Conversation with professor Sharon Sliwinski is part fascinating lecture – an incredible introduction to the world of dreams by an author and expert on them – and part gentle therapy session. What could be more compelling than learning about dream …
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Campus Digest, Jan. 19
Lighting the lamp for Locks of Love When the 2011-12 women’s OUA hockey season comes to a close, a pair of Western Mustangs will be losing more than their equipment. Tawn Rellinger and Katie Dillon, both fourth-year players, have decided to cut off their hair and...
Finding needles in a digital haystack
Two teams led by researchers at The University of Western Ontario have won the second-annual Digging into Data Challenge and will use the power of computers to analyse complex information related to mummies and human rights abuses.
Campus Digest, Dec. 8
Western News deadlines for 2012 Today’s Western News edition represents the semester’s final. We’ll return on Thursday, Jan. 5. Coming events and advertising deadline for that edition, the first of 2012, is noon Thursday, Dec. 15. UWOFA announces scholarship winners...
Five Answers from Robert Babe
Media, Structures, and Power: The Robert Babe Collection (University of Toronto Press, 432 pgs, $37.95) is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada’s leading communication and media studies scholar, Faculty of Information and Media Studies professor Robert E. Babe. Edited by fellow FIMS professor Edward Comor, the volume spans almost four decades of scholarship and reflects the breadth of Babe’s work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy.
Using folklore as his playground
There are times when Henry Adam Svec is, well, someone else.
Finite thoughts on infinity and beyond
Kane X Faucher is done experimenting. Or maybe he’s just getting started.
Prof heats up cold cases with student society
Amateur sleuths and couch detectives who always dreamed of being part of a real CSI team might get their chance to crack a cold case as part of the FIMS Investigative Society.
Building castles in the university sandbox
University can be a big sandbox in which to build skills, be creative and have fun. This is the teaching philosophy of John Reed, lecturer in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
Province earmarks $21 million for Ivey building renovations
The Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) is bulging at the seams, making the Ontario government’s investment of $21 million to renovate the Richard Ivey School of Business building welcomed news to dean Tom Carmichael.
Newman calls on grads to seize ‘greatness’
Under the caps and gowns of today’s graduates stand the leaders of the most consequential generation in more than a century, says broadcast journalist Kevin Newman.
Research uncovers the different sides of the ‘hood
When Chris Richardson completed his undergraduate degree in journalism, he had two choices: Beat them or join them?
Internet anonymity reduces mental health stigma
Mental illness continues to carry a stigma that is as glaring as a neon sign, leading many young people to seek advice through the anonymity of the Internet, according to a recent study.
Campus Digest, Jan. 19
Lighting the lamp for Locks of Love When the 2011-12 women’s OUA hockey season comes to a close, a pair of Western Mustangs will be losing more than their equipment. Tawn Rellinger and Katie Dillon, both fourth-year players, have decided to cut off their hair and...
Finding needles in a digital haystack
Two teams led by researchers at The University of Western Ontario have won the second-annual Digging into Data Challenge and will use the power of computers to analyse complex information related to mummies and human rights abuses.
Campus Digest, Dec. 8
Western News deadlines for 2012 Today’s Western News edition represents the semester’s final. We’ll return on Thursday, Jan. 5. Coming events and advertising deadline for that edition, the first of 2012, is noon Thursday, Dec. 15. UWOFA announces scholarship winners...
Five Answers from Robert Babe
Media, Structures, and Power: The Robert Babe Collection (University of Toronto Press, 432 pgs, $37.95) is a collection of the scholarly writing of Canada’s leading communication and media studies scholar, Faculty of Information and Media Studies professor Robert E. Babe. Edited by fellow FIMS professor Edward Comor, the volume spans almost four decades of scholarship and reflects the breadth of Babe’s work, from media and economics to communications history and political economy.
Using folklore as his playground
There are times when Henry Adam Svec is, well, someone else.
Finite thoughts on infinity and beyond
Kane X Faucher is done experimenting. Or maybe he’s just getting started.
Prof heats up cold cases with student society
Amateur sleuths and couch detectives who always dreamed of being part of a real CSI team might get their chance to crack a cold case as part of the FIMS Investigative Society.
Building castles in the university sandbox
University can be a big sandbox in which to build skills, be creative and have fun. This is the teaching philosophy of John Reed, lecturer in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
Province earmarks $21 million for Ivey building renovations
The Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) is bulging at the seams, making the Ontario government’s investment of $21 million to renovate the Richard Ivey School of Business building welcomed news to dean Tom Carmichael.
Newman calls on grads to seize ‘greatness’
Under the caps and gowns of today’s graduates stand the leaders of the most consequential generation in more than a century, says broadcast journalist Kevin Newman.
Research uncovers the different sides of the ‘hood
When Chris Richardson completed his undergraduate degree in journalism, he had two choices: Beat them or join them?
Internet anonymity reduces mental health stigma
Mental illness continues to carry a stigma that is as glaring as a neon sign, leading many young people to seek advice through the anonymity of the Internet, according to a recent study.