Nicholson Sheffield Architects Pictured is an artist rendition of what the Don Wright Faculty of Music will look like after major renovations and construction are complete on its two main buildings – Talbot College and the Music Building – in W …
Month: July 2013
Schulich team takes steps to help arthritis research
Team Bernier: Researchers in Motion from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry was honoured by the Arthritis Society as the city’s top fundraising group in the annual Walk to Fight Arthritis.
COU launches MyCareerInfo.ca to translate skills into work
The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) has launched its career website, MyCareerInfo.ca. The site is designed to help students, graduates and entry-level workers access campus career services, build a strong portfolio, gain budgeting skills and find a job that fits with their education, skills and interests.
Western postdoc targets lung cancer in research
Western alumnus and current postdoctoral fellow Todd Stevens, along with a research team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have proposed a method of detecting lung cancer tumors at an earlier stage of development.
Smith remembered as one who ‘literally helped build Western’
As the London community mourns the death of local community leader Don Smith, co-founder of global construction giant EllisDon, the Western community remembers a man who, literally, helped build the university from the ground up. Smith died Tuesday at the age of 89.
Health unit issues urgent weather alert
The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued an urgent weather alert advisory running through Thursday, July 18. The forecast calls for a humidex of 40-42 degrees.
Student born into fight for mental health awareness
Deana Ruston calls herself a fighter. In fact, she is proudly sporting a new tattoo on her forearm these days, one that reads, “You’ve been a fighter since the beginning; keep fighting.”
Student app looks to drive healthy behaviours
Given the option of writing a term paper or designing a mobile application for Candace Gibson’s Health Information Management class last semester, six students picked the latter, perhaps more unconventional, option.
Western voices clear at Canadian choir competition
Amabile Choirs of London are celebrating another feather in its choral caps as well as a big win at the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs in St. John’s, N.L., for Carol Beynon, acting vice provost of the School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies and Faculty of Education professor.
Generation next: Jung, VanBerlo named 2013 Schulich Leaders
Flora Jung of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in Waterloo and Blake VanBerlo of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London have been named the two Western-bound recipients of the 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship, a program that supports undergraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Western, Goodwill may expand clever collection push
Goodwill can’t wait until Western students move out each April.
Simonovic named to Canadian Academy of Engineering
Civil Engineering professor Slobodan Simonovic has been elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), one of the highest professional honours accorded to an engineer.
Konermann honoured for visualizing how proteins fold
While mass spectrometry has been used to analyze amino acids and proteins since 1958, it wasn’t until recently that Lars Konermann found a way to see how proteins change through time into their active conformations. That discovery has earned the Western Chemistry professor two recent honours.
Schulich team takes steps to help arthritis research
Team Bernier: Researchers in Motion from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry was honoured by the Arthritis Society as the city’s top fundraising group in the annual Walk to Fight Arthritis.
COU launches MyCareerInfo.ca to translate skills into work
The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) has launched its career website, MyCareerInfo.ca. The site is designed to help students, graduates and entry-level workers access campus career services, build a strong portfolio, gain budgeting skills and find a job that fits with their education, skills and interests.
Western postdoc targets lung cancer in research
Western alumnus and current postdoctoral fellow Todd Stevens, along with a research team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have proposed a method of detecting lung cancer tumors at an earlier stage of development.
Smith remembered as one who ‘literally helped build Western’
As the London community mourns the death of local community leader Don Smith, co-founder of global construction giant EllisDon, the Western community remembers a man who, literally, helped build the university from the ground up. Smith died Tuesday at the age of 89.
Health unit issues urgent weather alert
The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued an urgent weather alert advisory running through Thursday, July 18. The forecast calls for a humidex of 40-42 degrees.
Student born into fight for mental health awareness
Deana Ruston calls herself a fighter. In fact, she is proudly sporting a new tattoo on her forearm these days, one that reads, “You’ve been a fighter since the beginning; keep fighting.”
Student app looks to drive healthy behaviours
Given the option of writing a term paper or designing a mobile application for Candace Gibson’s Health Information Management class last semester, six students picked the latter, perhaps more unconventional, option.
Western voices clear at Canadian choir competition
Amabile Choirs of London are celebrating another feather in its choral caps as well as a big win at the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs in St. John’s, N.L., for Carol Beynon, acting vice provost of the School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies and Faculty of Education professor.
Generation next: Jung, VanBerlo named 2013 Schulich Leaders
Flora Jung of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in Waterloo and Blake VanBerlo of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London have been named the two Western-bound recipients of the 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship, a program that supports undergraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Western, Goodwill may expand clever collection push
Goodwill can’t wait until Western students move out each April.
Simonovic named to Canadian Academy of Engineering
Civil Engineering professor Slobodan Simonovic has been elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), one of the highest professional honours accorded to an engineer.
Konermann honoured for visualizing how proteins fold
While mass spectrometry has been used to analyze amino acids and proteins since 1958, it wasn’t until recently that Lars Konermann found a way to see how proteins change through time into their active conformations. That discovery has earned the Western Chemistry professor two recent honours.