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The $250,000 gym floor, pictured in July, was damaged by a flood on Aug. 11.
  • 12 years 2 weeks ago

Flood delays Queen’s Centre opening

Water damage from a rainstorm last month will delay the Queen’s Centre opening until late fall, acting Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Bill Bryck said.

A severe thunderstorm on Aug. 11 flooded the new gym’s floor, which had been installed about two weeks earlier.Continue...

Janice Deakin, associate vice-principal and dean of graduate studies and research, says a letter grade and grade point average system will bring Queen’s into harmony with other institutions.
  • 12 years 2 months ago

GPAs make their mark on transcripts

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...

  • 12 years 2 months ago

News in Brief

Burnes trial pushed back Queen’s student John David Burnes will make his next appearance in court on Aug. 18 after being charged with one count of possessing child pornography and one count of making child pornography available.Continue...

Gregory Poels, ArtSci ’09, with his two dogs, Java Bean (left) and Ice-dog. Poels died in his sleep June 28.
  • 12 years 2 months ago

‘He did an awful lot in his short life’

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...

Under the proposed public nuisance bylaw, people could be fined for knocking over garbage cans and trampling on flowers.
  • 12 years 2 months ago

Finer points of the law

Mind your manners, or it’ll cost you.

If Kingston’s proposed public nuisance bylaw passes in September, anyone caught kicking over garbage or urinating in public could face a fine.Continue...

The new swimming pool
  • 12 years 2 months ago

Queen’s Centre opening set for fall

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...

  • 12 years 2 months ago

Queen's Centre opening delayed by flood

Flooding in the Queen’s Centre has delayed the new facility’s opening date until late fall, acting Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Bill Bryck said.Continue...

Dr. Alfred Bader and his wife Isabel pose with a gift they received from Principal Tom Williams.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

Castle undergoes name change

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

School of English professor Elaine Armstrong says she thinks this program will attract more international students.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

QBridge reaches out internationally

A new pilot program beginning in 2010 will give students who fail to meet Queen’s English-language requirements for admission a second chance to be accepted to the University.Continue...

Moroccan-born Montrealer Adil Charkaoui spoke in Dunning Hall on June 16.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

‘I’m living under a crazy law’

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...

Friends say Simon Deng, Comm ’11, was an accomplished musician and hardworking student.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

‘He would always greet you and ask how you were’

Simon Deng will be remembered as a hardworking, passionate student who had the ability to make everyone around him smile.

Deng, Comm ’11, died in his sleep at his home in Markham on June 2. His funeral was held on June 6.Continue...

Ethnomusicologist Cándida Jáquez will give at least one oral presentation about women’s roles in Mexican mariachi music during her time at the University.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

Getting candid with Cándida

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...

Women’s studies professor Margaret Little says feminist scholarship has shifted in the last 20 years to include previously excluded areas of study.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

Women’s studies by any other name

The women’s studies department has voted near-unanimously to change its name to gender studies, pending approval by the Faculty of Arts and Science board and Senate.

In a May 4 e-mail to women’s studies students, department head Bev Baines said the faculty board will vote on the motion at its September meeting.Continue...

David Walker, dean of the School of Medicine, says the medical school has raised more than $11.5 million in donations over the last decade.
  • 12 years 3 months ago

School of Medicine gets new home

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...

  • 12 years 4 months ago

News in Brief

A Queen’s student and former Olympic athlete will make his next appearance in court on July 21 after being charged with one count of possessing child pornography and one count of making child pornography available.Continue...

A protester outside Stauffer Library demonstrates on Monday against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration of victory in Iran's elections.
  • 12 years 4 months ago

'This is not an election; this is selection'

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...

  • 12 years 4 months ago

Queen’s confirms first swine flu case

A female student who’s living off-campus has been confirmed to have H1N1 influenza, or swine flu.

The student reported symptoms a few weeks ago and was tested at the on-campus student health clinic, Director of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety Dan Langham said.Continue...

  • 12 years 4 months ago

Spring Reunion gives alumni a quieter homecoming

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...

Vice-Principal (Academic) Patrick Deane says that a flat-rate fee has not been discussed at Queen’s since his appointment to his position in 2005.
  • 12 years 4 months ago

Flat tuition raises students’ concerns

Starting this September, University of Toronto Arts and Science undergraduate students will have to pay a flat tuition fee, no matter how many courses they take.

Queen’s has no plans to do the same.Continue...

Guy Tegomo, PhD ’09, (right) is one of two students who will continue to be supervised by Professor Eugène Nshimiyimana (left) after he begins his position at McMaster this fall.
  • 12 years 4 months ago

Supervisor loss leaves students in academic limbo

In the wake of University-wide budget cuts of up to 20 per cent over the next three years, nine graduate students in the French department have found themselves in limbo as they face the loss of their supervisor, adjunct professor Eugène Nshimiyimana.Continue...

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