Stumbling back to the 1840s and strolling across the land currently classified as Aberdeen Street would likely be an experience eerily similar to today.

Moving mountains for health

February 26, 2009
Whether it’s scaling the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro or conducting research on global health from her office at Queen’s, Dr. Karen Yeates, a nephrologist at Kingston General Hospital and a Queen’s professor, is working to improve women’s health.
Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane loves his job and, after spending the day in his office, I do too.
If you met Meredith Chivers outside a professional function, chances are you’d have a skewed idea of what she does.
It’s 9 p.m. and we’ve just met up with two other police cruisers in the Loblaw’s parking lot when the radio crackles and a frightened voice calls for help.
Friday’s event also included a discussion about Canadian Indigenous writing featuring Boyden, Anishnabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Delaware poet and playwright Daniel David Moses.
From her ninth-floor office in Botterell Hall, Ann Croy has a bird’s-eye view of Queen’s campus.

Leading the (solar) charge

January 26, 2009
Economic times may be tough, but School of Business professor Steven Moore knows what to do.

AMS no longer tripping

January 23, 2009
AMS Vice-President (University Affairs) Stephanie St. Clair said the AMS has cut back attendance to student-dollar funded conferences across the board this year.

Landlords and the law

January 19, 2009
In the hunt for housing, many students worry about running into problems with their landlords.
With Phase One of the Queen’s Centre set to open in September and the layout of Phases Two and Three still undecided, the University will be finalizing the designs for the later stages of the project in the next two months.
Parked in the alley beside St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, at the intersection of Clergy and Princess streets, an inconspicuous white truck reaches out to those in need on Kingston’s cold winter nights.
It was in August, 1965, when four doctors from Queen’s department of pediatrics made their first visit to a small hospital in Moose Factory, Ontario.
“Anyone who’s going to read your article has either used marijuana or knows someone who has, and they know that person is not a criminal.”

In the market for answers

November 21, 2008
To some, the worldwide financial crisis is a baffling assortment of diving graphs and daunting headlines.
The first time Enakshi Dua realized she wasn’t comfortable at Queen’s was during a trip to Toronto in December of her first year living in Kingston. Dua, now a sociology professor at York University, taught at Queen’s from 1994 to 2001, when she was one of the first faculty of colour to leave the University because of discrimination.
“When war broke out, the term had not yet begun.”

Walking scared

October 31, 2008
A hanging corpse thrashes violently as the sound of distant screaming echoes across the stone walls.
At 79 years old, the Right Honourable John Turner’s pace has slowed since he took on Brian Mulroney in the 1988 so-called “free-trade debate.”

The fine art of conservation

October 24, 2008
Tucked away in the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s master’s program in art conservation is the only degree program of its kind in Canada and one of the University’s best-kept secrets.