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The past year has been exciting throughout but definitely finished off with a big bang as Professor Emeritus Arthur McDonald received the Nobel Prize in Physics, an accomplishment that will long be remembered at Queen’s University.

There were many memorable moments for the Queen’s community in 2015 and the Gazette offers a quick look back at the top news items of the year.

Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct. 6 was a day like no other for Queen’s University as it was announced . Dr. McDonald was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), which determined neutrinos, one of the fundamental particles that make up the universe, are capable of changing their type – an indicator that they have mass. In early December, , an event that was celebrated by the Queen’s community as well as Canada.

Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business

Queen’s has long benefitted from the support of its loyal alumni and that tradition continued in 2015 as the university , a leading Canadian financial services entrepreneur and philanthropist. The donation is the largest-ever gift to any business school in Canada, and one of the largest in Queen’s history. In recognition of his vision and generosity, Principal Daniel Woolf announced a new name for the school: the .

Rembrandt painting

Alfred and Isabel Bader have made numerous contributions to Queen’s University and in early December . Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo, signed and dated 1658, is a late-career masterpiece that had been privately owned and unavailable to scholars for much of its existence. Over the past five decades, the Baders have donated to the Agnes more than 200 paintings, including two other works by Rembrandt, Head of an Old Man in a Cap (c. 1630) and Head of a Man in a Turban (c. 1661).

Richardson Stadium

While the process for revitalizing Richardson Stadium started in late 2014, the majority of the details took place in 2015. The revitalization project began with a lead gift of $10 million from Queen’s alumni Stu Lang (Sc’74) and Kim Lang (Artsci’76). The Richardson Foundation contributed an additional $5 million donation, with total donations exceeding $17 million. The university will invest an additional $3 million for infrastructure support of the stadium, bringing the total funding to $20.27 million. A and the stadium is scheduled to open in time for the 2016 Gaels football season.

Royal Society scholars

Once again, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ was well represented as , one of the highest honours for Canadian academics in the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. The five newest fellows from ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ are: Elizabeth Eisenhauer (Oncology), Marjan Mozetich (Music), Ugo Piomelli (Mechanical and Materials Engineering), Keith Poole (Microbiology) and Suning Wang (Chemistry).

Also this year, : Kerry Rowe, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, was awarded the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal, and John Smol, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and 3M Teaching Fellow, received the McNeil Medal.

There were many other noteworthy stories at Queen’s as well, including:

• The release of the first
• The naming of
• The opening of two new residences: and
• The for ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ in a single year
• The publication of the Maclean’s rankings that showed Queen’s