Celebrating teaching awards together
Each year, teaching awards at Queen’s University are conferred to educators and staff who have excelled in fostering innovative, interesting, and inclusive learning environments.
Leading and Listening: Stabilizing the Faculty of Arts and Science research community
When campus shut down one year ago, the senior leadership team was faced with a daunting task.
Leading and Listening: Supporting its people
Just over one year ago, Queen’s University went remote due to the growing pandemic. Students moved from the classroom to their homes, faculty made the switch to teaching remotely and staff began working from home to provide support.
FAS doctoral student named finalist for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholars program
Faculty of Arts and Science doctoral student Alexandra Walters has been named a finalist for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholars (PETF) program. The Kinesiology and Health Studies student is one of only 36 candidates to be named as a finalist for the Scholarship and Engaged Leadership program.
Queen’s alumni Chris Herd joins NASA’s Mars Perseverance team
By Michael Onesi
Chris Herd, Artsci’97, is hoping to answer a fundamental question humanity has wondered for centuries: Is there life on other planets?
Polar bears: A sentinel of Arctic environmental change
Queen’s University researchers and partners are monitoring the health and movements of polar bears in an innovative approach to studying climate change in the Arctic.
Glass half full: Dean Crow looks back at the year that was and sees hope for the future
It has been one year since the world turned upside down. With the global pandemic growing, the senior leadership team at Queen’s University made an unprecedented decision on March 13, 2020 to send staff, faculty, and students home with no real idea of what the future held.
Leading and Listening: The community speaks
In the fall of 2020 Dr. Wendy Craig (Psychology) began to probe the impact of Covid-19 on the Faculty of Arts and Science community. Through a series of ThoughtExchanges she gathered insights into the ways in which the pandemic was changing people’s lives and challenging the norms of just one year ago.