Five emerging researchers at Queen’s University have been awarded new chairs. These new research chairs will provide five years of support to researchers in fields as diverse as plant immunology, humanitarian health equity, and labour practices in African cities.
Tiff Macklem’s job is to help steer the country’s economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately for Canadians, this isn’t his first time trying to save the economy during a global crisis.
Canadian physicists, led by Nobel laureate Dr. Art McDonald of Queen’s University, are playing a central part in the lightning-fast development of a new ventilator design that’s meant to reduce the global shortage of these devices during the pandemic.
Today, Dr. Edem, who emigrated from Nigeria when she was 13 years old, has overcome many barriers to (maybe) make medical history –she might be Canada’s first Black female neurosurgeon.
