HONG KONG – Forty-four undergraduates and post-graduates representing seven faculties and affiliated colleges celebrated the culmination of their time at Western as the university held its eighth annual Hong Kong convocation ceremony Sunday in the Chance …
Month: May 2012
Redefining archaeological research
Gently cradling a 5,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from Ur, Andrew Nelson wishes he could peel back the layers to find out what makes up this first-generation iPad. And thanks to a new microCT scanner at Western’s Sustainable Archaeology Repository (SAR), the Anthropology professor has done just that.
Different time, same school spirit for alumnus
Harold Bettger was just like any other student at Western. He excelled in school, joined a fraternity, ventured downtown and played on the soccer team. The only difference is there were three buildings on campus at the time. After all, it was the early 1930s.
Students share love of books across borders
When Shannon Marrinan and Monica Gagne first began the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at Western last September, they understood there would be opportunities to apply their theoretical knowledge through experiential learning.
Newalta gift keys environmental research
Western’s sustainability research efforts got a $1.125 million boost last week from Newalta Corp., North America’s leading provider of resource recovery solutions.
Campus Digest, May 10
Western professor Alain Goldschlager, Department of French, recently received the Ontario Volunteer Service Award, recognizing 30 years of service with B’nai Brith Canada, the National Task Force on Holocaust Education and the League of Human Rights. For a man who...
Winders: Opinion deserves scorn, not firing
The search for truth occasionally involves shouting down a few fools along the way. Take Naomi Schaefer Riley, for instance.
Lamothe: Column makes the problem ‘real’ to all
I want to congratulate Adela Talbot for her opinion piece (Ignoring research puts lives on the line, April 19).
Liao: Solar article clouds the issue
An article on your site (Solar innovations see the light thanks to NSERC grant, April 19) paints a very misleading picture of the current state of photovoltaic technology.
St. Christian, et al.: Review process too open-ended
Western must stop hiding from the issue of free speech on campus.
Singh: Scientific Misconduct. Need for ethics training, mentoring and zero tolerance.
Any walk along Fifth Avenue in New York is an experience. On one such walk on Sunday, April 22, I encountered heavy rains and took shelter in St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Emergency message testing today
As part of the university’s larger emergency preparedness program, Western’s Communications and Public Affairs Department will be testing its emergency messaging system at 10 a.m. today on digital screens located throughout various buildings on campus.
On the clock: Competition places graduate research centre stage
While their complex research projects could – and often, do – fill hundreds of pages, Western graduate students had only three minutes to explain their work and its impact to a diverse audience as the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) hosted 3MT, a three-minute thesis competition developed at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.
Redefining archaeological research
Gently cradling a 5,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from Ur, Andrew Nelson wishes he could peel back the layers to find out what makes up this first-generation iPad. And thanks to a new microCT scanner at Western’s Sustainable Archaeology Repository (SAR), the Anthropology professor has done just that.
Different time, same school spirit for alumnus
Harold Bettger was just like any other student at Western. He excelled in school, joined a fraternity, ventured downtown and played on the soccer team. The only difference is there were three buildings on campus at the time. After all, it was the early 1930s.
Students share love of books across borders
When Shannon Marrinan and Monica Gagne first began the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at Western last September, they understood there would be opportunities to apply their theoretical knowledge through experiential learning.
Newalta gift keys environmental research
Western’s sustainability research efforts got a $1.125 million boost last week from Newalta Corp., North America’s leading provider of resource recovery solutions.
Campus Digest, May 10
Western professor Alain Goldschlager, Department of French, recently received the Ontario Volunteer Service Award, recognizing 30 years of service with B’nai Brith Canada, the National Task Force on Holocaust Education and the League of Human Rights. For a man who...
Winders: Opinion deserves scorn, not firing
The search for truth occasionally involves shouting down a few fools along the way. Take Naomi Schaefer Riley, for instance.
Lamothe: Column makes the problem ‘real’ to all
I want to congratulate Adela Talbot for her opinion piece (Ignoring research puts lives on the line, April 19).
Liao: Solar article clouds the issue
An article on your site (Solar innovations see the light thanks to NSERC grant, April 19) paints a very misleading picture of the current state of photovoltaic technology.
St. Christian, et al.: Review process too open-ended
Western must stop hiding from the issue of free speech on campus.
Singh: Scientific Misconduct. Need for ethics training, mentoring and zero tolerance.
Any walk along Fifth Avenue in New York is an experience. On one such walk on Sunday, April 22, I encountered heavy rains and took shelter in St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
Emergency message testing today
As part of the university’s larger emergency preparedness program, Western’s Communications and Public Affairs Department will be testing its emergency messaging system at 10 a.m. today on digital screens located throughout various buildings on campus.
On the clock: Competition places graduate research centre stage
While their complex research projects could – and often, do – fill hundreds of pages, Western graduate students had only three minutes to explain their work and its impact to a diverse audience as the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) hosted 3MT, a three-minute thesis competition developed at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.