In keeping with the Public Sector Disclosure Act, Western released an annual list of employees whose 2016 income met or exceeded $100,000, as reflected on their T4 slips, university officials announced today. The list also includes taxable benefits for 2016. Most of...
Month: March 2017
Alexis, ‘Fifteen Dogs’ win Canada Reads
André Alexis, the 2010-11 Writer-In-Residence in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and his book Fifteen Dogs were named the winner of this year’s Canada Reads, after writer and rapper Humble The Poet successfully defended the book in the CBC program’s finale...
Dear Mr. Fantasy: Alumnus talks politics behind fantasy baseball
Get Rob Silver, LLB’00, talking politics and you might be a while. Get him talking about baseball and you’ll need to grab a seat. The Western alumnus is a founding partner of Crestview Strategy, a Toronto- and Ottawa-based government relations firm. He may be a...
Language has been her passport to life
For most of us, Lucie Bartosova’s dreams would require subtitles. Bartosova, BA’03, BEd’07, MA’09, has a mind for language – she was born into Czech, quickly learned English, started French in Grade 3, Spanish in high school and German in university, and then, through...
Students nab innovation awards
Three Western students reflected their best work in developing a winning commercialization strategy for a mirror box used in lower-extremity therapy, earning them one of the top spots in the annual Proteus Innovation Competition. The competition – a partnership...
Researchers target mindfulness in children, parents
It starts with the ringing of a chime. Immediately, a kindergarten classroom falls silent as 30 students sit intently, each one waiting to raise a hand the second he or she can no longer hear the chime’s resonating tone. The sound continues to abate and one by one,...
Astronomers map unique ‘wrong-way’ asteroid
For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the ‘wrong’ way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with Jupiter and about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet’s space, according to a report published in the latest issue of Nature....
Music students to play with National Youth Orchestra
Of 500 eager applicants, only 100 secure a highly-coveted space in the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of Canada each year. This summer, Don Wright Faculty of Music string students Anna Grigg, Darren Mak, Dorothy Lin, Christian Wrona and Jillian Yang will join the...
Librarian uncovers historic files using ‘digital forensics’
Vincent Gray has more than 100 early 80s-era floppy discs and a hefty, mustard yellow, Back to the Future-looking laptop tucked away in his office. There’s a wealth of information stored on the dated hardware – detailed logs of 13th and 14th century agrarian practices...
Looking at old spaces through new eyes
Sylvia Nagy doesn’t like to use the term ‘preserve’ when speaking about heritage buildings. “It sounds like you’re putting something under glass, or pickling it and not retaining any of the flavour,” said the fourth-year King’s University College Bachelor of Social...
Dystopic déjà vu: Trump and the resurgence of cataclysmic classics
Once immensely popular, classics of dystopian fiction have seen a significant resurgence on bookstore shelves and online orders – particularly after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Fed budget backs postsecondary sector
Although the 2017 federal budget, tabled last week by Finance Minister Bill Morneau, makes no specific provisions for postsecondary institutions, it nevertheless presents a number of opportunities for Canadian universities, said Peter White, Executive Director,...
Brennan: Why I didn’t protest Jordan Peterson’s visit but newspaper coverage almost makes me wish I did
I don’t like our university’s reputation sometimes. This week, I was at Brock giving an invited guest lecture on micro-inequities and implicit bias to their newly founded women’s caucus and the first question I was asked was about Jordan Peterson. “Didn’t Western give...
Alexis, ‘Fifteen Dogs’ win Canada Reads
André Alexis, the 2010-11 Writer-In-Residence in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and his book Fifteen Dogs were named the winner of this year’s Canada Reads, after writer and rapper Humble The Poet successfully defended the book in the CBC program’s finale...
Dear Mr. Fantasy: Alumnus talks politics behind fantasy baseball
Get Rob Silver, LLB’00, talking politics and you might be a while. Get him talking about baseball and you’ll need to grab a seat. The Western alumnus is a founding partner of Crestview Strategy, a Toronto- and Ottawa-based government relations firm. He may be a...
Language has been her passport to life
For most of us, Lucie Bartosova’s dreams would require subtitles. Bartosova, BA’03, BEd’07, MA’09, has a mind for language – she was born into Czech, quickly learned English, started French in Grade 3, Spanish in high school and German in university, and then, through...
Students nab innovation awards
Three Western students reflected their best work in developing a winning commercialization strategy for a mirror box used in lower-extremity therapy, earning them one of the top spots in the annual Proteus Innovation Competition. The competition – a partnership...
Researchers target mindfulness in children, parents
It starts with the ringing of a chime. Immediately, a kindergarten classroom falls silent as 30 students sit intently, each one waiting to raise a hand the second he or she can no longer hear the chime’s resonating tone. The sound continues to abate and one by one,...
Astronomers map unique ‘wrong-way’ asteroid
For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the ‘wrong’ way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with Jupiter and about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet’s space, according to a report published in the latest issue of Nature....
Music students to play with National Youth Orchestra
Of 500 eager applicants, only 100 secure a highly-coveted space in the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of Canada each year. This summer, Don Wright Faculty of Music string students Anna Grigg, Darren Mak, Dorothy Lin, Christian Wrona and Jillian Yang will join the...
Librarian uncovers historic files using ‘digital forensics’
Vincent Gray has more than 100 early 80s-era floppy discs and a hefty, mustard yellow, Back to the Future-looking laptop tucked away in his office. There’s a wealth of information stored on the dated hardware – detailed logs of 13th and 14th century agrarian practices...
Looking at old spaces through new eyes
Sylvia Nagy doesn’t like to use the term ‘preserve’ when speaking about heritage buildings. “It sounds like you’re putting something under glass, or pickling it and not retaining any of the flavour,” said the fourth-year King’s University College Bachelor of Social...
Dystopic déjà vu: Trump and the resurgence of cataclysmic classics
Once immensely popular, classics of dystopian fiction have seen a significant resurgence on bookstore shelves and online orders – particularly after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Fed budget backs postsecondary sector
Although the 2017 federal budget, tabled last week by Finance Minister Bill Morneau, makes no specific provisions for postsecondary institutions, it nevertheless presents a number of opportunities for Canadian universities, said Peter White, Executive Director,...
Brennan: Why I didn’t protest Jordan Peterson’s visit but newspaper coverage almost makes me wish I did
I don’t like our university’s reputation sometimes. This week, I was at Brock giving an invited guest lecture on micro-inequities and implicit bias to their newly founded women’s caucus and the first question I was asked was about Jordan Peterson. “Didn’t Western give...