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New virtual-reality training program gets $1M EPIC boost

New virtual-reality training program gets $1M EPIC boost

A unique virtual-reality (VR) program to be developed at Western has received a $1-million innovation grant from Future Skills Centre, aiming to provide personal support workers (PSWs) access to innovative communication training to help care for people liv …

Neish: Attacks show I keep great company

Neish: Attacks show I keep great company

I was certainly pleased the National Post’s Michael Ross and Jonathon Kay attacked David Heap and myself (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24).

Heap: Profile failed in citing sources

Heap: Profile failed in citing sources

I read with interest the profile in Western News (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24), and while I appreciate your honest efforts to correct certain details, I find it puzzling you chose to cite media commentarists who show little respect for basic fact-checking and whose opinions should thus be viewed with extreme caution.

Winders: Urged to go all in or not at all

Larry Summers is correct. Believe me, as an American who has been subjected to his pompous style of unelected economic guidance for a quarter century, that is a painful sentence to write. But during an appearance at Western last week, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury offered an interesting nugget for the future direction of this university.

A ‘Vision’ for World AIDS Day 2011

A ‘Vision’ for World AIDS Day 2011

A number of awareness and fundraising campaigns have been planned as The University of Western Ontario prepares to commemorate World AIDS Day 2011 on Thursday, Dec. 1.

Finding your ‘RealAge’ with Dr. Roizen

Finding your ‘RealAge’ with Dr. Roizen

The University of Western Ontario welcomes acclaimed physician Dr. Michael Roizen to the Best Western Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre Dec. 1 (7 p.m.)

World premiere with a global flavour

Omar Daniel likes to write piano pieces for himself. Often he works on them as a diversion while creating a bigger work. The Don Wright Faculty of Music composer says the shorter works give him a fresh perspective.

Western prepares educators with new mental health program

Western prepares educators with new mental health program

Thanks to the generosity of a former graduate student and elementary school teacher, Walter M. Lobb, The University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Education has developed a new mental health program and scholarship fund to address the needs of teachers who deal with students’ mental health issues every day.

Western rolls out refocused campaign

The University of Western Ontario highlighted a refocused fundraising campaign this week with hopes of raising $750 million by 2018 toward a new series of realigned goals.

Students team up to assist Goderich

Students team up to assist Goderich

A group of Western students have banded together to lend a hand this holiday season to the residents Goderich. And they are asking for your help.

Klatt: Occupy movement may be most vapid of all

In 2010, the 93-year-old former member of the French Resistance Stéphane Hessel published a little booklet in France, Indignez-vous!, that quickly became a bestseller and has sold more than a million copies. Apart from eulogizing the Palestinians of Gaza for their patriotism and their many other virtues, as is part of the daily diet in many leftist corners nowadays, its message is we should all become indignant about something, anything:

Ansari: Song does not remain the same as torture

“Even if you have earplugs, even if you cover your ears, you feel your brain rattle. It makes you feel extremely horrible and you have to run away from it.”
This is a how an Occupy Wall Street protester described being exposed to a sound cannon, a sophisticated loudspeaker which eyewitnesses claim was deployed early last Tuesday morning to empty New York City’s Zuccotti Park of protesters.

Neish: Attacks show I keep great company

Neish: Attacks show I keep great company

I was certainly pleased the National Post’s Michael Ross and Jonathon Kay attacked David Heap and myself (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24).

Heap: Profile failed in citing sources

Heap: Profile failed in citing sources

I read with interest the profile in Western News (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24), and while I appreciate your honest efforts to correct certain details, I find it puzzling you chose to cite media commentarists who show little respect for basic fact-checking and whose opinions should thus be viewed with extreme caution.

Winders: Urged to go all in or not at all

Larry Summers is correct. Believe me, as an American who has been subjected to his pompous style of unelected economic guidance for a quarter century, that is a painful sentence to write. But during an appearance at Western last week, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury offered an interesting nugget for the future direction of this university.

A ‘Vision’ for World AIDS Day 2011

A ‘Vision’ for World AIDS Day 2011

A number of awareness and fundraising campaigns have been planned as The University of Western Ontario prepares to commemorate World AIDS Day 2011 on Thursday, Dec. 1.

Finding your ‘RealAge’ with Dr. Roizen

Finding your ‘RealAge’ with Dr. Roizen

The University of Western Ontario welcomes acclaimed physician Dr. Michael Roizen to the Best Western Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre Dec. 1 (7 p.m.)

World premiere with a global flavour

Omar Daniel likes to write piano pieces for himself. Often he works on them as a diversion while creating a bigger work. The Don Wright Faculty of Music composer says the shorter works give him a fresh perspective.

Western prepares educators with new mental health program

Western prepares educators with new mental health program

Thanks to the generosity of a former graduate student and elementary school teacher, Walter M. Lobb, The University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Education has developed a new mental health program and scholarship fund to address the needs of teachers who deal with students’ mental health issues every day.

Western rolls out refocused campaign

The University of Western Ontario highlighted a refocused fundraising campaign this week with hopes of raising $750 million by 2018 toward a new series of realigned goals.

Students team up to assist Goderich

Students team up to assist Goderich

A group of Western students have banded together to lend a hand this holiday season to the residents Goderich. And they are asking for your help.

Klatt: Occupy movement may be most vapid of all

In 2010, the 93-year-old former member of the French Resistance Stéphane Hessel published a little booklet in France, Indignez-vous!, that quickly became a bestseller and has sold more than a million copies. Apart from eulogizing the Palestinians of Gaza for their patriotism and their many other virtues, as is part of the daily diet in many leftist corners nowadays, its message is we should all become indignant about something, anything:

Ansari: Song does not remain the same as torture

“Even if you have earplugs, even if you cover your ears, you feel your brain rattle. It makes you feel extremely horrible and you have to run away from it.”
This is a how an Occupy Wall Street protester described being exposed to a sound cannon, a sophisticated loudspeaker which eyewitnesses claim was deployed early last Tuesday morning to empty New York City’s Zuccotti Park of protesters.