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Year: 2018

The Honoured Educator

The Honoured Educator

Lorelei Lingard grew up in a house where language was important. This curiosity led to a career studying the uses of language in the health-care setting and how that translates to medical education. Lingard, Director of the Centre for Education Research …

Labour laws historically out of tune with musicians

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.

Grant to CREATE new opportunities for students

Grant to CREATE new opportunities for students

Led by Engineering professor Jeffrey Wood, an advanced polymer composite materials and technologies team will CREATE more opportunities for the next generation of engineers thanks to $1.65-million NSERC grant.

Read. Watch. Listen. with Penni Pring

Read. Watch. Listen. with Penni Pring

Penni Pring not only loves music, but the ability of good tunes to generate memories and creates new ones. Find out what jams make her all-time playlist – at least for now.

Summer Shakespeare welcomes Milton to stage

Summer Shakespeare welcomes Milton to stage

Set in a 21st-Century Guantanamo Bay-style military prison, this year’s Summer Shakespeare production is a provocative, world premiere modern-dress version of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes.

‘Joiner and doer’ rises to PMA President post

‘Joiner and doer’ rises to PMA President post

Julia Beltrano, Technical Specialist Manager in the Department of Visual Arts, is the new president of Western’s Professional & Managerial Association. She follows Melanie Molnar from the Faculty of Education to the position.

Research calls ‘flat-brainers’ to arms

Research calls ‘flat-brainers’ to arms

While flat-Earthers continue to debate even the remote possibility that our world is spherical, new research shows the human brain is actually better understood in 2D rather than 3D.

Time to merge Ontario’s two school systems

Time to merge Ontario’s two school systems

There is a pressing need to consolidate Ontario’s separate and public school systems. Long ignored by most politicians, this controversial idea deserves a fresh and serious policy discussion — especially now, with the new Ontario government contemplating cuts to the...

Western joins call for North American unity

Western joins call for North American unity

With recent trade and immigration policy shifts testing ties between the United States, Mexico and Canada, collaboration among universities is crucial, according to a statement recently co-issued by The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), of which Western is a member.

Search on course to name next president this fall

Search on course to name next president this fall

As the search moves toward candidate interviews in September, Western remains on schedule to name its selection to be the 11th President and Vice-Chancellor this fall, the Presidential Selection Committee indicated this week.

Alumnus keeps hockey headshots in sights

Alumnus keeps hockey headshots in sights

It was more than 20 years ago, but memories of that night in the London Ice House continue to fuel Ken Bocking’s fight to rid hockey of headshots and the debilitating trauma they cause.

What tell-all crime reporting says about us

What tell-all crime reporting says about us

While researching crime reporting across the globe, Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Romayne Smith Fullerton found North American media coverage of crime differed significantly from that of European news outlets.

Labour laws historically out of tune with musicians

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.

Grant to CREATE new opportunities for students

Grant to CREATE new opportunities for students

Led by Engineering professor Jeffrey Wood, an advanced polymer composite materials and technologies team will CREATE more opportunities for the next generation of engineers thanks to $1.65-million NSERC grant.

Read. Watch. Listen. with Penni Pring

Read. Watch. Listen. with Penni Pring

Penni Pring not only loves music, but the ability of good tunes to generate memories and creates new ones. Find out what jams make her all-time playlist – at least for now.

Summer Shakespeare welcomes Milton to stage

Summer Shakespeare welcomes Milton to stage

Set in a 21st-Century Guantanamo Bay-style military prison, this year’s Summer Shakespeare production is a provocative, world premiere modern-dress version of John Milton’s Samson Agonistes.

‘Joiner and doer’ rises to PMA President post

‘Joiner and doer’ rises to PMA President post

Julia Beltrano, Technical Specialist Manager in the Department of Visual Arts, is the new president of Western’s Professional & Managerial Association. She follows Melanie Molnar from the Faculty of Education to the position.

Research calls ‘flat-brainers’ to arms

Research calls ‘flat-brainers’ to arms

While flat-Earthers continue to debate even the remote possibility that our world is spherical, new research shows the human brain is actually better understood in 2D rather than 3D.

Time to merge Ontario’s two school systems

Time to merge Ontario’s two school systems

There is a pressing need to consolidate Ontario’s separate and public school systems. Long ignored by most politicians, this controversial idea deserves a fresh and serious policy discussion — especially now, with the new Ontario government contemplating cuts to the...

Western joins call for North American unity

Western joins call for North American unity

With recent trade and immigration policy shifts testing ties between the United States, Mexico and Canada, collaboration among universities is crucial, according to a statement recently co-issued by The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), of which Western is a member.

Search on course to name next president this fall

Search on course to name next president this fall

As the search moves toward candidate interviews in September, Western remains on schedule to name its selection to be the 11th President and Vice-Chancellor this fall, the Presidential Selection Committee indicated this week.

Alumnus keeps hockey headshots in sights

Alumnus keeps hockey headshots in sights

It was more than 20 years ago, but memories of that night in the London Ice House continue to fuel Ken Bocking’s fight to rid hockey of headshots and the debilitating trauma they cause.

What tell-all crime reporting says about us

What tell-all crime reporting says about us

While researching crime reporting across the globe, Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Romayne Smith Fullerton found North American media coverage of crime differed significantly from that of European news outlets.