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Month: June 2015

Garland appointed new Health Sciences dean

Garland appointed new Health Sciences dean

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 …

Painting captures fabric of legendary professor

Painting captures fabric of legendary professor

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...

Procedure looks to reduce risks in ‘high-stakes environment’

Procedure looks to reduce risks in ‘high-stakes environment’

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 team stays on track

Formula Racing team stays on track

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...

Rethinking traffic flow in the brain

Rethinking traffic flow in the brain

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...

Law professor named to Georgian Defence post

Law professor named to Georgian Defence post

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...

Alumna connecting health resources for Pan Am Games

Alumna connecting health resources for Pan Am Games

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...

Alumna-led study: Universal pharmacare a financial possibility

Alumna-led study: Universal pharmacare a financial possibility

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...

Dinsdale tapped for Onley Leadership Award

Dinsdale tapped for Onley Leadership Award

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...

Wamsley named St. Francis Xavier provost

Wamsley named St. Francis Xavier provost

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...

FM nods to campus for conservation successes

FM nods to campus for conservation successes

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....

Winders: Summer events to set stage, define direction of pivotal fall

Winders: Summer events to set stage, define direction of pivotal fall

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...

Sugiyama: Remember, it’s not always about you

Sugiyama: Remember, it’s not always about you

“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.

Painting captures fabric of legendary professor

Painting captures fabric of legendary professor

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...

Procedure looks to reduce risks in ‘high-stakes environment’

Procedure looks to reduce risks in ‘high-stakes environment’

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 team stays on track

Formula Racing team stays on track

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...

Rethinking traffic flow in the brain

Rethinking traffic flow in the brain

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...

Law professor named to Georgian Defence post

Law professor named to Georgian Defence post

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...

Alumna connecting health resources for Pan Am Games

Alumna connecting health resources for Pan Am Games

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...

Alumna-led study: Universal pharmacare a financial possibility

Alumna-led study: Universal pharmacare a financial possibility

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...

Dinsdale tapped for Onley Leadership Award

Dinsdale tapped for Onley Leadership Award

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...

Wamsley named St. Francis Xavier provost

Wamsley named St. Francis Xavier provost

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...

FM nods to campus for conservation successes

FM nods to campus for conservation successes

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....

Winders: Summer events to set stage, define direction of pivotal fall

Winders: Summer events to set stage, define direction of pivotal fall

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...

Sugiyama: Remember, it’s not always about you

Sugiyama: Remember, it’s not always about you

“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.