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.

RELS 401 Open House

The Elias Andrews Room in Theological Hall was filled with excitement as students of Dr. Pamela Dickey Young's RELS 401 capstone course presented their research projects in a poster display format at an Open House on Monday, April 2nd, 2018.  Students, faculty and staff had the opportunity to view the posters and ask questions of the researchers during the event that took place during the final week of winter term classes.

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.

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.

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.

Sharday Mosurinjohn Incorporates Blog Projects in Her New Course

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?

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.

This year the Medal in Religious Studies and the S. MacLean Gilmour Prize were awarded to Emma Hamer as the highest achieving RELS student.  Six of our graduates were also eligible to receive their degrees 'with distinction'.

Congratulations to the entire 2018 RELS graduating class!

Lessons from Religious Groups for a 'Ghana Beyond Aid'

Current PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies, James Kwateng-Yeboah, writes about Ghana's response to financial appeals from churches in an article that was recently published in The Conversation. 

Read about it in the Queen's Gazette.

A Followup to "The Blog Assignment"

In the second of a two-part series, Richard Ascough adds his voice to Sharday Mosurinjohn’s reflections on a new blog post assignment she used in RELS 341 (Spirituality, Secularity, and Non-Religion).

Read their co-authored post at The Blog Assignment:  Confronting "Spirituality" in Teaching Religious Studies.