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Earl Hall. Built between 1963 and 1966, Earl Hall did house the Queen's Department of biology, but is now part of the Biosciences Complex. Its hallways include displays of small animals, reptiles, and fish. It is named in honour of Rollo Othwell Earl (BA 1914, LLD 1960), who taught biology at Queen's and was Dean of Arts from 1951 to 1959. It is located between Barrie Street and arch street, south of St James Anglican Church.

Economic Research, Institute for. This institute in the Department of economics was established in 1953 by economics professor Frank Knox, its first director. Originally, its activities involved bringing economists from across Canada to Queen's during the summer to conduct research. This was at a time when economics departments in Canada were extremely small and had few chances for interaction. The growth of economics departments and improvements in transportation and communication in recent decades have lessened the need to bring economists together for the summer. During the past 25 years, the institute's focus has turned toward support of the graduate economics program at Queen's by helping to fund research by faculty members and helping to provide computing equipment for students. However, the institute continues to bring scholars from other universities for economic research, conferences, seminars, and workshops. Two other major roles of the institute today are funding the printing and distribution of a series of discussion papers (roughly 30 to 40 a year), and maintaining a collection of discussion papers from other academic institutions.

Economics, Department of. Philosophy professor John Watson taught courses in economics at Queen's as early as 1877, but a separate department of Political and Economic Science was not founded until 1889, under Prof Adam Shortt. This department taught and conducted research in most fields of economics, both theoretical and applied, and, after 1919, also included commerce courses (see School of Business). There has always been a strong interest in Canadian public policy in the department, and three members of the department, Shortt, O.D. Skelton, and W.C. Clark, played a major role in the formation of the professional public service in Ottawa. In 1964, the modern Department of Economics was established as a separate unit. It currently has about 30 full-time faculty and offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs, including one of Canada's most successful PhD programs. The department's research activities are aided by the institute for economic research and the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. Three of Queen's principals have been drawn from the department: W.A. Mackintosh, John Deutsch, and David Smith. The department is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science and its main offices are located in Dunning Hall. See also Centre for International Relations and Ottawa and Queen's.

Edmunds, Leonard. Edmunds was the British civil servant who signed Queen's royal charter on behalf of queen victoria in 1841. He held a dual appointment as Clerk of Commissioner of Patents and Reading Clerk to the House of Lords from 1835 until he was forced from office in a major political scandal in 1865. One of his duties in the former post was to sign Royal Charters and Patents in the name of the monarch. He put his name to Queen's royal charter on 16 October 1841, which has since been known as university day. In 1865 Edmunds was forced from both of his jobs when a series of investigations revealed that he had been skimming money from the fees that groups paid for charters and patents. However, he publicly charged that some of the #17,000 that he had skimmed were for the Lord Chancellor, the British equivalent of the Minister of Finance. In the ensuing scandal the Chancellor was also forced to resign. It is unknown whether Edmunds skimmed money from the more than #600 Queen's officials paid for their charter.

Education, Faculty of. Queen's first Faculty of Education was founded in 1907, but closed in 1920 when the training of teachers in Ontario was centralized in Toronto. The present Faculty dates from 1965, when the province approved the Duncan McArthur College of Education, a Queen's-affiliated college temporarily located at 131 Union Street (now the site of the Stauffer Library). Named after a former head of Queen's history department who became Ontario's Minister of Education, the college registered its first 40 students in the 1968-1969 academic year under the deanship of Queen's alumnus Vernon Ready. By 1971, the college had been renamed the Faculty of Education in order to clarify its relationship to Queen's, and had moved to its present home in Duncan McArthur Hall on the west campus. The faculty trains teacher candidates in all school subjects and for all levels from kindergarten to OAC. About 600 students graduate from the Faculty each year. About one-third are Concurrent Education (ConEd) students, who combine their teacher training with regular undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's or Trent University. The Faculty offers program options in Primary-Junior, Intermediate-Senior and Technological Education, as well as several different program tracks: Aboriginal Teacher Education; Artist in Community Education; and Outdoor and Experiential Education. Through the Faculty's Continuing Teacher Education Office, over 5000 educators each year enroll in Additional Qualification Courses. Graduate degrees in education at the master's and doctoral level are offered through the School of Graduate Studies and Research.

