Campus Beat

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 and where it will go from h...

In this episode, we feature two guests chatting about exciting Queen’s University initiatives and events. In the first segment, we chat with Patricia Smithen, Director, Master of Art Conservation program at Queen’s.   She shares much with us about Art Conservation, the art of the science, conservators’ roles in the translation of cultural artifacts, and of course, the exciting ne...

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 have been elected to the College...

In a news story in the Queen’s Gazette on September 10th, Victoria Klassen wrote a story about mountain-building events a billion years ago a period some geologists have dubbed as the “boring billion,” arguing that the earth’s very thin crust during this time was a sign that no mountain-building events were happening, thus delaying the evolution of life. Chris Spencer Professor of Geology at Queen...

In this episode, Tricia Baldwin , Director of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts joins us for a fabulous conversation.  We chat about the very exciting fall concert line up at The Isabel and fantastic events including the Echo: Memories of the World live workshop performance and the Imagine Online Arts Festival .  We also get to learn more about workshop performances and how The Isabe...

In this episode of Campus Beat, Justine Aman, President of the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) at Queen’s University joins us.  She chats about her role, the initiatives she and her teammates are engaged in and the many services available to graduate and professional students at Queen’s through the SGPS.  

On August 27th Tropical Storm Ida strengthened into a hurricane moving north northwest from the Gulf of Mexico making landfall on the Louisiana Coast on August 28th with winds reaching 240 km/hr.  Now a tropical depression as of September 1st, Ida proved to be the second most intense hurricane to strike Louisiana on record only after Hurricane Katrina.  In its wake, four people have died, more tha...

In this episode, we chat with Savannah Sewell, the Margaret Angus Research Fellow at the Museum of Health Care in Kingston.  She is heading a collaborative project that will include an artifact collection, an archive of narratives, a manuscript, and a lecture. The project will explore the lived experience of Canadians and Canadian residents during the COVID-19 pandemic to record information regard...

Queen’s University, like many university’s has a Chancellor.  Chancellors have many roles to play at and on behalf of the university as they represent its interests anywhere in the world, act as important points of contact with major donors and serve as goodwill ambassadors across a spectrum of activities. The Queen’s Chancellor also participates in a variety of university ceremo...

In late May 2021, news broke of the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous school children buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, a school operated by the Catholic Church between 1890 through 1969 and then by the federal government until it closed in 1978.  In this episode of Campus Beat, we are joined by Dr. Alexander Braun, a geophysicist in the Department of Geological Sci...

The science of walking is taking its next big step with the aid of a unique exoskeleton that allows users to walk further while using less energy. Developed by a multidisciplinary team from the Queen’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, the backpack-mounted prototype removes energy during a specific phase of the gait cycle, lessening the metabolic cost of walking. Details of the dev...

On April 15th 2021, Queen’s University announced and celebrated the gifts behind completing Richardson Stadium through alumni giving.  Over 300 alumni contributed more than $11 million to construct a new pavilion to enhance and complete the space.  The lead gift came from Stu (Sc’74) and Kim Lang (ArtSci’76).  Stu played varsity hockey and football with the Golden Gaels and went on to...

Queen’s University geochemist, Dr. Heather Jamieson (Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering and Environmental Studies) and two of her former Master’s students Kirsten Maitland and Jon Oliver join us in this episode.  They chat about the arsensic found in soil samples in the region around Giant Mine in Yellowknife, NWT, some of which is naturally occuring, but the research team also e...

Following a pivotal January 2019 announcement that certain ocean floor sea sponges were found to have toxins that can cause cancer cells to retract, on Thursday May 13th 2021, Queen’s University announced that scientists conducting research on this project have successfully reproduced a toxin found in a marine sponge in the fight against cancer.  Joining us in this episode to chat about this groun...

On April 28th, 2021 Queen’s University announced that the University has selected the longtime Indigenous rights advocate, former Senator, and former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, The Honourable Murray Sinclair to serve as the 15th Chancellor of Queen’s, succeeding Jim Leech who has held the role since 2014. As an experienced national leader and advocate, His Honour will be wel...

On April 21 2021, almost 100 prospective Queen’s Engineering students took to the virtual campus – and experienced Queen’s in a whole new way. They toured the campus, hunted for eggs, and joined a lively Q&A with the Dean  – on a dedicated Minecraft server that replicates the campus itself. In this episode of Campus Beat, we’re chatting with Alex McKinnon, Sci ’21 and co-President...

In this special episode episode of The Scoop, host Dinah Jansen is joined by Thomas Park, Dr. Courtney Czto and Noah Weisbord for a roundtable discussion about anti-Asian racism.  Canada, like the US, has recently seen an uptick in anti-Asian racism since the onset of COVID 19. Dr. Courtney Szto of the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University is an expert in activist driven r...

Dr. Patrick Deane, Principal and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University joins us on Campus Beat once again to chat about some very exciting news.  Queen’s University announced on April 21st that Times Higher Education Impact Rankings had revealed that Queen’s placed first in Canada and fifth in the world in its global ranking of universities that are advancing the United Nations Sustainable D...

Students  (and faculty) can learn much in this episode about surviving and thriving this exam season.  Dr. Lindsay Heggie, Academic Skills Specialist with Student Academic Success Services joins us in this episode.  She sheds light on the many services and resources available through SASS that students are encouraged to utilize throughout the school year and now during exam season.  Dr. Heggie als...

Robert Yalden, Sigurdson Professor in Corporate Law and Finance in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University joins us in this episode to chat about his recently published study, “Québec’s Sole Shareholder Regime and the Rise of Simplified Corporations: Innovation, Implementation and the Challenges Ahead.”  Yalden talks about what sole shareholder regimes and simplified corporations are in pra...

Queen’s University researchers Peter Davies and Laurie Graham from the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University join us in this episode.  They recently published a free open-access study in Trends in Genetics  reporting a gene that crossed the “species barrier”. The study,  Horizontal Gene Transfer in Vertebrates: A Fishy Tale  looks specifically at new evidence...

On Thursday March 4th 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced more than $518 million in research infrastructure funding through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). This funding will support 102 state-of-the-art projects at 35 post-secondary institutions and research hospitals across the country, and will help Canada remain at the forefront of exploration, innovation and discovery. Tw...

“In this Adventures in Research edition of Campus Beat, we are joined by Professors Scott Lamoureux and Melissa Lafrenière, Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University.  From them we learn about a recent study published in Nature Communications entitled “ Emerging Dominance of Summer Rainfall Driving High Arctic Terrestrial Aquatic Connectivity .”Lafrenière and Lamoureux were co-aut...

In this episode we welcome Richard Mitchell of Queen’s Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment in addition to the five new Admissions and Recruitment Equity Ambassadors Fahmida Hossain, Kidus Lee-ul, Tatiana Yunadi, Tamjid Bari and Astrid Louise Nandoh.  They chat about this innovative new peer mentorship program where prospective Queen’s University students can connect directly with upper-year p...

Dr. Bishal Gyawali, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences and Clinical Fellow, Department of Oncology joins us again on Campus Beat.  In this episode, talks about his new research comparing cancer drugs, clinical benefits, and reimbursement rates in Canada and the US published on Monday February 22nd in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine .  We lea...