Western’s Board of Governors ratified agreements with the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 611 (postdoctoral associates) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 2361 (Facilities Management and Thompson Arena staff). PSAC Local 611, rep …
Year: 2013
Music Issue: Making music for himself not enough
With a shiny saxophone strapped around his neck, Donald George Laidlaw demonstrates conductor hand signals to his students.
Music Issue: Playing an unintentional tune
Whether it’s because Music professor Kim Lundberg is playing bits of his own composition on his piano, helping students with harmonies or compositions or chatting with colleagues, the door to his office is always open.
Music Issue: Getting you – and your voice – in shape
Want to be a singing superstar? Grab your running shoes, and get to a gym. Quick.
Music Issue: Finding inspiration in collaboration
A soft piano melody floats through the hallway of the Music Building, where Anita Krause-Wiebe sits in her studio. It’s a small room, but it has all the essentials – a baby grand piano, a shelf full of music books, two chairs – and her voice.
Western Libraries hosting estate planning session
Planning your estate and not quite sure where to start? Just curious about the process?
Employee Golf League set to tee it up
The Western Employee Golf League is now accepting memberships for the 2013 season.
Acting heads tapped for SGPS, FIMS
Education professor Carol Beynon and Faculty of Information and Media Studies professor Nick Dyer-Witheford have been named to new academic appointments, Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic), announced last week.
Campus Digest: When life gives you lemons, make money
Ivey Business School HBA 1 students raised $108,013 in 48 hours for the United Way of London & Middlesex’s Matched Savings and Microloan Program through the third annual Hunter Straker and Ivey Give Lemonaid project. Last year, students raised more than $42,000.
Travel health notice: China
Western University is advising members of its community who are planning to travel to China to exercise caution after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed human cases of an avian influenza virus identified as influenza A(H7N9) in the People’s Republic of China.
Ivey students turn lemons into a sweet donation
Despite bad weather and numerous challenges and twists, Ivey Business School HBA students raised $108,013 for the United Way – the highest total in the three years of the Hunter Straker and Ivey Give Lemonaid program.
Ratcliffe: Some researchers need not apply
Two documents, Re-Profiling Internal Funding Programs and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Board Program Overview, raise questions about changes in internal research funding at Western for humanists and social scientists.
Program eyes mental health transition help
The transition from hospital to community can be challenging for those diagnosed with a mental illness. Research shows the first days and weeks following psychiatric discharge are particularly high-risk periods for relapse, with 43 per cent of suicides occurring within the first month post-discharge, and another 40 per cent of patients being readmitted to hospital during that same time.
Music Issue: Making music for himself not enough
With a shiny saxophone strapped around his neck, Donald George Laidlaw demonstrates conductor hand signals to his students.
Music Issue: Playing an unintentional tune
Whether it’s because Music professor Kim Lundberg is playing bits of his own composition on his piano, helping students with harmonies or compositions or chatting with colleagues, the door to his office is always open.
Music Issue: Getting you – and your voice – in shape
Want to be a singing superstar? Grab your running shoes, and get to a gym. Quick.
Music Issue: Finding inspiration in collaboration
A soft piano melody floats through the hallway of the Music Building, where Anita Krause-Wiebe sits in her studio. It’s a small room, but it has all the essentials – a baby grand piano, a shelf full of music books, two chairs – and her voice.
Western Libraries hosting estate planning session
Planning your estate and not quite sure where to start? Just curious about the process?
Employee Golf League set to tee it up
The Western Employee Golf League is now accepting memberships for the 2013 season.
Acting heads tapped for SGPS, FIMS
Education professor Carol Beynon and Faculty of Information and Media Studies professor Nick Dyer-Witheford have been named to new academic appointments, Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic), announced last week.
Campus Digest: When life gives you lemons, make money
Ivey Business School HBA 1 students raised $108,013 in 48 hours for the United Way of London & Middlesex’s Matched Savings and Microloan Program through the third annual Hunter Straker and Ivey Give Lemonaid project. Last year, students raised more than $42,000.
Travel health notice: China
Western University is advising members of its community who are planning to travel to China to exercise caution after the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed human cases of an avian influenza virus identified as influenza A(H7N9) in the People’s Republic of China.
Ivey students turn lemons into a sweet donation
Despite bad weather and numerous challenges and twists, Ivey Business School HBA students raised $108,013 for the United Way – the highest total in the three years of the Hunter Straker and Ivey Give Lemonaid program.
Ratcliffe: Some researchers need not apply
Two documents, Re-Profiling Internal Funding Programs and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Board Program Overview, raise questions about changes in internal research funding at Western for humanists and social scientists.
Program eyes mental health transition help
The transition from hospital to community can be challenging for those diagnosed with a mental illness. Research shows the first days and weeks following psychiatric discharge are particularly high-risk periods for relapse, with 43 per cent of suicides occurring within the first month post-discharge, and another 40 per cent of patients being readmitted to hospital during that same time.