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Month: November 2015

Hassan named new Board of Governors Chair

Hassan named new Board of Governors Chair

Western’s Board of Governors named Hanny Hassan as the university governing body’s next Chair at its regular meeting Thursday. His term begins Jan. 1. Named to the Board by the Alumni Association in 2009, Hassan is President of Alef Consulting. He received a BESc from...

Banting, Possmayer named among game-changes

Banting, Possmayer named among game-changes

Frederick Banting and Fred Possmayer, PhD’65, have been named in the top-five favourite game-changing Ontario research discoveries, as voted on by the public. In 1921, Frederick Banting, who taught at Western at the time, came up with the idea of extracting insulin...

Teeter awarded Polanyi Prize

Teeter awarded Polanyi Prize

Matthew Teeter, a Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor and Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, won the 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize. The $20,000 award recognizes the excellence of Teeter’s research in joint replacement. It was presented at...

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...

Celebrating Einstein

Celebrating Einstein

A popular picture of scientific revolutions, such as Einstein’s overthrow of Newtonian physics, paints them as involving something like a gestalt shift; they involve a sudden reorientation of the perspective through which we see the world. The perspective, through...

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

In December 2014, Stathis Psillos, former Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western, suggested the idea of Einstein @ Rotman, a series of events culminating with a museum exhibit with manuscripts related to Einstein’s theory of general...

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

This month, we celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s discovery of a new theory of gravity – general relativity. Einstein’s achievement required perseverance and enormous creativity, as he struggled over a rough and winding road for eight years to formulate the theory....

Winders: Newsmaker tradition helps mark the years

Winders: Newsmaker tradition helps mark the years

I am certain Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko had no idea what he started. In 1945, Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, sparked an international incident when he defected to Canada. The move would have gone unnoticed by history, or at best relegated to...

Solga: Preparing to raise the curtain on Destination Theatre

Solga: Preparing to raise the curtain on Destination Theatre

One thing I’ll say about my life as an academic: It involves a lot of travel, and plenty of that travel is a real pleasure. Two weeks ago, I was in London, England, at the school where I used to work, Queen Mary University of London. I was there with my colleague from...

Town Hall to inform degree outcomes conversation

Town Hall to inform degree outcomes conversation

The discussion won’t revolve around graduates’ careers or salaries, and it won’t directly compare their learning experience at Western to experiences at another university. But, if you attend tomorrow’s Town Hall on Western Degree Outcomes, come prepared to consider...

Banting, Possmayer named among game-changes

Banting, Possmayer named among game-changes

Frederick Banting and Fred Possmayer, PhD’65, have been named in the top-five favourite game-changing Ontario research discoveries, as voted on by the public. In 1921, Frederick Banting, who taught at Western at the time, came up with the idea of extracting insulin...

Teeter awarded Polanyi Prize

Teeter awarded Polanyi Prize

Matthew Teeter, a Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor and Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, won the 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize. The $20,000 award recognizes the excellence of Teeter’s research in joint replacement. It was presented at...

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics

Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...

Celebrating Einstein

Celebrating Einstein

A popular picture of scientific revolutions, such as Einstein’s overthrow of Newtonian physics, paints them as involving something like a gestalt shift; they involve a sudden reorientation of the perspective through which we see the world. The perspective, through...

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist

In December 2014, Stathis Psillos, former Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western, suggested the idea of Einstein @ Rotman, a series of events culminating with a museum exhibit with manuscripts related to Einstein’s theory of general...

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity

This month, we celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s discovery of a new theory of gravity – general relativity. Einstein’s achievement required perseverance and enormous creativity, as he struggled over a rough and winding road for eight years to formulate the theory....

Winders: Newsmaker tradition helps mark the years

Winders: Newsmaker tradition helps mark the years

I am certain Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko had no idea what he started. In 1945, Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, sparked an international incident when he defected to Canada. The move would have gone unnoticed by history, or at best relegated to...

Solga: Preparing to raise the curtain on Destination Theatre

Solga: Preparing to raise the curtain on Destination Theatre

One thing I’ll say about my life as an academic: It involves a lot of travel, and plenty of that travel is a real pleasure. Two weeks ago, I was in London, England, at the school where I used to work, Queen Mary University of London. I was there with my colleague from...

Town Hall to inform degree outcomes conversation

Town Hall to inform degree outcomes conversation

The discussion won’t revolve around graduates’ careers or salaries, and it won’t directly compare their learning experience at Western to experiences at another university. But, if you attend tomorrow’s Town Hall on Western Degree Outcomes, come prepared to consider...