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Fundamental Principles of Nature: from Discovery to Application and Innovation

[Researchers examining fossils on Mistaken Point]
November 1, 2017

Mistaken Point, Newfoundland and Labrador, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016 – the first Precambrian fossil site to be given UNESCO status. Queen’s professor and Chief Scientist Dr. Guy Narbonne discusses the site's unique history and significance.

[Gilles Gerbier]
November 1, 2016

Queen's 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.

[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 Queen's University has left an indelible mark on the Canadian, and international, landscape of scholarly progress.

[welding image]
October 1, 2016

When it comes to commercializing research, Queen’s has long been a leader among Canadian universities with the establishment of Innovation Park and the Office of Partnerships and Innovation.

[Photo of Arthur B McDonald Copyright Nobel Media 2015 - Photo by Pi Frisk]
November 1, 2015

An interest in mechanics led Queen's researcher Arthur McDonald, the 2015 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, to study the universe on a fundamental level, through physics.

[Queen’s astrophysicist Stéphane Courteau and his students]
April 1, 2015

Together with the SNOLAB group, Queen’s astrophysicists like Stéphane Courteau, and their students, form one of the most active centres for research on dark matter in the world.

[ Lynda Colgan ]
November 1, 2014

Queen's researcher Lynda Colgan, associate professor of education and Director of the Community Outreach Centre, is improving math literacy for everyone by bringing the invisible worlds of math and science to the forefront of consciousness. 

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