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Month: March 2017

Alexis, ‘Fifteen Dogs’ win Canada Reads

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...

Kular: Seek knowledge, expect equality and accept diversity

Kular: Seek knowledge, expect equality and accept diversity

Equal Voice is a multi-partisan organization committed to getting more women elected into politics. In conjunction with many sponsors, including the Government of Canada, they put on an event called Daughters of the Vote, to celebrate 100 years of some women having...

Ratcliffe: You can’t have it both ways

Ratcliffe: You can’t have it both ways

“Study in a Faculty with one of the lowest student-to-faculty ratios in Canada. This means more personalized attention from our world-class professors and researchers,” the Faculty of Arts and Humanities advertises to incoming students. Western President Amit Chakma...

A formula for smoothing rising Ontario hydro bills

A formula for smoothing rising Ontario hydro bills

Public angst about rising electricity bills in Ontario has intensified recently as the cost of new investment in generation capacity becomes clear. Over the past decade, the government has contracted for more than 20,000 megawatts of generation capacity, including...

Engineering students flip for bottle craze

Engineering students flip for bottle craze

For some, the bottle flipping craze was a silly kid’s game. Aidan Sabourin saw it as an opportunity. In just a few short months, with three of his friends – Justin Lam, Danny Loo and Armin Gurdic – Sabourin created an app that attracted millions of downloads, becoming...

Thousands access campus tour thanks to live-stream app

Thousands access campus tour thanks to live-stream app

The first thing Ewan Macpherson asked when the suggestion came to use Periscope to showcase research at the National Centre for Audiology (NCA) – in particular the anechoic chamber – was, “What’s Periscope?” A professor in the School of Communication Sciences and...

Researcher among international rising talents of women in science

Researcher among international rising talents of women in science

Consciousness – and what the concept means – has been debated for centuries by philosophers and scientists alike. We are conscious because we can communicate with one another through our behaviour and language – but how do we know the state or extent of consciousness...

Sports offers historic insight beyond games

Sports offers historic insight beyond games

Zinon Papakonstantinou likes to tell the story of the original super fan. In the first century AD, a Northern Greek baker attended 12 Olympic Games. That was quite an investment for a regular man during the Ancient Games – time, money, not to mention the trip to...

Brush named to top professor honour

Brush named to top professor honour

Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush smiles as she remembers getting a photo from one of her students doing a cartwheel in front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, just north of Paris, France. She may be an internationally recognized art historian and an...

Alumnus’ story of mental health struggle brings hope

Alumnus’ story of mental health struggle brings hope

“It was clear something was amiss,” said Harlin Braichet, looking back at his teenage-self growing up in Sarnia. “It hadn’t manifested itself completely, but once I got to university in the States, that’s when my behaviour became more and more erratic and I knew...

Input sought in strategic mandate renewal process

Input sought in strategic mandate renewal process

What is it that sets Western apart from institutions across the province? As Western joins Ontario postsecondary institutions in ongoing Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) renewal discussions with the provincial government, members of the campus community are invited...

Kular: Seek knowledge, expect equality and accept diversity

Kular: Seek knowledge, expect equality and accept diversity

Equal Voice is a multi-partisan organization committed to getting more women elected into politics. In conjunction with many sponsors, including the Government of Canada, they put on an event called Daughters of the Vote, to celebrate 100 years of some women having...

Ratcliffe: You can’t have it both ways

Ratcliffe: You can’t have it both ways

“Study in a Faculty with one of the lowest student-to-faculty ratios in Canada. This means more personalized attention from our world-class professors and researchers,” the Faculty of Arts and Humanities advertises to incoming students. Western President Amit Chakma...

A formula for smoothing rising Ontario hydro bills

A formula for smoothing rising Ontario hydro bills

Public angst about rising electricity bills in Ontario has intensified recently as the cost of new investment in generation capacity becomes clear. Over the past decade, the government has contracted for more than 20,000 megawatts of generation capacity, including...

Engineering students flip for bottle craze

Engineering students flip for bottle craze

For some, the bottle flipping craze was a silly kid’s game. Aidan Sabourin saw it as an opportunity. In just a few short months, with three of his friends – Justin Lam, Danny Loo and Armin Gurdic – Sabourin created an app that attracted millions of downloads, becoming...

Thousands access campus tour thanks to live-stream app

Thousands access campus tour thanks to live-stream app

The first thing Ewan Macpherson asked when the suggestion came to use Periscope to showcase research at the National Centre for Audiology (NCA) – in particular the anechoic chamber – was, “What’s Periscope?” A professor in the School of Communication Sciences and...

Researcher among international rising talents of women in science

Researcher among international rising talents of women in science

Consciousness – and what the concept means – has been debated for centuries by philosophers and scientists alike. We are conscious because we can communicate with one another through our behaviour and language – but how do we know the state or extent of consciousness...

Sports offers historic insight beyond games

Sports offers historic insight beyond games

Zinon Papakonstantinou likes to tell the story of the original super fan. In the first century AD, a Northern Greek baker attended 12 Olympic Games. That was quite an investment for a regular man during the Ancient Games – time, money, not to mention the trip to...

Brush named to top professor honour

Brush named to top professor honour

Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush smiles as she remembers getting a photo from one of her students doing a cartwheel in front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, just north of Paris, France. She may be an internationally recognized art historian and an...

Alumnus’ story of mental health struggle brings hope

Alumnus’ story of mental health struggle brings hope

“It was clear something was amiss,” said Harlin Braichet, looking back at his teenage-self growing up in Sarnia. “It hadn’t manifested itself completely, but once I got to university in the States, that’s when my behaviour became more and more erratic and I knew...

Input sought in strategic mandate renewal process

Input sought in strategic mandate renewal process

What is it that sets Western apart from institutions across the province? As Western joins Ontario postsecondary institutions in ongoing Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) renewal discussions with the provincial government, members of the campus community are invited...