Campus Beat

Host Dinah Jansen covers campus news headlines including the recent passing of The Honourable Murray Sinclair, the installation of Shelagh Rogers as Queen’s University’s 16th Chancellor on November 11th, recent NSERC accolades for two university scholars, and the University’s recent celebration of this year’s Distinguished Service Award recipients. Campus News Reporter Ali...

In this episode, host Dinah Jansen covers campus news headlines including Dr. Jane Philpott’s imminent departure from her deanship in the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Ministry of Labour’s recent issuance of a No Board Report related to collective agreement negotiations between Queen’s University and PSAC 901 (Unit 2) Post Doctoral Fellows, and Norma Barrett’s appointment...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Campus Beat!  In this episode, we share a recording of CFRC’s live broadcast of the 2024 Queen’s University Tricolour Awards Ceremony where Niki Boytchuk Hale, Kyla Gibson, Tara Rezvan, and Meena Waseem were inducted into the Tricolour Society.  The event took place at the University Club on April 5th and was broadcasted locally on CFRC 101.9 FM...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Campus Beat!  In this episode, we have the privilege of chatting with Niki Boytchuk Hale, Kyla Gibson, Tara Rezvan, and Meena Waseem, this year’s Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award Winners! Named in honour of Dr. Agnes Benidickson, former Chancellor of Queen’s University from 1980 to 1996, the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award (ABTA) and induction...

In this episode, we present an exclusive interview with Calder Bryson, Chief Electoral Officer for the Alma Mater Society undertaken on February 2nd 2024.  Bryson discusses electoral processes for the AMS Executive Team following the January 31st withdrawal of a team member from JNN, the potential impacts for student engagement with the voting process for the Rector positions and fee-seeking clubs...

In this extended episode of Campus Beat we feature interviews with community and student clubs seeking new fees or renewing existing ones during this year’s AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda occuring February 6th and 7th.  Several clubs did not respond to our requests for interview.  The AMS Elections Team furnished us with available nomination package pitches which were read by CFRC team...

In this episode of Campus Beat, we welcome this year’s Alma Mater Society Executive Team candidates now running for election.  Team JNN is the only slated team running in the 2024 AMS elections.  Jason Kim, Noah Mawji and Nicolas Brasset also known as Nico join us to discuss their experience and their vision for AMS governance for 2024-2025.  Following our discussion with Team JNN, we throw it ove...

In this episode airing on CFRC 101.9 FM/cfrc.ca at 5:30 ET on January 31st, we feature discussions with the 2024-25 Society of Graduate and Professional Students Executive Candidates currently campaigning ahead of the February 6th and 7th 2024 election period.  We were able to catch up with Emils Matiss, Simran Sharma, Katie Zutautas, Zaid Kassim, and Maya Kawale who joined us to chat about their...

On October 1st 2023, The Conversation published an article entitled “ Family Doctor Shortage: Medical education reform can help address critical gaps, starting with a specialized program ”, a critical article of interest to every Canadian, including the 6 million Canadians who find themselves without a family doctor.  The article is available via the Conversation.com to read in full.  With us in t...

In this episode, we cover campus news headlines and sit down with Dr. Kathleen Rühland , lead author and senior research scientist with the Queen’s  Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL), whose team recently published a groundbreaking article entitled “Arctic Warming Drives Striking Twenty-First Century Ecosystem Shifts in Great Slave Lake” in Proceedings of...

In this episode, we cover Queen’s University news headlines, highlights from Homecoming 2023, Gaels sports updates, and conversations with three of this year’s Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award winners-Chris Berga, Dr. Elizabeth Jane Errington, and Colette Steer.  These full length interviews cover their many years of service, their drive and inspirations, and respon...

In this edition of Campus Beat, we cover campus news with feature reportage from Queen’s Journal newsletter, The Campus Catchup plus a great conversation with Queen’s University Vice Principal Advancement, Karen Bertrand.  Learn more about Homecoming 2023 events, the University District Safety Initiative in effect October 14-Nov 1st and more.  Don’t forget to tune into CFRC 101.9...

Campus Beat on CFRC 101.9 FM relaunched on September 28th 2023 at 5 PM! In this season premier, we cover Truth and Reconciliation Day activities at Queen’s University and feature a discussion on the meaning of ‘Reconciliation’ by Queen’s Chancellor, The Honourable Murray Sinclair. We also cover the new Queen’s Remembers Plinth installation, the opening of the new Indi...

