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Here's to a fabulous 2018
Here's to a fabulous 2018
December 11, 2017 – Queen’s University graduate student Shamik Sen (Neuroscience) is climbing a mountain this week to raise awareness and funds for the issue of mental health stigma. Sen left Kingston on December 10 to travel to Tanzania, where he will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Sen has created a GoFundMe campaign for his climb, with funds raised to support anti-stigma education at Addiction and Mental Health Services, KFLA (AMHS-KFLA)
Today we congratulate Colette Steer, a recipient of a Special Recognition Award for Queen’s Staff. Colette joined the School of Graduate Studies in 2007 and her limitless positive energy, excellent organizational skills, and genuine care for everyone she works with have had a significant impact on Graduate Studies at Queen’s.
“How do high school history teachers approach teaching difficult history? More specifically, how do they approach teaching the history of the Holocaust?” As both a PhD student in Education and a practicing high school history teacher, Michael Pitblado is able to shine light on this topic from both ends of the academic spectrum.
Last week Chemistry PhD student Caitlin Miron was awared the Mitacs PhD Award for Outstanding Innovation for her work in biochemistry. She broke new ground by discovering a DNA binder that can essentially ‘switch off’ cancer cells and prevent them from spreading. Listen to her interview with CJ the DJ on Grad Chat and find out more about her research.
Queen’s Athletics and Recreation honoured the 2016-17 Academic All-Stars at a breakfast reception held Wednesday morning in Grant Hall. The breakfast event marks the sixth year Athletics and Recreation has undertaken this initiative to honour the academic and athletic excellence of its student-athletes.
Caitlin Miron is the recipient of the 2017 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation. This award is given to a PhD student who has made a significant achievement in research and development innovation during Mitacs-funded research. Last year, Caitlin received a Mitacs Globalink Research Award which funded a collaboration with Dr. Jean-Louis Mergny at the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologue in Bordeaux, France. This collaboration was the second of two with Dr. Jean-Louis Mergny, and collectively, these collaborations have not only propelled Caitlin’s PhD thesis forward but also merited the receipt of the Mitacs Outstanding Innovation award.
A new program aimed at providing first-year, female-identified students with the tools to prevent and resist sexual assault is being introduced to the Queen’s community this fall.
An initiative of the Human Rights Office, the Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act (EAAA) sexual assault resistance education program is an evidence-based program developed by University of Windsor professor and researcher, Charlene Senn. Known on campus as “Flip the Script,” the program has a focus on addressing acquaintance sexual assault.
It looks like a game. “You come in a class, divide the students into groups, and each group goes up to its whiteboard to write down a theme relevant to the tutorial topic and assigned reading,” tells Michael Murphy, describing a political theory tutorial that he led as a teaching assistant. “When all the groups have written their theme, you ask them to move to the next board. The groups now have to write a question on the theme that the previous group has introduced.”
Rebecca Stroud Stasel has been fortunate to be able to incorporate her lifelong passions into the world of academia. Her master's and current PhD research both have come from a love for arts, traveling, and teaching.