Issue 4, 2014 The magazine of Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario queensu.ca/alumnireview Queen’alu mn I revIsew In good company Finding Franklin’s ship (s ) On top of the world The Queeen x ’s interperıenna tio nal ce Be a TRICOLOUR TRAVELLER in Visit queensu.ca/alumni click on learning opportunities Request your copy of the Alumni Educational Travel catalogue today! ... [email protected] Featuring contents Issue , }~, Volume , Number Serving the Queen’s community since ~ queensu.ca/alumnireview u Queen’alu mn I revIsew Editor’s notebook v Letters to the editor x From the principal On becoming an international university tv Quid Novi News from campus tz Campus scene How the El Greco S came to Queen’s N O I T A C I N U t{ M M On top of the world O C Y Chancellor Jim Leech’s T I S R Arctic trek E V I y N U COver stOry uy Your global alumni The Queen’s international experience network Meet some of the international members of the Queen’s community on campus. Learn about Queen’s programs and research partnerships uz in China, international exchanges and what’s new at the V]fW. &'%% president’s column u| Keeping in Touch ws Spotlight on philanthropy Brit Smith w{ K The Last Word A R D A L A By Wayne Myles C N A D C R A S K N R R E us A uu B P SPECIAL REPORT TO Feature repOrt Feature repOrt Queen’s Benefactors S N O I T A C I N U M M O C Y T I S R E V I N U Principal Woolf speaking with students at the Queen’s University International Centre Finding Frankli n’s ship (s ) In good company FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Fellow Alumni, hank you to all who invested in Queen’s during our last fiscal year. Every dollar raised Tsupports the Initiative Campaign, the most ambitious fundraising drive in our history. From May B, CABD to April DA, CABE, those of you gave to Queen’s did much more than demonstrate your generosity. You showed that you believe in the university. Last year – Learn about the people who located The Queen’s Summer Innovation with a goal of KGA million – over KHB million was generously donated from more than BD,AAA donors. This raised the campaign total to KEBD.H million, or more than IA per cent of the half-billion-dollar goal set to be acheived by CABG. When you support Queen’s, you demonstrate the high value you place on the social purpose of higher education. Here’s what your support during the campaign has already achieved: B More than ever before, we are offering student assistance in the form of scholarships ACE Erebus in Nunavut’s Queen Maud Gulf… Initiative brings together students to and bursaries to attract the best and brightest students; Did you donate B New and renovated spaces and equipment are now available because of donors who last year to Queen’s? care about keeping Queen’s at the forefront of student learning and research; B To read more about the impact of Research funding, facilities and equipment are also more readily available, all of which are essential to our faculty and researchers tackling society’s most vexing problems your gift and to find your name and; among those of our benefactors, B More programs are now in place to strengthen our nuturing community. Queen’s has visit queensu.ca/initiative/impact and one historian who first discovered the launch innovative businesses. Meet always been a community where people look after each other. We have new programs for students focused on their health and wellness, so that they can succeed in school. I invite you to learn more about the impact of your gifts both in this special section of the Queen’s Alumni Review and on the Initiative Campaign website at queensu.ca/initiative. Because of you, Queen’s will continue to flourish and pursue a spirit of initiative. Let’s see what else we can accomplish, together, by the time the campaign ends in CABG. Franklin Expedition ships in Watson Hall. df]] ’s newest entrepreneurs. Sincerely, Daniel R. Woolf, Artsci’IA Principal and Vice-Chancellor By andrew stOkes, artsCI’13, ma’14 Issue E, CABEv | queensu.ca/alumnireview| A special insert from the Office of Advancement: Report to benefactors COVER PHOTOS: UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS ed ito rs nO teBOO’k Hello, world! n this issue, we explore international aspects of Queen’s . What does it volume 88, no. 4, 2014 Imean to be an international university? Who are our international [email protected] students? What opportunities do we create for Canadian students to queensu.ca/alumnireview study internationally? Which Queen’s professors are creating global the Queen’s alumni review (circ. ~,}}}), published quarterly research partnerships? There are so many initiatives happening on by University Communications, campus (and around the world) that we could only provide a sample of is a member of the Council for the many people and programs that contribute to Queen’s growing the Advancement and Support of internationalization. Accordingly, our cover story comprises a series Education. Subscriptions free to alumni, $ WXa /year for others. of short articles, touching on different pieces of the international Opinions expressed in the Review experience. You’ll also see numbers on international enrolment are not necessarily those of throughout the magazine. Every year, the Office of the University Queen’s University or of the dhUU . Registrar provides an enrolment report to Senate. At press time, we ]ffa # } - } used current numbers of international students available. It’s worth Queen’s university noting that these may change slightly by the time the }~/~ enrolment vp university relations Michael Fraser report is released in December. executive director marketing You may think of Queen’s campus as being relatively quiet during Helena Debnam the summer, but that’s not always the case. Innovation Park at Queen’s editor University was humming with activity all summer long. Our feature Andrea Gunn, `cU ’} report on the Queen’s Summer Innovation Initiative introduces you assistant editor to four new companies launched through the program. Meredith Dault, `U ’~~ Also in this issue, we have stories from the Canadian North, from staff contributors Mark Kerr, Craig Leroux, Chancellor Jim Leech’s trek to the magnetic North Pole to support Andrew Stokes, Artsci’~, `U ’~ Canadian soldiers to the Queen’s connections with the recent art director discovery of ACE Erebus, one of the ships of the lost Franklin Expedition . Larry Harris, University Marketing In the online Review , we highlight a number of Queen’s initiatives associate designer (kIt) in China, from student programming to faculty research. We also have Wilma van Wyngaarden new alumni spotlights online, including a piece on sports agent Elliott advertising Coordinator Kerr, `VU ’, and musician Jim Cuddy, Artsci’ . Peter Gillespie, Artsci’}~ Phone: ~..}}} ext. Shortly before we went to print, the Queen’s community was Email: [email protected] saddened by the news of the death of Jerry Doiron, the inaugural 2014-2016 Queen’s university director of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. We take alumni association president comfort in the fact that Jerry was able to attend the grand opening of George Jackson, Artsci’ the Isabel and to see the result of all his hard work on behalf of the mission of the Quaa “To reach out and foster a lifelong Queen’s University and the arts community. association with Queen’s , to engage post-script and a correction our members in the life and work of the university, and to serve the Donald Douglas read, in our last issue, about the donation of Norah alumni community in all its diversity.” McGinnis’s ~ chemistry medal to Queen’s . Mr. Douglas had in his Canada post publications possession the ~} Queen’s medal of Professor J.A. McRae, his uncle mail permit #41089017 and Dr. McGinnis’s Queen’s supervisor. Mr. Douglas has kindly Postage paid at Kingston, ba Return undeliverable Canadian and donated this medal to the Queen’s Archives. other addresses to the Review offices. Unfortunately, in the last issue, we misspelled the name of Dr. Nick Queen’s University Duesbery, Artsci’ , who found and then donated Dr. McGinnis’s University Avenue medal to the Department of Chemistry. I apologize for this error. Kingston, ba ^_ a As always, I welcome your comments about the magazine. Contact Phone: ~..}}} ext. }~ Fax: ~.. me by phone or email and, if you’re on campus, drop by my office (ground floor, Richardson Hall) to say hello. to update your address Cha Gheill! [email protected] or call ~. }}.. 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