Launching Wednesday July 12th 2023 on CFRC 101.9 FM, we’re pleased to broadcast and podcast the first of two Inquiry@Queen’s episodes! In April 2023, CFRC’s Campus News Liaison Erika Singh sat with winning presenters at this annual undergraduate conference at @queensuniversity @queensulibrary in March, a conference with the theme “Misinformation: Rogue Inquiries”. In this episode, Erika chats with...

Launching Wednesday July 12th 2023 on CFRC 101.9 FM, we’re pleased to broadcast and podcast the first of three Inquiry@Queen’s episodes! In April 2023, CFRC’s Campus News Liaison Erika Singh sat with winning presenters at this annual undergraduate conference at @queensuniversity @queensulibrary in March, a conference with the theme “Misinformation: Rogue Inquiries”. I...

On June 7th, Queen’s University Library announced that it was giving Queen’s alumni extended off campus access to a selection of electronic resources including jStor, SAGE, Taylor and Francis and more in an effort to allow alumni to continue their journey of learning after completing their programs of study.  In this episode, we caught up with Meghan Burke, Metadata and Discovery Librarian at Quee...

In this special episode of Campus Beat, we sit down with Queen’s Rector Owen Crawford-Lem and each of the 2023 Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award inductees. On March 23rd 2023, Queen’s University announced that Laura Devenny (Artsci’23), Samara Lijiam (Artsci’23), Jane Mao (Artsci’21, MEd’23), and Nishana Ramsawak (PhD’24), have each been named recipients of the 2023 Agnes Benidickson T...

Following the completion of the UN Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022, we chat with two Queen’s University Professors about the conference’s goals and outcomes. Over 45,000 participants from countries around the world attended the conference. At the event’s opening, it was understood that the 194 countries that signed the Paris Agree...

Kingston, ON Oct 3, 2022- CFRC 101.9 FM Radio Queen’s University will host a Plaque Unveiling Ceremony of the station’s official Centennial Plaque on October 7th 2022 at 1 pm outside of Carruthers Hall on Queen’s University Campus (62 Fifth Field Company Lane).  All members of the Queen’s and Kingston communities are welcome to attend. Established October 7th 1922, CFRC started as an experimental...

In this special edition of CFRC’s Campus Beat, host Dinah Jansen brings you cheerful conversations with this year’s Queen’s University Distinguished Service Award winners. Queen’s faculty, staff, students, retirees, elected, appointed, ex officio or honorary members of of University Council, the Queen’s Alumni Association, and the Board of Trustees are invited each year to nominate candidate...

In our first segment we chat with James Barron, PhD Candidates in Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen’s University.  He and his team recently discovered for the first time a magnetic field around Polaris, the star commonly known as the North Star.  Barron sheds light on what cepheid class stars and magnetic fields are, how the discovery was made, and the research questions th...

In this episode, we chat with Tina Abo Al-Soof recent top presenter at the 2022 Inquiry at Queen’s Conference.  She sits down with us to discuss her paper and presentation entitled “The History of Archaeological Work and Attitudes towards Antiquities at Uruk.” Uruk, also known as Warka, is an ancient Mesopotamian site in modern Iraq that has been the focus of archaeological explo...

From March 9th through March 11th 2022, Queen’s University hosted the 16th annual Inquiry @ Queen’s Conference, this year via zoom with a keynote delivered by Dr. Asha Varadharajan from the Department of English who was awareded the Queen’s Promoting Student Inqurity Teaching Award in 2021. In our first segment, we chat with one of Dr. Varadharajan’s ENGL 421 students, Sydney Faour, 4th Year...

Tis the season of Tricolour Awards!  The Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award and induction in the Tricolour Society is the highest tribute that can be paid to a student for valuable and distinguished service to the University in non-athletic, extra-curricular activities. Such service may have been confined to a single field, or it may have taken the form of a significant contribution over a wide ran...

In recent Queen’s University news, students elected Owen Crawford-Lem (ArtSci ’23) on March 21st 2022.  Following Rector Sam Heimstra’s resignation in March 2021, Crawford-Lem won the contested election to become the University’s 38th Rector. In this segment, we chat with Crawford-Lem about his inspirations to run for the highest student office at Queen’s University a...