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Nature Walk

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Nature Walk

When:
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Where:
Theological Hall
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Nature Walk

Tuesday, May 7, 2024 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM 

Guided by passages from “Wild Calm: Finding Mindfulness in Forest Bathing” by Joan Vorderbruggen, and the poetry of Mary Oliver, Interfaith Chaplain Erin will lead us through times of movement, stillness, contemplation, and reflection as we ground ourselves in nature. This is a great opportunity for intention and connection.

 

Location

Meeting Location: Meet at Theological Hall on the steps that face the Tennis Courts.

Route: We will walk along the waterfront, stopping frequently for mindfulness, reflection, and poetry, and then returning to Theological Hall.

Duration: 1-Hour

Contact:
Danielle Dias
danielle.dias@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 ext 74962
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Free
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Soulful Singing: Singing Meditation for Wellness

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Soulful Singing: Singing Meditation for Wellness

When:
Thursday, May 16, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where:
Online via Zoom
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Soulful Singing: Singing Meditation for Wellness
supporting our hearts, minds, bodies and spirits in song

Thursday May 16th, 11 am-Noon
Online via Zoom*

You are invited into the circle of song with singer-songwriter and community song-leader, Wendy Luella Perkins. We'll sing “short-on-words, long-on-meaning; easy-to-learn, hard-to-forget” songs that foster calmness and self-compassion, connection and joy. Soulful Singing is about presence not performance and every voice is welcome, including yours!

*Details to Join
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87479007482?pwd=MjAzRE9CYXdYbXUxM2RHQ2VpdXhjdz09

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MEETING ID: 874 7900 7482
PASSWORD: 106352

Contact:
Danielle Dias
danielle.dias@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 ext 74962
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Pints of Particles: Light vs Dark Sides of Matter

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Pints of Particles: Light vs Dark Sides of Matter

When:
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Where:
The Mansion, 506 Princess St, Kingston, ON K7L 1C5
Room: The Living Room
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Pints of Particles, a spin-off of Astronomy on Tap, continues in Kingston at the Living Room at The Mansion, with another debate-style event.

Astronomy on Tap is a series of worldwide events where professional astronomers give informal talks at a local bar on topics of a broad interest in astronomy and astrophysics. This particular event will host two fantastic astroparticle physicists: Aaron Vincent and Melissa Baiocchi who will go head-to-head in a debate over the light vs dark sides of matter. The event will be hosted by local astro-buff, Mark Richardson. There will be time for questions and discussion, and the speakers and other local scientists will mingle with the audience between and after the talks, providing lots of opportunities to chat with some keen astronomers. There will also be a trivia session with questions related to astronomy with prizes given out to the winners!

The event is free and open to all ages. The Mansion serves alcohol and non-alcoholic drinks, and food will be available to be ordered.

Pints of Particles will be upstairs as you come inside.

Space is limited, so we encourage you to arrive on time! Pre-show starts at 6:30pm, with the main event starting at 7pm.

For more information or if you have any questions, please send us an email to Outreach@McDonaldInstitute.ca or contact us through our Facebook page.

Contact:
Mark Richardson
Mark.Richardson@queensu.ca
613-533-6000x77182
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Queen's Observatory Open House

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Queen's Observatory Open House

When:
Saturday, May 11, 2024
7:30 PM – 11:00 PM
Where:
Ellis Hall
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Join us for an Observatory Open House on Saturday May 11th at 7:30PM!

This month's featured speaker is Queen's Professor, Lawrence Widrow who will discuss how the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse changed our view of Space, Time, and Gravity.

The presentation will be followed by a tour of our facilities, including the McDonald Institute Visitor Centre and viewing nearby and deep-sky celestial objects with our telescopes (weather permitting).

We hope to see you there!

This is event is free for all ages!

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Queen's Observatory
queensuobservatory@gmail.com
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QUMIN Monthly Lunch Social (May)

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QUMIN Monthly Lunch Social (May)

When:
Thursday, May 30, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Where:
Mackintosh-Corry Hall
Room: B176 Seminar Room
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Attention Muslim Faculty and Staff at Queen’s University!

 

QUMIN Monthly Lunch Social !!!

 

Thursday, May 30, 2024, from 12-1 pm

B176 Seminar Room, Mackintosh-Corry Hall

(Note: When you enter B176, the seminar room is down the hall to your right)

Join us for our monthly QUMIN (Queen’s University Muslim Inclusion Network) Social. Come and chat over lunch with the intention of getting to know other Muslim staff and faculty on campus, Insha Allah.(Bring your own lunch)

 

Contact Dr. Mona Rahman (rahmanm@queensu.ca) or Imam Abdullah Elasmar (a.elasmar@queensu.ca) for details.

 

We are a diverse group of Muslim faculty and staff, inclusive of Teaching Assistants and Student employees, of all at Queen's seeking to establish a network of fellow community members who feel inspired by, or a sense of belonging to the faith of Islam. First and foremost, it is a safe space for those who identify as Muslim on campus to support one another through building and strenghening of connections within the community.

