A paper authored by Lisa Archibald and Janis Cardy, both Communication Sciences and Disorders professors at Western, and Marc Joanisse and Daniel Ansari, both Psychology professors at Western, was named among the Top 100 most talked-about academic papers o …
Have you ever heard of a student excited to complete a course project? What if I told you there was a class of 350 students (including myself) engaged to voluntarily complete a course project together? What if that project was assigned just weeks before final exams and not worth any grades or mark for the course?
Canada needs to rethink how it manages the role of formal care, as opposed to family care, for dementia patients in order to avoid caregiver burnout, one Western Nursing professor contends.
John Leonard, a Western English professor and renowned John Milton scholar, recently published Faithful Labourers: A Reception History of ‘Paradise Lost’, a two-volume work dealing with centuries of Milton scholarship.
Western History professor emeritus Roger L. Emerson has been named the winner of the 2013 Saltire Literary Award, Scottish History Book of the Year. The Saltire Society, dedicated to the preservation and furtherance of Scottish culture, announced the award on Nov. 14.
While anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery is a widely proven procedure, a Western orthopaedic surgeon says re-injury rates in young patients after such procedures are unacceptably high for those returning to pivoting sports like basketball, volleyball and soccer.
You could say Nina Zitani has a blended family – two wonderful boys and six insects.
Kids aren’t as innocent as they seem, says Steven Bruhm.
Matthew Baker and Isaac Naizghi, Grade 7 students at John Dearness Public School, test out a LEGO robot their school team, the Robo Dolphins, built for the 2013 FIRST LEGO League Challenge. Western Engineering FIRST Robotics Mentorship Club hosted the event last weekend at Althouse College.
Janice Deakin, Western provost and vice-president (academic), left, presents a Western Heads East’s ‘yogurt mama’ – one of 60 in 10 kitchens throughout Mwanza, Tanzania – with an apron bearing the university’s crest. Deakin and Julie McMullin, vice-provost (International), visited the Tukumuane Women’s Group in Mwanza recently to extend the university’s appreciation for their hard work to grow the social enterprises which addresses poverty and empowers women in their communities. The aprons were donated by Western’s Hospitality Services; Western crest printing was donated by Positive Identity.
• Gitta Kulczycki, Western vice-president (resources and operations), officially received Western Top 100 Employers designation from Richard Yerema, managing editor of the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project, at reception honouring winners Nov. 13-14, at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Toronto. For the first time in the competition’s history, Western counts itself among Canada’s Top 100 Employers. Now entering its 14th year, the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project is a national competition to determine which employers lead their industries in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees.
Western announced last week the new Advisory Board for the Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC) for Composites Research @ Western. Charter members of the advisory board include game-changing leaders from the fields of chemical and materials engineering, as well as visionary thinkers from the automotive and machinery sectors.
Graduates of Ontario’s undergraduate university programs have higher employment rates and higher incomes than those with any other level of education, the latest provincial government survey showed.
Have you ever heard of a student excited to complete a course project? What if I told you there was a class of 350 students (including myself) engaged to voluntarily complete a course project together? What if that project was assigned just weeks before final exams and not worth any grades or mark for the course?
Canada needs to rethink how it manages the role of formal care, as opposed to family care, for dementia patients in order to avoid caregiver burnout, one Western Nursing professor contends.
John Leonard, a Western English professor and renowned John Milton scholar, recently published Faithful Labourers: A Reception History of ‘Paradise Lost’, a two-volume work dealing with centuries of Milton scholarship.
Western History professor emeritus Roger L. Emerson has been named the winner of the 2013 Saltire Literary Award, Scottish History Book of the Year. The Saltire Society, dedicated to the preservation and furtherance of Scottish culture, announced the award on Nov. 14.
While anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery is a widely proven procedure, a Western orthopaedic surgeon says re-injury rates in young patients after such procedures are unacceptably high for those returning to pivoting sports like basketball, volleyball and soccer.
You could say Nina Zitani has a blended family – two wonderful boys and six insects.
Kids aren’t as innocent as they seem, says Steven Bruhm.
Matthew Baker and Isaac Naizghi, Grade 7 students at John Dearness Public School, test out a LEGO robot their school team, the Robo Dolphins, built for the 2013 FIRST LEGO League Challenge. Western Engineering FIRST Robotics Mentorship Club hosted the event last weekend at Althouse College.
Janice Deakin, Western provost and vice-president (academic), left, presents a Western Heads East’s ‘yogurt mama’ – one of 60 in 10 kitchens throughout Mwanza, Tanzania – with an apron bearing the university’s crest. Deakin and Julie McMullin, vice-provost (International), visited the Tukumuane Women’s Group in Mwanza recently to extend the university’s appreciation for their hard work to grow the social enterprises which addresses poverty and empowers women in their communities. The aprons were donated by Western’s Hospitality Services; Western crest printing was donated by Positive Identity.
• Gitta Kulczycki, Western vice-president (resources and operations), officially received Western Top 100 Employers designation from Richard Yerema, managing editor of the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project, at reception honouring winners Nov. 13-14, at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Toronto. For the first time in the competition’s history, Western counts itself among Canada’s Top 100 Employers. Now entering its 14th year, the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project is a national competition to determine which employers lead their industries in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees.
Western announced last week the new Advisory Board for the Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC) for Composites Research @ Western. Charter members of the advisory board include game-changing leaders from the fields of chemical and materials engineering, as well as visionary thinkers from the automotive and machinery sectors.
Graduates of Ontario’s undergraduate university programs have higher employment rates and higher incomes than those with any other level of education, the latest provincial government survey showed.