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Deadline for Alternative Spring Break leaders extended

Deadline for Alternative Spring Break leaders extended

Deadlines to apply for Alternative Spring Break (ASB) staff and faculty team leader positions, as well as to the Western’s Staff Working Group on International Engagement (SIE) Staff ASB Experience, have been extended to 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 29. ASB provides an...

Western checks in at No. 191 in QS World University rankings

Western checks in at No. 191 in QS World University rankings

Western made a slight move up the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings, released last week. Western found itself ranked No. 191 in the 2014-15 rankings of the Top 200 universities in the world. That number was up from No. 199 in the 2013-14 rankings,...

Ad campaign gets year off to a banner start

Ad campaign gets year off to a banner start

Don’t worry if you start seeing some familiar faces hanging in new places around campus. Last week, Western began installing across campus the first in a series of banners featuring prominent alumni. Five of the 30-foot-high banners went up Thursday on the Alumni Hall...

Device lets docs stay ‘tuned in’ to brain bloodflow

Device lets docs stay ‘tuned in’ to brain bloodflow

For Dr. John Murkin, the medical device business is all about “making a better mouse trap.” The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor is part of a team of Western and Lawson Health Research Institute (LHRI) researchers studying a new technology that...

Student scratches out an idea for app

Student scratches out an idea for app

Tired of buying scratch lottery tickets, only to come up empty handed? Chris Lange is confident his latest app will give you the “best bang for your buck” next time you get lotto fever. The fourth-year Engineering student sees no need to waste money on lottery scratch...

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...

Read All Over book reviews

Read All Over book reviews

Listen to the Squawking Chicken By Elaine Lui, BA’96 (History, French) One of the reasons the mother-daughter genre demonstrates such resilience and endurance in both fiction and on screen might be the nearly universally relatable instances of sometimes highly charged...

Ivey prof’s book turns economics into child’s play

Ivey prof’s book turns economics into child’s play

Neil Bendle hopes you get a good chuckle out of it. Behavioural Economics for Kids, an e-book he recently published, isn’t exactly for kids. It’s for you, and other ‘big kids’ out there, meant to validate something we already know, on some level, to be true – when it...

Delacourt’s ‘Shopping’ stands in Hilary Weston Prize contention

Delacourt’s ‘Shopping’ stands in Hilary Weston Prize contention

Susan Delacourt, BA’82, has been named among five finalists for this year’s Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her book, Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them. Delacourt is a former editor of Western’s student Gazette. The...

Student writer coaxing new students out of comfort zones

Student writer coaxing new students out of comfort zones

At 4 years of age, Steven Slowka dictated his first story to his mom, but his attempts to write stories and books ever since have floundered. “They never came full circle,” said Slowka, this year’s Student Writer in Residence, of his recent writing efforts. Then, he...

Writer in Residence helps others ‘respond creatively to the world’

Writer in Residence helps others ‘respond creatively to the world’

As Gary Barwin sees it, this world needs writers as much as it needs the bees. In a relatively large universe, both are small, often obscured. Both work in the background, buzzing about, noticed only by those who feel their sting. “Writing may not seem big – but it’s...

Professor connects math, biology to order behaviour

Professor connects math, biology to order behaviour

Nature is a cutthroat business, where animals, even humans, are in a relentless competition for resources like food, mates or shelter. And whether we suffer or prosper, it all comes down to our genes, said Applied Mathematics professor Geoff Wild. Wild’s research...

Boyle, Douglas named Athletes of the Week

Boyle, Douglas named Athletes of the Week

Soccer players Amanda Boyle and Christian Douglas have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week for the period ending Sept. 28. Boyle, a second-year Kinesiology student, had another strong outing on Saturday, scoring four goals in Western’ 8-1 win over the...

Deadline for Alternative Spring Break leaders extended

Deadline for Alternative Spring Break leaders extended

Deadlines to apply for Alternative Spring Break (ASB) staff and faculty team leader positions, as well as to the Western’s Staff Working Group on International Engagement (SIE) Staff ASB Experience, have been extended to 9 a.m. Monday, Sept. 29. ASB provides an...

Western checks in at No. 191 in QS World University rankings

Western checks in at No. 191 in QS World University rankings

Western made a slight move up the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University rankings, released last week. Western found itself ranked No. 191 in the 2014-15 rankings of the Top 200 universities in the world. That number was up from No. 199 in the 2013-14 rankings,...

Ad campaign gets year off to a banner start

Ad campaign gets year off to a banner start

Don’t worry if you start seeing some familiar faces hanging in new places around campus. Last week, Western began installing across campus the first in a series of banners featuring prominent alumni. Five of the 30-foot-high banners went up Thursday on the Alumni Hall...

Device lets docs stay ‘tuned in’ to brain bloodflow

Device lets docs stay ‘tuned in’ to brain bloodflow

For Dr. John Murkin, the medical device business is all about “making a better mouse trap.” The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor is part of a team of Western and Lawson Health Research Institute (LHRI) researchers studying a new technology that...

Student scratches out an idea for app

Student scratches out an idea for app

Tired of buying scratch lottery tickets, only to come up empty handed? Chris Lange is confident his latest app will give you the “best bang for your buck” next time you get lotto fever. The fourth-year Engineering student sees no need to waste money on lottery scratch...

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...

Read All Over book reviews

Read All Over book reviews

Listen to the Squawking Chicken By Elaine Lui, BA’96 (History, French) One of the reasons the mother-daughter genre demonstrates such resilience and endurance in both fiction and on screen might be the nearly universally relatable instances of sometimes highly charged...

Ivey prof’s book turns economics into child’s play

Ivey prof’s book turns economics into child’s play

Neil Bendle hopes you get a good chuckle out of it. Behavioural Economics for Kids, an e-book he recently published, isn’t exactly for kids. It’s for you, and other ‘big kids’ out there, meant to validate something we already know, on some level, to be true – when it...

Delacourt’s ‘Shopping’ stands in Hilary Weston Prize contention

Delacourt’s ‘Shopping’ stands in Hilary Weston Prize contention

Susan Delacourt, BA’82, has been named among five finalists for this year’s Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her book, Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them. Delacourt is a former editor of Western’s student Gazette. The...

Student writer coaxing new students out of comfort zones

Student writer coaxing new students out of comfort zones

At 4 years of age, Steven Slowka dictated his first story to his mom, but his attempts to write stories and books ever since have floundered. “They never came full circle,” said Slowka, this year’s Student Writer in Residence, of his recent writing efforts. Then, he...

Writer in Residence helps others ‘respond creatively to the world’

Writer in Residence helps others ‘respond creatively to the world’

As Gary Barwin sees it, this world needs writers as much as it needs the bees. In a relatively large universe, both are small, often obscured. Both work in the background, buzzing about, noticed only by those who feel their sting. “Writing may not seem big – but it’s...