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Employee healthy life series begins
The Bookstore at Western communications manager Carolyn Young kicks
off the noon hour Healthy Life Series for faculty and staff on
Thursday, March 26 with a talk on ‘How to Start a Book Club.’
Western reaches $1 million mark for athletic financial awards
With an engaging keynote speech delivered by Canadian Football
League commissioner Mark Cohon and the seasoned skills of TSN
personality Gino Reda at the microphone as emcee, The University of
Western Ontario held a successful second annual scholarship
breakfast on Tuesday to raise funds for athletic financial awards
for Mustangs student-athletes.
Former NHL player shares lessons from sports leaders
While part of the Edmonton Oilers dynasty in the late 1980s, Craig
Simpson learned from some of the best leaders in the hockey
business.
I know what you’re thinking
This week’s ‘Classes without Quizzes’ series event will look at how
scientists have shifted from wondering how the brain looks, to
wondering how the brain functions.
Stalin: Little Strokes, Big Trouble
The Medicine and History lecture series comes to an end on
Wednesday, March 25 with its final lecture, “Stalin: Little
Strokes, Big Trouble.”
Men’s hockey chases CIS Cavendish Cup this week
The University of Western Ontario Mustangs men’s hockey team will
play Saint Mary’s and McGill in Friday and Saturday games, with top
team in the division advancing to final in the CIS Cavendish Cup on
Sunday, March 29.
Lecture marks Olympic Studies Centre milestone
In a letter dated March 23, 1989, Jan Van Fleet notified Bert
Taylor, Dean of the Faculty of Physical Education, that the Board
of Governors on recommendation of the University of Western Ontario
Senate had approved the establishment of the Centre for Olympic
Studies.
An educational exploration of Cuban sports
It was Reading Week when Kinesiology professor Darwin Semotiuk and
10 Kinesiology students (five undergraduate and five graduate) from
The University of Western Ontario traveled to Cuba to engage in a
first-hand observation of the pervasive role that sport and
physical activity plays in Cuban society
Forty staff members volunteer for retirement
About 40 University of Western Ontario staff members have applied
for the voluntary retirement incentive, Provost & Vice
President (Academic) Fred Longstaffe told Senate.
Does Obama offer opportunity for Canada?
Christopher Sands, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in
Washington, D.C., will speak today on “The Obama Opportunity for
Canada” at an event sponsored by the Canada-United States Law
Institute.
Ottawa promises $5 million for new Ivey centre
Federal Minister of Industry, Tony Clement, announced today the
Government of Canada will invest $5 million to help create the Ivey
Centre for Health Innovation and Leadership at The University of
Western Ontario.
CIHR president eases researchers’ concerns
“How do we balance our appreciation with our frustration?” Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) President Alain Beaudet heard
this question in many guises Monday when Western researchers
tackled the need for more long-term funding from the nation’s major
federal funding agency for health research.