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Month: May 2019

Alumnus marks fandom one jersey at a time

Alumnus marks fandom one jersey at a time

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Maybe Rawad Serhan, BSc’14, has room for one more jersey, you know, to celebrate the Toronto Raptors’ first-ever NBA Finals victory last week. The day after the Raptors …

Project eyes easier prostate cancer diagnosis

Project eyes easier prostate cancer diagnosis

For the estimated 21,000 Canadian men diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, the answer to potential treatments may soon be as simple as a urine test, according to one Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry graduate student.

Music Hall celebrates Smoke for lifetime in song

Music Hall celebrates Smoke for lifetime in song

Mary Lou Smoke was surprised enough to learn she was being inducted into the Forest City London Music Hall of Fame. But she never could have imagined the text she received on her way to accept her Lifetime Achievement Award.

Alert systems tests highlight Emergency Week

Alert systems tests highlight Emergency Week

Western officials are sounding the alert about, well, sounding alerts as the university joins institutions across the country in marking Emergency Preparedness Week, May 5-11.

Education evolution moves faculty to new levels

Education evolution moves faculty to new levels

In less than a decade, Dean Vicki Schwean and her colleagues have transformed the Faculty of Education, overseeing its evolution from a “teacher’s college” into a fully formed, financially autonomous research faculty that offers innovative academic and professional training in Canada and beyond.

Backed program targets domestic violence

Backed program targets domestic violence

The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) at the Faculty of Education has received $2.088 million to develop training for federally regulated workers to recognize and respond to domestic violence in the workplace.

McCrae holds ‘special significance’ for McAlister

McCrae holds ‘special significance’ for McAlister

For most Canadians, John McCrae is primarily a poet, the medical officer who wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’ following the death of a friend and fellow soldier at the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915. For physicians like Dr. Vivian McAlister, his name personifies the zenith of the profession,

Project eyes easier prostate cancer diagnosis

Project eyes easier prostate cancer diagnosis

For the estimated 21,000 Canadian men diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, the answer to potential treatments may soon be as simple as a urine test, according to one Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry graduate student.

Music Hall celebrates Smoke for lifetime in song

Music Hall celebrates Smoke for lifetime in song

Mary Lou Smoke was surprised enough to learn she was being inducted into the Forest City London Music Hall of Fame. But she never could have imagined the text she received on her way to accept her Lifetime Achievement Award.

Alert systems tests highlight Emergency Week

Alert systems tests highlight Emergency Week

Western officials are sounding the alert about, well, sounding alerts as the university joins institutions across the country in marking Emergency Preparedness Week, May 5-11.

Education evolution moves faculty to new levels

Education evolution moves faculty to new levels

In less than a decade, Dean Vicki Schwean and her colleagues have transformed the Faculty of Education, overseeing its evolution from a “teacher’s college” into a fully formed, financially autonomous research faculty that offers innovative academic and professional training in Canada and beyond.

Backed program targets domestic violence

Backed program targets domestic violence

The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) at the Faculty of Education has received $2.088 million to develop training for federally regulated workers to recognize and respond to domestic violence in the workplace.

McCrae holds ‘special significance’ for McAlister

McCrae holds ‘special significance’ for McAlister

For most Canadians, John McCrae is primarily a poet, the medical officer who wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’ following the death of a friend and fellow soldier at the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915. For physicians like Dr. Vivian McAlister, his name personifies the zenith of the profession,