Degrees: Bachelor of Education (BEd), Masters of Education (MEd), Doctor of Philosophy, Education (PhD).

Diplomas: Diploma in Technical Education

Education Library. Queen's Education Library contains more than 200,000 volumes and subscribes to more than 600 journals in the educational field. It has an important research collection of more than 3,000,000 microfiche, which includes various collections of tests, curricula, research reports, and other educational resources. The library also has a "Teaching Aids" area, which holds 10,000 kits, games, cassettes, pictures, slides, and videos which are of use in the classroom. The library is located in duncan mcarthur hall on west campus. See also libraries.

Education Students' Society. See faculty societies.

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of. The study of electricity began at Queen's in 1894 with a special series of lectures and, as the calendar boasted, "demonstrations of this wonderful form of energy...on telegraphy, telephony, electric lighting, and the driving of machinery." Queen's first real specialist in electricity, L.W. Gill, arrived at the university in 1900, and is generally considered the founder of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Electrical studies have changed drastically since then, but the department's late Victorian goal to study "electricity in all its variations" still holds. The department now teaches and conducts research in such fields as communications, fibre-optics, micro-electronics, power and transportation, electromagnetism, biomedicine, and electronic signal and image processing. There are about 25 full-time faculty in the department, which has been located since 1987 in walter light hall and Stewart-Pollack in Fleming Hall. It is named after one of the department's most successful graduates, Walter Light, former CEO of Northern Telecom and Chair of Queen's board of trustees (1985-1990). The department is part of the Faculty of Applied Science.

Ellis Hall. Completed in 1958, this building houses the Department of civil engineering and the administrative offices for the Faculty of applied science. The university's observatory is located on its roof. It is named after Douglas Stewart Ellis (1885-1955), a Queen's graduate who taught civil engineering between 1910 and 1955 and was Dean of Applied Science from 1943 to 1955. It is located on University Avenue opposite Ontario Hall.

Elrond College. See Princess Towers.

Emergency Medicine, Department of. Queen's University has a strong tradition in Emergency Medicine in Canada. It was established as one of the first full time Emergency Medicine groups in 1971 and gained University status as a division in the Department of Surgery in 1973. The first residents grauted from the program in 1977. In 1978, the division created a three-year postgraduate program in Emergency Medicine. Once specialty status was recognized by the Royal College, the program was modified to meet the new requirements and has continued since then. The first fellowships were awarded in 1983. Since that time, more than 40 residents have completed the program. The department achieved full Departmental status in 1996, becoming the first Canadian University Department of Emergency Medicine. Physicians staff emergency departments at the Hotel Dieu Hospital and at Kingston General Hospital, where the Department's offices are located.

Emergency Report Centre. This is Queen's emergency switchboard. Anyone who experiences or suspects an emergency of any kind including fire, theft, assault or injury can alert security staff or summon help by calling the centre at (533)-6111. Operators are on duty 24 hours a day. The centre can also be reached directly by picking up one of the university's indoor or outdoor emergency telephones. The Emergency Report Centre is a service provided by Campus Security.

Emergency Telephones. There are four kinds of emergency telephones on campus. These are: the blue indoor assistance phones, mounted on yellow backgrounds, located in public areas inside campus buildings; and the outdoor emergency telephones, easily identified by their yellow boxes, red buttons and blue lights. The other two are the red lift phones, which are in areas where dangerous chemicals are used, and the elevator phones located in some elevators on campus. All of these telephones are connected to the Emergency Report Centre, but the blue indoor assistance phones can also be used to reach Campus Security, the Alma Mater Society's walkhome service, city taxis and the Kingston Access Bus. The outdoor emergency telephones can detect voices and sounds up to 10 metres away; if no voice is heard after the emergency phone is activated, security staff treats the incident as an emergency and respond immediately. People are encouraged to use the emergency telephones in any situation of fear, crisis or concern. Campus Security would also like to remind the Queen's community that the on campus Bell Canada payphones can be used free of charge, to contact Campus Security. Just lift the receiver; press the button labeled "Campus Security" located on the lower left corner of the phone to be connected. The campus's emergency telephone network is part of the security service provided by Campus Security.

