For most people, a simple prick of the finger is nothing more than a fleeting discomfort, quickly forgotten as they carry on with their day. But for others, that tiny puncture is far more than a momentary inconvenience, and can create a domino effect of complications, revealing hidden health challenges.

Today, Budget 2024 was tabled in Parliament by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. Along with $734 million to support major research and innovation infrastructure in Canada, Budget 2024 pledges to provide $45.5 million over five years to the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute (McDonald Institute).

Recent education policy changes and protests about sex education reveal increasing concern and polarization over how sex and gender identity are taught in public schools in Canada. They also expose the significant role now played by school boards in constructing the meaning of gender identity and gender expression.

Kristin Moriah (English and Gender Studies) is about to dive into yet another voyage to the past. An expert in African American literature and Black Feminist studies, she has just received the Marie Tremaine Fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of Canada.

An estimated 6,000 people gathered on Tindall Field and other vantage points across Queen’s campus to share in the wonder of a total solar eclipse at 3:22 p.m. on Monday, April 8.  

For months prior to the rare celestial phenomenon, the university and local partners were engaged in planning and preparation to ensure the community was ready for a safe and educational eclipse experience.  

Every great transformation starts with a big idea. Jane Philpott, Dean, Queen’s Health Sciences, Director, School of Medicine, and CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization, is sharing one that she hopes will change health care in Canada for the better.

Queen’s Health Sciences (QHS) is adapting its MD Program admissions process to create a more inclusive entry point for all applicants, minimize systemic barriers to becoming a doctor, and increase student diversity.

The renewed medical student admissions process will launch this fall, for 2025 admissions, and includes a pathway for lower socioeconomic status (SES) applicants and adjustments to the current Indigenous pathway. A new comprehensive approach to support the recruitment of Black students will launch in a second phase of this admissions change.  

A Queen’s University student club is making a statement against cancer, a big one. Cure Cancer Classic, based in the Commerce Society at Smith School of Business, has just finished raising more than $620,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society, an incredible 40 per cent increase over last year’s already impressive total of $450,000.

A date is now set for the start of construction that will completely transform the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University and make it into the largest public university-affiliated museum in Canada. Work will begin on May 13, 2024, with the new space scheduled to open in 2026.

Agnes’s new three-floor building will double the existing gallery space. The historic Etherington House will also be turned into a live-in artist residency and community-facing culture hub. Throughout the new space, Western and Indigenous worldviews will sit side by side as equal.