Campus Beat

Step into the ever-evolving world of the Internet—where reality blurs between a show and a podcast! For this special club takeover, we welcomed Iulia Rus, Assistant Director of the DAN School of Drama and Music’s Winter 2025 Major Love and Information, along with Charlie Hensel, who plays “Z” in the production. Recorded in the cozy CFRC studio, our conversation delves into the creative process behind this unique show, currently run...

Coming up in this special Queen’s Club Takeover of CFRC’s Campus Beat airwaves, we’re chatting with folks from the group Let’s Get Revved Up. The Let’s Get Revved Up club was formed in 2023 with the mission of raising funds and awareness for the Revved Up program. Revved Up is a not-for-profit organization at Queen’s that supports physical activity opportunities for individuals living with physic...

Hello and welcome to another episode of Campus Beat! In this installment, we’re thrilled to sit down with Queen’s University Rector Niki Boytchuk-Hale, along with this year’s Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award winners: Hannah Burrows, Ore Maxwell, and Zaid Kasim.

The Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award (ABTA)—named in honor of Dr. Agnes Benidickson, Queen’s University Chancellor from 1980 to 1996—is the highest honor a Queen’s student...

In this special edition of Campus Beat, we’re pleased to welcome members of the Queen’s Royal Canadian Moon Patrol Team, a design team of multidisciplinary engineering students at Queen’s University getting ready to compete in NASA’s 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge in Huntville, Alabama this spring. We chatted with team members about their group and its formation, the competition and the work each are...

Hello again and welcome everyone to another special edition of Campus Beat airing on CFRC 101.9 FM, streaming at cfrc.ca and on your favorite mobile apps like iheartradio.  You can find CFRC on instagram at @cfrcmusic,  I’m Dinah Jansen and with me is Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined our news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside our dedicated AMS student volunteer Jaya Kumar, a...

Welcome to Campus Beat broad and podcasting from CFRC 101.9 FM.  In this episode, host  Dinah Jansen alongisde Abyaz Karim, Jaya Kumar, and Jesse Bell present conversations with  and read statements from clubs and groups seeking to establish, increase, or continue mandatory or optional fees during the SGPS referendum that takes place January 29th and 30th.  All students are reminded that voting occurs online via simply votin...

Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of CFRC 101.9 FM’s Campus Beat with host, Dinah Jansen who is joined by Abyaz Karim, a Masters student in International Business who has recently joined the CFRC news team as the Campus News Reporter, alongside one of the station’s dedicated AMS student volunteers, Jaya Kumar.

Coming up, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running...

Hello again and welcome everyone to this special edition of Campus Beat. Coming up in this episode, we’re pleased to present conversations we held with each of the Candidates running for AMS Executive Offices including Presidential Candidates Jana Amer and Nico Brasset Duque, candidates for Vice President University Affairs, Dreyden George and Alyssa Perisa, and the candidate for Vice President Operations, Elena Nurzynski. Let’s ju...

Welcome to CFRC’s Campus Beat and our coverage of AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coming up on January 29th and 30th.  In this installment of our special broadcast and podcasts, we have the available recording furnished to us by the AMS of the January 23rd AMS 2025 All Candidates’ Debate, a historic event as it is the first un-slated election of Executives where candidates now run as individuals, not as slated tea...

In this special installment of Campus Beat, we continue with our special AMS and SGPS Elections and Referenda coverage presenting footage from the January 22nd 2025 Society of Graduate and Professional Students All Candidates Debate which occurred virtually with an almost historic number of candidates running for SGPS office. Video of the debate is available on the SGPS website at SGPS.ca. The debate was also broadcast on CFRC 101....

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Nicolas Lamp of the Faculty of Law to discuss breaking news from the United States concerning announcements from the incoming Donald Trump administration that the new President intends to impose 25% tariffs on goods from both Canada and Mexico heading into the US.  To learn more about the issues and potential impacts of this proposed policy for Canadians and Canadian industry, we c...

Hello and welcome to this special podcast featuring the Installation of Shelagh Rogers, 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University held at Grant Hall on November 11th 2024.  Chancellor Rogers was installed at the first ceremony of the Fall 2024 Convocation period.  The event was live streamed on the Queen’s University website and broadcast on CFRC 101. 9 FM and CFRC.ca from 2:30-4 PM.

In addition to the official installation...

Hello and welcome to this special podcast featuring the Installation Reception for Shelagh Rogers, 16th Chancellor of Queen’s University held at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on November 11th 2024. The private reception featured several speakers and a special playlist curated by Chancellor Rogers herself. The reception was broadcast via CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston and streamed on CFRC.ca from 5:30 – 7 pm...

Host Dinah Jansen covers campus news headlines including the recent passing of The Honourable Murray Sinclair, the installation of Shelagh Rogers as Queen’s University’s 16th Chancellor on November 11th, recent NSERC accolades for two university scholars, and the University’s recent celebration of this year’s Distinguished Service Award recipients. Campus News Reporter Ali Al-Safadi follows with a report on ...

In this episode, host Dinah Jansen covers campus news headlines including Dr. Jane Philpott’s imminent departure from her deanship in the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Ministry of Labour’s recent issuance of a No Board Report related to collective agreement negotiations between Queen’s University and PSAC 901 (Unit 2) Post Doctoral Fellows, and Norma Barrett’s appointment as Uni...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Campus Beat!  In this episode, we share a recording of CFRC’s live broadcast of the 2024 Queen’s University Tricolour Awards Ceremony where Niki Boytchuk Hale, Kyla Gibson, Tara Rezvan, and Meena Waseem were inducted into the Tricolour Society.  The event took place at the University Club on April 5th and was broadcasted locally on CFRC 101.9 FM and streamed globally via cfrc.ca.

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