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:
- 2024 (PDF 625 KB)
- 2023 (PDF 577 KB)
- 2022 (PDF 594 KB)
- 2021 (PDF 494 KB)
- 2020 (PDF 533 KB)
- 2019 (PDF 928 KB)
- 2018 (PDF 784 KB)
- 2017 (PDF 697 KB)
- 2016 (PDF 768 KB)
- 2015 (PDF 639 KB)
- 2014 (PDF 805 KB)
- 2013 (PDF 637 KB)
- 2012 (PDF 495 KB)
- 2011 (PDF 439 KB)
- 2010 (PDF 516 KB)
- 2009 (PDF 463 KB)
- 2008 (PDF 402 KB)
- 2007 (PDF 3 MB)
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 –&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 –&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Carrianne Leung, Ways of Being Chinese-Canadian: Carrianne Leung’s The Wondrous Woo, panel and reading
2018 –&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 –&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Peter Wolf, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning
2014&²Ô²ú²õ±è;–&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Queen’s Engineers without Borders, Queen’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, ‘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)