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Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly...

Professor pursues plastic pollutants choking ecosystem

You likely wouldn’t spot them, unless digging through the sand on your hands and knees, but a miniature plastic pest along the shoreline of the Great Lakes could result in huge headaches for the environment and, even, humans.

Skating mural honours work of Fowler clinic

As a child growing up in Holland, Auke van Holst watched as more than 10,000 skaters passed on the canal behind his home during the famous 200-kilometre Eleven Cities Skating Tour. Decades later, the former Western professor has combined his love of skating with his artistic talents, as a way to say ‘thank you’ to the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic.

International team images Earth’s oldest crystal

International team images Earth’s oldest crystal

Utilizing a new instrument that takes 3D images of individual atoms within a crystal, an international team of investigators has proved a rare sample of zircon is the oldest piece of Earth yet discovered at 4.4 billion years old.

Tsujita named 3M National Teaching Fellow

Earth Sciences professor Cameron Tsujita has been recognized by 3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) as a 3M National Teaching Fellow, widely seen as the top national award for teaching leadership at the postsecondary level. Tsujita is one of 10 fellows named for 2014, and the 24th in Western’s history.

Between a rock and an artistic place

Between a rock and an artistic place

Kamilo Beach is, arguably, the world’s dirtiest beach. Located on the southeastern coast on the island of Hawaii, the beach’s sands are littered with marine debris – most of it plastic waste washed up from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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...

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly...

Professor pursues plastic pollutants choking ecosystem

You likely wouldn’t spot them, unless digging through the sand on your hands and knees, but a miniature plastic pest along the shoreline of the Great Lakes could result in huge headaches for the environment and, even, humans.

Skating mural honours work of Fowler clinic

As a child growing up in Holland, Auke van Holst watched as more than 10,000 skaters passed on the canal behind his home during the famous 200-kilometre Eleven Cities Skating Tour. Decades later, the former Western professor has combined his love of skating with his artistic talents, as a way to say ‘thank you’ to the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic.

International team images Earth’s oldest crystal

International team images Earth’s oldest crystal

Utilizing a new instrument that takes 3D images of individual atoms within a crystal, an international team of investigators has proved a rare sample of zircon is the oldest piece of Earth yet discovered at 4.4 billion years old.

Tsujita named 3M National Teaching Fellow

Earth Sciences professor Cameron Tsujita has been recognized by 3M Canada and the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) as a 3M National Teaching Fellow, widely seen as the top national award for teaching leadership at the postsecondary level. Tsujita is one of 10 fellows named for 2014, and the 24th in Western’s history.

Between a rock and an artistic place

Between a rock and an artistic place

Kamilo Beach is, arguably, the world’s dirtiest beach. Located on the southeastern coast on the island of Hawaii, the beach’s sands are littered with marine debris – most of it plastic waste washed up from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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...