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Important Dates and Deadlines

Friday, March 31
Fiscal year-end deadline for faculty members to submit claims for Professional Expense Reimbursement

Friday, March 31, 3:30pm
Faculty Board

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Grades Memo (Winter 2017 Undergraduate Courses)
 
Final Deadline - Monday 8 May 2017 by 12:00 noon
 
Additional information about Grading is now available on the Staff & Faculty website:
 
Prizes for Excellence in Research Public Lectures

The annual Prizes for Excellence in Research Public Lectures will occur on Monday, April 3, 2017 from 4:30-6:30pm in Grant Hall. The Prizes for Excellence in Research are Queen's highest form of research excellence recognition, and are awarded annually to five outstanding scholars.
 
This year, the speakers will be:
  • Gauvin Bailey (Art History and Art Conservation) - A Baroque Palace in the Haitian Rainforest
  • James R. Cordy (School of Computing) - This Means That: Programming by Transformation
  • Stephen Vanner (Medicine) - Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Light at the End of the Tunnel
  • Virginia Walker (Biology) - Piecing Together a Cold Quilt
  • Janet Hiebert (Political Studies) - Can Parliament Protect Rights?
  • Myra Hird (2015 recipient, School of Environmental Studies) - Canada's Waste Flow and our Global Legacy
Refreshments will be available. Event is open to the public. More information available at www.queensu.ca/vpr/
Access and Privacy:  A Primer for Faculty Members
 
Queen's University is subject to Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
which provides a right of access to the University's records and information, and mandates us to protect the privacy of the individuals whose personal information we collect and keep. The Act pertains to all employees, including faculty members. This fact sheet is not comprehensive; it is intended to give faculty members a few key take-aways to helpthem in their daily work.