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[ Peter Thompson reading book ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
November 1, 2015

Reading between the lines

For Queen's researcher Peter Thompson, a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures specializing in the literature of the Spanish Golden Age, more information about everyday life in 17th-century Spain can be found in the short theatre pieces, or interludes, that were performed during the intermissions of longer theatre performances.

[ Annette Hay smiling at computer ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
November 1, 2015

Calculating the real value of clinical trials

Queen's researcher with the Queen's Cancer Research Institute, Annette Hay discusses her research on clinical trials and Ontario’s Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).

[ Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky sitting at desk ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
November 1, 2015

Mining Security

Queen's researcher Stéfanie von Hlatky, Director of the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP), is heading a three-year, multi-sectoral research project to learn more about security threats in the extractive sector and how companies deal with them.

[Kathleen Lahey]
Blind Date with Knowledge
November 1, 2015

A taxing issue

In keen pursuit of social justice, Queen's researcher and Law professor Kathleen Lahey focuses much of her scholarship and teaching around how law impacts people and their well-being.

[ Dr. Jim Biagi ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
November 1, 2015

Trials help clinicians face even the most daunting disease

Queen's cancer research Jim Biagi will lead a promising international trial that could introduce a new chemotherapy regimen to improve the survival rate of patients undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal and gynaecological cancers.