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Month: January 2013

Campus Digest: Get ready to Refresh

Campus Digest: Get ready to Refresh

Refresh, the 11th annual Western Staff & Leaders’ Conference, is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 20-21. Open to all Western staff and leaders, conference sessions will be held in the Social Science Centre (SSC), with some sessions offered at other...

Culture jamming helps shake off the chill

Culture jamming helps shake off the chill

Feminist culture jamming employs techniques which catch people off guard, unsettle established ideas and erode patriarchal culture by mounting a challenge from within its institutions.

External VP search to begin shortly

External VP search to begin shortly

Kevin Goldthorp, Western’s vice-president (external relations), is leaving Western to become senior vice-president, advancement, and foundation president at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. His final day at the university will be Friday, Feb. 1.

Canadian cartoonist inspired by history

In the early 1970s, Canadian cartoonist and former Western employee Gordon Johnston of London created the comic ‘It Happened At Western,’ a campus history spinoff of his national comic success ‘It Happened in Canada,’ launched in 1967 to mark the country’s centennial and published in more than 60 newspapers at its peak.

UWOpera brings Mozart close to home

Over the years, Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’ has been interpreted in many ways, but this is clearly UWOpera’s own Western version of one of the master’s most famous operas.

Cover song boots student into prime time

You could say it was an Israeli soccer commercial that kicked off an international music career for Gareth Bush. You’d be surprised to hear the fourth-year King’s University College Criminology student is hoping a local fan base will pick up as a result.

English Language Centre celebrates opening

English Language Centre celebrates opening

Not only will it help diversify Western’s campus, it will help international students settle in, providing English language instruction alongside integrated means of cultural acclimatization.

Taking a global look at academic freedom

Taking a global look at academic freedom

Western President Amit Chakma asserted the importance and fragility of academic freedom around the world at a reception held at Western Law Jan. 22, celebrating professor Anna Dolidze, Western’s first Scholar at Risk.

Modern mummification sheds light on Ramses II

Some millennia ago, Yes might have been the object of worship in ancient Egypt. Today, Yes – a modern, domestic house cat – is helping shed light on the practice of mummification and the lives of ancients, such as Ramses II, the most celebrated pharaoh of Egypt.

Capone: Research push will take commitment

It won’t be an easy climb to the top of the research heap for Western, said John Capone, Western vice-president (research). But it’s something he feels the university needs to do.

Culture jamming helps shake off the chill

Culture jamming helps shake off the chill

Feminist culture jamming employs techniques which catch people off guard, unsettle established ideas and erode patriarchal culture by mounting a challenge from within its institutions.

External VP search to begin shortly

External VP search to begin shortly

Kevin Goldthorp, Western’s vice-president (external relations), is leaving Western to become senior vice-president, advancement, and foundation president at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. His final day at the university will be Friday, Feb. 1.

Canadian cartoonist inspired by history

In the early 1970s, Canadian cartoonist and former Western employee Gordon Johnston of London created the comic ‘It Happened At Western,’ a campus history spinoff of his national comic success ‘It Happened in Canada,’ launched in 1967 to mark the country’s centennial and published in more than 60 newspapers at its peak.

UWOpera brings Mozart close to home

Over the years, Mozart’s ‘Cosi fan tutte’ has been interpreted in many ways, but this is clearly UWOpera’s own Western version of one of the master’s most famous operas.

Cover song boots student into prime time

You could say it was an Israeli soccer commercial that kicked off an international music career for Gareth Bush. You’d be surprised to hear the fourth-year King’s University College Criminology student is hoping a local fan base will pick up as a result.

English Language Centre celebrates opening

English Language Centre celebrates opening

Not only will it help diversify Western’s campus, it will help international students settle in, providing English language instruction alongside integrated means of cultural acclimatization.

Taking a global look at academic freedom

Taking a global look at academic freedom

Western President Amit Chakma asserted the importance and fragility of academic freedom around the world at a reception held at Western Law Jan. 22, celebrating professor Anna Dolidze, Western’s first Scholar at Risk.

Modern mummification sheds light on Ramses II

Some millennia ago, Yes might have been the object of worship in ancient Egypt. Today, Yes – a modern, domestic house cat – is helping shed light on the practice of mummification and the lives of ancients, such as Ramses II, the most celebrated pharaoh of Egypt.

Capone: Research push will take commitment

It won’t be an easy climb to the top of the research heap for Western, said John Capone, Western vice-president (research). But it’s something he feels the university needs to do.