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Month: August 2014

Outdoor Food Festival kicks off Tuesday

Outdoor Food Festival kicks off Tuesday

Mark your calendar, Western foodies. Hosted by Hospitality Services, the Western Outdoor Food Festival will take place daily next week, running 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, at the Farmers’ Market location in the green space beside McIntosh Gall …

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Western Chemistry professor Joseph Gilroy and Robarts Research Institute postdoctoral scholar Andrea Di Sebastiano have been tapped as Western’s Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award winners for 2014. Gilroy looks to develop revolutionary chelating (i.e. metal binding)...

Redefining anorexia may unlock new treatments, therapies

Redefining anorexia may unlock new treatments, therapies

New findings from Western suggest characterizing anorexia as a ‘passion’ will yield immediate and practical results in terms of treatment and therapy. The study, led by Louis C. Charland of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, is novel in that philosophers have...

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

Teaching skillfully requires a constant openness and flexibility to experimenting with whatever approaches help students learn, according to University of St. Thomas (Minn.) professor Stephen Brookfield, who will deliver the keynote address at the Fall Perspective on...

Emergency weather siren test set for this week

Emergency weather siren test set for this week

Western has planned a test of its emergency weather siren between Tuesday and Thursday, Aug. 26-28, to ensure the system’s effective operation in warning campus and the surrounding community of severe weather situations. If a real weather emergency occurs during this...

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Western’s Board of Governors approved a four-year collective agreement with CUPE Local 2692, which represents approximately 630 Hospitality Service workers, on Thursday, Aug. 21. The employees voted to ratify Western’s contract offer at a union meeting on Wednesday,...

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Could your fear of math class, or even the idea of talking about math, impact your academic decisions and overall performance at university? When it comes to math anxiety, choices as to what courses students take, or even the field of study they choose, may stem from...

Heat alert issued for today

Heat alert issued for today

The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued a heat alert for Tuesday as temperatures are expected in the 30s with a humidex value near 40 degrees.

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

Teaching skillfully requires a constant openness and flexibility to experimenting with whatever approaches help students learn, according to University of St. Thomas (Minn.) professor Stephen Brookfield, who will deliver the keynote address at the Fall Perspective on Teaching Conference on Wednesday.

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Western’s Board of Governors approved a four-year collective agreement with CUPE Local 2692, which represents approximately 630 Hospitality Service workers, on Thursday, Aug. 21.

Construction impacts Huron Drive traffic

For the remainder of the week, vehicle traffic along a stretch of Huron Drive will be limited to northbound travel only. (See purple arrows on the campus map above.) Motorists will not be allowed to turn left from Lambton Drive onto Huron Drive between 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20 until Friday, Aug. 22.

Summer parking construction continues

Summer parking construction continues

On Aug. 29, the Brescia Lane entrance to the Springett Parking Lot will close permanently, giving way to the new shared entrance with Huron University College. Slightly north of Brescia Lane, the newly developed intersection will welcome both Western and Huron staff, faculty and student permit-holders.

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Western Chemistry professor Joseph Gilroy and Robarts Research Institute postdoctoral scholar Andrea Di Sebastiano have been tapped as Western’s Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award winners for 2014. Gilroy looks to develop revolutionary chelating (i.e. metal binding)...

Redefining anorexia may unlock new treatments, therapies

Redefining anorexia may unlock new treatments, therapies

New findings from Western suggest characterizing anorexia as a ‘passion’ will yield immediate and practical results in terms of treatment and therapy. The study, led by Louis C. Charland of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, is novel in that philosophers have...

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

Teaching skillfully requires a constant openness and flexibility to experimenting with whatever approaches help students learn, according to University of St. Thomas (Minn.) professor Stephen Brookfield, who will deliver the keynote address at the Fall Perspective on...

Emergency weather siren test set for this week

Emergency weather siren test set for this week

Western has planned a test of its emergency weather siren between Tuesday and Thursday, Aug. 26-28, to ensure the system’s effective operation in warning campus and the surrounding community of severe weather situations. If a real weather emergency occurs during this...

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Western’s Board of Governors approved a four-year collective agreement with CUPE Local 2692, which represents approximately 630 Hospitality Service workers, on Thursday, Aug. 21. The employees voted to ratify Western’s contract offer at a union meeting on Wednesday,...

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Could your fear of math class, or even the idea of talking about math, impact your academic decisions and overall performance at university? When it comes to math anxiety, choices as to what courses students take, or even the field of study they choose, may stem from...

Heat alert issued for today

Heat alert issued for today

The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued a heat alert for Tuesday as temperatures are expected in the 30s with a humidex value near 40 degrees.

Teaching takes centre stage at conference

Teaching skillfully requires a constant openness and flexibility to experimenting with whatever approaches help students learn, according to University of St. Thomas (Minn.) professor Stephen Brookfield, who will deliver the keynote address at the Fall Perspective on Teaching Conference on Wednesday.

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Board approves CUPE Local 2692 contract

Western’s Board of Governors approved a four-year collective agreement with CUPE Local 2692, which represents approximately 630 Hospitality Service workers, on Thursday, Aug. 21.

Construction impacts Huron Drive traffic

For the remainder of the week, vehicle traffic along a stretch of Huron Drive will be limited to northbound travel only. (See purple arrows on the campus map above.) Motorists will not be allowed to turn left from Lambton Drive onto Huron Drive between 7 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20 until Friday, Aug. 22.

Summer parking construction continues

Summer parking construction continues

On Aug. 29, the Brescia Lane entrance to the Springett Parking Lot will close permanently, giving way to the new shared entrance with Huron University College. Slightly north of Brescia Lane, the newly developed intersection will welcome both Western and Huron staff, faculty and student permit-holders.