Psychology prof Laura Batterink and team receive $1.1M Weston grant
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Read All Over reviews, April
For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War Timothy C. Winegard University of Manitoba Press, 2012. 224 pgs. Although they fought with loyalty and distinction in the First World War, the engagement of Indians in the European theatre is perplexingly...
Group’s effort reflects ‘value’ of education
Sometimes it takes students to help other students. Even if they’re half a world apart.
Reporting on the Harper Decade
Reporter, pundit and Maclean’s columnist Paul Wells, BA’89, has released The Harper Decade (Maclean’s, $4.99), an e-book compiling Wells’ best writing on Stephen Harper over the decade he’s been a party leader. For a man who spends his time looking out for what’s next in Ottawa, taking the time to look back has been an interesting exercise for Wells. Western News editor Jason Winders spoke with him about his new book. Just don’t ask him to sign it.
Book notes, April
Blackpox takes top honours Rene Natan’s recent release, The Blackpox Threat, won first place in the fiction novel category of the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards contest, which recognizes excellence in literature. Natan is the pen name of retired Western professor Irene...
Writer-in-residence stresses sharing an honest story
Whether she’s writing or telling them to an audience, such are the stories Ivan Coyote likes to tell.
Campus Digest, April 26
Budget gets BOG backing Seen as a modest step forward, Western’s Board of Governors gave their full support to the university’s 2012-13 Operating and Capital Budget at its April 18 meeting. Treading carefully into the second of its four-year budget cycle, Western’s...
Grad creates ‘recess for adults’
Kyla Woodcock has no fear about mixing business with pleasure. Just ask the scores of Londoners who’ve signed up for the seasonal sports all co-ed leagues organized by the Richard Ivey School of Business MBA grad’s 2-year-old Forest City Sport and Social Club.
Astrophysicist uncovers secret origin of brown dwarfs
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard Vorobyov present a new model of brown dwarf formation that unites the best parts of existing theories and has far-reaching implications for understanding the population of low mass objects in the universe.
PhD candidates earn Africa research support
Western PhD students Riley Dillon and Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong were named among 10 Africa-based and 10 Canada-based graduate students receiving funding from the Africa Initiative Graduate Research to confront critical issues facing Africa.
New duets dawn thanks to support
String quartets are a dime a dozen, or a quarter a quartet perhaps. The opportunity to hear violin and viola duets is a rarer experience. London audiences will have the chance 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26 in von Kuster Hall at Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music.
Gender and justice in the spotlight
This week, Western plays host to ‘Gender and Transitional Justice,’ an international conference discussing a number of gender-related issues pertaining to the kinds of extraordinary justice used in societies in the wake of serious violations of human rights.
Essex named Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Applied Mathematics professor Chris Essex has been named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for Fall 2012