The Queen's Journal, Volume 145, Issue 12

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Roberta Bondar delivers lecture on human health & space at Queen’s Bondar speaks to packed lecture hall at Queen’s School of Medicine building

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Roberta Bondar delivering her lecture in the Queen’s School of Medicine building on Wednesday.

I ain S herriff -S cott Assistant News Editor

Bondar’s extensive education in the sciences spans more than a decade. She holds a Bachelor of Science in zoology and agriculture, a Master’s of Science in experimental pathology, a PhD in neurobiology and a medical degree. For over a decade, Bondar led an international research team at NASA. During her time there, she aimed to find better ways to treat recovering astronauts and to use this information to help treat neurological illnesses back on earth. In an interview with Bondar before her lecture on Wednesday, she told The Journal in terms of human resilience, “we’re going to have to work things out before we go to Mars.” “We’ve already had one [accident] with the Virgin Galactic type of spacecraft, but we can’t let these things stop us and say one accident is going to mean we can’t do this. What it does, is make us say ‘how do we make it smarter,’ ‘how do we become smarter,’” she said. During the lecture, Bondar discussed developing countermeasures to the effects of space on the human body, but claimed there’s still work to be done. “People who think they are going to get to Mars in 2020 and still be around, I think are whistling up the chimney,” she said,

In 1992, Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to enter space. While the experience was undoubtedly incredible, Bondar told a group of Queen’s students her return to earth wasn’t easy. This Wednesday, Bondar presented her lecture “Beyond Earth — A Cautionary Tale,” at the 33rd annual H. Garfield Kelly Visiting Lectureship event at the Queen’s School of Medicine. She discussed her experiences as an astronaut and the physiological challenges humans still face in both long-term and short-term space flight. During Bondar’s lone trip to space, she conducted dozens of experiments in the Discovery shuttle’s space-lab for the first International Microgravity Laboratory mission. Bondar was a “prime payload specialist” on the eight-day space flight orbiting earth. “[After the mission], they took us down to Loma Linda to have CT scans of our heads to make sure we hadn’t had strokes,” Bondar told to a packed lecture theatre on Wednesday. “The countermeasures, as I mentioned, we try very hard … But we also have to know that there is probably an end-point to human physiology [in space] and we have to keep trying to figure out ways around it,” she said.

I Love First Peoples organization holds shoebox charity drive

Kingston chapter hoping to establish long-term presence with campaign building J asnit P abla Assistant News Editor

Starting this month, Canada’s I Love First Peoples (ILFP) Kingston chapter is accepting gift-filled shoebox donations for Indigenous youth. ILFP is a registered Canadian non-profit organization focused on empowering Indigenous youth to stay in school. Currently, ILFP’s projects reach remote communities and promote education through donations and awareness campaigns. “This is our first ever shoebox drive,” Kingston chapter President Nilita Sood told The Journal in an interview. Following a visit to Winnipeg where she See Bondar on page 4 witnessed the suffering of First Nations

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peoples who lived on the streets of the city, Josée Lusignan founded ILFP in 2013. She returned to Quebec and began her engagement with the community of Rapid Lake. After Lusignan’s visit to the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre this March and information night about the organization, the Kingston chapter was launched. Not only did Sood get involved, but she actually met the people that would become her ILFIP team. “[Lusignan] reached out to the Kingston community for anyone interested in joining the team and it just started from there,” Sood recalled. “Our core function here is to run See Drop on page 4

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