Employee Assistance Program. The university has made this voluntary, confidential counselling service available to all Queen's employees since 1990. It provides employees, their spouses or partners and dependents with immediate access to professional counselling and crisis services, 24 hours a day, for any kind of personal or work-related problem. The employee or family member calls a toll-free number, and a consultant puts them in touch with a counsellor who can help them, either in Kingston, or elsewhere in Canada if they are travelling or living outside of the Kingston area. The university, not the employee, pays for the assistance up to a maximum of 12 sessions. The service is provided by a private consulting firm on contract with the university. The contract and the program is administered by a committee made up of representatives of the university, the campus's three CUPE union locals, the faculty association, and the staff association. The committee reports to the vice-principal (operations and finance). The toll-free number for the program, for anglophones, is 1-800-387-4765; for francophones the toll-free number is 1-800-361-5676.

Employment Equity. Queen's has developed an action plan to increase representation of employees in four groups: women, aboriginal people, people with disabilities, and racial minorities. The plan includes numerical goals for hiring, elimination of policies and practices that unintentionally disadvantage members of the four groups, adoption of some special measures to accommodate members of the groups, and activities to establish a comfortable climate for them. Queen's has been subject to the Federal Contractors Program since 1986. This program requires that organizations with more than 100 employees who have contracts with the Federal Government of $200,000 or more commit to achieving employment equity including preparation and implementation of employment equity plans. Queen's developed its first plan in 1992. The most recent plan was completed in 2000. Responsibility for employment equity at Queen's falls on a number of academic and administrative officers and, ultimately, on all members of the Queen's community. However, primary responsibility for employment equity lies within the mandates of the Office of the University Advisor on Equity and the Council on Employment Equity. Primary support for the Council is provided by the Human Resources Department.

Engineering Chemistry, Department of. See Chemistry, Department of.

Engineering Physics, Department of. See Physics, Department of.

Engineering Society. See faculty societies.

English, Department of. This department was founded in 1888, when Professor James Cappon took up the first Chair of English at Queen's. Some English language and literature had been taught between 1841 and 1870 as part of Logic, Rhetoric, and Moral Philosophy; between 1870 and 1888 the subject was taught with History and Modern Languages. The early focus was on the history of the language, grammar, and literary history; during Cappon's 31-year tenure the curriculum turned to a focus on the direct examination of literary works themselves. Graduate studies have been a part of English at Queen's since at least 1929, when the first recorded MA was granted; the first recorded PhD was granted in 1942. At present, course offerings at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and graduate theses, span the entire range of contemporary English studies, including the traditional periods of British literature, other literatures in English, and literary theory. The resources of the department include the strathy language unit, a research centre endowed to produce a usage guide for Canadians and to conduct research into Canadian English. With a permanent faculty of about 30 and a distinguished record in both teaching and research, the department has seen its enrolment at both the undergraduate and graduate levels rise by more than 50 per cent since 1975. English now has the largest number of full-time honours students in the Faculty of arts and science, and one of the largest graduate programs in the university. The department is located on the fourth and fifth floors of John Watson Hall.

English, School of. Queen's School of English has offered classes in English as a Second Language since 1942. Administered by the Faculty of Arts and Science, the school is open to any post-secondary student in Canada or abroad whose native language is not English and who is over 18. It now serves about 650 students a year from Canada and around the world. The instructional focus is English for Academic Purposes. The school offers three 12-week programs throughout the year, two 4-week programs and several contract programs in the spring and summer, and a variety of inter-session courses. Students have a minimum of 20 hours of classroom instruction per week and are required to speak English exclusively both on campus and around the city. Courses at the school cannot be used for credit at Queen's, but they are generally recognized for credit at non-English institutions both in Canada and abroad. The School of English office is located at 96 Lower Albert Street.

Enrichment Studies The Enrichment Studies office at Queen's University is a division of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and is responsible for coordinating educational programs that provide a unqiue experiene to students at both an elementary and secondary level. All Enrichment Studies courses are taught by professionals in and around the Kingston community, from Queen's University faculty members to graduate students, to individuals currently working in the industry. We invite you to contact us for further information regarding any of our programs. The following website provides details about those programs:http://www.queensu.ca/enrichment/

Equity. See employment equity.

