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...
Brescia University College recently named Cathy Vitkauskas as vice-principal advancement, a newly created position for the Western affiliate. Vitkauskas was most recently the director of annual giving and donor relations at the Ivey Business School. Vitkauskas will...
Robarts Clinical Trials Inc. has been named a finalist in for the 2015 London Business Achievement Awards in the Innovation category. Sponsored by the London Chamber of Commerce, the awards celebrate “the best and brightest of the London business community” in...
Recent Western alumni Melissa Kargiannakis and Aaron Joshua Pinto have been named among the recipients of the 2015 Queen’s Young Leaders Awards, announced by the organization today. Of 2,000 applicants, 60 award recipients across Commonwealth countries were selected....
Robert (Bob) Andersen has been appointed to a five-year term as dean of Social Science, beginning July 1. He will join Western June 1 and serve in a temporary role as special advisor to the provost.
Track and field athlete Robin Bone and basketball player Anthony Spiridis have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week. Bone, a Business Management and Organizational Studies student from London, captured gold in the pole vault at the Can-Am Classic in...
When I received an invitation to speak to students in Moscow, I immediately said yes. The invitation came from professor Igor Klyukanov of Eastern Washington University. He edits the British-based Russian Journal of Communication, actively follows events in Ukraine...
Livio Tornabene and his research team have been snapping a lot of photos recently and have seen nothing but red – and they couldn’t be happier. Launched in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to explore Mars from orbit. After a...
They may operate on a smaller field, but they play a much bigger financial game in the States. Last month, the University of Michigan finalized a deal to hire Jim Harbaugh as the school’s next head coach. Harbaugh, a former Wolverines quarterback from the 1980s, left...
Angie Mandich, associate vice-president (student experience), left, recently presented the first-ever Employer Partnership Award to Sarah Tattersall, manager of Recruitment and Talent Development for 3M Canada. The Student Success Centre, DAN Management and...
James Grier didn’t see it. Until he did. Grier, an award-winning musicologist in Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music, spent years studying in the manuscript room at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Recently, he made a connection no one had made before. Looking...
Haoming Liu, PhD’99 (Economics), won the 2015 Kuznets Prize for his paper, The quality-quantity trade-off: evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy, in the Journal of Population Economics. The paper was nominated as the best article published in the...
Foster care operates in the background. And that’s unfortunate, according to one Western researcher, who says the system’s value becomes evident only when issues arise. “We assume, in the community, every time there’s a child in need, there’s a place for that child to...
Brescia University College recently named Cathy Vitkauskas as vice-principal advancement, a newly created position for the Western affiliate. Vitkauskas was most recently the director of annual giving and donor relations at the Ivey Business School. Vitkauskas will...
Robarts Clinical Trials Inc. has been named a finalist in for the 2015 London Business Achievement Awards in the Innovation category. Sponsored by the London Chamber of Commerce, the awards celebrate “the best and brightest of the London business community” in...
Recent Western alumni Melissa Kargiannakis and Aaron Joshua Pinto have been named among the recipients of the 2015 Queen’s Young Leaders Awards, announced by the organization today. Of 2,000 applicants, 60 award recipients across Commonwealth countries were selected....
Robert (Bob) Andersen has been appointed to a five-year term as dean of Social Science, beginning July 1. He will join Western June 1 and serve in a temporary role as special advisor to the provost.
Track and field athlete Robin Bone and basketball player Anthony Spiridis have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week. Bone, a Business Management and Organizational Studies student from London, captured gold in the pole vault at the Can-Am Classic in...
When I received an invitation to speak to students in Moscow, I immediately said yes. The invitation came from professor Igor Klyukanov of Eastern Washington University. He edits the British-based Russian Journal of Communication, actively follows events in Ukraine...
Livio Tornabene and his research team have been snapping a lot of photos recently and have seen nothing but red – and they couldn’t be happier. Launched in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to explore Mars from orbit. After a...
They may operate on a smaller field, but they play a much bigger financial game in the States. Last month, the University of Michigan finalized a deal to hire Jim Harbaugh as the school’s next head coach. Harbaugh, a former Wolverines quarterback from the 1980s, left...
Angie Mandich, associate vice-president (student experience), left, recently presented the first-ever Employer Partnership Award to Sarah Tattersall, manager of Recruitment and Talent Development for 3M Canada. The Student Success Centre, DAN Management and...
James Grier didn’t see it. Until he did. Grier, an award-winning musicologist in Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music, spent years studying in the manuscript room at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Recently, he made a connection no one had made before. Looking...
Haoming Liu, PhD’99 (Economics), won the 2015 Kuznets Prize for his paper, The quality-quantity trade-off: evidence from the relaxation of China’s one-child policy, in the Journal of Population Economics. The paper was nominated as the best article published in the...
Foster care operates in the background. And that’s unfortunate, according to one Western researcher, who says the system’s value becomes evident only when issues arise. “We assume, in the community, every time there’s a child in need, there’s a place for that child to...