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Month: November 2017

Signaling awareness in anaesthetized patients

Signaling awareness in anaesthetized patients

For every 1,000 patients undergoing surgery and receiving general anaesthesia, one or two will wake up during the procedure, unable to move, speak or otherwise indicate to doctors they are conscious and aware of what is happening. Western researchers who have already...

Artist, class making town-gown connection

Artist, class making town-gown connection

For the past three years, Penn Kemp has enjoyed working with Western students in what she sees as a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship cultivated by a course offered in English and Writing Studies. “It’s the interconnectivity between town and gown – I just...

Nano research may have big impact on cancer

Nano research may have big impact on cancer

Less than a third of scientific researchers, and only 3 per cent of scientific Nobel Prize winners, are women. Danielle McRae is hoping to make a dent in those numbers. The third-year Physical Chemistry PhD student was one of five Canadian researchers recently...

Backing raises Voices among elite firms

Backing raises Voices among elite firms

It’s been a big year for Stephanie Ciccarelli and her business venture – perhaps the biggest yet. Thanks to one of the largest investments in the history of London’s tech industry, Voices.com, co-founded by Ciccarelli, BMusA’06, and her husband David, in 2005, is...

Alumna fiddles while career burns bright

Alumna fiddles while career burns bright

From creating and running her own website, social media and booking gigs, to acting as agent, promoter, musical director and performing, Celina Di Cecca is a hands-on CEO of her ‘mini corporation.’ “It is hard work some days. But I love it and wouldn’t want to do...

Bringing STEM gender divide message to CSA

Bringing STEM gender divide message to CSA

In September, Elise Harrington was among the minority of female presenters at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. It didn’t matter she had attended major conferences before – at IAC, there was a moment she was made to feel profoundly...

Karakatsanis earns top engineering honour

Karakatsanis earns top engineering honour

Western Engineering alumna Catherine Karakatsanis, BESc ’83, MESc ’91, often touted as one of the most powerful women in Canada, will add another honour to her long list of accolades when she receives the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) Gold Medal Saturday,...

Famed director, choreographer back for Carmen

Famed director, choreographer back for Carmen

Western alumna Allison Grant, one of North America’s most sought-after theatre directors and choreographers, presents Carmen, the latest offering from Western’s Opera Program.

AD: Bowl game dustup cause for re-examination

AD: Bowl game dustup cause for re-examination

While the score may be settled on the field, the wild controversy surrounding the Loney Bowl may play on deep into overtime for U Sports and athletics directors across the country. On Tuesday, the Acadia Axemen defeated the Saint Mary’s Huskies 45-38 in overtime to...

Polanyi Prize recognizes scholar’s imaging work

Polanyi Prize recognizes scholar’s imaging work

While at Western, Sarah Svenningsen was among the first in Canada to approach medical imaging technology as a potential treatment tool for asthma. Early on, her research indicated MRI technology could be used to deliver targeted, more effective treatment to asthma...

Stewart earns lifetime achievement award

Stewart earns lifetime achievement award

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Moira Stewart recently received the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research, given annually to honour a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to primary care research over...

Urology researcher chosen for leadership role

Urology researcher chosen for leadership role

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. John Denstedt has been named Secretary-elect of the American Urological Association (AUA), a group of specialists with 22,000 members worldwide. He will assume the role in May 2018, and hold it until May 2019,...

Artist, class making town-gown connection

Artist, class making town-gown connection

For the past three years, Penn Kemp has enjoyed working with Western students in what she sees as a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship cultivated by a course offered in English and Writing Studies. “It’s the interconnectivity between town and gown – I just...

Nano research may have big impact on cancer

Nano research may have big impact on cancer

Less than a third of scientific researchers, and only 3 per cent of scientific Nobel Prize winners, are women. Danielle McRae is hoping to make a dent in those numbers. The third-year Physical Chemistry PhD student was one of five Canadian researchers recently...

Backing raises Voices among elite firms

Backing raises Voices among elite firms

It’s been a big year for Stephanie Ciccarelli and her business venture – perhaps the biggest yet. Thanks to one of the largest investments in the history of London’s tech industry, Voices.com, co-founded by Ciccarelli, BMusA’06, and her husband David, in 2005, is...

Alumna fiddles while career burns bright

Alumna fiddles while career burns bright

From creating and running her own website, social media and booking gigs, to acting as agent, promoter, musical director and performing, Celina Di Cecca is a hands-on CEO of her ‘mini corporation.’ “It is hard work some days. But I love it and wouldn’t want to do...

Bringing STEM gender divide message to CSA

Bringing STEM gender divide message to CSA

In September, Elise Harrington was among the minority of female presenters at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. It didn’t matter she had attended major conferences before – at IAC, there was a moment she was made to feel profoundly...

Karakatsanis earns top engineering honour

Karakatsanis earns top engineering honour

Western Engineering alumna Catherine Karakatsanis, BESc ’83, MESc ’91, often touted as one of the most powerful women in Canada, will add another honour to her long list of accolades when she receives the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) Gold Medal Saturday,...

Famed director, choreographer back for Carmen

Famed director, choreographer back for Carmen

Western alumna Allison Grant, one of North America’s most sought-after theatre directors and choreographers, presents Carmen, the latest offering from Western’s Opera Program.

AD: Bowl game dustup cause for re-examination

AD: Bowl game dustup cause for re-examination

While the score may be settled on the field, the wild controversy surrounding the Loney Bowl may play on deep into overtime for U Sports and athletics directors across the country. On Tuesday, the Acadia Axemen defeated the Saint Mary’s Huskies 45-38 in overtime to...

Polanyi Prize recognizes scholar’s imaging work

Polanyi Prize recognizes scholar’s imaging work

While at Western, Sarah Svenningsen was among the first in Canada to approach medical imaging technology as a potential treatment tool for asthma. Early on, her research indicated MRI technology could be used to deliver targeted, more effective treatment to asthma...

Stewart earns lifetime achievement award

Stewart earns lifetime achievement award

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Moira Stewart recently received the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research, given annually to honour a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to primary care research over...

Urology researcher chosen for leadership role

Urology researcher chosen for leadership role

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. John Denstedt has been named Secretary-elect of the American Urological Association (AUA), a group of specialists with 22,000 members worldwide. He will assume the role in May 2018, and hold it until May 2019,...