All Posts Tagged With: "Queen’s University"
Spare Parts: How Crippled Masculinity Got Hamstringed & Got a Leg-Up
Come to the Glaxo Wellcome Clinical Education Centre, Louise D. Acton Building, 31 George St., Queen’s University for the 2011 Dr. Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening Presentation by Jeff Sobil. The presentation will explore the history of prosthetic limbs and the unique role that they have played within rehabilitation medicine, national identity and discourses on economics, [...]
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Music and Memory: Learning From People With Dimentia
Is musical memory spared over other memories in people with dementia? Lola Cuddy and Jacalyn Duffin have been testing that idea for eight years. They will describe how this prize-winning research began with curiosity about a single patient and grew into a large study involving more than fifty people with dementia and hundreds of controls. [...]
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Six Questions for Robert Kiley
1. Kingston has made some modest strides over the past few years to become Canada’s most sustainable city. What are the key environmental areas that you feel the city needs to improve upon? If elected, how would you and your party support continued green development in the Limestone City? In May 2010, Statistics Canada revealed [...]
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Six Questions for Sleuth Bears
Sleuth Bears, a local, new-millenium grunge band is launching their début CD tonight at the Mansion, Parochial Youth. Meeting with vocalist/guitarist Neven Lockhead at The Brew Pub last night, I enjoyed a conversation riddled with artistic puns, music, and pop culture. This band is led by true artists, some Queen’s students in English, Philosophy, and [...]
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Weekly Poll: Frosh Week Folly
It’s hard to believe, but eleven years ago I was entering my first year of undergraduate studies at Queen’s University. I can still remember the nervous ride in the fully-loaded, family minivan on move-in day. We were greeted by various vulgar slogans hung from the overpasses of the 401, and as we got closer, groups [...]
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The Works
Nearly one year ago, I wrote about an epic battle that was shaping up in downtown Kingston, whereby a handful of new burger and poutine joints had emerged to tantalize your taste buds. While Harper’s, Smoke’s and Five Guys have succeeded thus far, casualties of the burger/poutine war include The Poutine Place as well as [...]
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Queen’s Observatory Open House
Come to the Queen’s Observatory to listen to a professional astronomer share the wonders of the Universe before heading to the outdoor observing deck to view the Moon and planets. Next, head up to the dome to gaze into deep-space with a 16” reflecting telescope, sure to dazzle inquiring minds young and old! This month’s [...]
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36th Annual Prisoners’ Justice Day on CFRC
CFRC, Kingston’s only campus and community radio station, marks the 36th Annual Prisoners’ Justice Day with a special live broadcast. Prisoners Justice Day began in commemoration of Eddie Nalon, who bled to death in the segregation unit of Millhaven Maximum Security Prison on August 10, 1974. The date has become an annual event in remembrance [...]
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Fences Up at the New Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
With all the fencing up and external services being installed, Queen’s University’s Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts is now a full construction site. “Our current focus is on site preparation and the provision of external services such as sewer lines,” says Associate Vice-Principal (Facilities) Ann Browne. “The architectural drawings are 80 per cent [...]
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What Tourists Say About Kingston
Late last month, Star columnist Adrian Brijbassi visited various destinations in Limestone City, which he highlighted in an article titled: Perfect Weekend in Kingston: Markets, history and relaxation. Brijbassi paid Kingston some very kind compliments, as he remarked that our city is “stocked with credible restaurants…unique experiences that are educational, reasonably priced and easy to [...]
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