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  Queen's University Homepage
Queen's role in disaster response- Workshop for the Queen's community.
Queen's University is located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
With 17 faculties and schools, Queen's is one of Canada's leading research intensive universities.
www.queensu.ca   (87 words)

  
 Queen's University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Queen's University, or simply Queen's, is a coeducational, non-sectarian university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on the edge of Lake Ontario.
Queen's was the first Canadian university west of the maritime provinces to grant degrees, admit women, and form student government.
Queen's University was founded on October 16, 1841, under its first principal, Thomas Liddell, who arrived in Kingston from Scotland carrying the Royal Charter of Queen Victoria, establishing Queen's College as an educational institution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queens_University   (2217 words)

  
 Queen's University Copyright Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For universities, with their mission of creating and passing on knowledge through teaching, research and scholarship, understanding the copyright law and being able to apply the concept of fair dealing is fundamentally important.
Canadian universities are lobbying the federal government to introduce such guidelines in Canada and to ensure that fair dealing is defined broadly so as to meet the needs of students and faculty.
Universities in Quebec have been operating under a licence with a Quebec based collective known as UNEQ (Union des ecrivaines et ecrivains quebecois) for several years.
www.arl.org /scomm/copyright/Queens.html   (1571 words)

  
 Queen's University (Canada)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Queen's University was established in Kingston (Ontario, Canada) by Royal Charter of Queen Victoria in 1841.
The flag of the alumni of the Queen's University is vertically divided blue-yellow-red with a yellow crown in canton.
In each of the four compartments is an emblem of the university's Canadian and British origins: a pine tree for Canada, a thistle for Scotland, a rose for England, and a shamrock for Ireland.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca_quenu.html   (640 words)

  
 Queen's News Centre
Queen's researchers present strong and opposing views on the de-criminalization of polygamy in recent reports commissioned by Status of Women Canada.
Queen’s associate dean of law, Gary Trotter will be sworn in tomorrow as a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice.
Queen's role in disaster response - Members of the Queen’s community are encouraged to attend a workshop on Feb. 2 organized by the Queen’s Partnership Committee for the Tsunami Affected Regions.
qnc.queensu.ca /qnc_index.php   (675 words)

  
 Correctional Service of Canada - Institutional Profiles - Ontario Region
With the union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, the institution became known as the "Provincial Penitentiary of the Province of Canada".
With the passing of the British North America Act and Confederation in 1867, the institution became more commonly known as "Kingston Penitentiary", and was one of three such institutions placed under the control of the federal government, along with facilities at Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. John, New Brunswick.
In the aftermath of the 1971 riot, Kingston Penitentiary was re-designated as Ontario Region's Reception Centre, a role it served until 1981.
www.csc-scc.gc.ca /text/facilit/institutprofiles/kingston_e.shtml   (292 words)

  
 science and religion: global perspectives, June 4 - 8, 2005, Philadelphia, PA || Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1993, Dr. Newberg trained in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, and subsequently completed a Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Parker Rossman is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma (education and communications), the University of Chicago (thesis on the sociology of the university), and Yale University (Ph.D. in higher education).
She was trained in rheumatology at McGill University and practiced medicine in Montreal before returning to a research career and teaching at Washington University in St. Louis.
www.metanexus.net /conference2005/speakers.asp   (5288 words)

  
 Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
This year, QSB Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) graduates achieved a record-setting pass rate of 93% — exceeding the overall pass rate for the province by almost 20%.
Indeed, the pass rate is one of the highest in all of Canada and the highest among universities that have more than 20 UFE writers.
The UFE is a three-day, national examination held by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants that qualifies university...
business.queensu.ca   (201 words)

  
 Placement Office | Faculty of Education, Queen's University
The Faculty of Education is committed to providing all possible assistance to its graduates in their efforts to find employment, as demonstrated by the existence of a full-time Placement Office within the Faculty of Education for the use of Queen's University Education students and graduates.
The benefits of this assistance are reflected in the proportion of Queen's graduates able to secure teaching and related positions and in the variety of placements reported.
In addition to serving Queen's teacher candidates and graduates, we are able to assist other teachers with North American certification (or equivalent) who wish to teach overseas.
educ.queensu.ca /placement/index.shtml   (231 words)

  
 The brain science behind 'A beautiful mind'
Paul Glimcher is an associate professor of neuroscience at New York University.
Michael Dorris was a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Glimcher's lab when the work described in the Neuron article was conducted; he is currently an assistant professor of physiology at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
New York University, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, was established in 1831 and is one of America's leading research universities.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/nyu-tbs101304.php   (810 words)

