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Month: April 2018

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Earth Sciences professor Gail Atkinson and History professor Maya Shatzmiller have been awarded the 2018 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...

NSERC taps two for elite national honours

NSERC taps two for elite national honours

A pair of Western researchers have been honoured among the winners of six Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) six national prizes.

GTAs ratify three-year deal with university

GTAs ratify three-year deal with university

Graduate teaching assistants at Western have agreed to a new three-year contract with the university. The 2,000 graduate teaching assistants, members of Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, voted on Thursday and Friday to endorse a tentative agreement the...

Henderson named new FIMS dean

Henderson named new FIMS dean

University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Lisa Henderson has been appointed to a five-year term as the new Dean of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS), starting Jan. 1, 2019, Western announced today. She follows Thomas Carmichael to the position.

Engineering Dean Hrymak named new Provost

Engineering Dean Hrymak named new Provost

Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak will become the Provost & Vice-President (Academic), effective Aug. 1, following the approval of his appointment by Western’s Board of Governors.

Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship

Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship

Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains unfinished, according to one Western researcher. More than half of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing population hasn’t...

Western helps Huron understand food needs

Western helps Huron understand food needs

Huron County is about as agricultural as it’s possible to be in Ontario. Its rural roads are lined with cornfields and livestock barns; its towns, dotted with equipment dealerships and co-op stores. Any residents who don’t work the land are almost certainly related to...

Mature students face barriers to university engagement

Mature students face barriers to university engagement

It is always a struggle for individuals to transition from high school to university, but for mature students, the transition is even more daunting. They are not simply moving from one learning environment to the next. Often, mature students are not trading in their...

How police ‘cook the books’ on crime rates

How police ‘cook the books’ on crime rates

As an expert on violent sex crimes and serial offending, I was recently invited to speak to what was supposed to be a cadre of seasoned investigators in the Toronto region. I found myself confronted, however, by an inexperienced bureaucrat who questioned my...

Feedback sought on Executive Compensation Framework

Feedback sought on Executive Compensation Framework

Executive salaries across the broader public sector, including those at Ontario universities, have been frozen by the provincial government since 2010. In accordance with the provincial regulations, Western has developed a draft framework for executive salaries going...

Study uncovers historic tornado outbreak

Study uncovers historic tornado outbreak

Following an extensive ground and aerial survey led by wind engineering experts at Western, it has been determined that the tornado outbreak of June 18, 2017 in southern Québec is officially the largest recorded in the province’s history and, consequently, one of the largest ever recorded in Canada.

Goodall: Our head, heart must work in harmony

Goodall: Our head, heart must work in harmony

What most separates humankind from the animal kingdom is an arrogance destroying our planet, famed primatologist and anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall told attendees at a special convocation ceremony.

NSERC taps two for elite national honours

NSERC taps two for elite national honours

A pair of Western researchers have been honoured among the winners of six Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) six national prizes.

GTAs ratify three-year deal with university

GTAs ratify three-year deal with university

Graduate teaching assistants at Western have agreed to a new three-year contract with the university. The 2,000 graduate teaching assistants, members of Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, voted on Thursday and Friday to endorse a tentative agreement the...

Henderson named new FIMS dean

Henderson named new FIMS dean

University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Lisa Henderson has been appointed to a five-year term as the new Dean of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS), starting Jan. 1, 2019, Western announced today. She follows Thomas Carmichael to the position.

Engineering Dean Hrymak named new Provost

Engineering Dean Hrymak named new Provost

Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak will become the Provost & Vice-President (Academic), effective Aug. 1, following the approval of his appointment by Western’s Board of Governors.

Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship

Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship

Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains unfinished, according to one Western researcher. More than half of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing population hasn’t...

Western helps Huron understand food needs

Western helps Huron understand food needs

Huron County is about as agricultural as it’s possible to be in Ontario. Its rural roads are lined with cornfields and livestock barns; its towns, dotted with equipment dealerships and co-op stores. Any residents who don’t work the land are almost certainly related to...

Mature students face barriers to university engagement

Mature students face barriers to university engagement

It is always a struggle for individuals to transition from high school to university, but for mature students, the transition is even more daunting. They are not simply moving from one learning environment to the next. Often, mature students are not trading in their...

How police ‘cook the books’ on crime rates

How police ‘cook the books’ on crime rates

As an expert on violent sex crimes and serial offending, I was recently invited to speak to what was supposed to be a cadre of seasoned investigators in the Toronto region. I found myself confronted, however, by an inexperienced bureaucrat who questioned my...

Feedback sought on Executive Compensation Framework

Feedback sought on Executive Compensation Framework

Executive salaries across the broader public sector, including those at Ontario universities, have been frozen by the provincial government since 2010. In accordance with the provincial regulations, Western has developed a draft framework for executive salaries going...

Study uncovers historic tornado outbreak

Study uncovers historic tornado outbreak

Following an extensive ground and aerial survey led by wind engineering experts at Western, it has been determined that the tornado outbreak of June 18, 2017 in southern Québec is officially the largest recorded in the province’s history and, consequently, one of the largest ever recorded in Canada.

Goodall: Our head, heart must work in harmony

Goodall: Our head, heart must work in harmony

What most separates humankind from the animal kingdom is an arrogance destroying our planet, famed primatologist and anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall told attendees at a special convocation ceremony.