Psychology prof Laura Batterink and team receive $1.1M Weston grant
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Ultimate donation brings life to education in death
It’s not an easy decision. But the spirit of these donors, and the profound generosity of their gift, leaves many Western students and faculty overwhelmed with admiration and respect.
Western announces fall honorary degrees
The president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, a game-changing neurologist and academic leader, an award-winning CBC journalist and one of the country’s premier power couples will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 302nd Convocation this fall.
Campus Digest: English project nabs Samsung Global Research Outreach award
A Western research team has won the university’s first-ever Samsung Global Research Outreach award, an academic research collaboration platform, held annually with a call for proposals open to the world’s leading universities.
Finding out she’s the ‘lucky one’
Taylor Esselment may not need the help of these lucky horseshoes; she has all the luck she can handle.
Professor’s app breaks the mould to create a new one
Les Kalman lives outside the box. And in your mouth.
Playing on the green, green turf of home
Western rugby player Armin Gurdic pulled his own weight – as well as the Guelph Gryphons’ Marty Damianoff – as the Mustangs christened their newly constructed Alumni Field Saturday night with a convincing 34-8 win in their home opener.
Winders: Horse-race mentality needs to be ridden out of postsecondary education
I know they’re bad for me. But I cannot resist them.
Sylvester: In praise of the Catholic intellectual tradition
What does it mean to be a Catholic university in this day and age?
Schild: Moral standards should count for everyone
Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Chilean coup, David Heap reminds us (Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons, Sept. 5) “historical memory matters.”
Western president releases statement on detention of Loubani
Recent news reports that Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Tarek Loubani has begun a hunger strike in protest to his detainment by the Egyptian government has heightened concern for the well-being of our academic colleague.
Centre puts language transition first for class
University life can be difficult enough to adapt to without a language barrier to scale. But thanks to Western’s new English Language Centre (ELC), that obstacle will be lowered for a group of 85 international first-year students before classwork even begins.
Scientists discover opiate addiction switch in the brain
Western neuroscientists have discovered the underlying molecular process by which opiate addiction develops in the brain, according to a study published in the Sept. 11 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.