Category: Campus Beat

On December 3rd, The Mastercard Foundation and the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre (DDQIC) have announced a partnership offering free virtual entrepreneurship training, and an opportunity to receive startup funding to more than 1,000 students through the Jim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellowship on Entrepreneurship for African Students at Queen’s University. The program launched in September 2020. It provides […]

In this episode, we have two guests-Dr. Teresa Purzner and Jane Hutchings. On November 25th, Queen’s University announced that one of it’s neurosurgeons, Dr. Teresa Purzner has been named one of Canada’s top 40 under 40, an annual leadership award that recognizes exceptional achievement by 40 outstanding Canadians who are under 40 years of age.  […]

In this episode we are joined by two guests.  First, Dr. Mark Richardson, Education and Outreach Officer at the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute and then around the 20 minute mark, Lisa Tauskela, Masters Candidate in Civil Engineering. Dr. Richardson talks about the upcoming George and Maureen Ewan lecture to be delivered […]

In this episode of Campus Beat, we welcome Dan Bader, President and CEO of Bader Philanthropies Inc.  On the occasion of celebrating the newly proclaimed Bader Day on November 15th, Dan talks about his father, Dr. Alfred Bader’s, extraordinary journey to Queen’s University where he began his studies on November 15th, 1941.  Dan also shares […]

On October 21st 2021, Queen’s University announced a $1 million gift for Indigenous Academics in STEM, that is Science, Technology, Engineering and math based undergraduate degree programs through the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s. This generous gift was endowed by Queen’s alumnus Norman Loveland and his wife Gay Loveland and builds on […]

In this episode of Campus Beat we feature two conversations with Queen’s faculty researchers. In the first segment, we chat with Dr. Samuel Dahan from the Faculty of Law and Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab about his lab’s new Vaccine Mediator – a new COVID-19 vaccine online dispute resolution tool – and its development and […]

On Tuesday September 7th, Queen’s University announced that four of its researchers have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada, one of the highest academic honours for Canadian scholars in arts, humanities and sciences.  Professor emeritus John Berry has received the honour of Fellowship, while professors Heather Castleden, Karen Lawford, and Sari van Anders […]

In this extended episode of Campus Beat (broadcasting October 25th 2021 on cfrc 101.9 fm/cfrc.ca), we chat with four Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award recipients from 2020 and 2021. Inaugurated by the University Council Executive Committee in 1974, the Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals who have made the university a better place through their exemplary […]

In this very special episode of Campus Beat, we are joined by Dr. Raymond Mason, Ojibway activist, Elder member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, and founder and Chairperson of Spirit Wind Inc. which organizes residential and Indian Day school survivors in Manitoba and also played a key role in the development of the […]

In this epsiode, we are joined by Prishni Seyone, ArtSci ’21 and founder of the new Starts with Youth Initiative with the Pathy Foundation Fellowship program.  Jessica Franko, Program Assistant for Pathy also joins us.  Seyone talks about herself, how her project germinated while a student at Queen’s University, what her innovative project’s mission is […]