Call for nominations for Graduate & Student Of The Year

The annual First Trust Bank Queen’s Graduate and Student of the Year Awards, recognise excellence, achievement or service by exceptional Queen’s alumni and students, either to the University or to the wider community. Now in their 15th year, the Awards are presented by Queen’s Graduates’ Association (QGA) with generous support from First Trust Bank.

Therese White, 2011 Student of the Year, is pictured here with First Trust representative Edel McCooe at their local branch.

Find out more and nominate your top student or graduate online today.

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Simply the best!

A Queen’s alumni team of runners has beaten off stiff competition from over 1900 other teams to win the 2013 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon Relay race. (First published 16.05.13)

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Queen’s - top of the world!

The latest QS World University Rankings by Subject has just been published, with Queen’s ranked in the top 1% in the world. The rankings are the only international evaluation that allows prospective students to compare universities in specific subject areas.

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New Director of Queen’s Festival

Internationally renowned arts programmer and producer, Richard Wakely, has been appointed as Director of Queen’s Festival. The 1982 BA Geography graduate of Queen’s has worked previously on Broadway and in New York, London and Dublin.

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Get the Job You Want Using Social Media 

Over 40 students and recent graduates attended a DARO organised event in QFT which included presentations by Queens’ graduates Phil Watson (LinkedIn) and Tracy Dempsey (Soul Ambition). Both alums work extensively with social media and gave tips on how to leverage these services to cultivate better, smarter contacts and to find jobs.

Click on the title above to find out more and to access the live tweets from the event.

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'Big Bang' machine comes to Queen's

The world’s largest science experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the man behind the Higgs particle theory, came to Queen's in May as part of a week-long exhibition. Check out the ‘Big Bang’ machine via the link above or visit our Facebook for photographs!

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Queen’s strikes Gold!

The School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s has been awarded the prestigious Athena SWAN Gold award in recognition of its outstanding progress in promoting gender equality and addressing the unequal representation of women in science.

It is the first School of Biological Sciences in the UK to achieve this prestigious award, with Queen’s becoming one of only three UK universities to hold a Gold departmental award.

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Queen’s scientist named Innovator of the Year

A Queen’s scientist has won two national awards for his research on microneedles which deliver drugs without causing pain or bleeding.

Dr Ryan Donnelly, Reader in Pharmaceutics at Queen's School of Pharmacy, has been named BBSRC Innovator of the Year 2013. He also won the Most Promising Innovator of the Year title. From Castleblayney in Co Monaghan, he will receive £15,000 to support his research and Queen’s School of Pharmacy will also receive £15,000.

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Queen's 'super solvents' voted innovation of the Century

Research by scientists from Queen’s on ionic liquid chemistry has been named the ‘Most Important British Innovation of the 21st Century’.

The work carried out by staff in the Queen's University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL) Research Centre has been voted the innovation that will have the greatest impact in the coming century.

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Launch of Global Food Institute

The new £33m Institute of Global Food Security (IGFS) launched at Queen’s in March, will improve global food safety through the establishment of an international ‘food-fortress’ in Belfast.

Speaking at the launch Tesco CEO Philip Clarke used the occasion to announce that the supermarket will double the amount it spends on buying fresh beef, pork and chicken from Northern Ireland farmers.

IGFS staff will work alongside the food sector locally, and worldwide, to improve the integrity of the food chain and deliver best value and quality to the consumer.

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Work begins on CEM

Work has started on the new £32m Centre for Experimental Medicine (CEM) with the announcement that the University has appointed O’Hare & McGovern as the main contractor. At the peak of construction the building of the Centre will support 400 jobs in the sector, including O’Hare & McGovern staff and other construction-related jobs.

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Queen’s study aims to use stem cells to help save sight of diabetes sufferers

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast are hoping to develop a novel approach that could save the sight of millions of diabetes sufferers using adult stem cells.

Currently millions of diabetics worldwide are at risk of sight loss due to a condition called Diabetic Retinopathy. This is when high blood sugar causes the blood vessels in the eye to become blocked or to leak. Failed blood flow harms the retina and leads to vision impairment and if left untreated can lead to blindness.

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Queen’s discovered comet visible in UK and Irish skies

A comet discovered by a Queen’s University Belfast supported project will be visible in UK and Irish skies from tomorrow evening (Tuesday 12 March) onwards.

Comet PANSTARRS was discovered in June 2011, by a team including astronomers from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen’s, using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, when it was still 1.2 billion kilometres from the Sun.

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Santander

Queen’s students from Brazil, Canada and Indonesia were among the latest cohort to benefit from scholarship funding provided by Santander as part of its global Santander Universities initiative.

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QGA Scholarships Awarded for 2012-13

The Queen's Graduate Association (QGA) has awarded scholarships to two top graduates in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for 2012-13.

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New York, New York!

October 2012

The unveiling of a portrait of Senator George Mitchell and the launch of a new finance internship initiative, took Queen’s to New York for two important events at the end of October.

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Queen's University Belfast recognised at THE Leadership and Management Awards 2012

Queen’s University Belfast has won the award for Outstanding University Fundraising Team at the annual Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.

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£425k Queen’s study could lead to new treatments for reversing symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

A novel study at Queen’s University Belfast which could eventually lead to new treatments for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been awarded £425K by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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£340,000 funding boost for Queen’s heart researchers

Heart scientists at Queen’s University have been awarded prestigious grants of more than £340,000 by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) as part of a multi-million pound boost for research in the UK. BHF Northern Ireland announced the funding as part of Support Our Science (SOS) month – a month long celebration of the charity’s life-saving research.

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Leading cancer specialist gets top UK award

One of the UK’s leading medical researchers has been recognised for excellence in medical science. Professor Patrick Johnston, Dean of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast has been elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences

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