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Congratulations to Science Rendezvous Kingston for winning the 2019 STEAM Big! Award. See "Science outreach wins national award" in the Gazette online. Science Rendezvous Kingston (SRK) attracted over 5000 visitors on Saturday, May 19 at the Leon's Centre. One significant visitor was Dippy the Diplodocus (measuring 26 m in length), a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur from the Jurassic period as well as Queen's alumnus and astronaut, Dr. Drew Feustel. The tenth anniversary SRK event will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2020 from 10 am to 30 pm at the Leon's Centre..

Congratulations to Indigenous health researcher, Dr. Karen Lawford (Gender Studies), on being recognized with a 2020 Indspire Award for Health. The award will be presented to Dr. Lawford at a ceremony on March 6, which will be broadcast on Sunday, June 21 on CBC, APTN, and CBC Radio One. See the Gazette article online, "Queen's Indigenous health researcher named Indspire Award winner" for more information.

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Way (Department of Geography and Planning) who was presented with The Inuit Partnership of Excellence Award at ArcticNet’s 15th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM 2019) at the Halifax Convention Center from December 2-5, 2019.  

The Office of the Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen’s University hosted its first Canada Research Chair (CRC) networking event in January 2020, bringing together CRCs from  across campus for an afternoon of discussion and networking. New CRCs (pictured l to r) Dr. Anna Panchenko (Tier 1 CRC in Computational Biology and Biophysics), Dr. Lindsay Morcom (Tier 2 CRC in Language Revitalization and Decolonizing Education), and Dr. Heather Aldersey (Tier 2 CRC in Disability and Inclusive Development), gave brief presentations on their research to the group. See "A Network of Research Excellence" in the Gazette online.

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Osborne (Geography and Planning), Dr. Duncan Sinclair (Physiology, School of Policy Studies), and Dr. Peter Harrison (School of Policy Studies) for being named to the Order of Canada. See "Three professor emeriti appointed to the Order of Canada" in the Gazette online.

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Cumming (Biology) for being named this year’s recipient of the Frank Rigler Award, the highest honour given by the Society of Canadian Limnologists. Professor Cumming will present the Frank Rigler Memorial Award Lecture.

Congratulations to Dr. Will Kymlicka — Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy — for being awarded the the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Gold Medal, one of the highest honours for the social sciences in Canada. "His groundbreaking work on the link between democracy and diversity has advanced knowledge on models of citizenship and social justice within multicultural societies." Find out more about Dr. Kymlicka in "Inspiring future generations" in the Gazette online. Listen to Professor Kymlicka's interview with Alan Neal on CBC's All in A Day.

Over 60 faculty members took part in the 2019 Faculty Writing Retreat on December 11. In addition to dedicated writing time, researchers could participate in workshops on "Finding and Protecting Your Writing Time" and "Writing Efficiently" with writing strategists from the Writing Centre (SASS) with whom they could also book one-on-one consultations. Faculty could also have one-on-one consultations withe Research Projects Advisors from URS . Thank you to all our participants and facilitators.

Congratulations to Dr. Awet Weldemichael for being awarded the 2019 Best Book Award in the study of Organized Crime by the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime for Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa. Dr. Weldemichael received his prize at an awards ceremony in San Francisco on November 14, 2019.

In November of 2019, Queen's saw the induction of (l-r) Dr. Rosa Bruno-Jofré (Faculty of Education), Dr. Kim Nossal l (Political Studies, School of Policy Studies) and Dr. Margaret Moore (Political Studies) as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) at the Celebration of Excellence and Engagement in Ottawa, ON. In addition, Dr. Grégoire Webber (Faculty of Law) and Dr. Ahmed Hassan (School of Computing) were inducted as Members of the RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Details of the announcements can be found in "A royal honour for research" and "The Royal round-up" in the Gazette online.