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Month: June 2015

Krische named among Canadian Emerging Leaders

Krische named among Canadian Emerging Leaders

Elizabeth Krische, Western’s Director of Procurement Services, recently received the 2015 Emerging Leaders Award from the Canadian Association of University Business Officers (CAUBO). The award celebrates those who “promote excellence, collaboration, leadership and...

Discovery Grant backs species diversity work

Discovery Grant backs species diversity work

For most, fruit flies are just a nuisance at a summer picnic. To Western’s Amanda Moehring, however, they offer the perfect model for shedding light on species formation. Most notably, they help her understand how species know with whom to, or not to, mate – a process...

Former Mustangs heading to Pan Am Games

Former Mustangs heading to Pan Am Games

Three years after spending time on the Purple and White roster together, current London Western Track and Field Club training partners Caroline Ehrhardt and Alicia Smith will represent Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Both compete in triple jump on July 21....

Nevin earns Women’s Health Scholars Award

Nevin earns Women’s Health Scholars Award

Physiology and Pharmacology graduate student Catherine Nevin’s work centres on how to better predict which Fetal Growth Restriction newborns are at risk for cerebral palsy, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, autism and schizophrenia.

Zitani and Thorn: Bananas do nothing for pollinators

Zitani and Thorn: Bananas do nothing for pollinators

It was recently Pollinator Week (June 15-21) and groups across North America are celebrating ways to improve much-needed habitat for pollinators. At Western, we have bananas. (And they’re not even pretty.) If you are unaware of the Plight of the Pollinators, you can...

New Horizons debuts in the ‘other’ London

New Horizons debuts in the ‘other’ London

About 60 members of the Don Wright Faculty of Music New Horizons Band – many of whom are Western employees or alumni – are traveling to Edinburgh, York and London, United Kingdom, July 1-11, to perform five free concerts, including one at Stirling Castle in Scotland...

Research teams backed with nearly $20 million

Research teams backed with nearly $20 million

Western and Lawson Health Research Institute researchers recently received a financial boost from the Government of Ontario as 20 projects are now being backed by the Ontario Research Fund (ORF).

Tim Horton’s, Centre Spot to get summer facelifts

Tim Horton’s, Centre Spot to get summer facelifts

Hospitality Services facilities within the University Community Centre (UCC) are undergoing major renovations this summer, resulting in closures of some facilities and changes in hours to others, all in anticipation of a fresh-faced fall. Starting Monday, June 29, Tim...

Weese reflects on a legacy of connections

Weese reflects on a legacy of connections

Jim Weese never expected to be here forever. “I have always viewed these jobs as temporary,” said the outgoing Health Sciences dean. This month, Weese leaves the post he has held since 2004.

Rayner: Providing a public solution to the troublesome private you

Rayner: Providing a public solution to the troublesome private you

Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...

Menzies: Connecting staff across the globe

Menzies: Connecting staff across the globe

Paula Menzies Cameron, the manager of Financial Support with the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, was one of five Western staff members who secured a Western Staff International Exchange Program (WSIEP) award this year for international job shadowing....

Discovery Grant backs species diversity work

Discovery Grant backs species diversity work

For most, fruit flies are just a nuisance at a summer picnic. To Western’s Amanda Moehring, however, they offer the perfect model for shedding light on species formation. Most notably, they help her understand how species know with whom to, or not to, mate – a process...

Former Mustangs heading to Pan Am Games

Former Mustangs heading to Pan Am Games

Three years after spending time on the Purple and White roster together, current London Western Track and Field Club training partners Caroline Ehrhardt and Alicia Smith will represent Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Both compete in triple jump on July 21....

Nevin earns Women’s Health Scholars Award

Nevin earns Women’s Health Scholars Award

Physiology and Pharmacology graduate student Catherine Nevin’s work centres on how to better predict which Fetal Growth Restriction newborns are at risk for cerebral palsy, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, autism and schizophrenia.

Zitani and Thorn: Bananas do nothing for pollinators

Zitani and Thorn: Bananas do nothing for pollinators

It was recently Pollinator Week (June 15-21) and groups across North America are celebrating ways to improve much-needed habitat for pollinators. At Western, we have bananas. (And they’re not even pretty.) If you are unaware of the Plight of the Pollinators, you can...

New Horizons debuts in the ‘other’ London

New Horizons debuts in the ‘other’ London

About 60 members of the Don Wright Faculty of Music New Horizons Band – many of whom are Western employees or alumni – are traveling to Edinburgh, York and London, United Kingdom, July 1-11, to perform five free concerts, including one at Stirling Castle in Scotland...

Research teams backed with nearly $20 million

Research teams backed with nearly $20 million

Western and Lawson Health Research Institute researchers recently received a financial boost from the Government of Ontario as 20 projects are now being backed by the Ontario Research Fund (ORF).

Tim Horton’s, Centre Spot to get summer facelifts

Tim Horton’s, Centre Spot to get summer facelifts

Hospitality Services facilities within the University Community Centre (UCC) are undergoing major renovations this summer, resulting in closures of some facilities and changes in hours to others, all in anticipation of a fresh-faced fall. Starting Monday, June 29, Tim...

Weese reflects on a legacy of connections

Weese reflects on a legacy of connections

Jim Weese never expected to be here forever. “I have always viewed these jobs as temporary,” said the outgoing Health Sciences dean. This month, Weese leaves the post he has held since 2004.

Rayner: Providing a public solution to the troublesome private you

Rayner: Providing a public solution to the troublesome private you

Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Skelton: Firing may be severe, but not unreasonable

Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...

Menzies: Connecting staff across the globe

Menzies: Connecting staff across the globe

Paula Menzies Cameron, the manager of Financial Support with the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, was one of five Western staff members who secured a Western Staff International Exchange Program (WSIEP) award this year for international job shadowing....