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