Arts and Science

Arts and Science

[Group photo of researchers and judges of the 3MT competition]
Timely presentations of graduate research

The Three Minute Thesis competition offers Queen’s graduate students a unique opportunity to present their research… in 180 seconds or less.

April 12, 2023
Gathering at a scientific field station for a Water Ceremony led by the Women’s Council of Grand Council Treaty #3. (IISD-Experimental Lakes Area), Author provided
Weaving Indigenous and Western ways of knowing can help Canada achieve its biodiversity goals

Canada’s commitment to halt biodiversity loss can only be realized by weaving together Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge.

April 6, 2023
The 12-metre diameter acrylic SNO+ detector is filled with 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator and surrounded by 10,000 photomultiplier light detectors. [Credit: Dr. Alex Wright for the SNO+ Collaboration, ³ÉÈË´óƬ Art of Research]
Next chapters on neutrino science

For the first time, SNO+ experiment captures neutrinos produced in nuclear reactors hundreds of kilometres away using pure water.

April 5, 2023
Queen’s remembers Professor Emeritus Eric Moore

Dr. Moore was a long-time member of the Department of Geography and served as associate dean of the School of Graduate Studies (1993-2001).

March 31, 2023
The Tragically Hip
Music and political campaigns: A question of rights

There is a distinction between deliberate use of a song to support a particular political campaign, and incidental music in the background at a social function hosted by a political party.  

March 24, 2023
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Annual Ewan Lecture features internationally recognized expert in mysterious cosmic phenomena

On Thursday March 23, 2023, from 7:00-8:30 PM, award-winning researcher and astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi will visit Queen’s to present the next installment of the Ewan Memorial Lecture. 

March 15, 2023
J.A.W. Gunn
Queen’s community remembers Professor Emeritus J.A.W. Gunn

LIVES LIVED: Alumnus taught at Queen’s for more than 40 years and served as head of Political Studies from 1975 to 1983

March 15, 2023
[Photo of University Ave on ³ÉÈË´óƬ University Campus]
Health research programs secure federal funding

Ten successful Queen’s research applicants will receive a total of $6.48 million.

March 6, 2023
[Photos of Kenneth Gyamerah and Erynn Monette]
Graduate research advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

Doctoral researchers at Queen’s have been awarded $20,000 from Universities Canada to support their innovative research working to improve global health and education.

February 28, 2023
Dr. Nancy Ross, Vice-Principal (Research) accompanies ³ÉÈË´óƬ Emeritus Professor and Nobel Laureate Arthur McDonald, Minister François-Philippe Champagne, local Members of Parliament, and SNOLAB administration on their way to the facility 2 km underground to announce the Canada Foundation for Innovation's 2022 Major Science Initiatives Fund. [Credit: Gerry Kingsley; CFI]
Dark matter mysteries (and our plan to solve them)

A research facility deep underground leading a global effort to detect the invisible substance for the first time.

February 28, 2023