Each convocation ceremony features a different set of graduates crossing the stage, but there’s a core group of three university leaders who preside over each one: the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor (also the Principal), and the Rector, a student who represents their peers at the highest levels of the university administration. And for this year’s ceremonies there’s a brand-new Rector who was officially installed in May.
The commitment of Queen’s academic supervisors is a key element to making the university’s graduate student experience exceptional. Supervisory relationships help promote a research culture where students are supported to address pressing challenges facing our communities, society, and make meaningful contributions to their field of research.
More than 40 Queen’s instructors, teaching assistants, and staff members are being recognized as 2024 Champions for Mental Health for creating supportive learning and campus environments. These champions have been nominated by students across faculties and schools, and in Student Affairs, for showing compassion, encouraging a sense of belonging, inspiring health-promoting behaviours, and promoting student mental wellbeing.
The Yellow House Student Centre for Equity and Inclusion at Queen’s University supports 2SLGBTQ+ students throughout the year with programming and resources that help them feel at home on campus. For Pride Month, a time of celebration and protest for the 2SLGTBQ+ community, Yellow House will be helping students and people from across Queen’s and Kingston mark this significant time of year.
Queen’s University honoured faculty and staff who reached milestone years of continuous service during the 2024 Celebration of Service dinner and reception at Ban Righ Dining Hall on Thursday, June 6.
A total of 120 staff and faculty members were celebrated for their contributions and for reaching employment milestones of 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 55 years.
The event was attended by honourees and their guests, and was hosted by Principal and Vice-Chancellor Patrick Deane and Lisa Walsh, Interim Associate Vice-Principal (Human Resources).
Union Street will again be reduced to alternating single-lane traffic between University Avenue and 5th Field Company Lane on Tuesday, June 11 and Wednesday, June 12, as contractor crews work to complete work that was started June 5-6 to make permanent electrical utility connections to the renovated John Deutch University Centre (JDUC).
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released the 2025 edition of its World University Rankings. This year it evaluated over 1,503 institutions in 105 locations worldwide.
Queen’s rose 16 places in the rankings, from 209th in 2024 to 193rd globally in 2025, breaking into the top 200 worldwide. This is in addition to a similar improvement last year. Queen's also moved into the top 10 in Canadian universities, moving from 11th to 10th out of 30 Canadian universities participating.