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Month: October 2009

Now playing: Digital Interactive Gaming Conference Nov. 3-4

Now playing: Digital Interactive Gaming Conference Nov. 3-4

Ever since he held his first video game, Mike Katchabaw wanted to take it apart. Like separating pieces of a puzzle, he found out what made his favourite games tick and how to put them back together again.   Now a professor in the Department of Computer  …

$1.2M project speeds research data processing

$1.2M project speeds research data processing

A new high-speed network to handle large blocks of research data
flowing at high rates – up to 10 terabytes per day – from
synchrotrons in Canada and the U.S. is the latest project at
Western’s SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic Research
Computing Network).

Presidential installation a family affair

Presidential installation a family affair

It was an emotional moment for Amit Chakma as he stood before an
audience of University of Western Ontario graduates and his family
on Oct. 23 to become officially installed as university president.

Ecofeminism: our last great hope?

Ecofeminism: our last great hope?

“When the planet is ruined, the continent forlorn in water
and smoke,” writes Canadian poet Dionne Brand, in her long,
unflinching elegy, Inventory (2006), in which she tallies up the
disaster that is the present.

A closer look at the Globe report

A closer look at the Globe report

The University of Western Ontario received high grades for student
satisfaction in the 2010 Globe and Mail Canadian University Report.

A brief history of abortion rights in Canada

A brief history of abortion rights in Canada

I saw women dying from back street abortions and felt I had to do
something,” says Mary McKim, a London doctor who worked at
Women’s College Hospital in the 1950s.

Same-sex rights followed years of struggle

Same-sex rights followed years of struggle

Had same-sex couple Amanda and Nicole grown up in the 1960s there
would have been little hope for their dreams of getting married and
having children to come true.

Word on the Street

Word on the Street

Question: What has been the most important right women have
achieved within the last 50 years?

$1.2M project speeds research data processing

$1.2M project speeds research data processing

A new high-speed network to handle large blocks of research data
flowing at high rates – up to 10 terabytes per day – from
synchrotrons in Canada and the U.S. is the latest project at
Western’s SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic Research
Computing Network).

Presidential installation a family affair

Presidential installation a family affair

It was an emotional moment for Amit Chakma as he stood before an
audience of University of Western Ontario graduates and his family
on Oct. 23 to become officially installed as university president.

Ecofeminism: our last great hope?

Ecofeminism: our last great hope?

“When the planet is ruined, the continent forlorn in water
and smoke,” writes Canadian poet Dionne Brand, in her long,
unflinching elegy, Inventory (2006), in which she tallies up the
disaster that is the present.

A closer look at the Globe report

A closer look at the Globe report

The University of Western Ontario received high grades for student
satisfaction in the 2010 Globe and Mail Canadian University Report.

A brief history of abortion rights in Canada

A brief history of abortion rights in Canada

I saw women dying from back street abortions and felt I had to do
something,” says Mary McKim, a London doctor who worked at
Women’s College Hospital in the 1950s.

Same-sex rights followed years of struggle

Same-sex rights followed years of struggle

Had same-sex couple Amanda and Nicole grown up in the 1960s there
would have been little hope for their dreams of getting married and
having children to come true.

Word on the Street

Word on the Street

Question: What has been the most important right women have
achieved within the last 50 years?