Contact:
Mona Rahman
rahmanm@queensu.ca
75493
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Preferred Supplier Trade Show

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Preferred Supplier Trade Show

When:
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Where:
Biosciences Complex
Room: Atrium
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Queen's community members are encouraged to attend this event to interact with many of our Preferred Suppliers. This is a great opportunity for you to speak with them about their products or services. Make sure to put your name in for the draw for an iPad.

Contact:
Christine Datta
buying@queensu.ca
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Dr. Raffaella Buonsanti presents the Kenneth Russell Lecture

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Dr. Raffaella Buonsanti presents the Kenneth Russell Lecture

When:
Friday, May 24, 2024
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Where:
Chernoff Hall
Room: 202
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Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

Raffaella Buonsanti

Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy Research, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Sion CH-1950, Switzerland.

Affordable clean energy and climate action are two of the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations to be achieved by 2030. The vast majority of energy technologies relies on nanomaterials. The progress of these technologies is strongly connected to the ability of inorganic chemists to tune the function-dictating features of nanomaterials. (i.e. size, composition, composition, morphology).

In this talk, I will present our recent group efforts towards the synthesis via colloidal chemistry of atomically defined nanocrystals (NCs) which helps addressing current challenges in catalysis and energy conversion.

The first part will focus on our studies on Cu NCs as one example. I will illustrate how these NCs with precisely tunable shapes, sizes and interfaces serve as ideal platforms to advance our current knowledge towards improved selectivity and stability in the electrochemical CO2 and CO reduction reactions. I will then share our results evidencing that these NCs can sustain their catalytic behavior at technologically relevant conditions, therefore might also offer practical solutions.

See link below for full abstract.

Contact:
Elisa Bulak
recept@chem.queensu.ca
77378
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Problem Solving with Design Thinking

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Problem Solving with Design Thinking

When:
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Where:
online
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It has been said that creativity is intelligence having fun. Design thinking is a problem-solving process that best captures this spirit. It is a human-centred and prototyping-based methodology that helps individuals and teams solve customer problems. The result is better products or services for customers and smarter internal processes for organizations. 

How exactly does design thinking work? And how can you incorporate design thinking into your business? 

On Wednesday, May 8 at 1 p.m. (ET) join Smith Business Insight and Queen’s Executive Education for this free and informative webinar. Led by Salman Mufti, associate professor at Smith School of Business and an expert on strategic decision-making and digital transformation, you’ll gain a better understanding of design thinking and how it can help individuals, teams and organizations everywhere find solutions and succeed. 

You will learn: 

  • Key concepts of design thinking
  • How to better understand your customer’s or user’s problems
  • How to quickly generate creative yet feasible solutions
  • Practical ways to incorporate design thinking into your work 

This session will be of special interest to leaders and managers dealing with change, or anyone who realizes that conventional thinking and traditional solutions fall short of meeting the changing needs of today’s organizations.

Contact:
Iryna Vivchar
smithinsight@queensu.ca
Cost:
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Spring 2024 Grant-writing Workshop & Retreat

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Spring 2024 Grant-writing Workshop & Retreat

When:
Thursday, May 23, 2024
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where:
Donald Gordon Hotel and Conference Centre, 421 Union Street
Room: Room B
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Clarity in academic writing is good; concision is good; logical organization is good. But none of these matter if your writing is not seen by readers to be valuable to them. Commonly it’s thought that value is a matter not of writing but of content; make the writing clear and logical, and value will take care of itself. In fact, successful academic texts—including successful grant applications—rely on a host of writing techniques specific to value, and not just communicating value, but also creating it.

In the morning session (9 am to noon), Dr. McEnerney will lead workshop attendees through essential techniques for creating value. In three afternoon sessions of 50-minutes each (1-4 pm), Dr. McEnerney will work specifically with researchers in health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities in order to focus on techniques for creating value in specific disciplines for specific readers. 

Whether or not they reserve an afternoon session with Dr. McEnerney, attendees are encouraged to stay and make use of a quiet, writing-only space in which they can work on grant applications or other projects.

Research Project Advisors will also be available for one-on-one or small-group consultations in twenty-minute blocks.

A buffet lunch will be served between noon and 1 pm.

Contact:
Adrian Kelly
adrian.kelly@queensu.ca
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Science Rendezvous Kingston 2024

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Science Rendezvous Kingston 2024

When:
Saturday, May 11, 2024
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Where:
Slush Puppie Place and The Tragically Hip Way
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Join a free, annual science festival for Southeastern Ontario families hosted by Queen's University Vice-Principal Research Portfolio.

Faculty members, staff and students, together with community partners, will provide our visitors with hands-on demonstrations, awe-inspiring exhibits and fun experiments to inspire the next generation. Don't miss the Chemistry Magic Show and The Great Canadian Invention Circus! If your family prefers to explore activities in a quieter environment, make sure to visit the Sensory Friendly Science Zone.

This year's theme will be INNOVATE, and we'll have 60 booths featuring topics ranging from wildlife conservation to robotics and climate change. Join us on May 11, 2024, at the Slush Puppie Place and on The Tragically Hip Way.

Contact:
Catarina Chagas
catarina.chagas@queensu.ca
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