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A second town hall meeting to discuss ongoing budgetary issues drew
several hundred staff, faculty and students Monday.

The University of Western Ontario Mustangs men’s hockey team showed
a wealth of heart, but fell short in their bid for the school’s
second CIS national championship with a 4-2 loss to the University
of New Brunswick Varsity Reds on March 29 at Thunder Bay’s Fort
William Garden.

The Department of Communications & Public Affairs is preparing
to profile some of the extraordinary students who will be
graduating at Spring Convocation.

Have you ever had questions about how to market software? The C4
Technology Transfer Consortium – of which Western is a founding
member, along with McMaster, Waterloo and Guelph – has organized a
half-day session that brings together researchers and industry
representatives to share different software development and
commercialization approaches.

The Centre for Abrahamic Religions, a new initiative at Huron
University College, will hold its inaugural lecture on Tuesday
(March 31) at 4 p.m. in the Kingsmill Room.

The University of Western Ontario’s Physical Plant is encouraging
the campus community to participate in Earth Hour, by safely
reducing as much energy as possible for an hour on Saturday, March
28 at 8:30 p.m.

Wine, women and love seem an apt text to celebrate the Don Wright
Faculty of Music’s 40th anniversary.

CBC listeners will recognize his voice. Concert audiences will also
recognize his works. T. Patrick Carrabre’s The Dark Reaches has
been nominated for a Juno in the classical composition category.

It wasn’t the bright lights of Broadway that attracted Western
graduate student Lucy-Ana Gaston to New York City for a week. It
wasn’t even the shopping and sightseeing. The violinist traveled to
the Big Apple to sit in a darkened Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre
to hear the Vienna Philharmonic and London Philharmonic orchestras
rehearse.

Renowned for his capacity to present ideas with confidence and
authority, Western sociology professor Anton Allahar’s shot at
being crowned Ontario’s Best Lecturer is now in the hands of the
voters.

The University of Western Ontario is grateful post-secondary
education remains a high priority for the McGuinty government, even
in these times of severe economic uncertainty. The 2009 provincial
budget was released earlier today by Finance Minister Dwight
Duncan.

The University of Western Ontario is grateful post-secondary
education remains a high priority for the McGuinty government, even
in these times of severe economic uncertainty, says president Paul
Davenport.