Date
Monday February 12, 2024Location
Students are invited to join Patrick Deane, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Matthew Evans, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic), and Donna Janiec, Vice-Principal (Finance and Administration) virtually on Monday, February 12 from 6-7 pm for a student Q&A session on university finances.
Q&A will be moderated by Queen's Rector Owen Crawford-Lem.
Please for an event link to join.
Date
Tuesday February 6, 2024Location
DDQIC Rose Event Commons, Mitchell HallAt the heart of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth 鈥 all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. Queen鈥檚 research is driving progress on many of the SDGs, with Queen鈥檚 recently ranked 3rd in the world and 1st in Canada and North America in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, which assess how universities are advancing the UN SDGs within and beyond their local communities. This panel will bring together four researchers from different disciplines who are leading the way in addressing SDGs.
This is an in-person only event.
(Faculty of Education)
(Public Health Sciences)
(Chemical Engineering)
Warren Mabee (School of Policy Studies)
(School of Rehabilitation Therapy and Special Advisor to the Principal on UN SDGs)
The Vice-Principal Research (VPR) Portfolio is proud to present R4R@Q.
Queen鈥檚 greatly values the incredible contributions of our researchers and their teams on the local, national and international stages. But you are not alone! Queen鈥檚 offers a myriad of services to help researchers develop the best possible roadmap to success from project conception through to knowledge mobilization. To learn more, please join us for R4R@Q.
R4R@Q is here to acquaint Queen's researchers with the resources and people who are here to help.
To learn about future events and access recordings of past sessions, visit the website.
Questions? Email Catarina Chagas catarina.chagas@queensu.ca
It is unusual for a leader of a university to post a statement publicly regarding coverage of the institution in national news. That being said, it is imperative at this point for me to set the record straight. Anyone reading this will likely have seen headlines suggesting Queen鈥檚 is losing its position as a top tier institution and may be under threat of financial ruin. I can assure you none of this is true. While the current financial situation for Queen鈥檚 poses challenges, the same is true for most postsecondary institutions in Ontario.
Businesses can contribute to the 鈥榞reater good鈥 and a new mandatory third-year Commerce course is immersing students in community-engaged project-based learning to demonstrate that potential.
In this issue of the Alumni Review, Greg McArthur writes about the as it celebrates 150 years of student writing, reporting and critique. Founded in 1873, the Journal is amongst the oldest student-run newspapers in North America, and as Greg observes, it has become Queen鈥檚 鈥渟ecret鈥 school of journalism, over the years training countless students in the required skills and professional ethics of the field.
The past year at Queen鈥檚 University has been filled with new beginnings, renewal, key accomplishments, and important events. As 2023 draws to a close the Gazette takes a look at the items that made the biggest headlines.
Engineering鈥檚 new era
The unveiling of Smith Engineering honours a historic donation of $100 million from financial-services entrepreneur and Queen鈥檚 University alumnus Stephen J.R. Smith (Sc鈥72, LLD'17) to reimagine STEM education through engineering at Queen鈥檚.
Queen鈥檚 Principal and Vice-Chancellor Patrick Deane received an honorary degree from McMaster University during a fall convocation ceremony in Hamilton on Nov. 23.
Chris Carlton and Ian Matheson are pre-service teacher educators in the Faculty of Education who have taken on a timely challenge as part of their work at Queen鈥檚 鈥 finding a new way to get elementary school children excited about sustainability. Their goal was to create a fun, hands-on, school-wide project that would also show the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in action. And this is where the worms came in.
Date
Thursday December 14, 2023Location
ARC Main GymSave the date! The annual holiday gathering will be held on Thursday, December 14 at the Athletics and Recreation Centre main gym from 11:30 a.m. 鈥 1:30 p.m. Hospitality Services will be providing the meal and a gingerbread building giveaway will take place. To enter the raffle for the gingerbread building, please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the AMS Food Bank.
Once more, as we have done in the past, the Office of the Principal would like to show its appreciation for Queen鈥檚 employees with a free hot beverage at one of the university鈥檚 participating food outlets* on December 14.
Please note parking restrictions on surface lots will not be enforced during business hours on December 14.
*Participating food outlets
The Lazy Scholar, Victoria Hall
Location 21, David C. Smith House
MC2, Mackintosh Corry
Library Caf茅, Stauffer Library
Goodes Caf茅, Goodes Hall
Wally鈥檚, Botterell Hall
Student Street Express, Duncan McArthur Hall
Jean Royce Dining Hall/Barista, Jean Royce Hall
A transformational change in Queen鈥檚 engineering education is on the horizon, thanks to an unparalleled gift from financial-services entrepreneur and Queen鈥檚 University alumnus, Stephen J.R. Smith (Sc鈥72, LLD'17).
In what is now the largest donation of its kind to an engineering faculty in Canada, Mr. Smith鈥檚 gift is founded on his commitment to nurturing STEM education, supporting the engineers of tomorrow, and preparing and empowering Queen鈥檚 engineering graduates to confront society鈥檚 most pressing challenges head-on.
