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She is the Graduate Assistant for the Aging and Health programs (PhD) & Rehabilitation Science (MSc & PhD) programs, and the go-to person for questions about those programs!
Who is Caitlin MacDonald?
She is the “Queen” in Queen’s University. She was 22 and only four years into her reign when the university was founded.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This scholarship program is funded in part by the Province of Ontario and. The award is merit-based and available to graduate students in all graduate disciplines in Ontario universities. The scholarship value is $15,000 for one academic year.
What is the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)?
This service provides academic skills and writing support to Queen’s students at every level. This service has experts from across the fields of writing, learning, and education who support Queen’s students in appointments, workshops, and other events each year.
What is SASS (Student Academic Success Services)?
She is the Graduate Assistant for the Aging and Health Programs (GDip & MSc) & Rehabilitation and Health Leadership (DSc) program, and the go-to person for questions about those programs!
Who is Leah Vandenberg?
This is the year that Queen’s University was founded.
What is the year 1841?
These camps are held both in-person and online, typically during the winter and the spring, for graduate students. The primary aim is for you to write and to make substantial headway on your thesis, with breaks for snacks, lunch, and structured group discussions to help you along the way.
What is Dissertation Boot Camp (DBC)?
This service provides academic accommodations to students when functional impacts arise from a disability and create a barrier in the academic environment. The goal is to support inclusive and accessible educational experiences that foster independence and autonomy for all students with disabilities.
What is QSAS (Queen's Student Accessibility Services)?
She is the director of the School of Rehabilitation Therapy and her research involves exploring how systems of oppression shape health research, education and practice.
Who is Dr. Stephanie Nixon?
This animal is the fuzzy mascot of Queen’s University. While nowadays there’s a student inside this animal’s costume, in the 1920s and for decades later, Queen’s had a live animal as the mascot.
What is a Bear? (Boo Hoo the Bear)
This Queen’s webpage is where students can find job postings, Queen’s work study program opportunities, and book Career Coaching appointments.
What is Queen’s MyCareer?
Students at Queen's University have access to this online and confidential mental health service. This service is offered through the supplementary health & dental plan managed by the Society for Graduate and Professional Studies.
What is Empower Me?
She is the associate director of the Research & Post-Professional Programs and has a background in Physiotherapy.
Who is Dr. Kathleen Norman?
He was the first student and graduate of colour at Queen's and one of the university's most important early benefactors. A fellowship with his name is available for exceptional graduate students of colour at Queen’s.
Who is Robert Sutherland?
This academic research communication competition for Queen’s Masters and doctoral students involves participants presenting their research and its wider impact in a quick and clear form, without over-simplifying or making it overly complex, to a panel of non-specialist judges.
What is the 3-Minute Thesis Competition?
This is the name of the fluffy golden retriever St. John's Ambulance Therapy Dog. On Wednesdays from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, him and his handler start on the 4th floor of the JDUC, go to different floors and then move towards Mitchell Hall.
Who is Oscar the therapy dog?
He is the Health Sciences librarian, with expertise in literature and database searches, systematic reviews and other syntheses, citation management, and consumer health information.
Who is Abdul Pullattayil?
Dr. Arthur B. McDonald, an astrophysics professor at Queen’s, won this award in 2015 for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
What is a Nobel Prize?
This is a collaboration with the CFRC 101.9FM radio station at Queen’s University. This 30-minute radio show allows graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to showcase their program and their research to Queen’s and Kingston communities. All aired sessions will be available to listen via podcast.
What is Grad Chat?
This service provides confidential, trauma informed and non-judgmental support, both in-person or online, for any student who has experienced sexual violence or intimate partner violence at any time in their life.
What is the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Service (SVPRS)?