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Month: April 2019

Opening your eyes, ears to possibilities

Opening your eyes, ears to possibilities

Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you to the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits – what one book or newspaper/magazine article is grabbin …

Prichard named Acting Vice-President (Research)

Prichard named Acting Vice-President (Research)

Noted McGill University academic-clinician Dr. Sarah Prichard has been named Acting Vice-President (Research) at Western for a one-year term, effective July 1, university officials announced today.

Program casts differences in different light

Program casts differences in different light

King’s University College professor Pamela Cushing has been named recipient of the Canadian Disability Studies Association award for outstanding leadership. Cushing founded the King’s Disabilities Studies program.

Campus construction heats up with summer

Campus construction heats up with summer

With 100-plus buildings across 500 acres, the Western campus requires thousands of maintenance, repair, and infrastructure upgrade projects throughout the year. As the campus quiets down for summer, those projects will ramp up for Facilities Management.

Gerry honoured for lifetime in theatre

Gerry honoured for lifetime in theatre

The award-winning director will be presented with a Lifetime Membership Award for his dedication and vision in founding London Musical Theatre 30 years and 75 productions ago.

Board approves 2019-20 budget

Board approves 2019-20 budget

Western’s Board of Governors gave its approval Thursday to a $792.2-million university budget, a document reflecting projected spending of $2.3 million more than this year.

Code changes target street-party behaviour

Code changes target street-party behaviour

In an effort to curb extreme behaviour at the Broughdale Avenue street party, the Board of Governors approved changes to the Code of Student Conduct that extend its reach to behaviour at unsanctioned events that have become associated with the university, university officials announced Friday.

Discovery, campaign help halt HIV outbreak

Discovery, campaign help halt HIV outbreak

Researchers and local health officials are applauding how the discovery of a simple intervention to halt outbreaks associated with a newly discovered HIV transmission method was moved from the lab to the street quickly.

BURST funds offer boost to medical startups

BURST funds offer boost to medical startups

A pair of fledgling London-based medical startups are prepared to further test the viability of their ideas in the marketplace, all in an effort to improve patient outcomes across the country, following their graduation from the Western Medical Innovation Fellowship.

Boldly going to ‘Moons’ and beyond

Boldly going to ‘Moons’ and beyond

Set phasers for awesome and entertaining – but spare him the ‘Trekker’ stuff – when Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Leslie Kinton takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

Prichard named Acting Vice-President (Research)

Prichard named Acting Vice-President (Research)

Noted McGill University academic-clinician Dr. Sarah Prichard has been named Acting Vice-President (Research) at Western for a one-year term, effective July 1, university officials announced today.

Program casts differences in different light

Program casts differences in different light

King’s University College professor Pamela Cushing has been named recipient of the Canadian Disability Studies Association award for outstanding leadership. Cushing founded the King’s Disabilities Studies program.

Campus construction heats up with summer

Campus construction heats up with summer

With 100-plus buildings across 500 acres, the Western campus requires thousands of maintenance, repair, and infrastructure upgrade projects throughout the year. As the campus quiets down for summer, those projects will ramp up for Facilities Management.

Gerry honoured for lifetime in theatre

Gerry honoured for lifetime in theatre

The award-winning director will be presented with a Lifetime Membership Award for his dedication and vision in founding London Musical Theatre 30 years and 75 productions ago.

Board approves 2019-20 budget

Board approves 2019-20 budget

Western’s Board of Governors gave its approval Thursday to a $792.2-million university budget, a document reflecting projected spending of $2.3 million more than this year.

Code changes target street-party behaviour

Code changes target street-party behaviour

In an effort to curb extreme behaviour at the Broughdale Avenue street party, the Board of Governors approved changes to the Code of Student Conduct that extend its reach to behaviour at unsanctioned events that have become associated with the university, university officials announced Friday.

Discovery, campaign help halt HIV outbreak

Discovery, campaign help halt HIV outbreak

Researchers and local health officials are applauding how the discovery of a simple intervention to halt outbreaks associated with a newly discovered HIV transmission method was moved from the lab to the street quickly.

BURST funds offer boost to medical startups

BURST funds offer boost to medical startups

A pair of fledgling London-based medical startups are prepared to further test the viability of their ideas in the marketplace, all in an effort to improve patient outcomes across the country, following their graduation from the Western Medical Innovation Fellowship.

Boldly going to ‘Moons’ and beyond

Boldly going to ‘Moons’ and beyond

Set phasers for awesome and entertaining – but spare him the ‘Trekker’ stuff – when Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Leslie Kinton takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.