When a tornado is bearing down on you, 10 minutes may not sound like much time to find shelter. Yet that’s what Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has set as its target tornado warning lead time for 60 per cent of twisters, including those that …
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...
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.
It took roughly 7 minutes and 472 steps to get to the top.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).
The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.
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...
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.
It took roughly 7 minutes and 472 steps to get to the top.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).
The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.