Conference History
The Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference was founded in 2007 by Vicki Remenda and Jackie Druery as an avenue to share the curiosity, creativity, and innovation of undergraduate students at Queen's University. Hosted by Queen's University Library over 2 days in March, the I@Q conference showcases the scholarly and creative work of our students from disciplines across the university.
Past Conference Programs:
- 2024 (PDF 625 KB)
- 2023 (PDF 577 KB)
- 2022 (PDF 594 KB)
- 2021 (PDF 494 KB)
- 2020 (PDF 533 KB)
- 2019 (PDF 928 KB)
- 2018 (PDF 784 KB)
- 2017 (PDF 697 KB)
- 2016 (PDF 768 KB)
- 2015 (PDF 639 KB)
- 2014 (PDF 805 KB)
- 2013 (PDF 637 KB)
- 2012 (PDF 495 KB)
- 2011 (PDF 439 KB)
- 2010 (PDF 516 KB)
- 2009 (PDF 463 KB)
- 2008 (PDF 402 KB)
- 2007 (PDF 3 MB)
Keynotes & Speakers
2024 - Dr. Jane Philpott, Faculty of Health Sciences
2023 - Dr. Amarnath Amarasingam, School of Religion, Dangerous Conspiracies: When Do Bad Ideas Become Violent?
2022 – Dr. Asha Varadharajan, Department of English (Awarded Queen's Promoting Student Inquiry Teaching Award, 2021)
2021 – Dr. Jen Kennedy, Department of Art History and Art Conservation, Past pedagogies and the post-pandemic future: What can we learn from learning this year?
2019 – Carrianne Leung, Ways of Being Chinese-Canadian: Carrianne Leung’s The Wondrous Woo, panel and reading
2018 – Bianca Chauhan (Academics Commissioner of ASUS), Cory Laverty (Teaching and Learning Specialist), Caroline Marful (Deputy Commissioner of Academics of the AMS), AMS Panel discussion on Undergraduate Research
2017 –
- Dr. James Fraser, Department of Physics (3M National Teaching Fellowship recipient 2017), Science Fiction or Science Fact: Can Popular Sci-Fi Movies Motivate Real Research Questions?
- Murray Dee, Seth Barling, and their students (Rideau Heights Public School), Creating a Community of Knowledge Builders: a Pedagogical Approach to Inquiry in a Grade 3 and 6 Classroom.
2016 – Dr. Art McDonald, Professor Emeritus (Co-winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics)
2015 – Peter Wolf, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning
2014 – Queen’s Engineers without Borders, Queen’s EWB Research and Development (R&D): A case study in local innovation
2013 – Skull lady, rat girl, brain man: Superheroes of inquiry! A panel discussion with:
- Nancy Suzanne Ossenberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, Morphological Traits of the Skull
- Doris Li, ’14, Life Sciences, How Rat Battles Taught Me Science
- Douglas Munoz, Professor of Physiology, Psychology and Medicine; Director; Queen's Centre for Neuroscience Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience
2012 – Alan Harrison, Provost/Vice-Principal (Academic), and Students of DRAM 439, BioBoxes: Think Inside the Box
2011 –
- Steven Liss, Vice-Principal (Research);
- Michelle Thompson, Geological Sciences & Engineering, Unlocking the Magic of Moon Dust: My Experiences as a Summer Research Intern for NASA;
- Kristen Martin, Drama, with performance group Marissa Nacimben, Colie Belej-Corrigan, Brett Payette, Aimee Bouchard, Michelle Yagi, Leora Smith, ‘Breaking Down the Wall’: Performing History
2010 – Dr. Daniel Woolf, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, A Historian Reflects on a Few of His Eureka Moments
2009 – Dr. Kim Nossal, Political Studies, Inquiry in the Modern University: a Subversive View
2008 –
- Dr. David McDonald, Director, Global Development Studies, Research as Activism (Whether You Like It or Not)
- Dr. Anne Petitjean, Department of Chemistry, Getting to Research by Coincidence
2007 –
- Dr. John Smol, Department of Biology, The Excitement of Discovery (Keynote Address)
- Dr. Gwynn Dujardin, Department of English, Losing the Research Topic (Reception Presentation)