Month: August 2009

An initiative started at The University of Western Ontario
promoting each person’s role in preventing women abuse was given
$622,000 from the province to increase resources and training for
the workplace.

Retired Physical Plant staff member Keith Kraul died July 29 at the
age of 77. Kraul, of Lucan, retired from Western in 1996 following
33 years of service.

Western News has a number of writing opportunities for volunteers.

Richard Ivey School of Business professors were honoured in Chicago
this past weekend with the Decade Award from the Academy of
Management Review, the pre-eminent journal for management and
organization scholars.

The University of Western Ontario Fire Safety and Emergency
Management has instituted a new initiative that allows occupants to
re-enter buildings when fire alarms stop ringing.

Add pressure from urban sprawl and shrinking cropland to a growing
demand for locally produced fruits and vegetables, and it’s
tempting to bring marginal land into food production.

Western alumnus John ‘Jack’ Lawrence, whose founding gift of $3.7
million established the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and
Management at Richard Ivey School of Business, died this week in a
plane crash.

Hospitality Services at The University of Western Ontario is
hosting its ninth annual Job Fair on Monday, Aug. 10 and is looking
to fill about 50 part-time positions for the fall.

Two top athletes from The University of Western Ontario have been
named to the national team for the Jeux de la Francophonie 2009,
being held in Beirut, Lebanon Sept. 27 to Oct. 6.

After almost 40 years on the east coast, Oakville-native Mark
Blagrave is returning to southern Ontario as Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Social Science at Huron University College.

The advertising deadline for the annual ‘Welcome to Western’ issue
of Western News is August 12.

A school program about healthy relationships built into the Grade 9
curriculum appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and
increase condom use.