Month: May 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,