Western economist MacGee joins Bank of Canada
Western economist Jim MacGee has been appointed the Bank of Canada’s new Managing Director of Economic and Financial Research for a two-year term, beginning Jan. 2, 2019.
Study: Brain game doesn’t offer brain gain
A new Western-led study has debunked claims that getting better at a brain-training game can translate to improved performance in other games and tasks.
New name, same mission for teaching centre
While its name may have changed, the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), formerly the Teaching Support Centre, still sees itself as the teaching hub of the university.
Research looking for love in all the right data
Love lies broken in Lorne Campbell’s office. It has been deconstructed into thousands of data points on Excel sheets and transformed into code that coldly blinks from a computer screen.
Labour laws historically out of tune with musicians
Matt Stahl, a Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor, traces the origins of how labour laws have historically been used to exploit the careers of numerous female musicians, His work helps scholars and students of music better understand the role of law in the music industry.