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Six alumnae, one student named to Canada’s 100 most powerful women list

A fire chief, a doctor who advocates for financial literacy, and a medical student who hosts free prenatal workshops for homeless and low-income women are among seven members of the Queen’s community named to the 2022 list of Canada’s Most Powerful Women.  

Queen’s remembers Margaret Light

The Queen’s community is remembering alumna Margaret Light (Arts'47) as a passionate arts supporter who helped the next generation of Queen’s-trained art conservationists better preserve and restore textiles, paintings, and sculptures.   

Light passed away peacefully at home at the age of 95 on Aug. 12.

Introducing Bader College

Name change reflects the UK campus’s close connections to Queen’s, its high level of academic courses, and unique on-campus experience.

Queer chapter builds connections, community

Just months after launching a chapter aimed at connecting the university’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two spirit, and other identifying (LGBTQ2S+) students, alumni, faculty, and staff, Stacy Kelly, Artsci’93, says the group is answering an important need in the community.

Queen’s secures second consecutive top 10 position globally in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings

Queen’s places 7th in international rankings out of over 1,500 institutions in advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

An aerial view of Queen's Campus

FAS alumnus donation provides Queen’s unprecedented access to research regarding the future of democracy

Thanks to a generous alumni donation, Queen’s University Archives is now the proud owner of the world’s largest collection of policy-making chronicles, opening the door for critical research by students on deliberation and the future of democracy.

The donation comes from Peter MacLeod, MA’02, founder and principal of MASS LBP, a company that conducts citizens’ assemblies.

Queen’s alumni Chris Herd joins NASA’s Mars Perseverance team

By Michael Onesi

Chris Herd, Artsci’97, is hoping to answer a fundamental question humanity has wondered for centuries: Is there life on other planets?

Herd, a planetary geologist and one of the world’s top experts on meteorites from Mars, is working with NASA on the Mars Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet on Feb. 18 after a 470-million-kilometre journey. He is involved in collecting rock samples that will advance the project’s primary mission: to search for signs of microbial life.

From Ugandan Refugee to School Superintendent

Gift to help the Isabel foster a more inclusive community

A $3.5-million gift in honour of the late Jennifer Velva Bernstein, Artsci’89, will help the Isabel host more artists from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Revolutionizing art conservation at Queen's

A $1 million donation from the Jarislowsky Foundation allows Queen’s to acquire leading-edge technology that will be the only of its kind in Canada


A $1-million gift from The Jarislowsky Foundation will bring leading-edge technology to Canada and help to preserve some of the country’s most important works of art.  

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