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Month: March 2015

Novel power source may take flight soon

Novel power source may take flight soon

The beating of a bird’s wings may soon be all the power Western Biology professor Chris Guglielmo needs to generate limitless data on his feathered friends. Battery life has always been a limiting factor for wildlife tracking devices when studying …

Summers: Story sparks a walk to remember

Summers: Story sparks a walk to remember

Dementia and related diseases have the potential to cripple our health-care system. As my grandmother passed away from Alzheimer’s disease, Montero Odasso’s walking and dementia research is a new path along which I am keen to venture (Patients’ walks may aid early...

Visiting professor hopes to continue connections

Visiting professor hopes to continue connections

Stefan Creuzberger is not only a believer in the power of international academic connections – he is a proud example of it. Creuzberger, a Contemporary History professor at the University of Rostock (Germany), visited Western last week as part of a week-long academic...

Engineering students to benefit from Siemens grant

Engineering students to benefit from Siemens grant

Western Engineering students will now use the same technology in their classrooms that businesses around the world employ to design some of today’s most sophisticated products thanks to an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software. The new academic partnership...

Carr legacy explored during lecture

Carr legacy explored during lecture

Sarah Milroy explores the life and times of the late Canadian artist Emily Carr during her lecture, Wayfinding in the New World, at 2 p.m. Sunday, in the Darryl J. King Student Life Centre Auditorium in King's University College. Milroy is the former editor and...

American academic to deliver Coxford Lecture

American academic to deliver Coxford Lecture

Adrienne Davis, Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) vice-provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, will explore the topic of reparations for slavery at the 2015 Coxford Lecture.

Summers: Story sparks a walk to remember

Summers: Story sparks a walk to remember

Dementia and related diseases have the potential to cripple our health-care system. As my grandmother passed away from Alzheimer’s disease, Montero Odasso’s walking and dementia research is a new path along which I am keen to venture (Patients’ walks may aid early...

Visiting professor hopes to continue connections

Visiting professor hopes to continue connections

Stefan Creuzberger is not only a believer in the power of international academic connections – he is a proud example of it. Creuzberger, a Contemporary History professor at the University of Rostock (Germany), visited Western last week as part of a week-long academic...

Engineering students to benefit from Siemens grant

Engineering students to benefit from Siemens grant

Western Engineering students will now use the same technology in their classrooms that businesses around the world employ to design some of today’s most sophisticated products thanks to an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software. The new academic partnership...

Carr legacy explored during lecture

Carr legacy explored during lecture

Sarah Milroy explores the life and times of the late Canadian artist Emily Carr during her lecture, Wayfinding in the New World, at 2 p.m. Sunday, in the Darryl J. King Student Life Centre Auditorium in King's University College. Milroy is the former editor and...

American academic to deliver Coxford Lecture

American academic to deliver Coxford Lecture

Adrienne Davis, Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) vice-provost and William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, will explore the topic of reparations for slavery at the 2015 Coxford Lecture.