Professor David McDonald is the recipient of the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching.  This award is to recognize and acknowledge Queen’s University professors that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to the education of their students through their remarkable teaching.  This is a student initiative wherein students at large are responsible for determining the recipients of the award each year, and DEVS is thrilled that Profesor McDonald has been selected as the 2017/2018 recipient.

On the 20th of September 2019, DEVS hosted a team of seven administrators from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, who are researching best practices for graduate-level education.

Congratulations to the 2019 DEVS students who convocated on Wednesday November 13, 2019.  As shared at the convocation reception “One person cannot do everything but everyone can do something”.  Wishing you the best in your future endeavours.

The Robert Sutherland Prize is presented annually to a graduating and self-defined student of colour who has shown leadership and initiative at Queen's University, most specifically in the area of anti-racism and anti-oppression in the aim of crating a more inclusive campus climate.

Queen’s and the University of Havana celebrate the future of their partnership.

Queen’s and the University of Havana have partnered  for the past 10 years to teach the Cuban Society and Culture course and host visiting scholars and artists. The study abroad course has seen over 300 Queen’s students study in Havana thus far, and will continue thanks to a new agreement signed in Havana during a celebration of the course and partnership in May.

DEVS 306/DEVS 307:  Cuban Culture and Society Courses

Special report back from DEVS third year student Kelsey Sleep Jennings

My QUIP internship with the City of Kingston’s Cultural Heritage Department has taught me a lot about how to transfer my DEVS knowledge into real-life situations. Starting in September of 2017, I began my internship as a Digital Research intern; something you likely would not associate with a DEVS major, however my role soon shifted as I was thrust into conversations surrounding Sir John A. Macdonald and his legacy within Kingston.

Image taken by an undocumented Bangladeshi worker, Manolada to show back muscle stress “This will let the people learn how we live our lives here.” These words from an undocumented Bangladeshi migrant man working in Greece sum up the impetus behind a multi-media social justice project of Photovoice that Dr. Reena Kukreja has been collaborating on with 3 groups of Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani migrant men in Greece. They have been using their cell phones to take photographs, record videos, and narrate their stories about their migrant reality.