Hanny Hassan refuses to look back any longer. “We have to move away from apologizing. We have gone through this period; we have learned some lessons; we have made some judgments about things we need to change,” said Hassan, BESc’64, who was named the 27th Chair of...
Month: January 2016
Students ready for culinary competition
The second annual CHOPT Western student culinary competition continues through Feb. 8 in residence dining halls across campus. Three student competitors from each residence have one hour to create the new dish, including items from a ‘black box’ of five mystery...
Alumni entrepreneurs honoured
Western alumnae Mallorie Brodie, who holds a certificate in Entrepreneurship from Ivey Business School, and Lauren Lake, BESc’13, were named Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 at the 2015 Canadian Startup Awards. The pair are co-founders Bridgit, a cloud-based mobile and...
Western cracks top international institutions list
Western ranked among the top institutions in the world when it comes to international outlook, according to the Times Higher Education Most International Universities 2016 list. In numbers released last week, Western ranked No. 155 globally, finding itself between...
Study: Cost a tipping point on knee surgeries
A new study from Western’s Bone and Joint Research Institute could save the health-care system millions of dollars while also preventing some of the more than 250 million knee osteoarthritis (OA) sufferers from going under the knife.
Indigenous reporting seminar set
Miles Kenyon of the Journalists for Human Rights will lead a workshop reporting on indigenous issues at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, in Somerville House, room 3315. Kenyon, manager of the Indigenous Reporters Program, will cover topics such as representation,...
Western investigating student document posting
Western officials are continuing to investigate how a document containing student information surfaced on a third-party website earlier today. Originating with the university’s Leadership and Academic Mentorship Program (LAMP), the document contained information on...
Alumni Donoghue, Moccio earn Oscar nods
Hollywood’s awards season continues to celebrate Western alumni Emma Donoghue and Stephan Moccio. Donoghue, DLitt’13, has been nominated for an Academy Award, in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay, for the page-to-screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel Room....
New chair embraces ‘meeting of minds’
Tim Bayne’s research can be described as the flipside of Adrian Owen’s neuroscience coin. And that’s just one reason he’s here. “Adrian (Owen) and his collaborators are using neuroimaging to look at brain activity in (vegetative) patients, and what they’re really...
Letter: Looking for moderate voices
Rehab Nazzal ignores the fact that heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions are the result of Palestinian gun, knife and vehicle attacks that have killed 25 Israelis and wounded more than 250 since October (Sniper’s bullet raises question for PhD student, Jan. 7)....
Letter: Sounds of silence
On Dec. 11, 2015, Western PhD student Rehab Nazzal was shot through the leg by an Israeli military sniper (Sniper’s bullet raises question for PhD student, Jan. 7). At the time of this deliberate act of state violence, Rehab was armed only with a camera and she was...
Lessons learned from his year at the keys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrp1fK8Gtqc For pianist David Chodoriwsky, BMus’05, 2015 was a challenging year of his own making. In a pledge of self-accountability, Chodoriwsky decided to memorize a new piece of music every week of the year, record it on video and...
Exhibitions bring unique collection of African art into modern context
To celebrate Black History Month, the McIntosh Gallery is preparing an exhibition unlike any other...
Students ready for culinary competition
The second annual CHOPT Western student culinary competition continues through Feb. 8 in residence dining halls across campus. Three student competitors from each residence have one hour to create the new dish, including items from a ‘black box’ of five mystery...
Alumni entrepreneurs honoured
Western alumnae Mallorie Brodie, who holds a certificate in Entrepreneurship from Ivey Business School, and Lauren Lake, BESc’13, were named Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 at the 2015 Canadian Startup Awards. The pair are co-founders Bridgit, a cloud-based mobile and...
Western cracks top international institutions list
Western ranked among the top institutions in the world when it comes to international outlook, according to the Times Higher Education Most International Universities 2016 list. In numbers released last week, Western ranked No. 155 globally, finding itself between...
Study: Cost a tipping point on knee surgeries
A new study from Western’s Bone and Joint Research Institute could save the health-care system millions of dollars while also preventing some of the more than 250 million knee osteoarthritis (OA) sufferers from going under the knife.
Indigenous reporting seminar set
Miles Kenyon of the Journalists for Human Rights will lead a workshop reporting on indigenous issues at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, in Somerville House, room 3315. Kenyon, manager of the Indigenous Reporters Program, will cover topics such as representation,...
Western investigating student document posting
Western officials are continuing to investigate how a document containing student information surfaced on a third-party website earlier today. Originating with the university’s Leadership and Academic Mentorship Program (LAMP), the document contained information on...
Alumni Donoghue, Moccio earn Oscar nods
Hollywood’s awards season continues to celebrate Western alumni Emma Donoghue and Stephan Moccio. Donoghue, DLitt’13, has been nominated for an Academy Award, in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay, for the page-to-screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel Room....
New chair embraces ‘meeting of minds’
Tim Bayne’s research can be described as the flipside of Adrian Owen’s neuroscience coin. And that’s just one reason he’s here. “Adrian (Owen) and his collaborators are using neuroimaging to look at brain activity in (vegetative) patients, and what they’re really...
Letter: Looking for moderate voices
Rehab Nazzal ignores the fact that heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions are the result of Palestinian gun, knife and vehicle attacks that have killed 25 Israelis and wounded more than 250 since October (Sniper’s bullet raises question for PhD student, Jan. 7)....
Letter: Sounds of silence
On Dec. 11, 2015, Western PhD student Rehab Nazzal was shot through the leg by an Israeli military sniper (Sniper’s bullet raises question for PhD student, Jan. 7). At the time of this deliberate act of state violence, Rehab was armed only with a camera and she was...
Lessons learned from his year at the keys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrp1fK8Gtqc For pianist David Chodoriwsky, BMus’05, 2015 was a challenging year of his own making. In a pledge of self-accountability, Chodoriwsky decided to memorize a new piece of music every week of the year, record it on video and...
Exhibitions bring unique collection of African art into modern context
To celebrate Black History Month, the McIntosh Gallery is preparing an exhibition unlike any other...