November 17, 2015 - In This Issue:
Important Dates:

Fall Preview
November 21st

USSRF Celebration
November 23rd, 4:00pm-6:00pm Speaker's Corner, Stauffer Library

THINK... Grad School Social
November 24th, Grad Club

Committee of Departments
November 27th
Invitation - USSRF Celebration   
 
Join in celebrating the achievements of 24 Queen's undergraduate scholars resulting from their work supported by the 2015 USSRF program. 
 
Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowship (USSRF) Celebration
Monday, November 23, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Speaker's Corner, Stauffer Library
 
4:00 - 4:30 p.m.  
Remarks by Principal Daniel Woolf and Vice-Principal (Research) Steven Liss

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.    
Opportunity to view the students' posters and speak with these budding researchers and their supervisors
 
Students' posters will be available for viewing in the Stauffer Library, Main Level, from November 23rd through November 30.
Two Great Opportunities for Instructors
 
Research Skills Development Framework Workshop with Dr. John Willison, The University of Adelaide
Date : Monday, December 7th from 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202
Summary: John Willison developed the Research Skills Development Framework in 2006 to help instructors find ways to embed research within their courses and programs. In this workshop John will help us "enable(s) the explicit, incremental and coherent development of students' and academics' research skills. "He considers the RSD website (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/rsd/) to be his "on line portfolio of research".

Register: Please follow this link http://www.queensu.ca/ctl/programs-and-events/research-skills-development-framework to register.
 
Team-based Learning Workshop with Dr. Lindsay Davidson, Faculty of Health Sciences and 2008 Chair in Teaching and Learning, Queen's University
Date : Wednesday, December 9th from 9:30am-11:00am
Location: Ellis Hall, Room 333
Summary: In this workshop, Lindsay Davidson will introduce and demonstrate Team Based Learning, as Instructional Strategy that is based on procedures for developing high performance learning teams that can dramatically enhance the quality of student learning. Come learn how to apply this approach.

Register: Please email f2deans@queensu.ca by December 7th to register.

Call for nominations to the Holberg Prize 2017  
 
The Holberg Board is inviting nominations for the Holberg Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the academic fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology.
 
The prize may be awarded both for work within a particular academic discipline and for work of a cross disciplinary nature.
 
The Holberg Prize is the largest annual prize awarded within the fields of arts and humanities, social science, law and theology. It amounts to 4,5 million NOK (approximately 485,000 EUR / 519,000 USD*) and was established by the Norwegian Parliament in 2003.
 
Who can nominate?
Scholars holding positions at universities and other research institutions, including academies, are entitled to nominate candidates to the Holberg Prize.
 
The nomination deadline is 15 June 2016.
 
For further information about how to nominate, visit holbergprisen.no/en/nomination .
 
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Solveig Stornes, Project Manager for the Holberg Prize: solveig.stornes@holbergprisen.no
 
The winner of the Holberg Prize 2017 will be announced in March 2017. The official award ceremony will take place in Bergen, Norway in June 2017.
Committee of Departments - reminder  
 
If you have an agenda item for the Committee of Departments (COD) meeting scheduled for Friday, November 27, 2015 at 3:30pm in Richardson Hall please email deanartsci@queensu.ca by Friday, November 20, 2015.
Faculty News
 
David Lyon receives national award from SSHRC for his research that has changed the way academics, government officials and the public regard personal data. [ read story]

Gordon Smith, Vice Dean Faculty of Arts and Sciences awarded the Distinguished Service Award for 2015. The award recognizes exemplary service to Queen's over an extended period of time. Gordon Smith has served as Director of the Queen's School of Music, Associate Dean, and now Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. During that time he has worked to develop joint programs with St. Lawrence College, establishing the Indigenous Studies Minor, working to create a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts and has been an active member of the Aboriginal Council of Queen's. One of Dr. Smith's greatest services to Queen's came from when he chaired the Operations and Planning Committee for the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. In this position he balanced the needs, interests, and opinions of many different parties. Because he cared deeply about the Isabel, he spent hundreds of hours reviewing plans to make sure that everything was just right. [ read story]

Arts Scholarships Celebrated. The first recipients of the Dean's Admission Scholarship for the Arts were celebrated recently at a special event hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Science. [ read story]

PhD candidate Leah Sarson (Political Studies) has been awarded a Fulbright Canada student grant. The prestigious funding will allow her to conduct research at Dartmouth College this academic year. [ read story]