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Queen’s notoriously confusing transcripts will soon be a thing of the past.

Beginning in May 2011, the University will introduce a letter grade and grade point average (GPA) system to all student transcripts, bringing Queen’s in line with approximately 95 per cent of universities in North America, Senate Committee on Academic Procedures (SCAP) chair Charles Beach said.Continue...

Gregory Poels will be remembered as a soft-spoken man and good listener.

Poels, ArtSci ’09, died in his sleep at his home in Kingston on June 28.Continue...

Three years after breaking ground on the project, Phase I of the Queen’s Centre will be open by the time students arrive in September, acting Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Bill Bryck said.

Phase I will house the new student life centre and athletics facilities.Continue...

Queen’s alumnus Alfred Bader celebrated his 85th birthday in the newly-renamed Bader International Study Centre on Wednesday.Continue...

Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Adil Charkaoui was working in his father’s pizza restaurant in Montreal when a group of federal agents visited him.

The men, Charkaoui remembers, were dressed in black suits and approached him gravely.Continue...

For ethnomusicologist Cándida Jáquez, her present life began as the result of an accidental encounter she still remembers vividly.

Jáquez is the women’s studies department’s visiting scholar for 2009 and will be on campus until September, acting as a resource for students and faculty who are interested in her areas of research.Continue...

The Queen’s School of Medicine will start construction on a new $76 million building this year to avoid losing its accreditation as a teaching facility.

On May 25, the federal and provincial governments announced they will contribute $56.7 million to the University for the new building. Queen’s will raise the remaining $19.3 million.Continue...

More than 30 Iranian students, professors and their non-Iranian supporters demonstrated in front of Stauffer Library on Monday, chanting, “This is not an election; this is selection.” For more than two hours, they called for a recount of the vote that declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of the June 12 election in Iran.Continue...

Queen’s alumni celebrated a different kind of Homecoming this weekend at the first Spring Reunion and second annual MiniU.

The Spring Reunion replaced the traditional Homecoming weekend in September, which has been cancelled for at least two yearsContinue...