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  • 5 years 8 months ago

As campus goes green, food waste lingers

While the recently unveiled Climate Action Plan has set goals for a more sustainable campus, food waste efforts aren’t making headlines.Continue...
Aboriginal student space can be elusive on campus.
  • 5 years 8 months ago

New resources, old barriers for Aboriginal students

When Melanie Gray began at Queen’s, feeling like she belonged was the exception.Continue...
International students face persistent challenges when bridging cultural gaps.
  • 5 years 9 months ago

Campus leaves international grad students vulnerable

In her home country, Samantha* was a good student with a burgeoning social life — but when she arrived at Queen’s for her graduate studies, she found herself falling behind.Continue...
Peter recently resettled in Kingston after travelling to Canada from Aleppo, Syria.
  • 5 years 9 months ago

Syrian refugee gets fresh start in Kingston

After three years of traveling from Syria to Lebanon to Jordan, Peter — a refugee escaping from the Syrian Civil War — finally arrived in Kingston on Boxing Day.Continue...
Despite past efforts, faculty diversity remains elusive.
  • 5 years 9 months ago

Beneath the skin of faculty diversity

While Sarah Saeed, ArtSci ’19, has only been at Queen’s for under a year, she says she’s already tired of the lack of diversity among her professors.Continue...
  • 5 years 9 months ago

Results not guaranteed: Study drugs at Queen's

Four years ago, hundreds of students filed into the rows of desks lining the inside of Grant Hall. The rectors listed instructions, some students fidgeted and one second-year student took a seat.Continue...
Grad student-supervisor relationships can be contentious.
  • 5 years 10 months ago

The ups and downs of graduate student supervision

For graduate students, there’s one central relationship that keeps them in tune with their research and the university — their supervisor.Continue...
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Pay scales tipped against female professors

Gender inequity at Queen’s isn’t a thing of the past.Continue...
Student advocacy has been one of the AMS's focal points.
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Student government: then and now

Student government has struggled to maintain a balance between legacy building projects and day-to-day work since its inception on the Queen’s campus in the 1850s.Continue...
  • 5 years 10 months ago

Street harassment slips through the cracks

It’s a common enough sight. A young woman walks along the sidewalk, either alone or in a group, when suddenly a car drives by — slurs and innuendoes are yelled out an open window by a stranger. Before anyone can fully register what’s happened, the car’s gone.Continue...
Nursing students are often sent to the Agnes to gain a new perspective.
  • 5 years 10 months ago

The art of science: integrating creativity and scientific thought

The world of art instills creativity. The world of science — methods. Combining the two provides an opportunity for ingenuity. However, at Queen’s, the combination is rare.Continue...
Departments are incentivized to fill classrooms under the newest budget model.
  • 5 years 11 months ago

Smaller courses left behind by newest budget model

Three years ago, students piled into cars headed into a forest north of Kingston for the first run of a course that, financially, shouldn’t exist.Continue...
  • 6 years 4 days ago

1 grad counselor, 4,000 students

Grad students experiencing mental illness can expect to wait for a session with their school-specific counselor.Continue...
  • 6 years 1 week ago

Opposition to Commerce student rankings grows

Terry Zhang, Comm’ 18, says academic rankings are worth a second look.Continue...
The BISC is housed in Herstmonceux Castle at Herstmonceux, England.
  • 6 years 2 weeks ago

Castle's future in question

For almost two years, a series of dismissals, resignations and curriculum changes have rocked the Queen’s Bader International Study Centre (BISC) with scant attention from main campus.Continue...
The School of Graduate Studies has achieved the lowest percentage towards its goal among all of the priorities in Queen’s Initiative Campaign.
  • 6 years 3 weeks ago

Low donations won’t hinder goal

While Queen’s Initiative Campaign has raised $551,000,000 for Queen’s, one faculty lags behind.Continue...
17 Physical Plant Services employees were laid off in April 2014. Since then, there have been reductions to maintenance on campus.
  • 6 years 1 month ago

Budget cuts divide university

Queen’s custodial staff have continued to cope with layoffs as the University navigates a series of financial woes.Continue...
  • 6 years 1 month ago

A new home away from home

Kevin Rush, a former Wilfrid Laurier student, says transferring to Queen’s wasn’t as simple as it sounds.Continue...
Women's hockey celebrates their victory in game two of the 2011 OUA finals
  • 6 years 1 month ago

Cardiac Gaels: An oral history of the 2011 Queen's women's hockey playoff run

A historic hockey game took place on March 2, 2011, witnessed by just 312 spectators in a university rink.Continue...
Religious elements were part of convocation ceremonies — like this one from 1959 — until the early 1980s.
  • 6 years 2 months ago

A Presbyterian past

Despite more than a century as a secular institution, vestiges of the University’s Presbyterian heritage continue to impact student life today.Continue...

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