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Month: February 2014

Ivey forum to explore play-success link

Ivey forum to explore play-success link

Kelsey Ramsden, MBA’04, is a savvy moneymaker recently named Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneur for the second year in a row by Profit Magazine. She credits her success – first and foremost – to her ability to play. Andrew Steele, EMBA’11, is vice …

Bringing health to the community

When Merrick Zwarenstein graduated from a South African medical school in the early 1970s, he left with the scientific training required to be a doctor. But he felt as though the institution of medicine had been ignoring the most crucial part of medical care for generations – the patient.

Bringing learning to the community

The American presidential elections. Music. Wind engineering. Black holes. These are only a few of the subjects covered since Ivey Business School professor Darren Meister delivered the first session of Classes Without Quizzes in October 2007.

Bringing passion to the community

It’s resembled ancient Greece, hosted a miniature Eiffel Tower, even transformed into a winter wonderland complete with log cabins, a sleigh and giant snowflakes.

Bringing understanding to the community

Summer Bressette has decided to undertake a monumental journey – changing the “lopsided vision” Canadians have about First Nations people.

Bringing art to the community

Ben Benedict gained attention after his work was featured in Western’s McIntosh Gallery 21 years ago. The gallery has been an important part of his life ever since.

Bringing the past to the community

On a high plain in northwest London, tucked away between the Medway River and Snake Creek, sits London’s ‘First Village.’ In the 15th century, about 2,000 Neutral Iroquoians called this area home. Longhouses made of birch bark and spruce provided shelter and a wall of wooden stakes surrounded and fortified the settlement.

Bringing inclusion to the community

Classmates of 15-year-old Kurtis Duchene could easily tell you the importance of inclusion at school. That’s because they will leave high school better prepared for a world that doesn’t shut its doors to a teenager living with cerebral palsy, said Kathy Waybrant, Duchene’s mother.

Study: Battle of the sexes is for the birds

Tired jokes about men, women and sense of direction have existed since the dawn of time. A new study at Western, however, has shown female brown-headed cowbirds perform spatial tasks better than their male counterparts.

Dion brings mental health message to Western

Dion brings mental health message to Western

Patrick Dion, vice-chair Mental Health Commission of Canada, will deliver a free lecture about tackling the stigma of mental health issues, as well as courageously standing up against associated discrimination, at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in the Great Hall. Complimentary pizza and refreshments will precede the lecture at 5 p.m.; a question-and-answer session follows the lecture.

Bringing health to the community

When Merrick Zwarenstein graduated from a South African medical school in the early 1970s, he left with the scientific training required to be a doctor. But he felt as though the institution of medicine had been ignoring the most crucial part of medical care for generations – the patient.

Bringing learning to the community

The American presidential elections. Music. Wind engineering. Black holes. These are only a few of the subjects covered since Ivey Business School professor Darren Meister delivered the first session of Classes Without Quizzes in October 2007.

Bringing passion to the community

It’s resembled ancient Greece, hosted a miniature Eiffel Tower, even transformed into a winter wonderland complete with log cabins, a sleigh and giant snowflakes.

Bringing understanding to the community

Summer Bressette has decided to undertake a monumental journey – changing the “lopsided vision” Canadians have about First Nations people.

Bringing art to the community

Ben Benedict gained attention after his work was featured in Western’s McIntosh Gallery 21 years ago. The gallery has been an important part of his life ever since.

Bringing the past to the community

On a high plain in northwest London, tucked away between the Medway River and Snake Creek, sits London’s ‘First Village.’ In the 15th century, about 2,000 Neutral Iroquoians called this area home. Longhouses made of birch bark and spruce provided shelter and a wall of wooden stakes surrounded and fortified the settlement.

Bringing inclusion to the community

Classmates of 15-year-old Kurtis Duchene could easily tell you the importance of inclusion at school. That’s because they will leave high school better prepared for a world that doesn’t shut its doors to a teenager living with cerebral palsy, said Kathy Waybrant, Duchene’s mother.

Study: Battle of the sexes is for the birds

Tired jokes about men, women and sense of direction have existed since the dawn of time. A new study at Western, however, has shown female brown-headed cowbirds perform spatial tasks better than their male counterparts.

Dion brings mental health message to Western

Dion brings mental health message to Western

Patrick Dion, vice-chair Mental Health Commission of Canada, will deliver a free lecture about tackling the stigma of mental health issues, as well as courageously standing up against associated discrimination, at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in the Great Hall. Complimentary pizza and refreshments will precede the lecture at 5 p.m.; a question-and-answer session follows the lecture.