Category: Campus Beat

On February 28th, the UN Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC – a United Nations body tasked with educating global policy-makers through regular assessments of the climate situation worldwide – released its most recent report on climate change.  And the results appear grim as the report projects rising sea levels in addition to drought, […]

On Tuesday February 22nd, Queen’s University announced the completion of an international study conducted in partnership with the University of Toledo that confirmed that current water quality guidelines do not go far enough to address the ecological impact of road de-icing salts, agricultural fertilizers, mining operations and climate change on the salinity of freshwater ecosystems.  […]

Coming up on March 9th, Union Gallery is hosting a free and virtual drawing event called Drawing as Magic.  The event incorporates the use of sensory experiences, movement and personal histories to think about the kinds of things we’d like to manifest in the world for ourselves, others and the communities in which we all […]

On February 16th, Queen’s University announced that some of its researchers have developed a new algorithm to identify pulmonary hypertension from available Ontario healthcare data, an algorithm that is the first of its kind in Canada. Pulmonary hypertension is an often under-recognized chronic disease that involves a congestion of blood supply in the lungs and […]

In this two part episode, we welcome folks from the Alumni Review and Union Gallery at Queen’s University. In the first segment, Deborah Melman-Clement, Senior Development Writer , Marketing, Communications, and Donor Relations in the Office of Advancement at Queen’s University joins us.  She chats Alumni Review’s new podcast, Cause and Effect, a new series exploring […]

The Olympics is a time when teamwork is put to the ultimate test in events like hockey, skiing, and snowboarding. This month, eyes from around the world will be on Beijing—and not just because of the sporting events. The 2022 Winter Olympics brings questions around surveillance, with reports that the app that athletes are expected […]

Welcome back to another great edition of Campus Beat!  On January 18th 2022, Queen’s University announced a new creative partnership with world-renowned Canadian photographer, and Queen’s Honorary Doctorate recipient (2007), Edward Burtynsky to help realize his new public art piece titled Standing Whale. The partnership will engage the expertise and innovative thinking of students in multiple programs across […]

This episode features two exciting segments.  First, we chat with undergraduate student leaders, Tess Shields and Caroline Leclerc of the Delegates Team for Queen’s Female Leadership in Politics.  Shields and LeClerc talk about the upcoming Evolve 2022 Conference that QFLIP is running virtually on February 5th and 6th, the work QFLIP engages in, the fun […]

On January 12th  2022, Queen’s University announced that the federal government has committed $24 million through the New Frontiers in Research Funding Transformation Stream to Queen’s University-led research poised to extend the lifespan of metals using unique molecular coatings that could save billions of dollars on maintenance across a number of sectors, including aerospace, automotive, […]

(Pictured: Dr. Mary Ann McColl, Dean Jane Philpott and, Dr. Christopher Booth)* Earlier this fall, the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at Queen’s University launched Dean Jane Philpott’s Cinq à Sept Research Talks. The monthly series, which will showcase innovations in health research at Queen’s, is like nothing FHS has hosted before and is modeled […]