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Beyond Canada – Health Promotion at the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies

In this episode Claudia speaks to El Zahraa Majed about her research with immigrants and health in Kingston.  They discuss some of the challenges of doing research with international populations, especially during Covid-19 as well as how being an international student affords unique opportunities to analyse and understand health. Guests: EL Zahraa is a second […]

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Maleeka Thaker-Preventing Bird Strikes in Campus Windows

Maleeka Thaker (Sci ’19), Master’s student in the School of Environmental Studies chats with us in this segment about bird collisions into campus windows, her research in this area, and the prevention project she has launched in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability at Queen’s University involving the placement of dotted film into some building […]

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Star Trek and Social Topics

The real Star Trek included 5 TV shows and a lot of films, many of which tackled social and political topics/issues in many episodes since the 1960s. This week, Tyler Vance, our Star Trek correspondent, joins MIke to discuss their favourite episodes that address many issues that are still very relevant today. We talk about race, class, […]

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Fascinating Fall 2020 Programming at the McDonald Institute

Dr. Mark Richardson, Education and Outreach Officer for the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute (the McDonald Institute) joins us in this episode.  Mark talks about upcoming Fall 2020 events such as Art of Dark Matter (October 30th), collaborations with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre on the Drift Artist in Residence Exhibit as […]

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