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Visiting scholar reconnecting cities and an aging population

Visiting scholar reconnecting cities and an aging population

Don’t blame Stefanie Kuhn for sweating the small stuff. “I’m artsy and I love detail. I notice all the little details – all of them,” said Kuhn, a visiting graduate research scholar in the Faculty of Health Sciences. “In architecture, you get to be a bit of a...

Read All Over book reviews, March 26

Read All Over book reviews, March 26

Health Literacy in Canada: A Primer for Students By Lorie Donelle, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz and Rukhsana Ahmed Health literacy should not be underestimated with regards to its importance to sustaining and improving the overall health of a population. In fact, the authors...

Research exposes major gaps in HPV vaccine knowledge

Research exposes major gaps in HPV vaccine knowledge

Up to 80 per cent of sexually active people will get an HPV (human papillomavirus) infection during their lifetime. And the prevalence peak of HPV infection occurs in the 18-24 age group – that is, university-aged individuals. However, according to one Western...

Listen up! Program offers sound advice to kids on hearing

Listen up! Program offers sound advice to kids on hearing

In an effort to educate local children about the importance of protecting their hearing, Clinical Audiology masters student Steven Jones visited the Grade 4 class at St. John Catholic French Immersion School on Monday. Sound Sense is a free program designed and...

Irwin: Sharing my story so others can better understand their own

Irwin: Sharing my story so others can better understand their own

How to start? Health promotion is often described as “a process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” What I aim to share here is a health promotion story that, I hope, will spark dialogue – and even debate. I offer myself as an...

Western women lead way in award winners

Western women lead way in award winners

A wave of purple pride washed over the 2015 Women of Excellence announcement Tuesday morning as six of eight winners of the biennial award were members of the Western community.

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...

Initiative weaves a stronger mental health safety net

Initiative weaves a stronger mental health safety net

Mental health clients in the province are getting a much-needed ‘safety net’ upon re-entering their communities thanks to a novel Western-led initiative. The Transitional Discharge Model bridges the hospital and community for benefits to both individuals and the...

Kargiannakis, Pinto named among Queen’s Young Leaders

Kargiannakis, Pinto named among Queen’s Young Leaders

Recent Western alumni Melissa Kargiannakis and Aaron Joshua Pinto have been named among the recipients of the 2015 Queen’s Young Leaders Awards, announced by the organization today. Of 2,000 applicants, 60 award recipients across Commonwealth countries were selected....

UWOFA awards annual scholarships to outstanding students

UWOFA awards annual scholarships to outstanding students

The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the...

Stocking to deliver Ioannides Address

Stocking to deliver Ioannides Address

Western Classics professor Charles Stocking will deliver the 2014 Ioannides Address, How to Kill an Athlete: The Use and Abuse of Training Science in Antiquity, at 4:40 p.m. Thursday in HSB 236. The event is sponsored by Western’s International Centre for Olympic...

Visiting scholar reconnecting cities and an aging population

Visiting scholar reconnecting cities and an aging population

Don’t blame Stefanie Kuhn for sweating the small stuff. “I’m artsy and I love detail. I notice all the little details – all of them,” said Kuhn, a visiting graduate research scholar in the Faculty of Health Sciences. “In architecture, you get to be a bit of a...

Read All Over book reviews, March 26

Read All Over book reviews, March 26

Health Literacy in Canada: A Primer for Students By Lorie Donelle, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz and Rukhsana Ahmed Health literacy should not be underestimated with regards to its importance to sustaining and improving the overall health of a population. In fact, the authors...

Research exposes major gaps in HPV vaccine knowledge

Research exposes major gaps in HPV vaccine knowledge

Up to 80 per cent of sexually active people will get an HPV (human papillomavirus) infection during their lifetime. And the prevalence peak of HPV infection occurs in the 18-24 age group – that is, university-aged individuals. However, according to one Western...

Listen up! Program offers sound advice to kids on hearing

Listen up! Program offers sound advice to kids on hearing

In an effort to educate local children about the importance of protecting their hearing, Clinical Audiology masters student Steven Jones visited the Grade 4 class at St. John Catholic French Immersion School on Monday. Sound Sense is a free program designed and...

Irwin: Sharing my story so others can better understand their own

Irwin: Sharing my story so others can better understand their own

How to start? Health promotion is often described as “a process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” What I aim to share here is a health promotion story that, I hope, will spark dialogue – and even debate. I offer myself as an...

Western women lead way in award winners

Western women lead way in award winners

A wave of purple pride washed over the 2015 Women of Excellence announcement Tuesday morning as six of eight winners of the biennial award were members of the Western community.

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...

Initiative weaves a stronger mental health safety net

Initiative weaves a stronger mental health safety net

Mental health clients in the province are getting a much-needed ‘safety net’ upon re-entering their communities thanks to a novel Western-led initiative. The Transitional Discharge Model bridges the hospital and community for benefits to both individuals and the...

Kargiannakis, Pinto named among Queen’s Young Leaders

Kargiannakis, Pinto named among Queen’s Young Leaders

Recent Western alumni Melissa Kargiannakis and Aaron Joshua Pinto have been named among the recipients of the 2015 Queen’s Young Leaders Awards, announced by the organization today. Of 2,000 applicants, 60 award recipients across Commonwealth countries were selected....

UWOFA awards annual scholarships to outstanding students

UWOFA awards annual scholarships to outstanding students

The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the...

Stocking to deliver Ioannides Address

Stocking to deliver Ioannides Address

Western Classics professor Charles Stocking will deliver the 2014 Ioannides Address, How to Kill an Athlete: The Use and Abuse of Training Science in Antiquity, at 4:40 p.m. Thursday in HSB 236. The event is sponsored by Western’s International Centre for Olympic...