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Alternative Spring Break participants share experiences
The 200-plus students, faculty and staff who participated in this
year’s Alternative Spring Break Program will share their
experiences through story, videos and photographs at the annual
Alternative Spring Break showcase today.
Online gaming roles mimic real-life values
Aside from slaying monsters and engaging in epic quests,
Anthropology graduate student Caroline Whippey sees similarities
between the mythical characters in the online role-playing game
World of Warcraft and the lives of its 11.5-million player base
Lots on the line with budget
With many Ontario universities facing financial pressures and exercising restraint in spending, the provincial budget being released March 26 will be among the most closely watched in years. Universities have been forced to reduce spending in the face of a worldwide...
“Less is more” when it comes to treating high blood pressure
A newly published study found patients actually have more control
of their high blood pressure (hypertension) when treated with less
medication.
Pension statements, report being mailed
The 2008 Personal Statement of Pension Benefits and the Retirement
Plans Annual Report will be mailed by March 27.
Aboriginal conference effecting change
Just days back from co-chairing the week-long Aboriginal Policy
Research Conference in Ottawa, University of Western Ontario
professor Jerry White can already see the fruits of his labour.
Public meeting for noise bylaw
A public meeting will be held April 27 before the Environment and
Transportation Committee (ETC) at city hall to review the newly
amended draft noise bylaw that is scheduled to take effect July 1.
Campus Digest – March 19/09
Telfer SOGS president
Prospective students looking past first year
Among the thousands of high school students who flooded onto campus
this past weekend with thoughts of post-secondary life beginning in
September were more than a few with sights set a lot further into
the future.
Volunteering for Afghanistan
Canadian Forces Sergeant Prescott Shipway was killed by a roadside
bomb in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province last September.
Family doctors are coming
Statistics may show southwestern Ontario with a staggering doctor
shortage – even worse than northern Ontario – but
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Dean Carol Herbert says
help is on the way with more Western medical students choosing
family medicine.
Senior salaries frozen, others volunteer
University of Western Ontario senior academic and non-academic
administrators taking a one-year salary freeze say “it was
the right thing to do” to lessen the financial constraints of
the university’s operating budget and reduce the need for
layoffs.
Western-led initiative gets $8.7-million government boost
Elgin-Middlesex-London MP Joe Preston announced today (March 19)
the Canadian government is investing $8.7 million in a University
of Western Ontario-led initiative to develop technologies that will
increase the industrial value of agricultural surplus.
Alternative Spring Break participants share experiences
The 200-plus students, faculty and staff who participated in this
year’s Alternative Spring Break Program will share their
experiences through story, videos and photographs at the annual
Alternative Spring Break showcase today.
Online gaming roles mimic real-life values
Aside from slaying monsters and engaging in epic quests,
Anthropology graduate student Caroline Whippey sees similarities
between the mythical characters in the online role-playing game
World of Warcraft and the lives of its 11.5-million player base
Lots on the line with budget
With many Ontario universities facing financial pressures and exercising restraint in spending, the provincial budget being released March 26 will be among the most closely watched in years. Universities have been forced to reduce spending in the face of a worldwide...
“Less is more” when it comes to treating high blood pressure
A newly published study found patients actually have more control
of their high blood pressure (hypertension) when treated with less
medication.
Pension statements, report being mailed
The 2008 Personal Statement of Pension Benefits and the Retirement
Plans Annual Report will be mailed by March 27.
Aboriginal conference effecting change
Just days back from co-chairing the week-long Aboriginal Policy
Research Conference in Ottawa, University of Western Ontario
professor Jerry White can already see the fruits of his labour.
Public meeting for noise bylaw
A public meeting will be held April 27 before the Environment and
Transportation Committee (ETC) at city hall to review the newly
amended draft noise bylaw that is scheduled to take effect July 1.
Campus Digest – March 19/09
Telfer SOGS president
Prospective students looking past first year
Among the thousands of high school students who flooded onto campus
this past weekend with thoughts of post-secondary life beginning in
September were more than a few with sights set a lot further into
the future.
Volunteering for Afghanistan
Canadian Forces Sergeant Prescott Shipway was killed by a roadside
bomb in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province last September.
Family doctors are coming
Statistics may show southwestern Ontario with a staggering doctor
shortage – even worse than northern Ontario – but
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry Dean Carol Herbert says
help is on the way with more Western medical students choosing
family medicine.