It’s been said that Earth without art is just, “Eh.” And that our world, without insects, would fall apart. In the current McIntosh Gallery exhibit, Insect as Idea, art and insects converge to paint a poignant picture of the beauty in biodiversity …
Arts and Humanities
2013 Distinguished University Professorship
In the fields of medicine and law, Western’s latest Distinguished University Professorship (DUP) winners emulate the motivation behind why the award was created. In honouring faculty who have built a record of excellence in the areas of teaching, research and service over a substantial career at Western, this year’s recipients receive an award of $10,000 to support their scholarly activities and will deliver a public lecture at a future date. This year’s DUP winners are:
2012-13 Awards for Excellence in Teaching
KATHRYN BRUSH Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Humanities EDWARD G. PLEVA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING In her 26 years at Western, Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush has distinguished herself as both teacher and researcher, as her research has always nourished...
Student hopes to draw together writing community
Here to unite writers in the Western community, Alex Carrillo-Hayley is the university’s first Student Writer-in-Residence – believed to be the first in North America.
Writers in residence to give creative writing voice
The Western literary community added two new members this week, both expected to bring a world of insight across campus.
Culture jamming helps shake off the chill
Feminist culture jamming employs techniques which catch people off guard, unsettle established ideas and erode patriarchal culture by mounting a challenge from within its institutions.
UWOFA scholarships announced
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) awarded 36 scholarships to students from 11 Western faculties. The awards, funded by the UWOFA membership, were handed out at an event on Wednesday, Dec. 5 in the Great Hall, Somerville House.
Rotman Institute names new director
Carl Hoefer has been named the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, effective July 2013.
Looze: Offering up a number of thoughts on letters
Since childhood, I have loved the ‘Note on the type’ one finds at the end of many books.
Western-led team delivers world-first ethics guidelines
Led by Charles Weijer of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, in association with Jeremy Grimshaw and Monica Taljaard of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a team of researchers has issued world-first ethics guidelines governing cluster randomized trials (CRTs).
Future of textiles
Even currently, intelligent textiles stretch the limits of the imagination and seem to border on science fiction – moving tattoos that crawl across the skin of the wearer, appearing and disappearing as they record stress; sensors in shirt sleeves that can register a wound and lead the fabric to tighten, forming a tourniquet; polymers that can be added to manufactured fibers, protecting the wearer from infection and disease; technologically enhanced military uniforms that can communicate with satellites.
Future of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages are over. Well, sort of.
Future of family
As we all saw recently with the release of the new Canadian census data, the Canadian family is changing.
2013 Distinguished University Professorship
In the fields of medicine and law, Western’s latest Distinguished University Professorship (DUP) winners emulate the motivation behind why the award was created. In honouring faculty who have built a record of excellence in the areas of teaching, research and service over a substantial career at Western, this year’s recipients receive an award of $10,000 to support their scholarly activities and will deliver a public lecture at a future date. This year’s DUP winners are:
2012-13 Awards for Excellence in Teaching
KATHRYN BRUSH Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Humanities EDWARD G. PLEVA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING In her 26 years at Western, Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush has distinguished herself as both teacher and researcher, as her research has always nourished...
Student hopes to draw together writing community
Here to unite writers in the Western community, Alex Carrillo-Hayley is the university’s first Student Writer-in-Residence – believed to be the first in North America.
Writers in residence to give creative writing voice
The Western literary community added two new members this week, both expected to bring a world of insight across campus.
Culture jamming helps shake off the chill
Feminist culture jamming employs techniques which catch people off guard, unsettle established ideas and erode patriarchal culture by mounting a challenge from within its institutions.
UWOFA scholarships announced
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) awarded 36 scholarships to students from 11 Western faculties. The awards, funded by the UWOFA membership, were handed out at an event on Wednesday, Dec. 5 in the Great Hall, Somerville House.
Rotman Institute names new director
Carl Hoefer has been named the director of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, effective July 2013.
Looze: Offering up a number of thoughts on letters
Since childhood, I have loved the ‘Note on the type’ one finds at the end of many books.
Western-led team delivers world-first ethics guidelines
Led by Charles Weijer of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, in association with Jeremy Grimshaw and Monica Taljaard of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a team of researchers has issued world-first ethics guidelines governing cluster randomized trials (CRTs).
Future of textiles
Even currently, intelligent textiles stretch the limits of the imagination and seem to border on science fiction – moving tattoos that crawl across the skin of the wearer, appearing and disappearing as they record stress; sensors in shirt sleeves that can register a wound and lead the fabric to tighten, forming a tourniquet; polymers that can be added to manufactured fibers, protecting the wearer from infection and disease; technologically enhanced military uniforms that can communicate with satellites.
Future of the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages are over. Well, sort of.
Future of family
As we all saw recently with the release of the new Canadian census data, the Canadian family is changing.