People love to assign blame when things derail in organizations. Cicero, the Roman writer, speaker, philosopher and politician, said the causes of events always interest us more than the events themselves. Typically, it is the lower-level managers in organ …
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Western recently announced the funding of the new Medical Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics.
Looking for some indoor family fun during these cold winter months? Western’s Department of Film Studies and Museum London’s in-house theatre are joining together to give children a chance to see some quality cinema and short films.
The Student Success Centre at Western invites students to attend the 5th annual Career Week from Monday, Jan. 31-Friday, Feb. 3.
With plenty of buzz surrounding a new undergraduate tuition grant, introduced this month by the provincial government, details of the Liberals’ decision to cut roughly $42 million in research funding from the Ontario Research Fund (ORF) attracted significantly less attention, despite almost simultaneous implementation.
For those who want to rock, Western is the place to be.
Maybe you know it, maybe you don’t. And maybe, you don’t care.
Simeon ‘Shimi’ Ehrlich, an MA student in Classical Studies, took home the top poster prize at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), the largest gathering of classicists in the world, held the first week of January in Philadelphia.
Solar farms are sprouting up across the country at an exponential pace and this push for harvesting greener energy has prompted a Western Engineering researcher to figure out a way capitalize on daylight hours.
Personal fitness and nutrition expert Harley Pasternak has written two best-selling books, produced a series of workout DVDs, launched a line of snack chips, and counts celebrities like Lady Gaga and Robert Downey Jr. as clients. As if that’s not enough, he’s taking on the television world, co-hosting The Revolution, a new ABC TV/CityTV daytime talk show that debuts 2 p.m. today, Jan. 16.
University of Western Ontario researchers Gavin Buckingham and Melvyn A. Goodale, both of the Western’s Brain and Mind Institute, recently received a one-year $48,000 Health Research Grant from the Physicians’ Services Incorporated Foundation.
While some university students eagerly will welcome the extra money toward their education, others are upset by the narrow eligibility criteria of a new tuition grant – introduced by the provincial government this month and meant to cover 30 per cent of undergraduate tuition costs.