Environmental Health and Safety, Department of.This department works to maintain a responsible, safe and healthy working environment for staff, faculty and administration at Queen's. The department distributes information on hazardous waste management, radiation safety, biohazard safety, workplace violence, disaster responsiveness, injuries incured at work, processing of Workplace and Insurance Safety Board claims for Queen's employees, and an effective return-to-work strategy. In order to encourage University wide participation in maintaining a well functioning Internal Responsibility System, Queen's University maintains eight Joint Health and Safety Committees on campus. These committees, restructured in 1997 to more accurately reflect the interests and needs of the University community, were formally approved by the Minister of Labour and meet the legal requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The department retains a Departmental Safety Officer that works as a link between this group and administrative units, in order to ensure that proper and safe working conditions are in place. This organization is located in the Rideau Building and reports to the Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance).

Enterprise Development, Centre for.Established in 2000 by Queen's School of Business, QCED Inc. is focused on the needs and challenges of new, emerging, high-growth technology-oriented enterprises. Through a network of Knowledge Angels™ and Queen's professors, QCED helps these firms develop the business and management skills needed to succeed.

Environmental Studies, School of. In response to a growing demand for environmental education, the Faculty of Arts and Science developed a science curriculum for Environmental Biology, Chemistry, Geography (Earth Systems Science), Geological Sciences and Life Sciences that was first opened to students in 1992. Subsequently, the School of Environmental Studies was created in 1995 to accommodate the rapid growth of the program's popularity. The School moved in April 1997 from an initial office/laboratory in Earl Hall to a new suite of 12 offices and seven laboratories in the BioSciences Complex. The expansion of facilities fostered a surge in research activity and funding, bolstered by significant equipment grants and gifts, and the facilities now support about 20 postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate research projects. The School is currently working with the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology to recruit and appoint the first faculty member in the School shared between the Faculties of Health Sciences and Arts and Science. The School's faculty draw on a wide variety of backgrounds--biology, chemistry, geography, geological sciences, economics, history, and policy studies. It is located in the Biosciences Complex.

Ergonomics Research Group. This is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to studies that can be directly applied to ergonomic problems arising in public and occupational health. Research is under way on such topics as lower back pain, mobility aids, robotics and sense perception, locomotive cab design, and physical selection standards used by the military and other employers. The group, established in 1988, draws on researchers from mechanical engineering, psychology, computing and information science, the School of business, and the School of physical and health education. The group reports to the School of Graduate Studies and Research.

Etherington, Agnes Richardson (1880-1954). Etherington is one of the most influential figures in Queen's cultural history. She played a leading role in the establishment of Queen's fine art program in the 1930s and had even earlier purchased a collection of Inuit and native art for the university. Her grand red-brick home on university avenue was a gathering place for area artists and on her death in 1954 she willed it to Queen's as the basis of what is now the agnes etherington art centre. She was the sister of Queen's chancellor James Richardson, who served between 1929 and 1939, and was married to medical dean Frederick Etherington. Her niece, agnes mccausland benidickson, is Chancellor Emeritus of Queen's. See also Richardson Family.

Etherington Hall. Built in 1959, Etherington Hall houses the Departments of medicine, ophthalmology, and obstetrics and gynaecology, and the medical art and photography service. It is named after Frederick Etherington, a former Dean of Medicine and the husband of agnes etherington, who donated the Agnes Etherington Art Centre to Queen's.

Executive Decision Centre. Established in 1987 by the Queen's School of Business, the Executive Decision Centre began as a research facility to study how computers can assist small groups in face-to-face meetings. The Centre's "electronic brainstorming" technology allows meeting participants to exchange ideas electronically, which encourages individual contributions and results in more effective group decisions. The Centre is used by management teams from the public and private sectors to support their strategic planning and decision-making tasks. The Centre's experienced meeting facilitators have a facility at Queen's as well as a portable system, allowing them to serve clients across North America. The Centre is also used by Queen's researchers, administrators and students.

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