From computing to English, I’ve rounded up a list of stylish Queen’s professors from across different faculties. While compiling this list, I found that style can be pretty varied and subjective, denoting everything from your typical tailored suit to your handmade sweaters. Bold animal prints and colourful dresses also topped my list of more daring fashion choices.
Sometimes you just need something simple and savoury to tide you over, and these vegetarian-friendly cheesy quinoa cakes are definitely just that.
It’s a recipe that really invites substitutions and additions based on your personal preference — or whatever you have on hand in your kitchen.
You probably have heard this at least once in your life, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And it definitely is.
Breakfast helps kick start your metabolism to burn more fat and helps lower the risk of indulging in high calories later on in the day.
If you split the word up it becomes “break fast”, which literally means to break a fast after a night of sleep. It fills you up with a boost of energy, a surefire way to be certain you can last throughout the day – or to you next meal, at least.
The founders of Queen’s U Compliments are graduating. With them goes one of the largest and most positive campus movements of past years, but they plan to leave the page in good hands.
Their page started a global trend of spreading positivity and celebrating the beautiful, but often unrecognized, gestures of students and community members on school campuses everywhere.
I spoke with Amanda Smurthwaite, ArtSci ’14, to see what she will miss the most:
Q: What has been your favourite moment running Queen’s U Compliments?
The Queen’s Student Alumni Association (QSSA) reminds students of an often forgotten fact: the Queen’s experience doesn’t end after four years.
While QSAA may be known for bringing high profile speakers back to campus, they do more than that. Offering hired leadership positions as well as a Backpack to Briefcase program to teach career skills are just some of the other ways that QSAA ensures students get exposure to a wide breadth of tools before they graduate.
As I’m swishing my sample of Tuscan extra-virgin olive oil around, I’m told that sampling olive oil is similar to wine. The owners of Kingston Olive Oil Company, Shaun and Julia Finucane, have brought fine olive oils and balsamic vinegars to the Limestone City. The store is located near the corner of King and Brock Streets.
Are you sitting as you’re reading this? If you are, stand up, take a lap around the room, and then get back to reading.
New research suggests that “sitting is the new smoking”, with excessive sitting being linked to increased risk of disability, depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, weight gain, some cancers and premature death.
After years leaving things up to chance, all-Canadian band Mounties have taken control.
As a 90-year-old woman whose days are numbered, Mrs. Shipley remembers a life lived in obstinate pride and loss.
Ontario act Teenage Kicks have been honing their craft for years.
Evil Dead: The Musical is finally opening in Kingston.
Nan Yeomans’ Intimate Views provides a unique look back at Kingston.
On their new record, Vancouver-based group Bend Sinister are trading in their sound.
How does experience define us and connect us as humans beings?
You’re a mathematician and I’m the stubborn biologist who refuses to count the world to your series of algorithms.
Every morning when I wake up from a dream, I write whatever comes to mind as fast as possible. Mostly unintelligible, but occasionally worth reading.
If I could talk to you I wouldn’t have to say anything, I’d just fall into you and swim as deep as
I could, far away from the surface.
Set in a fictional small town in the midst of a Northern Maine winter, Almost, Maine explores the concept of love and how it comes and goes in the most unexpected ways.
So you’ve decided you need a new lipstick. Maybe you have an event coming up, or perhaps you’re just looking for another shade for everyday use. Whatever the case, you head to your local makeup store, but you’re confronted with a seemingly endless wall of products.
Blackfish hits you with a blow of emotion and shock – only to be found in the bleak outlook of killer whales paraded around as marine-park entertainment.
Now that Blackfish has recently been added to Netflix, I’m sure the documentary will be broadening a lot more minds. Three human deaths, the most recent in 2010, involving one killer whale, Tilikum, strikes the viewer with the emotional force of all that’s at stake in an industry so steeped in controversy.
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