School of Religion
School of Religion
RELS Spring 2018 Convocation
On Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 School of Religion faculty members and staff joined RELS graduates and their families to help celebrate their convocation. A small reception was held in the Elias Andrews Room after the graduation ceremony in Grant Hall.
Sharday Mosurinjohn shares her experience with a new blog assignment in RELS 341 on the Religious Studies Project website.
Read her post at The Blog Assignment: "Authentic" Learning about Spirituality, Secularity, and Nonreligion?
Our very own RELS undergraduate student, Meghan O'Sullivan, became the first ever undergraduate student to be interviewed on GRAD CHAT, a radio program sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies.
Meghan presented at Queen's Inquiry at Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference that took place this past March where she met Colette Steer, host of Grad Chat. She has hopes of continuing her studies at Graduate School, so Colette invited her to speak about her research on the program.
The 6th Annual Queen's Northern Research Symposium organized by the Department of Geography and Planning took place on April 12th in the BioSciences Building. The event brought together students, postdoctoral fellows, research associates and faculty for a day of presentations, open dialogue and networking.
Dr. Richard Ascough was recently honoured at a celebration event organized by the Centre for Teaching and Learning.
More details (and photos!) of the event held on April 4, 2018 can be found at the Centre for Teaching and Learning website.
Five of our own participated at this years' Inquiry at Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference held at Stauffer Library on March 8th and 9th, 2018.
Congratulations to Amy Hetherington, Meghan O'Sullivan, Andie Rexdiemer, and Harrison Weston who presented on a variety of topics:
Dr. Jason Kelly was recently nominated for the W.J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award for the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society, an annual award presented to a deserving member of the Faculty of Arts and Science who has made a significant contribution to teaching.
More information about this award including nomination criteria and past winners can be found at the Centre for Teaching and Learning website.
Dr. Jason Kelly has contributed a chapter to a new volume, Being Spiritual but Not Religious: Past, Present, Future(s), edited by William B. Parsons (Rice University) and published by Routledge. This volume is a watershed in the growing academic and public interest in the SBNR movement. Dr. Kelly's chapter, "Rogue Mystics: The Ecology of Cosmic Consciousness" examine the significance of the SBNR movement in relation to ecology and mysticism.
Queen's University professor Richard Ascough has received the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).
See related news articles in the Queen's Gazette and Macleans magazine.
