Jayne Garland has been appointed to a five-and-a-half-year term as dean of Health Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Current Health Sciences Dean Jim Weese will continue in the position until the end of calendar year. [caption id=”attachment_18513″ align …
How do you capture the enormous impact Dr. Francis Chan had during his more than three decades at Western? Third-year Medical student Dani Cadieux recently set about doing just that – on canvas. Following Chan’s death from cancer in 2013, the Schulich School of...
Just as members of a flight crew follow a checklist procedure before takeoff to ensure passenger safety, surgeons are also taking up the torch of protocol when entering the operating room. While the World Health Organization recommended a general safe surgery...
Formula racing is not just a race against time. It is a race against oneself. “There’s a saying in racing, ‘Your car is never ready to compete; it only becomes time to race,’” said Matthew Crossan, external team leader for Western Formula Racing. “If your car is...
Think of a city road map. All the places you could possibly want to go – your home, your office, maybe the local coffee shop – are connected by roads. If you take the same road every time from, say, your home to the office, your actions would be in line with how...
Western Law professor Anna Dolidze has been appointed Deputy Minister for Defence of the Republic of Georgia in the former Soviet Union. Dolidze will take a leave of absence from Western Law while she serves in this position. “This position provides a unique...
When it comes to the health and welfare of the thousands of athletes descending on Toronto for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games next month, Western alumna Karin Hohenadel will need to be on the top of her game. The Public Health Ontario epidemiologist has been named...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYOf6hXGx6M Something is rotten in the state of Canadian health care. In a system that purports to be about equity of access, the lack of universal pharmacare – public coverage for prescription drugs – is increasingly becoming...
Nursing student Sarah Dinsdale was recently named one of four recipients of the inaugural David C. Onley Award for Leadership in Accessibility. The award recognizes individuals and organizations who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in creating awareness of...
Kevin Wamsley, Health Sciences associate dean (programs), has been named academic vice-president and provost of St. Francis Xavier University. Wamsley, a Kinesiology professor, has held his current administrative position since 2005. He is recognized as one of the...
For the last three summers, Facilities Management staff has confronted rising energy bills and mounting demand pressures by working with the university community to reduce electricity consumption during June, July and August. That challenge dawns again this year....
Just a quick reminder: It hasn’t gone away. Oh sure, it may be quiet out there now. Convocation brought smiles across the campus. Chatter among staff has turned to vacation plans. Even once-screaming headlines have faded in one community newspaper, as its reporters...
“Hubris and dogma are the enemies of professionalism. Avoid both, if possible,” Constance Sugiyama, president of ConMark Strategy Inc., told graduates at the Wednesday, June 17, afternoon session of Western’s 305th Convocation.