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    [Dr. Diane Beauchemin demonstrates how she analyzes human hair.]
    June 6, 2019

    Queen’s University chemist Diane Beauchemin earns lifetime achievement award for her cutting-edge research.

    [Recipients of the 2019 Prizes for Excellence in Research]
    May 27, 2019

    During Spring Convocation 2019, Queen’s University bestowed its highest form of recognition for research excellence to five faculty members.

    [Queen's Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Daniel Woolf, and Minister of Science and Sport, Kirsty Duncan, sign the Dimensions EDI charter.]
    May 23, 2019

    Queen’s commits to the federal government’s Dimensions EDI program, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion across the research ecosystem.

    [Michelle Thompson in NASA lab]
    April 1, 2018

    Dr. Michelle Thompson (Artsci’11, Sc’11) is a planetary scientist and post-doctoral fellow at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Learn more about how she unlocks the mysteries of the universe with space dust  and Timbits. 

    [Gilles Gerbier]
    November 1, 2016

    ֱ researcher Gilles Gerbier, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Particle Astrophysics, is working on the design of a dark matter detector after helping found the Beijing-Paris-Rome-Saclay Collaboration in Europe.

    [Photo of birds credit: Philina English]
    October 1, 2016

    Students and researchers have used Queen’s University Biological Station (QUBS), covering 3,400 hectares of dense forests and lakes north of Kingston, as a resource for 70 years.

    [Alice Vibert Douglas and colleagues at Yerkes Observatory, Chicago, 1925 (Queen's University Archives)]
    October 1, 2016

    One of the oldest universities in Canada, research at ֱ has left an indelible mark on the Canadian, and international, landscape of scholarly progress.

    Dr. Heather Jamieson samples soil near the Giant Mine in Yellowknife]
    October 1, 2016

    Queen’s made significant and successful efforts to attract women researchers to campus through the 1980s, including through such programs as the Queen’s National Scholar Program.

    [photo of student research from University Archives]
    October 1, 2016

    Today, with more than 120 programs, graduate and undergraduate education and research at Queen’s has spread to all corners of campus in all disciplines.

    [illustration by Carl Wiens]
    April 1, 2016

    Science journalist Ivan Semeniuk retraces the history of Canada’s Nobel Prize-winning physics experiment led by ֱ researcher Arthur McDonald.

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