Past Programs & Keynotes

Conference History

The Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference was founded in 2007 by Vicki Remenda and Jackie Druery as an avenue to share the curiosity, creativity, and innovation of undergraduate students at ³ÉÈË´óƬ. Hosted by ³ÉÈË´óƬ Library over 2 days in March, the I@Q conference showcases the scholarly and creative work of our students from disciplines across the university. 

Past Conference Programs:

Keynotes & Speakers

2024 - Dr. Jane Philpott, Faculty of Health Sciences

2023 Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam, School of Religion, Dangerous Conspiracies: When Do Bad Ideas Become Violent?

2022&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Dr. Asha Varadharajan, Department of English (Awarded Queen's Promoting Student Inquiry Teaching Award, 2021)

2021 â€“&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Dr. Jen Kennedy, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Past pedagogies and the post-pandemic future: What can we learn from learning this year?

2019 â€“&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Carrianne LeungWays of Being Chinese-Canadian: Carrianne Leung’s The Wondrous Woo, panel and reading

2018 â€“&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Bianca Chauhan (Academics Commissioner of ASUS), Cory Laverty (Teaching and Learning Specialist), Caroline Marful (Deputy Commissioner of Academics of the AMS), AMS Panel discussion on Undergraduate Research

2017&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;

  • Dr. James Fraser, Department of Physics (3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient 2017), Science Fiction or Science Fact: Can Popular Sci-Fi Movies Motivate Real Research Questions?
  • Murray Dee, Seth Barling, and their students (Rideau Heights Public School), Creating a Community of Knowledge Builders: a Pedagogical Approach to Inquiry in a Grade 3 and 6 Classroom.

2016&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Dr. Art McDonald, Professor Emeritus (Co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics)

2015 â€“&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Peter Wolf, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning

2014&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Queen’s Engineers without BordersQueen’s EWB Research and Development (R&D): A case study in local innovation 

2013&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Skull lady, rat girl, brain man: Superheroes of inquiry! A panel discussion with:

  • Nancy Suzanne Ossenberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Morphological Traits of the Skull
  • Doris Li, ’14, Life Sciences, How Rat Battles Taught Me Science
  • Douglas Munoz, Professor of Physiology, Psychology and Medicine; Director; Queen's Centre for Neuroscience Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience

2012&²Ô²ú²õ±è;– Alan Harrison, Provost/Vice-Principal (Academic), and Students of DRAM 439, BioBoxes: Think Inside the Box

2011&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–

  • Steven Liss, Vice-Principal (Research); 
  • Michelle Thompson, Geological Sciences & Engineering, Unlocking the Magic of Moon Dust: My Experiences as a Summer Research Intern for NASA; 
  • Kristen Martin, Drama, with performance group Marissa Nacimben, Colie Belej-Corrigan, Brett Payette, Aimee Bouchard, Michelle Yagi, Leora Smith, â€˜Breaking Down the Wall’: Performing History

2010&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Dr. Daniel Woolf, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, A Historian Reflects on a Few of His Eureka Moments

2009&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Dr. Kim Nossal, Political Studies, Inquiry in the Modern University: a Subversive View

2008&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;

  • Dr. David McDonald, Director, Global Development Studies, Research as Activism (Whether You Like It or Not)
  • Dr. Anne Petitjean, Department of Chemistry, Getting to Research by Coincidence

2007&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–

  • Dr. John Smol, Department of Biology, The Excitement of Discovery (Keynote Address)
  • Dr. Gwynn Dujardin, Department of English, Losing the Research Topic (Reception Presentation)