Inquiry@Queen’s (I@Q), an annual conference that promotes and showcases undergraduate research at Queen’s, is being held at the university on Thursday, March 9 and Friday, March 10.

All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston communities as the conference celebrates the research achievements of a new generation of scholars as they present their research through presentations, posters and panel discussions at the Queen’s Learning Commons in Stauffer Library.

“We in the library are very pleased to be organizing and hosting this conference with our partners across the university,” says Jackie Druery, Inquiry@Queen’s co-chair and head Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian, Queen’s University Library.  “The Library is a community of learning and research and an integral part of the balanced academy where students engage with each other to ask critical questions and build new ideas.  The conference provides an opportunity for them to present those ideas in an interdisciplinary environment and to gain academic and professional skills at the same time.  That’s a key part of the discovery and research process”.

This year’s program includes 50 oral presentations and 26 poster presentations from undergraduate students across the disciplines, and the first undergraduate 3 Minute Thesis contest organized by the AMS. For the first time student researchers from outside Queen’s  will be participating – from University of Guelph, University of Toronto, Carleton University and Bridgewater State University (New York).

Thursday’s keynote features Murray Dee, Seth Barling and their students from Rideau Heights Public School, Kingston, showing us how they “Create a community of knowledge builders: a pedagogical approach to inquiry in a grade 3 and 6 classroom” and James Fraser, Professor, Department of Physics, 3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient, 2017 who will intrigue us with “Science fiction or science fact: can popular sci-fi movies motivate real research questions?”

All events are open to everyone. The full conference program is available online.