CFRC broadcasting from Carruthers Hall, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

2009-06-12 09:56:37

John Smol (Biology) – Arctic research carbon emissions, in the Globe and Mail.
Gerald Evans (Infectious Diseases) – Swine flu pandemic on CBC Newsworld and in the Kingston Whig-Standard.Jonathan Rose (Political Studies) – Negative political advertising, on TVO’s The Agenda.Dianne Groll (Psychiatry) – Diving for HMS Wolfe, in the Calgary Herald.
Dan Langham (Environmental Health and Safety) – Pandemic planning at Queen’s, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.
Bill Flanagan (Law) – Editorial about ‘Buy American’ requirements, in the Kingston Whig-Standard.

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