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

A Nobel Prize in Physics for Arthur B. McDonald

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.

[ Professor Patrick Martin ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
April 1, 2015

Volume, velocity, variety: Pat Martin and Watson

Queen's researcher Patrick Martin of the Queen’s School of Computing, along with business professor Brent Gallupe, is being given the chance to use IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system as an integral part of the department’s CISC 490 course, Deep Analytics using Watson.

[ Kathryn Brohman in front of whiteboard ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
April 1, 2015

Shared access for improved health care

Queen's researcher Kathryn Brohman, professor at the Smith School of Business, is a co-principal investigator of a new research initiative called Healthcare Systems Leadership, a nonprofit research team of health-care providers and academics from across Canada that hope to streamline collaboration and information exchange in Canadian health care.

[ Susan Bartels ]
Blind Date with Knowledge
April 1, 2015

Emergency medicine in disaster and conflict zones

Queen's researcher Susan Bartels, a clinician scientist and attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, investigates the plight of people whose lives are torn apart by conflict, earthquakes, or other natural calamities. 

[Queen’s astrophysicist Stéphane Courteau and his students]
Blind Date with Knowledge
April 1, 2015

Exploring the darkness

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.