The SDG Teach In is an annual campaign run by SOS-UK to encourage educators from around the world to incorporate one or several of the SDGs into their teaching, learning, or assessment.
Running since 2018, the SDG Teach In has reached nearly 500,000 students across 50 countries, with over 1000+ educators pledging in 2024.
from now until end of 31 March. Leaderboards will be published in March with institutions with the most pledges - just some friendly competition!
More information about the SDG Teach In including this year's weekly themes in available on the . The Teach In is also an opportunity to share what you're already doing related to the SDGs and beyond.
As we approach the university’s bicentennial in 2041, we are invited to reflect on the enduring strength and purpose of our university. For nearly two centuries, Queen’s has navigated periods of challenge with resilience and creativity, emerging stronger and more determined to contribute meaningfully to the world.
In the cover story of this Queen’s Alumni Review we learn about Cara and Murray Sinclair, whose extraordinary gift to the university in memory of Murray’s brother will dramatically increase our capacity in cancer research, enhance the facilities in which that research is conducted, and create new training opportunities in the field.
I became a professor, and then an administrator, because of my experience as an undergraduate at the University of the Witwatersrand in apartheid-era South Africa in the mid-1970s. The university was then still comparatively young, and still very much linked to the history of mining and technology in the region, so education for economic growth remained a fundamental part of the institutional mission.
The annual holiday gathering for Queen's employees will be held on Tuesday, December 10 at the Athletics and Recreation Centre (ARC) main gym from 11:30 am – 1 pm.
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.
Parking restrictions on main campus surface lots will not be enforced during business hours on December 10.
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Additionally, as we have done in the past, the Office of the Principal would like to show its appreciation for Queen’s employees with a free coffee, tea, or hot chocolate at one of the university’s participating food outlets on December 10. Bringing a reusable mug is encouraged!
Doors open at 10:30 am, service to begin at 10:50 am, classes are cancelled on November 11 between 10:30 and 11:30 am
Beaded poppy by Flint & Maple the business of a current Queen’s PhD student and Education alum
Program
Words of Welcome - Erin Burns, Interfaith Chaplain
National Anthem - Performed by the Queen’s Choir, Directed by Darrell Christie
Last Post - Dan Tremblay, Trumpet
Silence of Remembrance
Reveille - Dan Tremblay, Trumpet
Reading: In Flanders Fields by John McCrae - Niki Boytchuk-Hale, Rector
Reading: Selections from - Kaiya Mongrain, ConEd'25, Co-President of the Queen's Native Students Association
Reflection of Remembrance - Paul Hook, Managing Director, Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR)
When Dawn Shines by Mishaal Surti, Texy by Justin Zadorsky - Performed by the Queen’s Choir, Directed by Darrell Christie
Sending Out - Erin Burns, Interfaith Chaplain
Procession to the 5th Field Company Plinth to lay wreaths and poppies
Queen’s has been holding a Remembrance Day ceremony in Grant Hall for many years to honour all from Queen’s who have served and those who are currently serving. The First and Second World Wars profoundly impacted Queen's, affecting both community and campus life. During WWI, many students, staff, faculty, and alumni enlisted, leading to a significant drop in enrolment. Queen's formed military units, such as Fifth Field Company Engineers and a total of 187 from Queen's lost their lives. In WWII, enlistment was lower, but 164 students and alumni died.
Grant Hall was used as a military hospital and convalescent facility during the WWI and during WWII, it was used as an entertainment centre for troops.
The Memorial Room in the JDUC and the honour all from Queen's who served and died in both wars.
As is the case at universities across Canada and around the world, significant global and domestic events inevitably make themselves felt in our daily lives at Queen’s. We advance our mission in the context of history and society at large, so this is entirely to be expected: human suffering or depredations of nature anywhere should command our compassion and attention as a diverse community of scholars seeking solutions.
Walls to Bridges is a community-engaged learning program that began in 2011 as a partnership between Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario and the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. For the past three years, the program has also been connecting Queen’s students with currently incarcerated students in Kingston.
The 400-level activity-based course is available to students in philosophy and sociology at Queen’s, with classes held in both the minimum-security and medium-security units of Collins Bay Institution.
