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Alumna eyes Juno Award – UPDATED

Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music alumna Kerri Ough, BMus’03, and her Good Lovelies mates are up this weekend for a Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group category.

Special Juno honour for alumnus

Special Juno honour for alumnus

Gary Slaight, BA’73, president and CEO of Slaight Communications and founder of Slaight Music is the 2012 recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

SGPS takes top honours

Western’s School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies has won the 2011-12 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools/Education Testing Service Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education for a pair of programs supporting students preparing applications for external scholarship competitions.

Read All Over reviews, March

Read All Over reviews, March

Zero Patience By Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. 181pp. Unhelpful attitudes of liberal tolerance towards AIDS resulted in a wide approbation of the film Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks in 1993, perhaps indexed on mollifying the public by...

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

It may not be the common perception of London, but according to a group of Western students, the Forest City was – and still is – the home and artistic hub for artists from around the world.

Universities  spared worst of budget cuts

Universities spared worst of budget cuts

The greatly anticipated, almost dreaded, provincial budget, announced Tuesday by Ontario’s finance minister Dwight Duncan, came with what he called responsible and fair cuts – most sparing post-secondary institutions.

Campus Digest, March 29

Campus Digest, March 29

Annual salary disclosures from Western University In keeping with the Public Sector Disclosure Act, Western has released its annual list of employees whose 2011 income met or exceeded $100,000, as reflected on their T4 slips.  Also outlined on the list are taxable...

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

During the holiday break, a major academic press solicited my interest in writing an undergraduate textbook in one of my areas of teaching expertise. For a cash-strapped scholar at the beginning of his professorial career, the offer seemed enticing as it conferred what seemed to be an honour as well as possibly being lucrative.

Alumna eyes Juno Award – UPDATED

Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music alumna Kerri Ough, BMus’03, and her Good Lovelies mates are up this weekend for a Juno Award in the Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group category.

Special Juno honour for alumnus

Special Juno honour for alumnus

Gary Slaight, BA’73, president and CEO of Slaight Communications and founder of Slaight Music is the 2012 recipient of the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

SGPS takes top honours

Western’s School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies has won the 2011-12 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools/Education Testing Service Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education for a pair of programs supporting students preparing applications for external scholarship competitions.

Read All Over reviews, March

Read All Over reviews, March

Zero Patience By Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. 181pp. Unhelpful attitudes of liberal tolerance towards AIDS resulted in a wide approbation of the film Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks in 1993, perhaps indexed on mollifying the public by...

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

Exhibit eyes city’s artistic pull

It may not be the common perception of London, but according to a group of Western students, the Forest City was – and still is – the home and artistic hub for artists from around the world.

Universities  spared worst of budget cuts

Universities spared worst of budget cuts

The greatly anticipated, almost dreaded, provincial budget, announced Tuesday by Ontario’s finance minister Dwight Duncan, came with what he called responsible and fair cuts – most sparing post-secondary institutions.

Campus Digest, March 29

Campus Digest, March 29

Annual salary disclosures from Western University In keeping with the Public Sector Disclosure Act, Western has released its annual list of employees whose 2011 income met or exceeded $100,000, as reflected on their T4 slips.  Also outlined on the list are taxable...

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

Faucher: Publish and perish? The case for and against writing the academic textbook

During the holiday break, a major academic press solicited my interest in writing an undergraduate textbook in one of my areas of teaching expertise. For a cash-strapped scholar at the beginning of his professorial career, the offer seemed enticing as it conferred what seemed to be an honour as well as possibly being lucrative.