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 …
Year: 2018
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.