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Month: November 2009

First farmers’ market at Brescia

First farmers’ market at Brescia

Brescia University College students will be able to purchase local foods once a month at a farmers’ market, beginning Dec. 1, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the auditorium foyer in the St. James Building. The market will be hosted monthly during the academic year …

Transit workers will not picket campus

Transit workers will not picket campus

Director of Campus Community Police Service Elgin Austen says
members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) – Local 741 have made a
public statement they will not be holding information pickets on
campus.

Postovit named Premier Young Researcher

Postovit named Premier Young Researcher

Lynne-Marie Postovit of Western’s Department of Anatomy and Cell
Biology has been named Canada’s Premier Young Researcher by the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) at an awards ceremony
in Ottawa.

Time to ramp up health innovation

Time to ramp up health innovation

Canada’s lacklustre pace in adopting health innovations and
commercializing new products and processes is costing our health
system, according to organizers of a Richard Ivey School of
Business conference taking place next week.

Potential undergrads preview campus

Potential undergrads preview campus

It’s that time of year when high school students and their families
are ‘shopping’ for post-secondary institutions and flock by the
thousands to university campuses across the province.

In Memoriam – Betty Touseant

In Memoriam – Betty Touseant

The flag will be at half-mast Friday, Nov. 20 until 11 a.m. for
former Book Store at Western employee Betty Touseant, who died Nov.
18.

In Memoriam – Lewis Stafford Carey

In Memoriam – Lewis Stafford Carey

Former Chair of Radiology Dr. Lewis Stafford Carey died Nov. 10 at
his workplace of almost 20 years, London Health Sciences Centre –
University Hospital.

Why Ivey is expanding in Asia

Why Ivey is expanding in Asia

The Indian economy is doing relatively well with a predicted growth
rate of six to seven per cent in 2009, despite the global economic
crisis that has gripped the world’s economy since the middle
of 2008.

Western building Peruvian research centre

Western building Peruvian research centre

For a mere $12,000 U.S., The University of Western Ontario has
become the proud owner of a half a hectare (one acre) of property
in one of the most pristine, archaeologically significant regions
in the world — Puerto Moorin, a coastal area in Peru.

Undergraduate ranks may grow again

Undergraduate ranks may grow again

The University of Western Ontario may consider expanding first-year
enrolment of undergraduate students beyond the current frozen level
of 4,350 students.

Transit workers will not picket campus

Transit workers will not picket campus

Director of Campus Community Police Service Elgin Austen says
members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) – Local 741 have made a
public statement they will not be holding information pickets on
campus.

Postovit named Premier Young Researcher

Postovit named Premier Young Researcher

Lynne-Marie Postovit of Western’s Department of Anatomy and Cell
Biology has been named Canada’s Premier Young Researcher by the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) at an awards ceremony
in Ottawa.

Time to ramp up health innovation

Time to ramp up health innovation

Canada’s lacklustre pace in adopting health innovations and
commercializing new products and processes is costing our health
system, according to organizers of a Richard Ivey School of
Business conference taking place next week.

Potential undergrads preview campus

Potential undergrads preview campus

It’s that time of year when high school students and their families
are ‘shopping’ for post-secondary institutions and flock by the
thousands to university campuses across the province.

In Memoriam – Betty Touseant

In Memoriam – Betty Touseant

The flag will be at half-mast Friday, Nov. 20 until 11 a.m. for
former Book Store at Western employee Betty Touseant, who died Nov.
18.

In Memoriam – Lewis Stafford Carey

In Memoriam – Lewis Stafford Carey

Former Chair of Radiology Dr. Lewis Stafford Carey died Nov. 10 at
his workplace of almost 20 years, London Health Sciences Centre –
University Hospital.

Why Ivey is expanding in Asia

Why Ivey is expanding in Asia

The Indian economy is doing relatively well with a predicted growth
rate of six to seven per cent in 2009, despite the global economic
crisis that has gripped the world’s economy since the middle
of 2008.

Western building Peruvian research centre

Western building Peruvian research centre

For a mere $12,000 U.S., The University of Western Ontario has
become the proud owner of a half a hectare (one acre) of property
in one of the most pristine, archaeologically significant regions
in the world — Puerto Moorin, a coastal area in Peru.

Undergraduate ranks may grow again

Undergraduate ranks may grow again

The University of Western Ontario may consider expanding first-year
enrolment of undergraduate students beyond the current frozen level
of 4,350 students.