If you don’t have an opportunity to meet him face to face, Western President Amit Chakma is hoping you’ll meet with him screen to screen. Launched May 25, the president’s Engaging Our Community website will capture the concerns and issues raised as Chakma continues to...
Month: May 2015
New book celebrates artist, former McIntosh curator
Alumnus Tom Smart, BA’83, left, and artist Maurice Stubbs sign copies of the new book, Maurice Stubbs, Intuitive Painter, at the book launch today, at the McIntosh Gallery. Smart is a co-author of the book along with McIntosh curator Catherine Elliot Shaw and Phillip...
Chancellor nominations open
Western is seeking nominations from the university community as the search begins for the institution’s 22nd chancellor in its 137-year history, the University Secretariat’s office announced today. Western’s Board of Governors and Senate have established an Electoral...
The Big Ideas Issue
Join members of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in this special edition of Western News as they offer up their BIG IDEAS on the questions you’ll be facing tomorrow – and beyond. Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves. By Stathis Psillos;...
Big Ideas: Working out ideas on fitness
While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...
Big ideas: Knowing yourself – and your mental state – in new ways
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
Big Ideas: Moving beyond ‘trusting your gut’
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Big Ideas: Finding the best path to saving the world
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
Big Ideas: Engaging in debate over future food systems
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Big Ideas: Tiny, happy people faring well
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
Big Ideas: Placing a proper value on parenting
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
Big Ideas: Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
Cua, Jackson to receive honorary degrees
Innovative business executive Simon Cua, who leads the largest LED lighting manufacturer in China, will receive an honorary degree from Western at the 2015 Hong Kong Convocation on Sunday, May 31. Former Olympian and Canadian sports executive Roger Jackson will also...
New book celebrates artist, former McIntosh curator
Alumnus Tom Smart, BA’83, left, and artist Maurice Stubbs sign copies of the new book, Maurice Stubbs, Intuitive Painter, at the book launch today, at the McIntosh Gallery. Smart is a co-author of the book along with McIntosh curator Catherine Elliot Shaw and Phillip...
Chancellor nominations open
Western is seeking nominations from the university community as the search begins for the institution’s 22nd chancellor in its 137-year history, the University Secretariat’s office announced today. Western’s Board of Governors and Senate have established an Electoral...
The Big Ideas Issue
Join members of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy in this special edition of Western News as they offer up their BIG IDEAS on the questions you’ll be facing tomorrow – and beyond. Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves. By Stathis Psillos;...
Big Ideas: Working out ideas on fitness
While there has been a lot of feminist attention paid to the diet industry, and the tyranny of increasingly difficult-to-attain ideals of the feminine body, feminist scholars have done little analysis of fitness – the fitness industry, fitness culture and the...
Big ideas: Knowing yourself – and your mental state – in new ways
Each one of us will be touched by mental illness. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2011 Mental Health Atlas, more than 450 million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, - and the numbers continue to grow. For those of us whose...
Big Ideas: Moving beyond ‘trusting your gut’
The output of a computer program predicts a big storm will hit your city. You’re the mayor and you have to decide whether or not the computer’s prediction is to be trusted. Another computer program says a skyscraper will not vibrate dangerously in the prevailing...
Big Ideas: Finding the best path to saving the world
Human activity now disrupts many of the global-scale systems upon which our survival depends. People around the world are working to find the best way of understanding and responding to this situation, but disagreement is widespread. The need is urgent to find a way...
Big Ideas: Engaging in debate over future food systems
On Aug. 10, 1973, our food system fundamentally changed. On that day, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, which replaced the United States’ long-standing policies of price supports with new policies geared toward...
Big Ideas: Tiny, happy people faring well
Aristotle thinks children cannot fare well because they cannot, on account of their intellectual and moral immaturity, exhibit intellectual and moral virtues, as he understands them. But his conclusion follows only because he assumes the only way to fare well is to...
Big Ideas: Placing a proper value on parenting
What are the most valuable ‘good things’ in our lives? Such questions are abstract, the stuff of thousands of years of philosophical thinking and writing, but the answers also bear directly on some important issues of current government policy. For example, many...
Big Ideas: Better we understand science, better we understand ourselves
When it comes to big ideas, what’s bigger than the idea of science? Science is a human endeavour and a human creation, pretty much like literature, drama and football. But unlike other human creations, the object of the study of science – the world at large – is not a...
Cua, Jackson to receive honorary degrees
Innovative business executive Simon Cua, who leads the largest LED lighting manufacturer in China, will receive an honorary degree from Western at the 2015 Hong Kong Convocation on Sunday, May 31. Former Olympian and Canadian sports executive Roger Jackson will also...