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Month: May 2013

PhD student earns Women’s Health Scholars Award

PhD student earns Women’s Health Scholars Award

Western PhD student Nicole Etherington stands among eight women at Ontario universities honoured with the 2013-14 Women’s Health Scholars Award. Administered by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), the awards celebrate Ontario’s pre-eminent wome …

Mosquito control underway

Mosquito control underway

Orkin Canada of London will be on campus this week to begin treating catch basins for control of mosquito larva.

FIMS student wins top prize for Potter doc

FIMS student wins top prize for Potter doc

Media Theory and Production student Jake Kislinsky won a Broadcast Educators Association of Canada award for his documentary, Western Charmed by English Prof, in the Best Audio Feature/Documentary category.

Traffic Alert: Philip Aziz Drive reopens to traffic

Traffic Alert: Philip Aziz Drive reopens to traffic

Philip Aziz Drive remains closed to eastbound traffic Thursday morning, but may reopen at some point laterPhilip Aziz Drive has reopened to traffic in both directions. The road had been closed for repairs as a result of damage caused to a city-owned manhole during flooding late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. today.

Western, city bridge project takes top Connections prize

Western, city bridge project takes top Connections prize

Western Engineering students Rob Volcko, Thomas Zolis, Emily Keyes, Marco Furano and Arthur Gonzales placed first overall in the university category of the Connections Competition at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery Conference in Toronto this week.

Plant sale springing up

Plant sale springing up

Western’s Friends of the Gardens are preparing for its 20th annual Plant Sale.

Jensen: Bike lane blockage clogs campus for cyclists

Jensen: Bike lane blockage clogs campus for cyclists

Recently, Facilities Management installed an automatic arm to block traffic on Oxford Drive (in front of the Social Science Centre). It is difficult to understand why they would do this since there are locked metal gates at both ends of Oxford Drive and the arm has yet to actually be turned on.

Winders: University experience doesn’t stop once you cross the stage

I have lived in fear of Mitch McGlaughlin since the day we met in a university two decades ago. And I have loved every minute of it since. As I read about his death last week, and smiled at the flood of wonderful memories rushing back, I still see no reason not to continue living in fear of him today.

Filming the man behind ‘The Applicant’

Filming the man behind ‘The Applicant’

A filmmaker, singer and trained teacher, Brad Rostas, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Class of 2016, can best be described as a Renaissance man. Recently, he took his artistic abilities and talent and applied it to a whole new landscape – the production of Schulich’s annual admissions video.

Mosquito control underway

Mosquito control underway

Orkin Canada of London will be on campus this week to begin treating catch basins for control of mosquito larva.

FIMS student wins top prize for Potter doc

FIMS student wins top prize for Potter doc

Media Theory and Production student Jake Kislinsky won a Broadcast Educators Association of Canada award for his documentary, Western Charmed by English Prof, in the Best Audio Feature/Documentary category.

Traffic Alert: Philip Aziz Drive reopens to traffic

Traffic Alert: Philip Aziz Drive reopens to traffic

Philip Aziz Drive remains closed to eastbound traffic Thursday morning, but may reopen at some point laterPhilip Aziz Drive has reopened to traffic in both directions. The road had been closed for repairs as a result of damage caused to a city-owned manhole during flooding late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. today.

Western, city bridge project takes top Connections prize

Western, city bridge project takes top Connections prize

Western Engineering students Rob Volcko, Thomas Zolis, Emily Keyes, Marco Furano and Arthur Gonzales placed first overall in the university category of the Connections Competition at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery Conference in Toronto this week.

Plant sale springing up

Plant sale springing up

Western’s Friends of the Gardens are preparing for its 20th annual Plant Sale.

Jensen: Bike lane blockage clogs campus for cyclists

Jensen: Bike lane blockage clogs campus for cyclists

Recently, Facilities Management installed an automatic arm to block traffic on Oxford Drive (in front of the Social Science Centre). It is difficult to understand why they would do this since there are locked metal gates at both ends of Oxford Drive and the arm has yet to actually be turned on.

Winders: University experience doesn’t stop once you cross the stage

I have lived in fear of Mitch McGlaughlin since the day we met in a university two decades ago. And I have loved every minute of it since. As I read about his death last week, and smiled at the flood of wonderful memories rushing back, I still see no reason not to continue living in fear of him today.

Filming the man behind ‘The Applicant’

Filming the man behind ‘The Applicant’

A filmmaker, singer and trained teacher, Brad Rostas, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Class of 2016, can best be described as a Renaissance man. Recently, he took his artistic abilities and talent and applied it to a whole new landscape – the production of Schulich’s annual admissions video.