Important messages, dates and news from the Faculty office.
Important Dates

Friday July 31, 2020
Summer Term classes (May-July/12W Session) end

Monday August 3, 2020
Civic Holiday (Classes will not be held)

Tuesday August 4, 2020 to Saturday August 8, 2020
May - July 2020 Summer Courses Exam Period

Monday August 10, 2020
July - August Summer 2020 Courses Classes End

Monday August 10, 2020 to Wednesday August 26, 2020
Registration period for Fall and Winter classes

remoteReminder - Remote Teaching Support
 
The Faculty of Arts and Science is offering support and practical resources to ease the shift to remote teaching. Our Workshop Series: Preparing for Remote Teaching will continue throughout the summer. Topics covered include course design, assessments, technology, asynchronous activities, designing PowerPoints, and more. Please see the schedule on our new page QUartsci.com/remote-teaching and join us when you can - no registration is required! We will also be adding additional resources to this webpage soon, including a list of technologies available to support teaching and how to get access to them, so please stay tuned for updates!

Questions can be sent to [email protected] where they will be triaged to receive the right type and level of support (multimedia, LMS or instructional Design).
memoReminder - Grades Memo
 
Please review the  full memo .

Deadlines for submitting grades:


May - July courses
 Friday August 17, 2020
July - August courses
 Monday August 24, 2020
new2020 New Frontiers in Research Exploration Competition
 
The goal of the Exploration stream is to inspire high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. Exploration grants support research that pushes boundaries into exciting new areas. Researchers are encouraged to think "outside of the box," undertake research that would defy current paradigms, and bring disciplines together in unexpected ways and from bold, innovative perspectives. With the Exploration stream, there is recognition that innovation often carries risk; proposals for high-risk research projects that have the potential to deliver game-changing impacts are strongly encouraged.

Information Session 
WHO: Researchers and research staff interested in learning more about this exciting funding opportunity. 
WHAT: Webinar for the Queen's research community outlining the 2020 competition including highlights from the agency-led information session* 
WHEN: Tuesday July 14, 2:30-4:30 
WHERE: Virtually via Microsoft Teams

Registration 
Please register by July 10. Registered participants will be provided with a meeting link a day in advance of the session.

Questions? 
Please visit the URS NFRF Exploration website or contact Andrea Hiltz
contagionContagion Cultures Lecture Series
 
This series is a Faculty of Arts and Science collaboration which helps to make sense of this pandemic through the expertise and insights of Arts and Science faculty members.

The series is live-streamed on Zoom every Tuesday at 4:00 PM EDT/EST.

Upcoming events:

July 14 - Meat, Prey, Love: Human-Animal Relations in the time of COVID  - Samantha King, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
 
July 21 - Mindo, Face-Masks and Fax Machines: Japan and COVID-19 - David Murakami Wood
 
July 28 - Personal Data, Surveillance and Contagion - David Lyon, Surveillance Studies Centre, Department of Sociology

For more info on the series please visit:  https://www.queensu.ca/sps/events  
townResearch Community Town Hall
 
The Vice-Principal (Research) will host a Zoom town hall meeting on Thursday, July 16 at 11 am for members of the Queen's research community. This forum will allow researchers to ask questions, and importantly, stay connected to the wider research community during a time of remote work. While there will be an opportunity to actively ask questions during the town hall, for efficiency we encourage researchers to send questions and concerns in advance to [email protected] with the subject line Town Hall Question.
 
Please register in advance for this meeting no later than 10 am on July 16, using your Queen's or KHSC email address. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the meeting. Please note that the event will be recorded to confirm that appropriate follow up can be made with participants, if necessary. 
datesSave the Dates - Queen's International Institute on Social Policy
 
The 25th annual social policy conference from the  Queen's International Institute on Social Policy will run virtually  August 25 - September 10, 2020. 
 
This year's conference will be  free for participants, and will explore how Canada and other OECD countries can rethink and reset critical building blocks of social policy in light of the fault lines exposed by the current crisis.
 
Registration opens in mid-July.  Learn more here .
studentStudent E-Newsletters

This week, students received information on tuition process and registration period changes, as well as opportunities to connect with alumni. For the latest student eNewsletters, please see queensu.ca/artsci. You can find our emails to students in the bottom right corner of our homepage.
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Don't forget that we have a Twitter account for Arts and Science Faculty and Staff! Get news and updates from the Faculty and the rest of the University, as well as another place to access the Staff & Faculty E-newsletter. Follow us  @QUASfacultynews .