Story by: Alec Ross, Queen's Alumni Review

 

 

photo by:Greg Black, Queen's University Photographer

It’s a resource that most of us take for granted – an abundance of clean, safe drinking water available at any time, whenever we turn the tap.  Behind the scenes, thousands of dedicated professionals in municipalities, government and the private sector work tirelessly to deliver on this promise - overcoming challenges far beyond the simple equation of supply and demand.

Thanks to the foresight of its founding partners (Province of Ontario, Queen’s University, Novelis), Innovation Park has quickly become Kingston’s key gathering place and technology hub for organizations at the forefront of driving research, innovation, commercialization and economic development activities and investments.

Life long learning is a valuable part of becoming successful in all regards. Learning new concepts, building relationships and even learning new languages are all fundamental components of strengthening skills and developing better business practice.

Using a new Laboratory Positron Emission Tomography scanner designed by a team of multidisciplinary collaborators at the Université de Sherbrooke, medical researchers across Canada can more easily and effectively monitor disease processes in small animals, with the end goal to provide better treatment for people.

A commercial-scale process to extract and reuse pure hydrogen from the hydrogen sulfide that naturally contaminates unrefined oil, including oil sands, is one step closer to reality thanks to a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. (KPM) of Kingston, Ontario.

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The Queen’s-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre (FCRC) located in Kingston at the Innovation Park of Queen’s University has an international reputation for being the place to go for innovative solutions for new fuel cell product development. Researchers at FCRC are working with partners from Germany, Norway, the USA, and Brazil on breakthrough concepts for making fuel cells more reliable and affordable.

Every year, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario hosts Design at Work to illustrate how design creates value for businesses. Hundreds of designers from across the province take part in the exhibition, but only a handful are singled out as the best of the best in the juried competition.