This year, Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen will celebrate Canada Day, for the first time, as a permanent resident of Canada. “I decided quite early on that I was going to stay. It was sci …
Month: June 2018
Martin advocates for doctor-patient ties
Dr. Danielle Martin knows her inspiration for changing the health-care system inside and out. ‘Abida’ was in her early 60s when she first became a patient of Martin, MD’03, in 2006. She had immigrated to Canada years earlier, the product of an arranged marriage to a...
Bongard embraces role at Alumni Association helm
When he hears the stories of Western alumni, Warren Bongard regrets not having spent his undergraduate years on campus. He is thankful, however, that when it came time to apply to law school, Western offered him more than an acceptance, providing a supportive...
Western, Canada slip in global university rankings
Western shadowed many of its fellow Canadian universities in dropping down the 2019 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings, released Wednesday. In total, 17 of Canada’s 26 institutions dropped. This year, Western found itself ranked No. 214 among top...
Recording rediscovery brings past to life
Bimadoshka Pucan feels she was chosen to find the long-forgotten voices silenced in the basement of Museum London. “It came at a time when I was questioning my identity as a Saugeen person, my personal growth and how I looked at the world,” said Pucan, a Saugeen First...
Program, community help new grad find new hope
Life was far from easy for Lisa Pierce. And then, she broke her back. She was 32 and in an abusive relationship, raising three children while working as a heavy-equipment operator. After breaking her back in a workplace accident, the medication she was prescribed...
Morse tapped to lead campus entrepreneurship efforts
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.
Unique patient offers insights into the brain’s quest to see
When light streams through her window in just the right way, Milena Canning will sometimes stoop to pick up a shiny coin she has noticed on the wooden floor of her Glasgow-area home. But her hand comes up empty – the ‘coin’ is just a dancing sunbeam, a quirk of...
Read. Watch. Listen. Mathew Hoy
Find out what’s creepy and cool and allows Mathew Hoy to block out the world and keep his head in the code.
‘Hear, Here’ dials up history around city
For Michelle Hamilton, public history wields a special kind of power. It preserves the past, informs the present and has the potential to influence the future. This is the driving force behind her latest project.
Martin advocates for doctor-patient ties
Dr. Danielle Martin knows her inspiration for changing the health-care system inside and out. ‘Abida’ was in her early 60s when she first became a patient of Martin, MD’03, in 2006. She had immigrated to Canada years earlier, the product of an arranged marriage to a...
Bongard embraces role at Alumni Association helm
When he hears the stories of Western alumni, Warren Bongard regrets not having spent his undergraduate years on campus. He is thankful, however, that when it came time to apply to law school, Western offered him more than an acceptance, providing a supportive...
Western, Canada slip in global university rankings
Western shadowed many of its fellow Canadian universities in dropping down the 2019 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings, released Wednesday. In total, 17 of Canada’s 26 institutions dropped. This year, Western found itself ranked No. 214 among top...
Recording rediscovery brings past to life
Bimadoshka Pucan feels she was chosen to find the long-forgotten voices silenced in the basement of Museum London. “It came at a time when I was questioning my identity as a Saugeen person, my personal growth and how I looked at the world,” said Pucan, a Saugeen First...
Program, community help new grad find new hope
Life was far from easy for Lisa Pierce. And then, she broke her back. She was 32 and in an abusive relationship, raising three children while working as a heavy-equipment operator. After breaking her back in a workplace accident, the medication she was prescribed...
Morse tapped to lead campus entrepreneurship efforts
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.
Unique patient offers insights into the brain’s quest to see
When light streams through her window in just the right way, Milena Canning will sometimes stoop to pick up a shiny coin she has noticed on the wooden floor of her Glasgow-area home. But her hand comes up empty – the ‘coin’ is just a dancing sunbeam, a quirk of...
Read. Watch. Listen. Mathew Hoy
Find out what’s creepy and cool and allows Mathew Hoy to block out the world and keep his head in the code.
‘Hear, Here’ dials up history around city
For Michelle Hamilton, public history wields a special kind of power. It preserves the past, informs the present and has the potential to influence the future. This is the driving force behind her latest project.