Catherine Cassels, an Art History and Museum Studies major, helped organize an exhibition, Let’s Talk About TIFF: 44 Years of Promoting the Film Festival Giant, showcasing promotional poster …
Month: November 2019
Opera at Western offers tale of triple-triangle love
Opera at Western are thrilled to bring Mozart’s musical tale of a triple-love triangle to the Paul Davenport Theatre stage this week.
Brainstorm: Exploring concussion for non-athletes
The majority of brain injuries are not sport-related. How do we help individuals who are injured in car accidents, workplace incidents, assaults or falls?
Physical activity needs to be in play at childcare
Given the increasingly busy schedules of today’s families, parents often rely on ECEs in childcare centres to supply children with their daily physical activity. But are they prepared for the challenge?
Reichelt: What science says about the brain and sugar
As a neuroscientist my research centres on how modern day ‘obesogenic,’ or obesity-promoting, diets change the brain. I want to understand how what we eat alters our behaviour and whether brain changes can be mitigated by other lifestyle factors.
Senate questions Library collections plan
Western Libraries faced questions from Senators having difficulty with the way the university plans to turn the page on traditional ways of housing its collection in favour of a long-planned renovation to library physical space and an expanded digital collection.
Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study
There may be no single key to personal happiness, but it doesn’t hurt to be healthy, wealthy and like where you live. While those findings may make some people happy, others find happiness in different ways – and that is still something to smile about, according to researchers.
Daley: Data demands drive our disruption
As we stand at the precipice of major disruption, the role of the university in our society is, paradoxically, more essential than ever. Demands on contemporary workers and citizens are profound and require thoughtful, and broad, enabling educational strategies.
Research extends life of rechargeable batteries
Western-led research may ‘charge up’ consumers by addressing their frequent complaint that rechargeable batteries gradually hold less charge over time.
Only one ‘Let Down’ in these picks
Experience a bit of seasonal storytelling, and at least one major ‘Let Down,’ when Occupational Therapy professor Carri Hand takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Alumna puts sting back in classic Marvel character
For her latest adventure, Sam Maggs, BA’10, is proving as ‘Unstoppable’ as the character she is about to pen, when the bestselling alumna releases a YA novel featuring Wasp, one of Marvel’s smallest superheroes in terms of size but certainly not in stature.
Robson offers a royal review of writer’s life
What do you get the Royal Couple who has everything? Absolutely nothing. They are fine. But in honour of the big day, we offer you 50 insights into a writer’s life and writing from Western’s own literary royalty, Jennifer Robson, BA’92.
Facilities crews ready to dig in after first snow
Winter and snow can evoke polarizing emotions in people. And no one knows this better than Bryan Wakefield,
Opera at Western offers tale of triple-triangle love
Opera at Western are thrilled to bring Mozart’s musical tale of a triple-love triangle to the Paul Davenport Theatre stage this week.
Brainstorm: Exploring concussion for non-athletes
The majority of brain injuries are not sport-related. How do we help individuals who are injured in car accidents, workplace incidents, assaults or falls?
Physical activity needs to be in play at childcare
Given the increasingly busy schedules of today’s families, parents often rely on ECEs in childcare centres to supply children with their daily physical activity. But are they prepared for the challenge?
Reichelt: What science says about the brain and sugar
As a neuroscientist my research centres on how modern day ‘obesogenic,’ or obesity-promoting, diets change the brain. I want to understand how what we eat alters our behaviour and whether brain changes can be mitigated by other lifestyle factors.
Senate questions Library collections plan
Western Libraries faced questions from Senators having difficulty with the way the university plans to turn the page on traditional ways of housing its collection in favour of a long-planned renovation to library physical space and an expanded digital collection.
Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study
There may be no single key to personal happiness, but it doesn’t hurt to be healthy, wealthy and like where you live. While those findings may make some people happy, others find happiness in different ways – and that is still something to smile about, according to researchers.
Daley: Data demands drive our disruption
As we stand at the precipice of major disruption, the role of the university in our society is, paradoxically, more essential than ever. Demands on contemporary workers and citizens are profound and require thoughtful, and broad, enabling educational strategies.
Research extends life of rechargeable batteries
Western-led research may ‘charge up’ consumers by addressing their frequent complaint that rechargeable batteries gradually hold less charge over time.
Only one ‘Let Down’ in these picks
Experience a bit of seasonal storytelling, and at least one major ‘Let Down,’ when Occupational Therapy professor Carri Hand takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Alumna puts sting back in classic Marvel character
For her latest adventure, Sam Maggs, BA’10, is proving as ‘Unstoppable’ as the character she is about to pen, when the bestselling alumna releases a YA novel featuring Wasp, one of Marvel’s smallest superheroes in terms of size but certainly not in stature.
Robson offers a royal review of writer’s life
What do you get the Royal Couple who has everything? Absolutely nothing. They are fine. But in honour of the big day, we offer you 50 insights into a writer’s life and writing from Western’s own literary royalty, Jennifer Robson, BA’92.
Facilities crews ready to dig in after first snow
Winter and snow can evoke polarizing emotions in people. And no one knows this better than Bryan Wakefield,