Orientation overtakes campus
Orientation week is in full swing across campus with more than 4,000 first-year students participating in spirit-building activities. The fun continues Friday with the annual Sidewalk Sale, the surprise concert in the Miller Hall parking lot and numerous faculty-specific events.
Tickling the ivories at the Isabel
Staff at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts received a very special delivery this morning: a Steinway concert grand piano.
Queen's grad finalist for British art award
The ethics of driverless cars
Jason Millar, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy, spends a lot of time thinking about driverless cars. Though you aren’t likely to be able to buy them for 10 years, he says there are a number of ethical problems that need to be tackled before they go mainstream.
Bringing town teens to computer science
Brandon Turner leans over his keyboard and with a few key strokes shows what he’s spent this summer working on. A digital rendering of an enormous vertebra fossil appears on his computer screen, followed by a chipped femur and then the hulking skull of a haudrosaur, the duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period.
SNOLAB on CTV Northern Ontario
Nigel Smith (Director, SNOLAB) discusses SNOLAB on .
Queen's University real estate expert comments on July's Canadian Real Estate Association data
Tomorrow the Canadian Real Estate Association will announce home sales volume and price data for July and Queen’s real estate expert John Andrew is available to comment on these numbers.
Aid must act, not react
Following Japan’s 2011 tsunami, Kiyoshi Kurokawa – chairman of the Fukushima Accident Independent Investigation Com91ĘÓƵ – described the Fukushima disaster as a “profoundly man-made disaster that could and should have been foreseen and prevented.” It is this mentality that motivated the Japanese government to enact some of the world’s most stringent bui