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Medicine Admission Award for Black Canadians goes unawarded

Written on February 7, 2020. Posted in News.

Last spring, Queen’s pledged to award incoming Black medical students $50,000 in entrance scholarships. The scholarship, which was slated to start this year, has gone unawarded so far. After being made aware of a 1918 ban on Black students enrolling at Queen’s medical school, the University established...

Smith MMAI program awarded scholarships in Artificial Intelligence

Written on January 18, 2019. Posted in News.

Five students from Smith School of Business have been awarded Vector Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the honour’s first year. Levi Burns, Meghan Fotak, Tyler Hennick, Victoria Sopik, and Brian Yee were announced as recipients by the Smith School on Dec. 17. They’re all students in...

Athletic scholarships make sense across the border, not here

Written on November 4, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

Adding sports scholarships doesn’t guarantee our athletes will stay, and it may spark a cultural shift we’ll regret. Opportunities for students to play sports under full scholarships in Canada pale in comparison to American schools. Many American universities offer full scholarships for promising...

Should CIS schools offer full athletic scholarships?

Written on January 22, 2016. Posted in Sports.

Yes: Adam Laskaris As the great football coach Vince Lombardi once said: “If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” Sports are meant to be competitive, but restrictions on the amount Canadian schools can spend on their athletes hinders competition. For any top-end Canadian talent looking...

Luring talent

Written on October 19, 2012. Posted in Sports.

When student-athletes are choosing a collegiate program, schools are expected to raise the ante. Queen’s new $2 million benchmark for athletic scholarship funding, part of the Queen’s Initiative Campaign, aims to do just that — equip its varsity teams with an enhanced approach to athlete recruitment. Queen’s...

Award builds first-year student’s confidence

Written on September 7, 2012. Posted in News.

Many students overcome numerous obstacles to make it to Queen’s, and first-year Nick Rodgers is no different. After receiving a scholarship from the Children’s Aid Foundation, Rodgers hopes his story will inspire his peers and youth in similar situations. As a recipient of the Joe Carter Scholarship,...

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Medicine Admission Award for Black Canadians goes unawarded

Smith MMAI program awarded scholarships in Artificial Intelligence

Athletic scholarships make sense across the border, not here

Should CIS schools offer full athletic scholarships?

Luring talent

Award builds first-year student’s confidence

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