  
 Queen's School of Business, MBA for Science & Technology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Queen's School of Business, MBA for Science and Technology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Queen’s MBA for Science and Technology will broaden your opportunities, fast-track your career and maximize your return on investment.
Canada’s most respected business faculty will challenge you with their forward-thinking and relevant management curriculum and unrivalled personal attention.
business.queensu.ca /mbast   (558 words)

  
 Press Release:
Barbara Kisilevsky, a Queen's University professor of nursing along with a team of psychologists at Queen's and obstetricians in Hangzhou, China, found that fetuses are capable of learning in the womb and can remember and recognize their mother's voice before they are even born.
Their research findings are published in the current issue of the international journal Psychological Science.
Along with researchers at Zhejiang University, China, Dr. Kisilevsky tested 60 fetuses at term.
qnc.queensu.ca /story_loader.php?id=3ebc016fcd1ec   (499 words)

  
 Health Sciences Resources for Handheld Computers
The John W. Scott Health Sciences Library at the University of Alberta maintains a very helpful subject guide to resources.
The Faculty of Medicine Palm Committee at Dalhousie University has hardware guidelines which specify the features of various models and platforms.
Members of the Queen's community can purchase handheld computers, peripherals and accessories from the Queen's University Campus Computer Sales and Service.
library.queensu.ca /webmed/PDAs.htm   (830 words)

  
 NCIC Clinical Trials Group
It is one of the national programmes and networks of the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC), and is supported by the NCIC with funds raised by the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS).
We are located at Queen's University, Kingston Ontario at the Cancer Research Institute.
We believe it’s essential that Canada attracts and retains intelligent and imaginative cancer researchers and that they have the support they need to explore their ideas in laboratory and clinical settings, and in the community.
www.ctg.queensu.ca   (364 words)

  
 queens university   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The FAFSA form is available from the Office of Financial Aid at Queens University of Charlotte...
Introduction: Queens University is a forward-looking, dynamic and private center of academic...
Queens' College, founded 1448, is a college in the University of Cambridge, UK.
www.goinginto.com /find?keywords=Queens+University   (288 words)

  
 Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
But when I was chosing universities, I decided that I wouldn't be disappointed going to Queen's, so I'm still happy that I will be going there next year.
Hi, I was also offered admission to Queen's for 2004 =) I'm also a Canadian who's lived overseas almost all my life, and I'm still in Malaysia now so I won't be able to visit the campus before deciding whether I want to accept the offer.
Well, as I haven't actually been to Queen's during the school year, I don't really have the authority to say what the social life is like.
www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/8/26866.html   (3701 words)

  
 Provost Office > International Initiatives
By establishing connections with colleges and universities internationally, the University is facilitating relationships for students and faculty in Asia, Africa, Latin America, South America, Europe and the Middle East.
In 2004, Northeastern University was named to the Compostela Group of Universities (a network of 82 European universities) and is the first North American university to be accepted into this organization.
At Queens University in Canada, he is surveying Canadian firms to assess how knowledge contributes to a firm's ability to compete.
www.provost.neu.edu /initiative-international.html   (611 words)

  
 PBL PBL PBL! Problem Based Learning (PBL) Home Page - Queen's University, Faculty of Medicine
Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6.
The Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen's gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the Undergraduate Medical Education offices at the University of Western Ontario and McMaster University.
We are also grateful to Dr. Michael O'Connor, Dr. Isaac Dwosh, Dr. Bob Maudsley and the many faculty and students who have contributed their time and feedback since the PBL program was introduced into the new curriculum at Queen's in 1991.
meds.queensu.ca /medicine/pbl/pblhome.htm   (274 words)

  
 Brain Injury, Aquired Brain Injury, Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference, Vancouver BC Canada
His research is in disability studies, specifically issues of the definition of disability, quality of life and the disability critique, disability epidemiology, universal design and inclusion, modeling disability statistics for population health surveys, the relationship between disability and health, and the ethics and policy implications of summary health measures.
She is an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan and an associate scientist at the Alberta Centre for Injury Prevention and Research.
Her clinical background is in health psychology and her research focuses on psychological aspects of musculoskeletal disorders, with an emphasis on examining the interface between depression, coping, chronic pain disability and recovery from soft-tissue injuries.
www.pcbic.org /keynote_speakers.html   (1118 words)

  
 Geological Sciences @ Queen's University Faculty Listing - R. Gerhard Pratt, P.Eng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gerhard Pratt joined the Faculty at Queen's University in January 1998.
The course was given at Queen's University in Kingston, April 28th - 30th, 2004.
The short course was preceded by a one-day workshop in which participants illustrated a variety of datasets to be used in future waveform tomography studies.
geol.queensu.ca /people/pratt   (457 words)

