Born in Niles—a small industrial town in northeastern Ohio—Albert Frank Moritz, poet and Griffin Poetry Prize winner, said he spent a Huckleberry Finn-esque childhood along the banks of Mosquito Creek and its surrounding woods.
A new surgical navigation tool, the first of its kind in Canada, has made simulated needle-based surgeries more accessible. The Perk Station, an augmented reality surgical navigation suite, strives to make training in percutaneous surgery more accessible for the medical and scientific communities.
As the Winter Olympics heat up on the West Coast, British Columbia improvisation performer and teacher Alistair Cook has a competition of a different nature on his mind.
Kingston is home to about 117,000 people, a little less than ten times the Queen’s student population. While Queen’s students spend the better part of their years of study in this town, to many it would seem odd to call it their own.
Which word derived from Arabic means “commander of the sea”? Who won a gold medal for Spain for cycling in the 1982 Olympics? What high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher?
Despite currently outselling DaVinci Code author Dan Brown in Canada, Giller Prize-winning author Linden MacIntyre has bigger concerns about the implications of his novel The Bishop’s Man—namely, eternal damnation.
As the University grapples with budget cuts to its academic programs, three professors have been recognized for their ability to captivate and engage students in the classroom. Biology professor Virginia Walker, political studies professor Eleanor MacDonald and music professor Kip Pegley have been selected as three of the top 20 finalists in TV Ontario’s annual Best Lecturer Competition. The winner will be announced in March.
Queen’s students have the opportunity to get up close and personal with their food thanks to a t venture between the University and Sodexo. The project, known as MyFarm, is located on 76 acres of land some forty kilometres east of Kingston. Project planners hope the land will serve as both a practical farm and teaching environment.
An innovative exchange program run by the global development studies department has won acclaim from the Chinese government. The Semester at Fudan program was recognized this year as a Model Bilingual Education Program by the government of the People’s Republic of China.
Parliament has become an easy target for labels of idleness in the age of annual prorogation. But our resident effigy, the Queen’s Model Parliament (QMP), might be an easier target. Many people shrug off the event as catering to a limited clique of politics students, thinking it holds little relevance for the general student body.
A new language program has Queen’s students interacting with German classmates—and there’s no border crossing involved. Colin Gilmour, ArtSci ’10, spent one hour per week practicing German with Nina Straka as a part of his GRMN201 class last term.
When Shakespeare called sleep “nature’s soft nurse,” he was right about the restorative effects of a phenomenon often given a low priority in students’ busy lives. According to Dr. Suzanne Billing, medical director at Queen’s Health, Counselling and Disability Services, sleep is a mysterious but necessary phenomenon.
Offensive linemen might play the least-heralded position in football. Other offensive players get to handle the ball. Defensive linemen have the glory of sacking the quarterback once in awhile and defensive backs have the allure of potentially intercepting the ball.
Principal Daniel Woolf likes to use his Twitter to keep students up to date on what he’s up to, whether he’s in his office, at the airport or a Gaels’ football game. But I learned far more spending last Thursday with him than I could fit into 140 characters.
Canadians all over the country took time on Wednesday to the service and sacrifices of war veterans. To Kingston area veterans, the Royal Canadian Legion’s Remembrance Day service was their time to honour the day with their fellow men in arms and their ers.
Beyond the Queen’s University Library’s impressive general collection, it houses an equally impressive Special Collections section. Located on the second floor of Douglas Library, The W.D. Jordan Special Collections Library contains 125,000 volumes of printed material from deerskin-bound bibles to recently published special editions of classic works accumulated since its establishment in 1964.
Knowing Michael MacMillan’s background as a Queen’s film alumnus, I couldn’t think of a better place than the Film House to interview the former Alliance Atlantis executive chairman, who was in town this week as this year’s Brockington Visitor.
When I first Marc Epprecht for an interview, he defers for a week. “I’m in Tanzania at the moment,” he said in an email to the Journal. Epprecht, a professor with Queen’s development studies and history departments, was granted the Desmond Tutu Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Sexuality in Africa in October of this year.
Kingston-area small-business owners now have access to pro-bono legal counsel thanks to a new program officially launched in September by the Faculty of Law. “We try to help those who normally wouldn’t be able to budget their businesses,” program director Peter Kissick said.
