Dr. Courtney Szto’s Field Course in Kinesiology and Health Studies: Food as Fuel, Justice, and Revolution was selected for the Principal’s Impact Courses funding for 2023-24. The course will be offered in Fall 2023 and is open to upper year Health Studies and Kinesiology students. KNPE 338 seeks to explore the power of food by...Read More

Dr. Lucie Lévesque’s team has been awarded close to $2 million over the next five years from CIHR’s Diabetes Prevention and Treatment in Indigenous Communities: Resilience and Wellness Team Grant titled Mobilizing Resilience through Community-to-Community (C2C) Exchange. Her team will use a community-engaged approach grounded in a Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum perspective to study their community-to-community mentorship...Read More

El Zahraa Majed, PhD candidate in SKHS, received the top prize of $1000 at this year’s Queen’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for presentation of her research project “How to Belong? Physical Activity as a Vehicle for Integration.”. Her project focusses on the isolation of immigrants joining new societies, and how it affects their physical...Read More

Christine Moon, MD/PhD candidate in SKHS, is the 2023 recipient of the Margaret Hooey Governance Award. Read more about Christine’s contributions to university governance in the Queen’s Gazette, April 10, 2023.Read More

Listen to Dr. Elaine Power speak with CityTV about the role that grassroot food banks play in addressing food insecurity in Canada, 5 April 2023.Read More

Dr. Gerome Manson is featured in the University of Toronto Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) news (posted 4 April 2023). KPE recently hosted the annual Bertha Rosenstadt National Undergraduate Research Conference. Dr. Manson attended the conference along with four Kinesiology students from his Sensory Motor Exploration Lab in the SKHS.  Read More

Listen to Dr. Elaine Power speak about how single people are impacted by inflation on CBC Radio, “How the ‘tax’ on singles has people who live alone feeling the pinch,” 2 April 2023.Read More

Fourth year HLTH students, Rhiannon Mainland and Emma McNair, published an Op-Ed in the Queen’s Journal as part of their HLTH 417 Community Based Planning and Evalution community project. Read the Op Ed, “COVID is an immediate issue: Returning to normal doesn’t protect students’ health” in the Queen’s Journal, 31 March 2023.  Read More

Watch Dr. Courtney Szto’s talk , “Mahriaa shot, Keeta goal! Harnarayan Singh and the Future of Hockey, “ as part of the Tertulias Fredericton Big Players Series, on NB Media Co-Op (posted 30 March 2023).    Read More

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) have released the results of their latest Project Grant competition and Priority Announcements. Dr. Elijah Bisung has received funding for a project that focuses on the challenges brought on by COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, Guinea, and Liberia. Dr. Bisung is working with partners at University of Toronto,...Read More