The United Nations recently declared that the world is now in an “era of global boiling”. An expert in urban climatology and urban heat islands (UHIs), geography and environment professor James Voogt spoke to Western News about the role UHIs play duri …
Campus & Community
Otago Challenge win fueled by electric cars
A team of students from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has won the 2018 World’s Challenge Challenge.
Putting a region in the context of family history
His latest book – a “family history with a context” – places the lives of the author’s parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative that explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario.
Starbucks and the impact of implicit bias training
More than 1,200 Starbucks in Canada will close this afternoon to provide its staff with implicit bias training, two weeks after all of the coffee company’s outlets in the United States did the same thing.
Determination drives adult learners
Fourteen learners from a variety of educational institutions and agencies received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education (LCAE) on May 17.
School tackles ‘big job’ of Indigenous health
Because there’s no time to lose, Vanessa Ambtman-Smith plans to explore an in-hospital medicine lodge on her way to join other scholars at the inaugural Indigenous Mentorship Network Summer School in Sudbury next week. “We have to hit the ground running because there...
Expert: Results not a surprise; future may be
Laura Stephenson isn’t surprised. The rest of the province, she thinks, shouldn’t be surprised, either.
Mars discovery adds life to further exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gsz8EHiNc Mars may not be alive, but it’s not dead either. Curiosity rover has detected traces of methane at the planet’s surface, as well as organic molecules in powdered rock samples drilled from about five centimetres below the...
Western joins push for welcoming, inclusive city
Their message is simple – All are welcome in the Forest City. Under a program of that same name, a desire to amplify that message has brought together a number of local groups and organizations – including the International Student Centre, Equity and Human Rights...
Martin advocates for doctor-patient ties
Dr. Danielle Martin knows her inspiration for changing the health-care system inside and out. ‘Abida’ was in her early 60s when she first became a patient of Martin, MD’03, in 2006. She had immigrated to Canada years earlier, the product of an arranged marriage to a...
Recording rediscovery brings past to life
Bimadoshka Pucan feels she was chosen to find the long-forgotten voices silenced in the basement of Museum London. “It came at a time when I was questioning my identity as a Saugeen person, my personal growth and how I looked at the world,” said Pucan, a Saugeen First...
Program, community help new grad find new hope
Life was far from easy for Lisa Pierce. And then, she broke her back. She was 32 and in an abusive relationship, raising three children while working as a heavy-equipment operator. After breaking her back in a workplace accident, the medication she was prescribed...
Morse tapped to lead campus entrepreneurship efforts
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.
Otago Challenge win fueled by electric cars
A team of students from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has won the 2018 World’s Challenge Challenge.
Putting a region in the context of family history
His latest book – a “family history with a context” – places the lives of the author’s parents, John Hair and Alice Runnalls, at the centre of the narrative that explores the history and culture of Southwestern Ontario.
Starbucks and the impact of implicit bias training
More than 1,200 Starbucks in Canada will close this afternoon to provide its staff with implicit bias training, two weeks after all of the coffee company’s outlets in the United States did the same thing.
Determination drives adult learners
Fourteen learners from a variety of educational institutions and agencies received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education (LCAE) on May 17.
School tackles ‘big job’ of Indigenous health
Because there’s no time to lose, Vanessa Ambtman-Smith plans to explore an in-hospital medicine lodge on her way to join other scholars at the inaugural Indigenous Mentorship Network Summer School in Sudbury next week. “We have to hit the ground running because there...
Expert: Results not a surprise; future may be
Laura Stephenson isn’t surprised. The rest of the province, she thinks, shouldn’t be surprised, either.
Mars discovery adds life to further exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gsz8EHiNc Mars may not be alive, but it’s not dead either. Curiosity rover has detected traces of methane at the planet’s surface, as well as organic molecules in powdered rock samples drilled from about five centimetres below the...
Western joins push for welcoming, inclusive city
Their message is simple – All are welcome in the Forest City. Under a program of that same name, a desire to amplify that message has brought together a number of local groups and organizations – including the International Student Centre, Equity and Human Rights...
Martin advocates for doctor-patient ties
Dr. Danielle Martin knows her inspiration for changing the health-care system inside and out. ‘Abida’ was in her early 60s when she first became a patient of Martin, MD’03, in 2006. She had immigrated to Canada years earlier, the product of an arranged marriage to a...
Recording rediscovery brings past to life
Bimadoshka Pucan feels she was chosen to find the long-forgotten voices silenced in the basement of Museum London. “It came at a time when I was questioning my identity as a Saugeen person, my personal growth and how I looked at the world,” said Pucan, a Saugeen First...
Program, community help new grad find new hope
Life was far from easy for Lisa Pierce. And then, she broke her back. She was 32 and in an abusive relationship, raising three children while working as a heavy-equipment operator. After breaking her back in a workplace accident, the medication she was prescribed...
Morse tapped to lead campus entrepreneurship efforts
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.