Olivia Lutfallah was looking for a pastime outside of school. What she found was a captive audience, and a caring community, eager to learn more about living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It all started last March when the biol …
Campus & Community
McPherson: Adding fuel to the Occupy debate fire
Ryan Avola (“Occupy movement all about love,” Jan. 5) sees the Occupy movement as one of “love, empathy and compassion.”
McMaster: An appeal to the greater good
Wouldn’t it be nice …
Campus Digest, Jan. 12
Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.” For...
Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials
The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) awarded Sumagen Canada Inc. $728,000 to support human clinical trials for a preventative HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario.
United Way continues climb into the New Year
It took roughly 7 minutes and 472 steps to get to the top.
Essex named to climate post
Chris Essex is on the hot seat. Recently, the Department of Applied Mathematics professor was appointed Chair of the Permanent Monitoring Panel for Climate for the World Federation of Scientists (WFS).
Campus Digest
New residence construction continues
Construction of Western’s new, 1,000-bed student residence is underway with Southside Construction working toward the building’s 2013 completion. Roughly 600 beds at the new residence on the southwest side of campus will be available to incoming students for September 2013.
HIV vaccine heads to human clinical trials
A potential first and only preventative HIV vaccine, developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario, has received approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to start human clinical trials this month south of the border.
Professor’s donation reaches ‘East’ to help
Marianne Larsen admits she gets ‘that feeling’ when she knows something is right. And it was ‘that feeling’ which stirred the emotions in the Faculty of Education professor to make a make a $1.06 million donation to Western Heads East.
Cheque is in the mail
Following through on a fall election promise, the provincial government starts rolling out a tuition grant this month for undergraduate students, meant to cover roughly 30 per cent of a student’s academic costs each year.
Project adds another dimension to campus
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.
Western helping numbers add up
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
McPherson: Adding fuel to the Occupy debate fire
Ryan Avola (“Occupy movement all about love,” Jan. 5) sees the Occupy movement as one of “love, empathy and compassion.”
McMaster: An appeal to the greater good
Wouldn’t it be nice …
Campus Digest, Jan. 12
Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.” For...
Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials
The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) awarded Sumagen Canada Inc. $728,000 to support human clinical trials for a preventative HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario.
United Way continues climb into the New Year
It took roughly 7 minutes and 472 steps to get to the top.
Essex named to climate post
Chris Essex is on the hot seat. Recently, the Department of Applied Mathematics professor was appointed Chair of the Permanent Monitoring Panel for Climate for the World Federation of Scientists (WFS).
Campus Digest
New residence construction continues
Construction of Western’s new, 1,000-bed student residence is underway with Southside Construction working toward the building’s 2013 completion. Roughly 600 beds at the new residence on the southwest side of campus will be available to incoming students for September 2013.
HIV vaccine heads to human clinical trials
A potential first and only preventative HIV vaccine, developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario, has received approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to start human clinical trials this month south of the border.
Professor’s donation reaches ‘East’ to help
Marianne Larsen admits she gets ‘that feeling’ when she knows something is right. And it was ‘that feeling’ which stirred the emotions in the Faculty of Education professor to make a make a $1.06 million donation to Western Heads East.
Cheque is in the mail
Following through on a fall election promise, the provincial government starts rolling out a tuition grant this month for undergraduate students, meant to cover roughly 30 per cent of a student’s academic costs each year.
Project adds another dimension to campus
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.
Western helping numbers add up
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.