You know Ian Brignell’s work, even if you don’t know Ian Brignell. During the course of a nearly three-decade career, the Toronto-based lettering and logo designer has worked with some of the biggest names in the corporate world – Bell and Boston Pi …
Month: January 2012
Senior-driving study eyes safer roadways
For some, a GPS is an invaluable part of a lengthy commute, helping drivers navigate unfamiliar cities. For others – and seniors, in particular – a GPS, along with a number of other automotive gadgets, often proves a distraction, doing more harm than good.
Going ‘rogue’: Western professor warns Kyoto pullout could have dire consequences for Canada
Radoslav Dimitrov was there the day Canada became a “rogue state” in the eyes of the world.
Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials
The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) awarded Sumagen Canada Inc. $728,000 to support human clinical trials for a preventative HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario.
Campus Digest, Jan. 12
Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.” For...
Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border
It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.
Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’
I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).
Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission
Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.
Price: WFS appointment an ’embarrassment’
I’m wondering, did you check this story before you put it on your website (“Essex named to climate change post,” Dec. 8)?
Avola: Occupy movement all about love
The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.
Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy
Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).
Western helping numbers add up
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Project adds another dimension to campus
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.
Senior-driving study eyes safer roadways
For some, a GPS is an invaluable part of a lengthy commute, helping drivers navigate unfamiliar cities. For others – and seniors, in particular – a GPS, along with a number of other automotive gadgets, often proves a distraction, doing more harm than good.
Going ‘rogue’: Western professor warns Kyoto pullout could have dire consequences for Canada
Radoslav Dimitrov was there the day Canada became a “rogue state” in the eyes of the world.
Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials
The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) awarded Sumagen Canada Inc. $728,000 to support human clinical trials for a preventative HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario.
Campus Digest, Jan. 12
Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.” For...
Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border
It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.
Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’
I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).
Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission
Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.
Price: WFS appointment an ’embarrassment’
I’m wondering, did you check this story before you put it on your website (“Essex named to climate change post,” Dec. 8)?
Avola: Occupy movement all about love
The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.
Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy
Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).
Western helping numbers add up
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Project adds another dimension to campus
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.