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 …
Month: October 2009
$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).
In Memoriam – Harold Warwick
Medicine dean left legacy
In Memoriam – Gordon Chess
‘Kindly gentleman’ third engineering dean
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.
Verbatim Excerpts from reports and commentaries in higher education
Collegiate spirit drives us to help advance the academic enterprise
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
The University of Western Ontario received high grades for student
satisfaction in the 2010 Globe and Mail Canadian University Report.
The Canadian Landscape An occasional series on poetry
From The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
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.
Winning access to birth control
It is easy for us to stroll into the local pharmacy or grocery
store and pick up condoms.
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
Question: What has been the most important right women have
achieved within the last 50 years?
$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).
In Memoriam – Harold Warwick
Medicine dean left legacy
In Memoriam – Gordon Chess
‘Kindly gentleman’ third engineering dean
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.
Verbatim Excerpts from reports and commentaries in higher education
Collegiate spirit drives us to help advance the academic enterprise
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
The University of Western Ontario received high grades for student
satisfaction in the 2010 Globe and Mail Canadian University Report.
The Canadian Landscape An occasional series on poetry
From The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay
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.
Winning access to birth control
It is easy for us to stroll into the local pharmacy or grocery
store and pick up condoms.
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
Question: What has been the most important right women have
achieved within the last 50 years?