Look Inside New Sensory Room for Kids with Autism
Specially designed room opens at FACSFLA's Division Street office in Kingston Keep Reading
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Queen’s University Research Awarded 20 Patents in 2012
20 projects initiated by Queen’s University earned patents lst year, including research toward the use of renewable feedstocks to produce biodegradable plastics. The Vice-President, Intellectual Property at PARTEQ Innovations ( the technology transfer office of the university), Carol Miernicki Steeg, said that the patents are proof to the fact that the research carried out at… Keep Reading
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Research Reveals Why Beetles Don’t Freeze in the Winter
For 37 years , Professor Peter Davies has been studying organisms that include fish and insects to better understand why they don’t freeze in cold winter temperatures. “Many insects, plants and other organisms owe their survival to AFPs.” said Dr. Davies in a Queen’s University release, where he is a Biochemistry professor. “This research found… Keep Reading
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Environmental Commissioner’s Report Promotes Increasing Soil Carbon
Raising carbon level in soil would enable farmers to better moderate effects of climate change Keep Reading
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Queen’s Tech Could End Fingerprint-Smudged Tablet & SmartPhone Screens
Wide range of uses for Queen's University's surface coating innovation Keep Reading
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Surface Coating Technology Could Repel Ice, Graffiti & Contaminants
Queen’s University is developing a new technology that may result in a surface coating to repel water and oil based contaminants, ice, paint, and fingerprints. Formulated by Chemistry researchers Guojun Liu and Dean Xiong, the coating could be used on a wide variety of surfaces including glass, metal, wood, ceramics, plastics and fibres. The researchers… Keep Reading
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Computer Game Test Hopes to Improve Parkinson’s Patients Cognitive Function
Aarlenne Khan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Neurosciences Studies at Queen’s University, is conducting research to test whether computer and tablet games may be able to improve cognitive function in people with Parkinson’s disease. The motor skills of patients with Parkinson’s gradually decline as nerve cells in the brain responsible for dopamine production… Keep Reading
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Queen’s University Leads Toronto Test of Life-Saving App
App locates CPR trained people near 911 cardiac calls Keep Reading
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Website Tool Helps Queen’s University Students Find Classrooms
Site displays photo directions to class, step by step Keep Reading
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Tweets Photo of Kingston from Orbit
Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted a photo of Kingston this week that he snapped while in orbit on the International Space Station (left). Hadfield, who graduated from Kingston’s Royal Military College in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, was launched into space on December 19 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and docked with the ISS two… Keep Reading
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Queen’s Researcher Using Cell Phones to Screen for Cervical Cancer
Karen Yeates, a Queen’s University researcher in Medicine, has created a cost-effective way to screen for cervical cancer using cell phone technology that is particularly useful in low-resource environments. “Using cell phones can help lower the barriers to large-scale screening and Pap smears in the developing world,” says Dr. Yeates, co-director of the Queen’s School… Keep Reading