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[The Year in Research]
Blind Date with Knowledge
December 17, 2020

2020: The Year in Research

A look back at the major initiatives, the funding and awards garnered, and how a community mobilized to respond to and combat COVID-19.

[Photo of Arthur McDonald]
Blind Date with Knowledge
November 26, 2020

NSERC research award renamed after Queen’s University Nobel Laureate

Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships will recognize early-stage academic researchers.

[Illustration of bar chart and mirrored tree by Gary Neill]
Blind Date with Knowledge
September 14, 2020

Fixing financial fairy tales – The rise of sustainable finance in Canada

The Institute for Sustainable Finance based at Queen's Smith School of Business is dedicated to exploring how the many different ways in which we spend money might be adapted to reflect the principles of sustainability.

[Illustrative image of DNA strand]
Blind Date with Knowledge
August 12, 2020

Is DNA key to whether you get COVID-19?

Queen’s researcher David Maslove is leading the Canadian arm of an international project aiming to sequence the genomes of 100,000 COVID-19 patients to better understand their genes and the disease.

[Illustration of surveillance technology]
Blind Date with Knowledge
August 12, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the need for a surveillance debate beyond ‘privacy’

"Privacy regulation can't keep pace with the supersystems collecting, analyzing, and using personal data," writes Queen's researcher David Lyon for The Conversation Canada.