She is an innovative educator and was an early advocate for equitable and accessible healthcare. He was a pilot, physician and decorated peacekeeper who became a much-honoured authority on aviation medicine. Today, Dr. Carol Herbert, former dean of th …
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Campus Digest, March 15
Arts, Ed and FIMS plan Research Day 2012 Three Western faculties – Arts and Humanities, Education and Information and Media Studies – will come together next week for one celebration of their collective work at Research Day 2012, scheduled for 3-5:30 p.m. Monday,...
Teacher-student conversation key to classroom behaviour
To Alan Edmunds, classroom management can be a bit of a carnival game.
Neuroscientists explore size constancy in the brain
Mel Goodale is relentlessly interested in how our brain enables us to understand the world.
Education at heart of global partnership
When Don Barclay met up with his brother, Bob, for a few beers last April, the outcome was quite remarkable. Not only did the two share stories of their recent trip to Togo in West Africa, where Barclay aided his brother in distributing 5,000 beds kids with Sleeping...
Targets help define what ‘internationalization’ means
Answering calls from the top for internationalization, Western International is starting to develop a picture of what that would look like for the university.
Miss Canada turns spotlight on abuse
For years, Jaclyn Miles was afraid to share her story. But today, the Faculty of Education student is using her new role as Miss Canada to speak out against abuse – in all its forms.
Animal abuse message hits the road
Next time Rosy Zhao hops on London Transit, she might see a familiar image following her around.
Western launches new digital communication certificate program
Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) is launching a new program that will provide students with a powerful set of tools, competencies and best practices for effectively working within social media, virtual worlds and other forms of online communication.
Clark and Babanovic: Cuban experience brings sport home
Our course, An Educational Exploration of Sport and Physical Activity in Cuba, proved to be yet another successful year under the direction of Health Sciences professor Darwin Semotiuk.
Talbot: Exercise caution on Kony campaign frenzy
Enough already with the ‘stop Kony’ posts.
Winders: Still wary after all these years
It still makes me uncomfortable.
Kilpatrick: Librarian association objects to copyright deal
On Jan. 30, Western, the University of Toronto and Access Copyright, Canada’s copyright licensing agency, reached a licensing agreement on the reproduction of copyrighted works on campus that increases the annual fee per full time equivalent (FTE) student to $27.50.
Campus Digest, March 15
Arts, Ed and FIMS plan Research Day 2012 Three Western faculties – Arts and Humanities, Education and Information and Media Studies – will come together next week for one celebration of their collective work at Research Day 2012, scheduled for 3-5:30 p.m. Monday,...
Teacher-student conversation key to classroom behaviour
To Alan Edmunds, classroom management can be a bit of a carnival game.
Neuroscientists explore size constancy in the brain
Mel Goodale is relentlessly interested in how our brain enables us to understand the world.
Education at heart of global partnership
When Don Barclay met up with his brother, Bob, for a few beers last April, the outcome was quite remarkable. Not only did the two share stories of their recent trip to Togo in West Africa, where Barclay aided his brother in distributing 5,000 beds kids with Sleeping...
Targets help define what ‘internationalization’ means
Answering calls from the top for internationalization, Western International is starting to develop a picture of what that would look like for the university.
Miss Canada turns spotlight on abuse
For years, Jaclyn Miles was afraid to share her story. But today, the Faculty of Education student is using her new role as Miss Canada to speak out against abuse – in all its forms.
Animal abuse message hits the road
Next time Rosy Zhao hops on London Transit, she might see a familiar image following her around.
Western launches new digital communication certificate program
Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) is launching a new program that will provide students with a powerful set of tools, competencies and best practices for effectively working within social media, virtual worlds and other forms of online communication.
Clark and Babanovic: Cuban experience brings sport home
Our course, An Educational Exploration of Sport and Physical Activity in Cuba, proved to be yet another successful year under the direction of Health Sciences professor Darwin Semotiuk.
Talbot: Exercise caution on Kony campaign frenzy
Enough already with the ‘stop Kony’ posts.
Winders: Still wary after all these years
It still makes me uncomfortable.
Kilpatrick: Librarian association objects to copyright deal
On Jan. 30, Western, the University of Toronto and Access Copyright, Canada’s copyright licensing agency, reached a licensing agreement on the reproduction of copyrighted works on campus that increases the annual fee per full time equivalent (FTE) student to $27.50.