A new resource from the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is helping instructors bring global challenges into the classroom by embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into course design. These 17 goals offer a shared framework for addressing urgent issues, from poverty to climate change, while fostering a more inclusive and sustainable future.

A team of four Queen’s students won the third annual Queen’s University Engineering Sustainable Solutions & Technologies Competition (QUESST) with a solution addressing the issue of water waste produced by AI data centres. Their achievement highlights the competition’s growing role in equipping students to address complex global challenges. Since launching in 2023, QUESST has grown rapidly, with the most recent conference drawing nearly 70 students, almost double the participation of its in

Queen’s was very well represented at the Conference of the Magna Charta Universitatum, held in England at King’s College London last November. The annual event, which in recent years has taken place in centres as far apart as Washington, D.C., and Lodz, Poland, commemorates the 1988 signing in Bologna, Italy, of the Magna Charta Universitatum, a declaration and affirmation of the fundamental principles upon which the mission of universities should be based.