Queen's University Bachelor of Health Sciences

Congratulations to our 2026 BHSc Award Winners! We were delighted to celebrate your achievements in June at our Convocation Reception & Award Ceremony.
🎉Gold Medal in Health Sciences: Tracy Xu
🎉Bachelor of Health Sciences Community Stewardship Award: Michael Kailan
🎉Bachelor of Health Sciences Award for Leadership: Lucas Perri
🎉Not pictured: Award for Excellence in Health Sciences Research winners Alisha Ahmed & Dylan Re*****on

You can read more about our award winners, and view the list of Learning Track Excellence winners, on our website: https://bhsc.queensu.ca/current-students/awards

Reminder: Enrolment appointments end on Sunday, August 2nd @ 11:59pm (ET). During the registration hiatus (Aug. 3-16), no course enrolment can occur and you will need to wait until open enrolment begins on August 17th to made additional changes (add, drop, swap courses) to your schedule. Please note that during the hiatus we will be operating with reduced staffing, so wait times for email responses may be longer.

Our office is closed from Friday, July 31st @ 4pm - Tuesday, August 3rd @ 9am. Emails received during this time will not receive a response until our staff return from the long weekend.

Congratulations to BHSc '24 alumna Ariana Lewis, who is the 2026 recipient of the Alfred Bader Fellowship in Memory of Jean Royce! This award supports a year of study, research, or a project that fosters creative expression or drives progress in knowledge or society.

What’s the project?
Lewis – who goes by the stage name Ariana Gillis – is creating a full-length concept album about women’s reproductive health, with each song structured around part of a scientific manuscript (abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, references). Drawing on her graduate research in reproductive biology and her career as a singer-songwriter, she hopes to turn complex science into music people can hear, feel, and discuss.

Why does it matter?
For Lewis, the challenge is creating an album that doesn’t compromise the science or the art and also making sure it reaches people. “Women’s health remains notoriously underrepresented not only in science, but also in everyday conversation,” she says. Shifting that, she adds, will require “radical new approaches.”

What does this support make possible?
Before receiving the fellowship, Lewis wasn’t sure how she could keep pursuing music while building a career in science. The support gives her “the time, resources, and creative freedom to explore both at the same time,” she says, and create something she hopes can change how scientific information is shared and discussed.

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From housing to health advocacy: 2026 alumnae fellowships announced | Queen's Alumni A rural landowner trying to help solve the housing crisis. A musician and researcher creating an album about women’s reproductive health. And a genetic counsellor advancing the mission of an ultra-rare disease foundation shaped by her own family’s experience.These are the forward-thinking projec...

Registration for Health Sci Orientation is now OPEN! Our team is so excited to welcome you to Queen's in September, and they have lots of fun things planned for you 💙💛❤

Register here: https://trievents.ca/orientation/healthsciences

Do you want to apply to Queen's Medicine? Join us for a virtual Q&A session with members from our School of Medicine MD Admissions and Curriculum teams to learn about the programs, pathways, supports, how to apply, and more.

We are holding four webinars (July 21, 23, August 11, 18), each focused on different programs and pathways. Check out the times and registration details by visiting the link below. We hope you can join us!

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Hey incoming BHSc students 👋 Join us virtually next week to learn EVERYTHING you need to know about course registration. These webinars are led by our Program Director & Program Manager (aka the course registration experts) and also have opportunities to ask upper-year students questions about the process. We look forward to seeing you there!

For Incoming BHSc On-Campus Students:
📆Monday, July 13th
⏰ 1:30-2:30pm (ET)
🔗Register here: https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/0aFOhsSSQVqE73tPrBLQtA

For Incoming BHSc Online Students:
📆Tuesday, July 14th
⏰ 3-4pm (ET)
🔗Register here: https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/bXH5g7McQoijE_gxUOb03w

Both webinars will be recorded and the recordings will be shared with all incoming students to their official Queen's emails (be sure you are checking this email regularly!)

Attention upper-year BHSc students 📣 Our office is running an Upper-Year Course Registration Webinar this week for all BHSc students who are entering 2nd year and above! Dr. Philbrook will be covering important things to keep in mind while completing your course enrolment later this month. (This session will be recorded)

📆 Wednesday, July 8th
⏰ 11am-12pm
🔗 Check your Queen's email for the Zoom link in the "Important Enrolment Information: BHSc Registration FAQs" email that was sent to you by our Program Office last week

Please note that the BHSc office will be closed on July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. We will reopen on Monday, July 6th.

Congratulations to our BHSc Class of 2026! 🎓 We are so proud of all of you and we had so much fun celebrating your achievement 💙💛❤

Stay tuned for more photos!

Have a wonderful long weekend! Don't forget that the University (including our office) is closed on Monday, but we will back on Tuesday.