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Launching Wednesday July 12th 2023 on CFRC 101.9 FM, we’re pleased to broadcast and podcast the first of two Inquiry@Queen’s episodes! In April 2023, CFRC’s Campus News Liaison Erika Singh sat with winning presenters at this annual undergraduate conference at @queensuniversity @queensulibrary in March, a conference with the theme “Misinformation: Rogue Inquiries”.

In this episode, Erika chats with the outstanding undergrad students who presented the following research projects:





“Rethinking Tourism: Misrepresentations, Orientalism, and Colonial Nostalgia in the Contemporary Mass Tourism Industry”, a project by  Kai Siallagan with faculty support from Dr. Amet Weldemichael, Department of History.





“No Nut November: Needed? Or Just Nuts?” , a project by Meloday Garas and supervised by Dr. Caroline Pukall, Department of Psychology













 

Launching Wednesday July 12th 2023 on CFRC 101.9 FM, we’re pleased to broadcast and podcast the first of three Inquiry@Queen’s episodes! In April 2023, CFRC’s Campus News Liaison Erika Singh sat with winning presenters at this annual undergraduate conference at @queensuniversity @queensulibrary in March, a conference with the theme “Misinformation: Rogue Inquiries”.



In this episode, Erika chats with the outstanding undergrad students who presented the following research projects:





“Remembering Forgotten Stories in the Archives: A Life in Papers-Allie Vibert Douglas, a project conducted by Rhianna Wood, Victor Drazilov and Emily Ritonja and supported by Ken Hernden of the Queen’s University Archives.

Pungavi Linghan’s paper “Analyzing the Cultural Shift in South India: The Legacy of the East India Company” undertaken with faculty support from Dr. Robert Hyland at Bader College.

“Addressing Financial Barriers to Higher Education” by Floor Nusselder, Adrianna Armstrong, Alyssa Giovannangeli, Yanzin Xu and Hannah Burrows who also discuss an innovative, equitable, and accessible module-based program that helps connect students with untapped surpluses of available scholarship money to fund their education.



Next week, we’ll have two more conversations with winning presenters!







 





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On June 7th, Queen’s University Library announced that it was giving Queen’s alumni extended off campus access to a selection of electronic resources including jStor, SAGE, Taylor and Francis and more in an effort to allow alumni to continue their journey of learning after completing their programs of study.  In this episode, we caught up with Meghan Burke, Metadata and Discovery Librarian at Queen’s University Library to share more about e-resources now available to alumni.

In this special episode of Campus Beat, we sit down with Queen’s Rector Owen Crawford-Lem and each of the 2023 Agnes Benedickson Tricolour Award inductees.

On March 23rd 2023, Queen’s University announced that Laura Devenny (Artsci’23), Samara Lijiam (Artsci’23), Jane Mao (Artsci’21, MEd’23), and Nishana Ramsawak (PhD’24), have each been named recipients of the 2023 Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award.

One of the most prestigious student honours at Queen’s, the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award is given annually by the Office of the Rector to students “for valued and distinguished service, leadership, character, and community impact.”

This year’s recipients will be officially inducted into the Tricolour Society during a ceremony on June 17.

“The impact the recipients have had on the Queen’s community – through their volunteerism, their leadership, and their commitment to their fellow students is exceptional,”  Rector Owen Crawford-Lem told the Gazette. “Laura, Samara, Jane, and Nishana embody the best aspects of the Queen’s community and their compassion and care serve as examples for all students.”

Learn more about the Tricolour Awards from Rector Crawford-Lem while checking in with each of this year’s winners about their distinguished contributions to their community at Queen’s University.

About the winners:

Laura Devenny

Devenny has served students in various leadership roles with the Alma Mater Society (AMS), including chief electoral officer, secretary of internal affairs, and most recently as chair of the Board of Directors. The fifth-year political studies major helped create a more accessible and engaging student government with compassionate and inclusive leadership.

Samara Lijiam

A passionate advocate for equity and social change, Lijiam’s campus involvement includes the Social Issues Commission, the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS), the Queen’s Black Academic Society (QBAS), and the Queen’s Student Alumni Association (QUAA), where Lijiam currently serves as president.

Jane Mao

As a Master of Education candidate, Mao creates spaces of joy for marginalized students to thrive. As the founder of the Gender Affirming Assistance Project, equity commissioner with the Society for Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), co-chair of the Social Healing and Reconciliatory Education research cluster, and more, Mao’s personal and professional work is characterized by direct action, mutual aid, and compassion.

