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Month: January 2018

Sustainability at Western in provincial spotlight

Sustainability at Western in provincial spotlight

A new report, issued by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) last month, shines a spotlight on recent sustainability efforts at Western and the university’s commitment to battling climate change. Going Greener 2017: The Road to Low-Carbon University Campuses...

Huron grad finding success with vegan cheese company

Huron grad finding success with vegan cheese company

While a love for animals prompted Margaret Coons, BA’12 (Huron University College), to become a vegetarian, it was a family passion for entrepreneurship that led her to found the artisanal cheese company Nuts for Cheese. “I didn’t grow up in a vegetarian family. So, I...

Molecular weapon targets bad bacteria

Molecular weapon targets bad bacteria

Instead of prescribing a broad-spectrum antibiotic, like a tiny nuclear missile that indiscriminately kills both bad and good bacteria, Greg Gloor is working on developing a targeted molecular weapon that will combat only the body’s most detrimental, infectious...

Facing dementia with strength and resilience

Facing dementia with strength and resilience

On Sundays when he was much younger, Anthony Carapinha would tag along with his Mom to the nursing home where she worked as a long-term care provider. “I would sit with Mr. Jones, Mr. Boyle and an international judge who spoke five different languages – all at once,”...

Surf’s over: Reign of the data kings

Surf’s over: Reign of the data kings

I was holding a pack of blank DVDs in my hand and fretting over the price. It was 2004 when DVDs cost a buck each. How much would I have to spend to ensure I could restore my files when (not if) my computer crashed? The store owner saw my hesitation and called out in...

Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research

Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research

As an undergraduate student, Nicole Neil helped change the life of a young boy with autism. She found textbook concepts came to life as she worked with him. Now an Education professor at Western, she remembers real life intersecting with classroom learning: "I was...

What the Laurier experience can show us about teaching and learning

What the Laurier experience can show us about teaching and learning

The issues of freedom of speech and transgender rights, highlighted by recent events involving a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, remind me of my first year as a university instructor in the late 1990s, when I taught a communications course on...

Findings urge you to stand up for a better life

Findings urge you to stand up for a better life

Chances are good you have started 2018 much the same way you ended December - by spending hours and hours on your backside. Working, studying, driving, web surfing and binge-watching. “Even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline for an average of 11 hours...

Professor’s work adds up for fellowship

Professor’s work adds up for fellowship

A new fellowship award will lend a wider global scope to one Western professor’s research on how children develop numeracy. Psychology professor Daniel Ansari has been awarded a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, valued at 400,000 Swiss francs (more than...

Chakma: Higher ed key to fight against nationalism

Chakma: Higher ed key to fight against nationalism

Western President Amit Chakma published the following commentary, ‘Global university collaboration is key to fighting nationalism,’ in the Times Higher Education comes ahead of his appearance at the Times Higher Education Asia Universities Summit on Feb. 7.

Sustainability at Western in provincial spotlight

Sustainability at Western in provincial spotlight

A new report, issued by the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) last month, shines a spotlight on recent sustainability efforts at Western and the university’s commitment to battling climate change. Going Greener 2017: The Road to Low-Carbon University Campuses...

Huron grad finding success with vegan cheese company

Huron grad finding success with vegan cheese company

While a love for animals prompted Margaret Coons, BA’12 (Huron University College), to become a vegetarian, it was a family passion for entrepreneurship that led her to found the artisanal cheese company Nuts for Cheese. “I didn’t grow up in a vegetarian family. So, I...

Molecular weapon targets bad bacteria

Molecular weapon targets bad bacteria

Instead of prescribing a broad-spectrum antibiotic, like a tiny nuclear missile that indiscriminately kills both bad and good bacteria, Greg Gloor is working on developing a targeted molecular weapon that will combat only the body’s most detrimental, infectious...

Facing dementia with strength and resilience

Facing dementia with strength and resilience

On Sundays when he was much younger, Anthony Carapinha would tag along with his Mom to the nursing home where she worked as a long-term care provider. “I would sit with Mr. Jones, Mr. Boyle and an international judge who spoke five different languages – all at once,”...

Surf’s over: Reign of the data kings

Surf’s over: Reign of the data kings

I was holding a pack of blank DVDs in my hand and fretting over the price. It was 2004 when DVDs cost a buck each. How much would I have to spend to ensure I could restore my files when (not if) my computer crashed? The store owner saw my hesitation and called out in...

Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research

Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research

As an undergraduate student, Nicole Neil helped change the life of a young boy with autism. She found textbook concepts came to life as she worked with him. Now an Education professor at Western, she remembers real life intersecting with classroom learning: "I was...

What the Laurier experience can show us about teaching and learning

What the Laurier experience can show us about teaching and learning

The issues of freedom of speech and transgender rights, highlighted by recent events involving a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, remind me of my first year as a university instructor in the late 1990s, when I taught a communications course on...

Findings urge you to stand up for a better life

Findings urge you to stand up for a better life

Chances are good you have started 2018 much the same way you ended December - by spending hours and hours on your backside. Working, studying, driving, web surfing and binge-watching. “Even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline for an average of 11 hours...

Professor’s work adds up for fellowship

Professor’s work adds up for fellowship

A new fellowship award will lend a wider global scope to one Western professor’s research on how children develop numeracy. Psychology professor Daniel Ansari has been awarded a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, valued at 400,000 Swiss francs (more than...

Chakma: Higher ed key to fight against nationalism

Chakma: Higher ed key to fight against nationalism

Western President Amit Chakma published the following commentary, ‘Global university collaboration is key to fighting nationalism,’ in the Times Higher Education comes ahead of his appearance at the Times Higher Education Asia Universities Summit on Feb. 7.