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Month: March 2016

Position marshals resources against sexual violence

Position marshals resources against sexual violence

Everyone has a role to play in Angela Treglia’s job. “It’s all of our responsibilities to look at ways we can educate ourselves, and each other, on prevention,” said the university’s Sexual Violence Prevention Education Co-ordinator. “Sexual violence is not a woman’s...

Martin: Transit opportunity too good to pass up

Martin: Transit opportunity too good to pass up

Western should rise to the challenge and welcome the proposed London Rapid Transit initiative to the car-congested campus. The light-rail transit (LRT) proposal would not only alleviate transportation challenges for students, faculty and staff commuters to the campus,...

Report calls for more transparent graduate funding

Report calls for more transparent graduate funding

A sub-committee organized to examine the university’s graduate funding model, in light of criticism last year, found a number of misconceptions as to how those dollars flow, and charged faculties and programs with helping explain the complex model more evenly to...

Book draws modern lessons from America’s Puritan roots

Book draws modern lessons from America’s Puritan roots

Religion is quintessentially part of what it means to “be an American,” English and Writing Studies Chair Bryce Traister argues. “We think of religion as outside of the normal or a way to understand the world. But for many people, particularly in the United States,...

Advocate to make the world ‘a little less scary’

Advocate to make the world ‘a little less scary’

Travis Tetreault loves to see that ‘a-ha’ moment in others. As a mental-health advocate for youth , the King’s University College student is passionate about helping peers take ownership of issues affecting them to eliminate stigma and raise mental health awareness in...

Group looks to unite family amid refugee crisis

Group looks to unite family amid refugee crisis

The Western Ontario Friends for Refugees is a group of university community members helping Londoner Rania Almuradi reunite with her mother, brother and sister, who are still in Syria.

Taking to a new stage

Taking to a new stage

Today, Western formally launches its Theatre Studies program with a two-day celebration. In honour of that occasion, Western News asked four students – Caitlin Austin, Jack Copland, Rachel Flear and Sarah Gilpin –to share their reasonings behind studying theatre and...

Research shines light into darker side of gaming industry

Research shines light into darker side of gaming industry

In its early days, the video game industry was perceived as a fun, high-tech business where young creative types were ‘paid to play games all day.’ Then, in 2004, in an open letter to Electronic Arts (EA) executives, a disgruntled partner of an EA employee brought the...

Violence prevention program joins Education

Violence prevention program joins Education

Today’s educators and policymakers are under enormous pressure to find ways of addressing and preventing all forms of school violence, including dating violence, homophobia and bullying. Addressing these issues is not easy. However, by using the Fourth R – a...

Putting crunch to the test

Putting crunch to the test

The Beltone Anechoic Chamber, housed at Western’s National Centre for Audiology, supports a wide range of research projects requiring a highly controlled sound field environment, with fields such as Music, Audiology, Hearing Science and Engineering all making use of...

Martin: Transit opportunity too good to pass up

Martin: Transit opportunity too good to pass up

Western should rise to the challenge and welcome the proposed London Rapid Transit initiative to the car-congested campus. The light-rail transit (LRT) proposal would not only alleviate transportation challenges for students, faculty and staff commuters to the campus,...

Report calls for more transparent graduate funding

Report calls for more transparent graduate funding

A sub-committee organized to examine the university’s graduate funding model, in light of criticism last year, found a number of misconceptions as to how those dollars flow, and charged faculties and programs with helping explain the complex model more evenly to...

Book draws modern lessons from America’s Puritan roots

Book draws modern lessons from America’s Puritan roots

Religion is quintessentially part of what it means to “be an American,” English and Writing Studies Chair Bryce Traister argues. “We think of religion as outside of the normal or a way to understand the world. But for many people, particularly in the United States,...

Advocate to make the world ‘a little less scary’

Advocate to make the world ‘a little less scary’

Travis Tetreault loves to see that ‘a-ha’ moment in others. As a mental-health advocate for youth , the King’s University College student is passionate about helping peers take ownership of issues affecting them to eliminate stigma and raise mental health awareness in...

Group looks to unite family amid refugee crisis

Group looks to unite family amid refugee crisis

The Western Ontario Friends for Refugees is a group of university community members helping Londoner Rania Almuradi reunite with her mother, brother and sister, who are still in Syria.

Taking to a new stage

Taking to a new stage

Today, Western formally launches its Theatre Studies program with a two-day celebration. In honour of that occasion, Western News asked four students – Caitlin Austin, Jack Copland, Rachel Flear and Sarah Gilpin –to share their reasonings behind studying theatre and...

Research shines light into darker side of gaming industry

Research shines light into darker side of gaming industry

In its early days, the video game industry was perceived as a fun, high-tech business where young creative types were ‘paid to play games all day.’ Then, in 2004, in an open letter to Electronic Arts (EA) executives, a disgruntled partner of an EA employee brought the...

Violence prevention program joins Education

Violence prevention program joins Education

Today’s educators and policymakers are under enormous pressure to find ways of addressing and preventing all forms of school violence, including dating violence, homophobia and bullying. Addressing these issues is not easy. However, by using the Fourth R – a...

Putting crunch to the test

Putting crunch to the test

The Beltone Anechoic Chamber, housed at Western’s National Centre for Audiology, supports a wide range of research projects requiring a highly controlled sound field environment, with fields such as Music, Audiology, Hearing Science and Engineering all making use of...