Search

Topics

Western News

Month: May 2014

Found property sale scheduled

Found property sale scheduled

Campus Community Police Service (CCPS) will host its annual found property sale from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, June 5 in the Support Services Building (SSB), room 2390. Proceeds from the sale benefit the CCPS Bike Unit as well as several sponsored charities …

Ukrainian academic headlines ‘Media and Crisis in Ukraine’

In the wake of the Maidan protests in November 2013, the Russian invasion in March 2014 and continuing through this week’s presidential election, Ukraine has dominated news cycles around the globe. Sponsored by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and Faculty of Engineering, Media and Crisis in Ukraine will explore many of the issues surrounding this country in flux.

Operafest 2014 takes to the stage

Operafest 2014 takes to the stage

Operafest 2014 takes to the stage Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, with student performances from the Don Wright Faculty of Music’s Canadian Operatic Arts Academy.

Student shoots, scores as Memorial Cup guardian

Justin O’Halloran has likely done more cleaning this past week than he has in his entire life. But when your job is ‘Guardian of the Memorial Cup,’ you have to make sure the historic, 95-year-old trophy is looking its best.

Foundation Western, university unify endowment assets

Foundation Western, university unify endowment assets

Foundation Western and Western University, arm’s length partners for 35 years, have officially unified, creating a new unit, Donor Funds Management, under the university’s External Relations department. The move was finalized April 30.

Wilkins: Libraries looking beyond the book

Wilkins: Libraries looking beyond the book

Western Libraries is hosting Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) 2014, Canada’s major information literacy conference. The theme, ‘e-magine’ the Possibilities, recognizes information literacy is continually evolving.

Move unifies Foundation Western, university endowment assets

Move unifies Foundation Western, university endowment assets

Foundation Western and Western University, arm’s length partners for 35 years, have officially unified, creating a new unit, Donor Funds Management, under the university’s External Relations department. The move was finalized April 30.

Professor’s book explores master director’s cultural impact

By studying modern works that feature Hitchcock-inspired elements, Visual Arts professor Christine Sprengler contends they are valuable not only as art, but also serve as contributions to the understanding of Hitchcock’s cultural legacy and cinema itself.

Professor looks to shake radiation’s ‘nasty’ reputation

The words ‘clean’ and ‘radiation’ rarely find a home in same sentence. But that’s not the case for Clara Wren. The Western Chemistry professor is working on a project she’s titled Radiation: Creative, Clean and Efficient Manufacturing Processes.

Ukrainian academic headlines ‘Media and Crisis in Ukraine’

In the wake of the Maidan protests in November 2013, the Russian invasion in March 2014 and continuing through this week’s presidential election, Ukraine has dominated news cycles around the globe. Sponsored by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and Faculty of Engineering, Media and Crisis in Ukraine will explore many of the issues surrounding this country in flux.

Operafest 2014 takes to the stage

Operafest 2014 takes to the stage

Operafest 2014 takes to the stage Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, with student performances from the Don Wright Faculty of Music’s Canadian Operatic Arts Academy.

Student shoots, scores as Memorial Cup guardian

Justin O’Halloran has likely done more cleaning this past week than he has in his entire life. But when your job is ‘Guardian of the Memorial Cup,’ you have to make sure the historic, 95-year-old trophy is looking its best.

Foundation Western, university unify endowment assets

Foundation Western, university unify endowment assets

Foundation Western and Western University, arm’s length partners for 35 years, have officially unified, creating a new unit, Donor Funds Management, under the university’s External Relations department. The move was finalized April 30.

Wilkins: Libraries looking beyond the book

Wilkins: Libraries looking beyond the book

Western Libraries is hosting Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) 2014, Canada’s major information literacy conference. The theme, ‘e-magine’ the Possibilities, recognizes information literacy is continually evolving.

Move unifies Foundation Western, university endowment assets

Move unifies Foundation Western, university endowment assets

Foundation Western and Western University, arm’s length partners for 35 years, have officially unified, creating a new unit, Donor Funds Management, under the university’s External Relations department. The move was finalized April 30.

Professor’s book explores master director’s cultural impact

By studying modern works that feature Hitchcock-inspired elements, Visual Arts professor Christine Sprengler contends they are valuable not only as art, but also serve as contributions to the understanding of Hitchcock’s cultural legacy and cinema itself.

Professor looks to shake radiation’s ‘nasty’ reputation

The words ‘clean’ and ‘radiation’ rarely find a home in same sentence. But that’s not the case for Clara Wren. The Western Chemistry professor is working on a project she’s titled Radiation: Creative, Clean and Efficient Manufacturing Processes.