Paul Mayne, Western NewsWith funding through Movember Canada, Western professor Marnin Heisel looks to improve the mental health and well-being of newly or soon-to-be retired men, many of whom face uncertainty and loss with this major life change. The ide …
Month: October 2013
World-renowned pianist Pressler comes to Western
World-renowned pianist Menahem Pressler takes centre stage at the Parsons & Poole Concert and Masterclass series as both a performer and teacher this weekend at Western. Audiences have the opportunity to watch him work in both roles.
Flu shot clinic schedule announced
Flu season has arrived – no matter how beautiful the weather outside your window right now.
Winders: Gilmour not only wrong, but guilty of intellectual sucker punch
I cannot stand the Beatles. Not a single note.
Kopp: ‘Beat Goes On’ – even after 1,500 episodes
In celebration of 1,500 episodes of the CHRW program The History of Us, Western Statistics and Actuarial Sciences lecturer Steve Kopp, who joined the station on Sept. 17, 1980, sat down to reflect on three decades of the iconic program. What follows is an edited version of that essay. Read the whole essay at chrwradio.ca/content/celebrating-30-years-1500-episodes.
Toswell: Senate right to strip teaching integrity from research policy
Universities began in Western Europe in the late 12th or early 13th century when it became clear a more formal kind of establishment for learning would be necessary: the first medical school at Salerno, the first law school in Bologna and the liberal arts in Oxford and Paris. From this tradition, the modern university, itself largely an occidental phenomenon, developed.
Calls for professors’ freedom grow louder
As protests, rallies and letters calling for the freedom of Western professor and London physician Tarek Loubani and York University professor and filmmaker John Greyson continue to fall on deaf ears in Egypt, supporters at home are urging the Canadian government to take a stand, pleading for the direct intervention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
New look at old procedure offering hope
Revisiting the idea of how and when organs can be donated has given 50 individuals in London new life – literally – thanks to Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro and his colleagues.
World-renowned pianist Pressler comes to Western
World-renowned pianist Menahem Pressler takes centre stage at the Parsons & Poole Concert and Masterclass series as both a performer and teacher this weekend at Western. Audiences have the opportunity to watch him work in both roles.
Flu shot clinic schedule announced
Flu season has arrived – no matter how beautiful the weather outside your window right now.
Winders: Gilmour not only wrong, but guilty of intellectual sucker punch
I cannot stand the Beatles. Not a single note.
Kopp: ‘Beat Goes On’ – even after 1,500 episodes
In celebration of 1,500 episodes of the CHRW program The History of Us, Western Statistics and Actuarial Sciences lecturer Steve Kopp, who joined the station on Sept. 17, 1980, sat down to reflect on three decades of the iconic program. What follows is an edited version of that essay. Read the whole essay at chrwradio.ca/content/celebrating-30-years-1500-episodes.
Toswell: Senate right to strip teaching integrity from research policy
Universities began in Western Europe in the late 12th or early 13th century when it became clear a more formal kind of establishment for learning would be necessary: the first medical school at Salerno, the first law school in Bologna and the liberal arts in Oxford and Paris. From this tradition, the modern university, itself largely an occidental phenomenon, developed.
Calls for professors’ freedom grow louder
As protests, rallies and letters calling for the freedom of Western professor and London physician Tarek Loubani and York University professor and filmmaker John Greyson continue to fall on deaf ears in Egypt, supporters at home are urging the Canadian government to take a stand, pleading for the direct intervention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
New look at old procedure offering hope
Revisiting the idea of how and when organs can be donated has given 50 individuals in London new life – literally – thanks to Dr. Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro and his colleagues.