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Year: 2017

Newsmakers: The Author

Newsmakers: The Author

David Huebert Over the past four years, Peninsula Sinking has shed its skin many times. English PhD candidate David Huebert first workshopped the short-story collection in 2013 with award-winning writer and University of Toronto professor David Layton. It was only...

On digital pills, humans and beasts

On digital pills, humans and beasts

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved the first digital pill for human use, an antipsychotic drug paired with a sensor that will tell whether, and when, a patient has taken the prescribed medication. The mix of drug and digital device works so the...

Radar signatures improve tornado predictions

Radar signatures improve tornado predictions

Anna Hocking was high atop a metal ladder near Harrow when the rain came pelting down. Soon, the deluge turned into toonie-sized hail that clattered among the radar antennae where she and Wayne Hocking were assembling the newest in an Ontario-Quebec network of radars....

Board: Presidential search to kick off in New Year

Board: Presidential search to kick off in New Year

Western will soon begin the process of finding the university’s 11th President and Vice-Chancellor after President Amit Chakma announced last week he will not seek a third term. Given roughly 19 months remaining in the top post, however, Chakma stressed there is still...

New Chair touts vision, role clarity for Board

New Chair touts vision, role clarity for Board

As Paul Jenkins contemplates his new role as Chair of Western’s Board of Governors, he cannot help but reflect on his days as a member of the university rowing team. “When you’re in a boat, you all have to be rowing in the same direction,” said Jenkins, who was...

Western tops Laval to win Vanier Cup

Western tops Laval to win Vanier Cup

The Western Mustangs ended a 23-year Vanier Cup drought by knocking off the defending champion and No. 1 nationally ranked Laval Rouge et Or 39-17.

Mustang wins prestigious Russ Jackson Award

Mustang wins prestigious Russ Jackson Award

Western Mustangs linebacker Nick Vanin was honoured for his achievements, both on and off the field, with the prestigious Russ Jackson Award at the U SPORTS football All-Canadian Gala Thursday night. Vanin is not only the first Western student-athlete to win the Russ...

Team has the World by a string

Team has the World by a string

Teams from across campus turned their attention to the global burden of mental illness in low- and middle-income countries at the local final of the Western World’s Challenge Challenge, held as part of International Week celebrations. The team comprised of Education...

Access lab revamped for students with disabilities

Access lab revamped for students with disabilities

At one point, it was a darkroom. Later, it turned into a room where librarians counted coins from photocopiers. It also served as a storage closet. And then, more than a decade ago, with few changes to the space, the small room on the ground level of The D.B. Weldon...

Partnership to move new plastics forward

Partnership to move new plastics forward

A Western Engineering professor’s work in developing an advanced plastic could soon have the attention of the automotive and aerospace industries for its potential benefits to manufacturing upgrades. Mechanical and Materials professor Takashi Kuboki recently began a...

Western testing cutting-edge hearing aid

Western testing cutting-edge hearing aid

Researchers at Western’s National Centre for Audiology (NCA) are testing how well light pulses transmit sound as they test a device that could break new ground in hearing-aid technology. Western is the first Canadian site to work with the Earlens hearing aid,...

Mahon takes SASAH from class, to world, and back

Mahon takes SASAH from class, to world, and back

Patrick Mahon is ready to switch gears. An accomplished artist and Visual Arts professor, named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada earlier this fall, Mahon is wrapping up the calendar year preparing to take the helm of Western’s School for Advanced...