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Year: 2016

Wings of my father: A son finds peace half a world away

Wings of my father: A son finds peace half a world away

DUNCAN HUNTER HAS FEW MEMORIES of his father beyond a pile of old photographs and the stories his late mother left him. A mechanic in Westlock, Alta., a small town north of Edmonton, Ralph Hunter headed to war when his son was 3 years old. He disappear …

Study: Cost a tipping point on knee surgeries

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

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 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

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’

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

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

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

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...

‘Voice of Western’ dials up retirement

‘Voice of Western’ dials up retirement

Why do I know that voice? It happens to Sandi Patterson every now and then when people speak with her. They recognize the voice; they just cannot place the face. Maybe this will help. Welcome to Western University. If you know the five-digit extension number of the...

Young scholar uses challenges to fuel goals

Young scholar uses challenges to fuel goals

One day, Katelyn Greer may pioneer advances in the field of medicine she already knows too much about. Having suffered a trio of concussions, the most recent less than eight months ago, the first-year Medical Sciences student is more than familiar with the injury’s...

Study: Cost a tipping point on knee surgeries

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

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 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

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’

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

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

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

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...

‘Voice of Western’ dials up retirement

‘Voice of Western’ dials up retirement

Why do I know that voice? It happens to Sandi Patterson every now and then when people speak with her. They recognize the voice; they just cannot place the face. Maybe this will help. Welcome to Western University. If you know the five-digit extension number of the...

Young scholar uses challenges to fuel goals

Young scholar uses challenges to fuel goals

One day, Katelyn Greer may pioneer advances in the field of medicine she already knows too much about. Having suffered a trio of concussions, the most recent less than eight months ago, the first-year Medical Sciences student is more than familiar with the injury’s...