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[Photo of birds credit: Philina English]
October 1, 2016

Students and researchers have used Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS), covering 3,400 hectares of dense forests and lakes north of Kingston, as a resource for 70 years.

[Alice Vibert Douglas and colleagues at Yerkes Observatory, Chicago, 1925 (Queen's University Archives)]
October 1, 2016

One of the oldest universities in Canada, research at Queen's University has left an indelible mark on the Canadian, and international, landscape of scholarly progress.

Dr. Heather Jamieson samples soil near the Giant Mine in Yellowknife]
October 1, 2016

Queen’s made significant and successful efforts to attract women researchers to campus through the 1980s, including through such programs as the Queen’s National Scholar Program.

[welding image]
October 1, 2016

When it comes to commercializing research, Queen’s has long been a leader among Canadian universities with the establishment of Innovation Park and the Office of Partnerships and Innovation.

[Dr. Parvin Mousavi and Layan Nahlawi in lab]
June 1, 2016

Queen's researcher Parvin Mousavi, professor in the School of Computing, discusses the ways of turning vast amounts of data available from medical imaging and analysis in the form of temporal ultrasound data into clinical progress with procedures such as needle insertion.

[soldier at a piano]
June 1, 2016

Queen's researcher Kip Pegley, associate professor of musicology and ethnomusicology, researches the role that music plays within the lives of Canadian Forces personnel and Veterans, in particular those who have been deployed and returned to Canada, including those suffering from PTSD.

[illustration by Carl Wiens]
April 1, 2016

Science journalist Ivan Semeniuk retraces the history of Canada’s Nobel Prize-winning physics experiment led by Queen's researcher Arthur McDonald.

[ Peter Thompson reading book ]
November 1, 2015

For Queen's researcher Peter Thompson, a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures specializing in the literature of the Spanish Golden Age, more information about everyday life in 17th-century Spain can be found in the short theatre pieces, or interludes, that were performed during the intermissions of longer theatre performances.

[ Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky sitting at desk ]
November 1, 2015

Queen's researcher Stéfanie von Hlatky, Director of the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP), is heading a three-year, multi-sectoral research project to learn more about security threats in the extractive sector and how companies deal with them.

[Photo of Arthur B McDonald Copyright Nobel Media 2015 - Photo by Pi Frisk]
November 1, 2015

An interest in mechanics led Queen's researcher Arthur McDonald, the 2015 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, to study the universe on a fundamental level, through physics.

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