Month: November 2009

The annual Student-2-Business Networking Event (S2B) was launched
in January 2008 to address local business concerns about access to
talent.

A preventative treatment for AIDS is in the works at one Western
laboratory.

For the first time, scientists at The University of Western Ontario
have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will
trade reproduction for immediate survival.

Western Heads East is hosting a benefit concert at The Wave Friday
called “Code Red” in support the communities in Africa.

Mean well, speak well and do well.

Asia is already an important player in the global economy and will
become even more so as the economy emerges from recession.

The feature item in Research Western’s Silent Auction and Book Sale
to benefit the university’s United Way campaign is a pair of
business class tickets from Toronto to Dubai, valued at more than
$18,000.

Western’s bid for its eighth Ontario University Athletics
championship in 10 years fell short as the Waterloo Warriors upset
the Mustangs 8-5 on Saturday.

Once again, the Western Cares Food Drive, in conjunction with the
city-wide Business Cares Food Drive to support the London and Area
Food Bank, is about to begin. This year the campus drive will run
from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11.

While the London community struggles to maintain business entering
the second week of a transit strike, members of the Western
community are personally rallying to ensure staff, students and
faculty get to campus safely.

Are we alone? That’s the primary question incoming researchers will
be asking as participants of the newly created Canadian
Astrobiology Training Program (CATP).

Scientists have long used imaging technologies to peer into our
bodies and to diagnose what ails us. Robarts Research Institute
scientist Paula Foster, however, has taken this a step further and
is looking directly at individual cells.