Honing his glassblowing skills for decades, Yves Rambour has the uncanny ability to take a simple piece of glass and transform it into a complex, one-of-a-kind elaborate scientific instrument for university researchers. As part of an occasional s …
Month: August 2009
MFA exhibit leaves lasting impression
Five graduating Masters of Fine Art students are hoping to leave
McIntosh Art Gallery visitors with an aftertaste.
Mustangs football training camp begins
The two-time defending Yates Cup champion and defending Mitchell
Bowl champion Western Mustangs football team begins full training
camp this week at TD Waterhouse Stadium.
Lecturer part of Obama teleconference
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing faculty member Abe Oudshoorn
took part in quite the phone call last week – with U.S. President
Barack Obama.
Western welcomes largest class of medical students
The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University
of Western Ontario welcomes its largest class of first-year medical
students with a White Coat Ceremony on Wednesday.
Western launches national print ads and campaign website
Readers of six prominent national magazines will soon see
advertisements profiling some of the ways Western students,
faculty, staff and alumni are making a difference in the world.
Aboriginal educators gather at Western
More than 60 First Nations Directors of Education and other
Aboriginal educational leaders from across Canada will be meeting
at Western’s Althouse Faculty of Education Building (Room 2038) for
two full days (Aug. 21 and 22).
Curator-in-Residence joins McIntosh
Jessica Wyman, an art historian, critic and curator based in
Toronto, will be working as Contemporary Curator-in-Residence at
the McIntosh Gallery through December 2009.
Exploring the science of couples
From Romeo and Juliet to Brangelina, people the world over have
long been fascinated with the notion of what it is to be ‘a
couple.’
In Memoriam – Mir Maswood Ali
Professor Emeritus Mir Maswood Ali, 80, died Aug. 18 after lengthy
battle with pneumonia. Ali spent 33 years at Western before
retiring in 1994. The flag will be lowered Aug. 21 until dusk in
his memory.
In Memoriam – Nan Cumming
Nan Cumming, 78, a retired staff member from Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, died Aug. 13.
Warning about codeine use after tonsillectomy
A University of Western Ontario report being published in the New
England Journal of Medicine warns the use of codeine to treat pain
following a tonsillectomy could be fatal for some children.
Cardiovascular researcher wins Taylor Prize
The J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine has been
awarded to the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Garret FitzGerald
who contributed to the development of low-dose aspirin for the
prevention of heart disease.
MFA exhibit leaves lasting impression
Five graduating Masters of Fine Art students are hoping to leave
McIntosh Art Gallery visitors with an aftertaste.
Mustangs football training camp begins
The two-time defending Yates Cup champion and defending Mitchell
Bowl champion Western Mustangs football team begins full training
camp this week at TD Waterhouse Stadium.
Lecturer part of Obama teleconference
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing faculty member Abe Oudshoorn
took part in quite the phone call last week – with U.S. President
Barack Obama.
Western welcomes largest class of medical students
The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University
of Western Ontario welcomes its largest class of first-year medical
students with a White Coat Ceremony on Wednesday.
Western launches national print ads and campaign website
Readers of six prominent national magazines will soon see
advertisements profiling some of the ways Western students,
faculty, staff and alumni are making a difference in the world.
Aboriginal educators gather at Western
More than 60 First Nations Directors of Education and other
Aboriginal educational leaders from across Canada will be meeting
at Western’s Althouse Faculty of Education Building (Room 2038) for
two full days (Aug. 21 and 22).
Curator-in-Residence joins McIntosh
Jessica Wyman, an art historian, critic and curator based in
Toronto, will be working as Contemporary Curator-in-Residence at
the McIntosh Gallery through December 2009.
Exploring the science of couples
From Romeo and Juliet to Brangelina, people the world over have
long been fascinated with the notion of what it is to be ‘a
couple.’
In Memoriam – Mir Maswood Ali
Professor Emeritus Mir Maswood Ali, 80, died Aug. 18 after lengthy
battle with pneumonia. Ali spent 33 years at Western before
retiring in 1994. The flag will be lowered Aug. 21 until dusk in
his memory.
In Memoriam – Nan Cumming
Nan Cumming, 78, a retired staff member from Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, died Aug. 13.
Warning about codeine use after tonsillectomy
A University of Western Ontario report being published in the New
England Journal of Medicine warns the use of codeine to treat pain
following a tonsillectomy could be fatal for some children.
Cardiovascular researcher wins Taylor Prize
The J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine has been
awarded to the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Garret FitzGerald
who contributed to the development of low-dose aspirin for the
prevention of heart disease.