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Month: March 2015

Alumna, a rising star in cancer research, nabs elite fellowship

Alumna, a rising star in cancer research, nabs elite fellowship

Amid the hallowed and fabled walls of one of the world’s oldest universities, Vasiliki Economopoulos, BEng’08, PhD’13, is revelling in a life-changing milestone. A current postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University, she is a recent recipient of the distinguished Marie...

Grants to fuel Canada’s future scientists, engineers

Grants to fuel Canada’s future scientists, engineers

Canada’s future scientists and engineers will benefit from a pair of PromoScience grants awarded to two Western researchers, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced Wednesday. Civil and Environmental Engineering professor...

CBC Windsor, Journalism  students bring stories to life

CBC Windsor, Journalism students bring stories to life

Students in Western’s Master of Arts in Journalism program have partnered with CBC Windsor's Afternoon Drive radio show (which broadcasts all over southwestern Ontario) to produce audio documentaries as part of their coursework. CBC Windsor is promoting the...

AFAR researchers bring songbird plight to CBC

AFAR researchers bring songbird plight to CBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eKQMK0YwM Western researchers, in association with Canadian documentary filmmaker Su Rynard, are sounding the alarm about the mass depletion of songbirds in the Americas in a new film, debuting on CBC this week. SongbirdSOS debuts at...

Mustangs earn CIS Women’s Hockey Championship

Mustangs earn CIS Women’s Hockey Championship

CALGARY – A three-goal second period and 38-saves from Kelly Campbell led the Western Mustangs to its first-ever CIS Women’s Hockey Championship title with a 5-0 win over the McGill Martlets Sunday night at the Markin MacPhail Centre. “I was reflecting on this in the...

George Connell, former Western president, dies at 84

George Connell, former Western president, dies at 84

George Connell, LLD’85, the renowned Canadian biochemist who served as president of both Western University and the University of Toronto, died Friday at the Kensington Gardens nursing home in Toronto, according to media reports. He was 84. A native of Saskatoon and a...

Western Reads: Moore embraces the ‘infinite form’

Western Reads: Moore embraces the ‘infinite form’

As Lisa Moore sees it, short stories live in secret pockets, hidden in the corners of our lives. And when we come across them, they engulf us – if only for a little while – only to leave us, ideally affected by the words we just read. “Short stories can appear in...

Anderson: Special issue showed value of town-gown relationship

Anderson: Special issue showed value of town-gown relationship

Congratulations on your Outside the Gates special edition (Feb. 26) as it was an excellent presentation of the many ways Western contributes to the community. The university needs to do more of this sort of promotion of town and gown. London is fortunate to have a...

Building hospitality expertise half a world away

Building hospitality expertise half a world away

Frank Miller spent last November more than 13,000 kilometres from the comfort of his London home. And while he’s since returned, his skills remain in high demand in Vietnam. “I told them I would continue helping them because I want to,” said Miller, director of...

Students get on board for transit Shift in city

Students get on board for transit Shift in city

It’s an understatement, for sure. Around campus, especially during peak hours, city buses are crowded. They’re often late. And sometimes, when full, they roll by campus bus stops, leaving students to wait for the next ride. But times are changing and London’s public...

Miller honoured as Hostelry Institute fellow

Miller honoured as Hostelry Institute fellow

Hospitality Services director Frank Miller has been honoured by the Ontario Hostelry Institute as a Fellow of the Institute 2015 inductee. Miller was recognized for his contributions to the culinary, hospitality and tourism industry, along with his personal and...

Grants to fuel Canada’s future scientists, engineers

Grants to fuel Canada’s future scientists, engineers

Canada’s future scientists and engineers will benefit from a pair of PromoScience grants awarded to two Western researchers, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced Wednesday. Civil and Environmental Engineering professor...

CBC Windsor, Journalism  students bring stories to life

CBC Windsor, Journalism students bring stories to life

Students in Western’s Master of Arts in Journalism program have partnered with CBC Windsor's Afternoon Drive radio show (which broadcasts all over southwestern Ontario) to produce audio documentaries as part of their coursework. CBC Windsor is promoting the...

AFAR researchers bring songbird plight to CBC

AFAR researchers bring songbird plight to CBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eKQMK0YwM Western researchers, in association with Canadian documentary filmmaker Su Rynard, are sounding the alarm about the mass depletion of songbirds in the Americas in a new film, debuting on CBC this week. SongbirdSOS debuts at...

Mustangs earn CIS Women’s Hockey Championship

Mustangs earn CIS Women’s Hockey Championship

CALGARY – A three-goal second period and 38-saves from Kelly Campbell led the Western Mustangs to its first-ever CIS Women’s Hockey Championship title with a 5-0 win over the McGill Martlets Sunday night at the Markin MacPhail Centre. “I was reflecting on this in the...

George Connell, former Western president, dies at 84

George Connell, former Western president, dies at 84

George Connell, LLD’85, the renowned Canadian biochemist who served as president of both Western University and the University of Toronto, died Friday at the Kensington Gardens nursing home in Toronto, according to media reports. He was 84. A native of Saskatoon and a...

Western Reads: Moore embraces the ‘infinite form’

Western Reads: Moore embraces the ‘infinite form’

As Lisa Moore sees it, short stories live in secret pockets, hidden in the corners of our lives. And when we come across them, they engulf us – if only for a little while – only to leave us, ideally affected by the words we just read. “Short stories can appear in...

Anderson: Special issue showed value of town-gown relationship

Anderson: Special issue showed value of town-gown relationship

Congratulations on your Outside the Gates special edition (Feb. 26) as it was an excellent presentation of the many ways Western contributes to the community. The university needs to do more of this sort of promotion of town and gown. London is fortunate to have a...

Building hospitality expertise half a world away

Building hospitality expertise half a world away

Frank Miller spent last November more than 13,000 kilometres from the comfort of his London home. And while he’s since returned, his skills remain in high demand in Vietnam. “I told them I would continue helping them because I want to,” said Miller, director of...

Students get on board for transit Shift in city

Students get on board for transit Shift in city

It’s an understatement, for sure. Around campus, especially during peak hours, city buses are crowded. They’re often late. And sometimes, when full, they roll by campus bus stops, leaving students to wait for the next ride. But times are changing and London’s public...

Miller honoured as Hostelry Institute fellow

Miller honoured as Hostelry Institute fellow

Hospitality Services director Frank Miller has been honoured by the Ontario Hostelry Institute as a Fellow of the Institute 2015 inductee. Miller was recognized for his contributions to the culinary, hospitality and tourism industry, along with his personal and...