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Looking for a curator of the human species
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Grad students, are you satisfied with your program?
Next month, Western will launch the Canadian Graduate and Professional Student Survey (CGPSS), a survey designed to provide universities with information regarding the quality of their graduate programs as assessed by their own graduate students. Western has...
Russian journalists untangling Red Web
Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan will lead discussions into the issues surrounding their latest book, The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, as part of the Rogers Chair...
Copyright education process continues for Adam
“To be or not to be, that is the question.” For Tom Adam, whether a famous soliloquy such as this is safe to include in a Western course booklet raises even more questions. As Western’s Copyright Librarian, Adam lives and breathes the nuances of the Canadian Copyright...
Songbirds struggle against sounds of city
Humans can be a bit noisy. And while our racket has become second nature to us, Western research has shown the songbirds are hoping we could keep it down a bit.
Study: ‘Fear itself’ can help restore ecosystems
Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new Western-led study demonstrates that fear of these top predators has a cascading effect down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems....
Groups continue campus outreach to Syrian refugees
Victoria Esses is palpably excited about it. In fact, she’s thrilled. In a month or two, the first Syrian refugee family – a family with six children under 7 years old – will be coming to London, thanks to the Refugee Sponsorship Fund at Western. The fund, established...
Baker biopic has alumnus feeling ‘Blue’
It’s the rare occasions of the extraordinary that make the ordinary worthwhile for Daniel Abboud. “As a filmmaker – as a freelancer – it’s very difficult to say ‘no’ to a project, because you have to pay the bills. Projects more often than not end up being pretty...
Task force findings say budget model adds up
A task force organized to examine the university’s budget model, in light of criticism last year, returned findings in support of the current model, while acknowledging its reasoning and methodologies could be better communicated to the larger university community....
Admissions pilot project eyes ‘hidden talent’
Senators supported a Western pilot project to ease grade standards for a select cohort of incoming Arts & Humanities students in an effort to help the hard-hit faculty. “Given the enrolment pressures on the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and the precipitous...
Winders: Time to climb aboard rapid transit discussion
Understand, this is not a done deal. Far from it. Earlier this week, Western hosted a pair of consultation meetings to discuss the London Rapid Transit Initiative and how it would interact with the campus. Beyond hearing from university representatives, led by Gitta...
Gardiner: Phishing attacks open gateway to trouble
Recently, a mistyped Google search caused me to stumble across this definition: gate·way drug * noun noun: gateway drug; plural noun: gateway drugs A habit-forming drug that, while not itself addictive, may lead to the use of other addictive drugs. I was specifically...