 Nishana Ramsawak

Ramsawak is a fourth-year civil engineering PhD candidate researching factors affecting water quality degradation in drinking-water distribution systems. Ramsawak has contributed to the enhancement of equity, diversity, and inclusivity on campus as one of the first Graduate Inclusivity Fellows and as an instructor for Black youth in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), where Ramsawak helps create a safe space for racialized children to learn about STEM. Ramsawak is also the founder of a charity drive called Helping Handbags, Kingston, which provides feminine and essential items for vulnerable homes in the area.

 

Following the completion of the UN Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2022, we chat with two Queen’s University Professors about the conference’s goals and outcomes. Over 45,000 participants from countries around the world attended the conference. At the event’s opening, it was understood that the 194 countries that signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 would work toward their pledge to limit greenhouse gas emissions and keep the global temperature rise below 1.5C. and Prior to COP 27, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  said if temperatures rise above 1.7C, half the world’s population could be exposed to life-threatening heat.

With us in this episode to discuss goals and outcomes of COP27 and to provide insights on policy and finance for green energy are Dr. Warren Mabee, Professor in Geography and Planning, Director of the School of Policy Studies and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science along with Dr. Ryan Riordan, Smith School of Business Professor & Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director of Research for the Institute for Sustainable Finance.

 

Kingston, ON Oct 3, 2022- CFRC 101.9 FM Radio Queen’s University will host a Plaque Unveiling Ceremony of the station’s official Centennial Plaque on October 7th 2022 at 1 pm outside of Carruthers Hall on Queen’s University Campus (62 Fifth Field Company Lane).  All members of the Queen’s and Kingston communities are welcome to attend.

Established October 7th 1922, CFRC started as an experimental station 9BT broadcasting a post-game summary of a Queen’s Tricolor-Hamilton Rowing Club exhibition football game.  From its original home in Fleming Hall at Queen’s University to Carruthers Hall, its current home, several thousand student and community volunteers have continued to produce the most diverse mix of music and spoken word programming in the region.

Featuring indie, jazz, pop, blues, folk, punk, metal, experimental and more, CFRC’s volunteers bring their curatorial skills to the airwaves daily, exposing listeners to music they cannot access on Top 40 stations.  Volunteers also produce innovative spoken word programming including shows like Aboriginal Voices, Gender Talk, CFRC Prison Radio and live Gaels Football coverage while the station also supports numerous projects for campus and community partners, broadcasting and podcasting their content and helping them reach new audiences.

CFRC counts CBC’s Shelagh Rogers and Stu Mills, Hockey Night in Canada’s Chris Cuthbert, Lorne Greene (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) among its most notable alumni.  Rogers returned to Kingston in June 2022 to give a keynote address at the National Campus/Community Radio Association Conference CFRC hosted this year.

Former CFRC Station Manager Steve Cutway will join Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen and MPP Ted Hsu, City of Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson, Queen’s University Principal and Vice Chancellor Patrick Deane and Alex Freedman, Executive Director of the Community Radio Fund of Canada for the unveiling.  CFRC Executive Director Dinah Jansen and CFRC’s Board President Daniel Beals will host the event.

Cutway will unveil the plaque and also present two achievement awards to Jim Birch and Wayne Vermette, two longstanding station volunteers who are each celebrating over 40 years of consecutive broadcasting at CFRC’s airwaves.

“It’s both a pleasure and a privilege to welcome Mr. Cutway back to CFRC alongside our other distinguished guests at this historic event,” says Jansen.

“Their participation underscores the deep roots CFRC has long nurtured on campus and in the Kingston community and also the enduring connections our station maintains with our alumni near and far.”

Student representatives and volunteers, community volunteers and visiting CFRC alumni are expected to join in the festivities.  Following the 1 PM ceremony, the station will be open for a small reception and station tours, and a Meet and Greet event will take place at the Grad Club (162 Barrie Street) where ceremony attendees can mingle.  The Grad Club will also host the unveiling ceremony on its second floor in case of bad weather starting at 1 PM.

“CFRC staff and volunteers are so excited to welcome our alumni back to their old stomping grounds,” says Jansen.  “What an extraordinary opportunity to share stories, to forge new friendships and to rekindle some old ones across generations.