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Year: 2018

The Strategic Thinker

The Strategic Thinker

One of the university’s longest-serving deans was tapped to lead the academic and budgetary affairs of the institution. Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak became Provost & Vice-President (Academic), on Aug. 1, replacing Janice Deakin. Under Hryma …

Kopp, Cheng named Acting Deans

Kopp, Cheng named Acting Deans

Two Western faculties recently named interim leadership as the university begins the process of searching for new deans to lead its two largest professional faculties.

Cancer drug earns FDA nod after decades

Cancer drug earns FDA nod after decades

Duncan Hunter chokes up a little when it is suggested that work he began at Western three decades ago will now, finally, be applied to saving hundreds of lives. “It’s a good thing,” said the Chemistry professor emeritus after a long pause. “It took 30 years and had its ups and downs. So, yes, it’s emotional.”

Perseverance turns mission ‘Impossible’

Perseverance turns mission ‘Impossible’

It took Clarissa Suranyi nearly two decades to wrestle her first novel to the ground. But that long-haul investment paid off almost instantly for the English professor following publication of Impossible Saints earlier this year.

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Earlier this summer, Visual Arts graduate student Jessica Cappuccitti curated an exhibition, Welcome to Detroit: Suzy Lake and Orlando Ford, at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition offered viewers an opportunity to understand how these images – some of Detroit’s decay and others that capture people with smiling faces and open arms – shape ideas about the city.

Campus abuzz with Bee City designation

Campus abuzz with Bee City designation

Laura Pendlebury wants you to consider the tiny honeybee and its not-so-tiny impact on human health and survival. In fact, she wants the whole campus community to keep in mind the important role of pollinators, an insect species whose survival ensures our own.

Read. Watch. Listen. with Amanda Oliver

Read. Watch. Listen. with Amanda Oliver

Perhaps you would expect no less from a University Archivist, but Amanda Oliver’s favourites boast a healthy dose of history, heritage and Hollywood glamour.

WD Asia making high-tech connections abroad

WD Asia making high-tech connections abroad

The global impact of WORLDiscoveries ­– a technology-transfer centre based at Western – has a new success story to tell, this time in the partnerships forged with Canadian and Asian business interests.

Cloudy Mars pass does not obscure excitement

Cloudy Mars pass does not obscure excitement

Nine-year-old Ewan Lalonde knew it would be a long shot to spot any planet above the cloud cover. But he and his mother Vanessa were still first in line, an hour before doors opened for a near-Mars experience Tuesday night at Western’s observatory.

New name, same mission for teaching centre

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

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.

Kopp, Cheng named Acting Deans

Kopp, Cheng named Acting Deans

Two Western faculties recently named interim leadership as the university begins the process of searching for new deans to lead its two largest professional faculties.

Cancer drug earns FDA nod after decades

Cancer drug earns FDA nod after decades

Duncan Hunter chokes up a little when it is suggested that work he began at Western three decades ago will now, finally, be applied to saving hundreds of lives. “It’s a good thing,” said the Chemistry professor emeritus after a long pause. “It took 30 years and had its ups and downs. So, yes, it’s emotional.”

Perseverance turns mission ‘Impossible’

Perseverance turns mission ‘Impossible’

It took Clarissa Suranyi nearly two decades to wrestle her first novel to the ground. But that long-haul investment paid off almost instantly for the English professor following publication of Impossible Saints earlier this year.

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Researcher looking to re-frame Detroit images

Earlier this summer, Visual Arts graduate student Jessica Cappuccitti curated an exhibition, Welcome to Detroit: Suzy Lake and Orlando Ford, at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition offered viewers an opportunity to understand how these images – some of Detroit’s decay and others that capture people with smiling faces and open arms – shape ideas about the city.

Campus abuzz with Bee City designation

Campus abuzz with Bee City designation

Laura Pendlebury wants you to consider the tiny honeybee and its not-so-tiny impact on human health and survival. In fact, she wants the whole campus community to keep in mind the important role of pollinators, an insect species whose survival ensures our own.

Read. Watch. Listen. with Amanda Oliver

Read. Watch. Listen. with Amanda Oliver

Perhaps you would expect no less from a University Archivist, but Amanda Oliver’s favourites boast a healthy dose of history, heritage and Hollywood glamour.

WD Asia making high-tech connections abroad

WD Asia making high-tech connections abroad

The global impact of WORLDiscoveries ­– a technology-transfer centre based at Western – has a new success story to tell, this time in the partnerships forged with Canadian and Asian business interests.

Cloudy Mars pass does not obscure excitement

Cloudy Mars pass does not obscure excitement

Nine-year-old Ewan Lalonde knew it would be a long shot to spot any planet above the cloud cover. But he and his mother Vanessa were still first in line, an hour before doors opened for a near-Mars experience Tuesday night at Western’s observatory.

New name, same mission for teaching centre

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

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.