  
 Johnston Elected as President of Overseers
Elected to the Board of Overseers in 1992, Johnston is currently a professor of law at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, having served as principal and vice-chancellor of McGill from 1979 to 1994.
He then served as a professor and dean of the law faculty at the University of Western Ontario from 1974-79.
In 1979, he came to McGill University, where he served as principal and vice-chancellor from 1979 to 1994.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/04.17/JohnstonElected.html   (579 words)

  
 Queen's University Department of Biology HOME
The Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), under the direction of Drs John Smol and Brian Cumming, uses paleolimnological methods to investigate the history of changes in climate and the environment.
The Queen's University Biological Station (QUBS) is a major field research and teaching facility for students and scientists from Queen's and many other institutions.
Located on Lake Opinicon about 45 minutes north of Kingston, it is one of Canada's premier centres for environmental education.
biology.queensu.ca   (429 words)

  
 Queens University of Charlotte
Jeannine Slevin and Alexis Bogdanoff had goals for Queens, as the Royals move to 5-4-1 on the year and 3-0-1 in the CVAC.
Queens goal keeper Megan Mueller had six saves in 120 minutes of play.
Queens travels to Barton College next Saturday at 1:00 Lees McRae hosts King College Wednesday at 7:00pm.
www.queens.edu /news_detail.asp?press_id=184§ion=   (154 words)

  
 Department of Mathematics and Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Welcome to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University
The Department is committed to excellence in both teaching and research.
A Queen’s University expert in studying the transmission and evolution of infectious diseases such as SARS and avian flu is the 2005 winner of the prestigious Steacie Prize, presented annually to a young scientist or engineer for outstanding research in Canada.
www.mast.queensu.ca   (92 words)

  
 Queen's GIS Lab   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shannon Denny will be the GIMBITS speaker next week and we asked her to write a few paragraphs on her experiences at Queens before and after graduation in 2000.
During my final year at Queen’s I was very fortunate to be hired by the GIS lab as a research assistant.
in GIS at the University of Edinburgh but postponed it for a year to build up her savings working as the Web Coordinator for Cabinet Office with the Government of Ontario.
www.gis.queensu.ca   (1450 words)

  
 CRISTINA BICCHIERI
University of Indiana, Bloomington, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science “Pluralistic Ignorance, Informational Cascades, and the Survival of Inefficient Norms”, January 1997.
Economics Department, University of Rotterdam, "The Emergence of Conventions and Norms", June 1993.
The Social Contract and Democracy Conference, University of California at Irvine, “Learning and Evolution: the Emergence of Norms”, December 1992.
www.phil.upenn.edu /faculty/bicchieri/cv.html   (3229 words)

  
 Chemists in the Rest of the World (by Name)
Moinuddin Ahmed - Bangladesh - University of Dhaka
Giasuddin Ahmed - Bangladesh - University of Dhaka
Tofail Ahmed Chowdhury - Bangladesh - University of Dhaka
www.ch.cam.ac.uk /c2k/people/StaffList/StaffList30.html   (6564 words)

  
 Atlantic History Seminar Slave Trade Workshop
This two-day Workshop was devoted to analysis and interpretation of the Atlantic slave trade, focused on the new database of 27,224 slave voyages, 1562-1867, compiled under the sponsorship of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
This compilation, now in machine-readable form to be published on CD-ROM by the Cambridge University Press, is the product of a team of scholars—David Eltis of Queens University, Canada, David Richardson of Hull University, England, Herbert Klein of Columbia University, and Stephen Behrendt, now at the University of Victoria, New Zealand.
The data set, representing voyages by all the major transatlantic carriers, covers approximately two-thirds of all voyages in the history of the trade and includes characteristics of the vessels, numbers of slaves, ports of departure and arrival, crew size, and other significant variables.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~atlantic/sltrprog.html   (259 words)

  
 Cambridge Major Laboratories, Inc.
James Cook, University Distinguished Professor, Organic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Uli Kazmaier, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany
In 1998, he moved from the University of Waterloo to Queen's University where he holds the Bader Chair in Organic Chemistry.
www.c-mlabs.com /team/scientific_advisors.asp?id=4   (205 words)

  
 Canadian Corporate News: Government of Canada and Queen's University Shed New Light on Climate Change.@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Government of Canada and Queen's University Shed New Light on Climate Change.
The Government of Canada is helping turn on the switch to solar power in the academic sector.
The Honourable Peter Milliken, Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands and Speaker of the House of Commons, and Dr. Tom Harris, Dean of Applied Science at Queen's University, today launched a new energy system that will provide solar power to the university.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:104104627&refid=ink_tptd_np   (230 words)

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