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Month: May 2018

Ivey grad cartwheels to success, happiness

Ivey grad cartwheels to success, happiness

Ivey Business School MBA graduate Jay Kiew is all about embracing education, welcoming challenges and focusing on the road ahead – and tossing in a few cartwheels here and there.  …

Scientists hold key to winning fight against ‘fake news’

Scientists hold key to winning fight against ‘fake news’

On March 27, 2015, astronaut Scott Kelly rode a rocket to the International Space Station. Waving up at him from Earth was Mark Kelly, his moustachioed twin brother. While they were 400 vertical kilometres apart, NASA scientists studied how the human body reacts to...

Medical innovation put to the test amid chaos, violence

Medical innovation put to the test amid chaos, violence

*Posted May 14th on his personal blog* A few days ago, I wrote about our first day of field trials for an open source 3D-printed tourniquet in Gaza. The Glia team worked overtime to address and fix the problems we identified. Thanks to help from the 3D printing,...

Political scientists parse the Ontario vote

Political scientists parse the Ontario vote

Following the Ontario provincial election campaign has been a “new toy, every day” for Western Political Science professor Cristine de Clercy. “This is a really complicated election. If we look at the economic issues alone, not just the state of the provincial...

Music educator: Arts, music need political champions

Music educator: Arts, music need political champions

The plight of music teachers has fallen on Ontario politicians’ tone deaf ears, a Western Music professor contends. Despite ongoing public discussion about the importance of music education, many Ontario public school students will never get to experience the joy of...

Stop the presses. Start the future.

Stop the presses. Start the future.

After an historic 46-year run, Western News will publish its final print edition on June 21, accelerating an exciting digital chapter – one already well underway.

Outreach event introduces the future to history

Outreach event introduces the future to history

Pirates and punk rock. Gruesome assassinations and weird operations. More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...

Don’t shake in sheets; laugh yourself to sleep

Don’t shake in sheets; laugh yourself to sleep

No matter if you read him in the ‘Beforelife’ or the afterlife, find out why the best line Western Law professor Randal Graham ever wrote won’t appear in any of his books.

Researcher: Activism changing museums for better

Researcher: Activism changing museums for better

For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.

Zitani name borne upon tiny wings, again

Zitani name borne upon tiny wings, again

Just three millimetres long, Leptodrepana ninae flits about tropical Costa Rica with iridescent wings that would make a cathedral’s stained-glass windows look drab by comparison. Until this spring, the tiny parasitoid wasp was so low-profile, it lacked even a name....

Scientists hold key to winning fight against ‘fake news’

Scientists hold key to winning fight against ‘fake news’

On March 27, 2015, astronaut Scott Kelly rode a rocket to the International Space Station. Waving up at him from Earth was Mark Kelly, his moustachioed twin brother. While they were 400 vertical kilometres apart, NASA scientists studied how the human body reacts to...

Medical innovation put to the test amid chaos, violence

Medical innovation put to the test amid chaos, violence

*Posted May 14th on his personal blog* A few days ago, I wrote about our first day of field trials for an open source 3D-printed tourniquet in Gaza. The Glia team worked overtime to address and fix the problems we identified. Thanks to help from the 3D printing,...

Political scientists parse the Ontario vote

Political scientists parse the Ontario vote

Following the Ontario provincial election campaign has been a “new toy, every day” for Western Political Science professor Cristine de Clercy. “This is a really complicated election. If we look at the economic issues alone, not just the state of the provincial...

Music educator: Arts, music need political champions

Music educator: Arts, music need political champions

The plight of music teachers has fallen on Ontario politicians’ tone deaf ears, a Western Music professor contends. Despite ongoing public discussion about the importance of music education, many Ontario public school students will never get to experience the joy of...

Stop the presses. Start the future.

Stop the presses. Start the future.

After an historic 46-year run, Western News will publish its final print edition on June 21, accelerating an exciting digital chapter – one already well underway.

Outreach event introduces the future to history

Outreach event introduces the future to history

Pirates and punk rock. Gruesome assassinations and weird operations. More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...

Don’t shake in sheets; laugh yourself to sleep

Don’t shake in sheets; laugh yourself to sleep

No matter if you read him in the ‘Beforelife’ or the afterlife, find out why the best line Western Law professor Randal Graham ever wrote won’t appear in any of his books.

Researcher: Activism changing museums for better

Researcher: Activism changing museums for better

For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.

Zitani name borne upon tiny wings, again

Zitani name borne upon tiny wings, again

Just three millimetres long, Leptodrepana ninae flits about tropical Costa Rica with iridescent wings that would make a cathedral’s stained-glass windows look drab by comparison. Until this spring, the tiny parasitoid wasp was so low-profile, it lacked even a name....