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Queen’s School of Computing Honorary Doctorate Alumna, Dr. Maria Klawe, has just been included in the list of the 50 greatest leaders in the world. She is in the company of the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bill Clinton and Pope Francis in the latest issue of Fortune magazine.

Queen’s School of Computing student Eril Berkok is featured in the recently released Council of Ontario Universities Report on Experiential Learning, in which he shares his experience as an intern as part of the Queen’s Internship Program (see page 20). Eril’s profile is the only one for Queen’s in the COU document.

The Professional Internship Option is a distinguishing feature of the School of Computing programs, and we are the only unit in the Faculty of Arts and Science to offer this experiential learning opportunity to our Honours students.

“What do Birds Flocking and Proteins Folding have in Common? Hazem Ahmed brings Swarm Intelligence to Bioinformatics” appears on the web site of the Queen’s School of Graduate Studies. Read it here!

Congratulations to Drs. Gabor Fichtinger (Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery, Queen’s School of Computing) and Karol Miller (Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory, UWA School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering) on their successful application under the Queen’s Visitors to Partner Institutions of the Matariki Network of Universities fund. Their new collaboration will integrate world-class research in image-guided surgery navigation (Queen’s) and soft tissue biomechanical deformation modeling (UWA) with the goal of significantly advancing the field of computer-assisted neurosurgery. We wish them every success in their new partnership.

The Queen’s News Centre published an article about the innovative Active Learning classrooms in Ellis Hall. The School’s own Dave Dove and his team-based learning approach are featured. Read all about it here.

David is quoted in articles in the Lethbridge Herald and the Prince George Citizen on the question of whether the Internet can sometimes provide too much information.

Congratulations to Andrew W. L. Dickinson, Craig B. Casier, Richard W. Sellens, David R. Pichora, and Randy E. Ellis, whose poster “Overall Wrist Biomechanics are Conserved by Phenol-based Embalming” won a Best Poster Award at the NextMed/MMVR (Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 21) Conference, held in Manhattan Beach, California, USA, February 19 – 22, 2014.

Our own Wendy Powley has a feature interview in Trendy Techie. As the article says, “What better way to begin the series than with a woman who directly affects the way young people learn technology?”

Read it here!

Congratulations to Dave Dove for his part in the Queen’s News Centre’s investigation into innovative teaching techniques used on Campus.

Continue reading “Queen’s Computing instructor Dave Dove interviewed”

David spoke to the media about the fact that cyber attacks could become the new normal, on CBC’s The National and in the Toronto Star.