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Motives unclear as cyber attack shuts down RMC network

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments Canadian Forces Network Operations Centre, computer engineering, computers, cyber attack, cyber crime, David Skillicorn, Greg Phillips, Kingston, Queen's Univeristy, ransomware, Royal Military College, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), Shared Services Canada

Kingston’s Royal Military College is one of four military training schools in Canada targeted in a mysterious cyber attack. Discovered

Queen’s shares plans for managing students living on campus this fall

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments 2020-2021 school year, COVID-19, floor-based communities, international students, Julie Brown, move-in week, Queen's University, residences, self-isolation, students

Queen’s University has released new information on how they plan to manage the arrival of students for the 2020-2021 academic

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Bader family donates $54 million to Agnes Etherington Art Centre

June 23, 2020June 23, 2020 Jemma Dooreleyers 0 Comments Agnes Etherington Art Centre, art, art museum, Bader Philanthropies Inc., Daniel Bader, Dr Alfred Bader, Indigenous art, Isabel Bader, Kingston, paintings, Principal Patrick Deane, Queen's University, revitalization and expansion project

Bader Philanthropies Inc. is donating $40 million USD or $54 million CAD to Queen’s University for the revitalization and expansion

Queen’s shares residence update for first-year undergraduates

June 16, 2020July 7, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments 2020-2021 school year, campus, COVID-19, first-year students, in-person classes, nursing students, online learning, physical distancing, Queen's University, residences, single-occupancy residence rooms, virtual learning

Queen’s University has confirmed that up to 2,300 students will be able to live in on-campus residences this fall, while

Campus Health News

Queen’s med student group 3D print 15,000 pieces of PPE

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments 3D PPE Kingston, 3D printed PPE, 3D printers, Catherine Spagnuolo, Clinical Simulation Centre, isolation tents, Jeremy Babcock, Kingston, Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), medical students, not-for-profit, personal protective equipment (PPE), Queen's University, volunteers

A group of Queen’s University medical students who started making personal protective equipment (PPE) on a 3D printer in April,

Campus News Sports

Ontario University Athletics cancels fall sports

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Queen's Athletics, Queen's Gaels, Queen's University, RMC Paladins, Royal Military College of Canada (RMC)

The Ontario University Athletics association, in conjunction with U SPORTS, the national governing body of university sport in Canada, have

Queen’s University to open residences to single, first-year students

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Jemma Dooreleyers 1 Comment campus, COVID-19, dinning hall, Dr. Kieran Moore, first-year students, Kingston, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLA), life on campus, partying, Queen's University, single-occupancy residence rooms, student lifestyle, students returning to Kingston, upper-year students

Queen’s University is planning to open residences for single-occupancy and single plus rooms for incoming first-year students. This is part

Campus City Health News

KFLA Public Health preparing for COVID-19 surge when students return

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments COVID-19, Dr. Azim Kasmani, Dr. Kieran Moore, KFL&A Public Health, Queen's University, students

Kingston’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore says the Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington Public Health Unit is preparing for

Campus Health News

Local researchers launch survey on tick bites

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments biology, Dr. Robert Colautti, Emilie Norris-Roozmon, infections, Kingston, lyme disease, online survey, Queen's University, tick bites, tick-borne disease, ticks

Researchers at Queen’s University want more information about the patient experience for people who have been bitten by ticks. Emilie

Queen’s University announces ‘Virtual Homecoming’ for 2020

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments alumni, alumni events, cancelled, COVID-19, Homecoming, Homecoming 2020, in-person events, Kingston, physical distancing, Queen's University, social distancing, Vice Principal Karen Bertrand

Queen’s University announced a decision Thursday, May 21, 2020 to cancel all in-person Homecoming 2020 events, as well as in-person

Campus Education News

Queen’s Arts and Science undergraduate programs to be taught online

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan 0 Comments Arts and Sciences, COVID-19, fall 2020, fall programing, Kingston, online course delivery, physical distancing, Queen's University, remote classes, undergraduate programs

Queen’s University announced Thursday, May 21, 2020 a decision to deliver Arts and Science undergraduate programs remotely for the fall

SLC: 20-25 per cent of student body may be on campus for fall 2020

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Tori Stafford 0 Comments campus, coronavirus, COVID-19, Fall Semester, fall term, Glenn Vollebregt, health sciences, in-person classes, Kingston, on-campus program delivery, online classes, online program delivery, pandemic, physical distancing, physical space, post secondary education, school, St. Lawrence College, virtual classes

St. Lawrence College (SLC) announced that planning for the 2020 fall term has begun and revealed some of those plans

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