October 14, 2022
Nataleah Hunter-Young joins the Faculty of Information and Media Studies in January 2023. (Photo source: Philippe Nyirimihigo)
With a background in social work and 10 years of professional practice experience, TIFF international programmer Nataleah Hunter-Young is joining the Faculty of Information and Media Studies as an associate professor next semester and will teach in the new creative arts and production program.
Western Libraries archivist Leslie Thomas (left) and Constance Bomberry of the Six Nations Lands and Resources Office with the repatriated letter book kept by John Brant. (Photo source: Rayanne Tipert/Western Libraries)
A letter book kept by Mohawk leader John Brant, once held by Western Libraries Archives and Special Collections, has been repatriated to the Six Nations Lands and Resources office. The book contains governance records of outgoing correspondence and proceedings of Six Nations general councils from the 1800s.
Claire Crooks (front row, third from left), with STRONG training participants in Prague, Czech Republic. (Submitted photo)
Claire Crooks, director of the Centre for School Mental Health, recently traveled to the Czech Republic to train social workers and psychologists in STRONG, a school-based mental health program for traumatized children and teens.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families. (Photo source: Tim Eppley)
As one of Canada's leading primatologists, anthropology professor Ian Colquhoun was part of a large-scale study that found climate change and deforestation are driving tree-dwelling monkeys and lemurs to the ground where they may be at higher risk.
A Western chemistry team has designed a probe that emits near infrared light and can be tracked by standard bioimaging techniques. (Photo source: Canadian Light Source)
Working with Canadian Light Source, chemistry professor Lijia Liu and master’s student Ellie W.T. Shiu have developed a material that could improve the way drugs are administered to patients by allowing doctors to see exactly whether they are reaching the targets and working properly.
About 75 per cent of Canada's forests are boreal forests. (Photo source: Holly Deighton)
Canada’s boreal forests are known to help moderate the effects of climate change, absorbing and storing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they release. But as the balance shifts, biology PhD candidate Holly Deighton is working to understand why.
Working at Western
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Autumn convocation
More than 1,900 students and their families will be on campus to celebrate Western's 320th convocation Oct.19 to 21 at Alumni Hall. Honorary degree recipients include Eating Disorders Foundation of Canada founder and president Dr. Robbie Campbell; internationally acclaimed pediatric researcher, educator and practitioner Helene Polatajko; and activists, journalists and teachers Dan and Mary Lou Smoke.
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Photo of the Week
The new and growing knowledge exchange, impact and EDI-D in research team at Western Research is available to support the research community. (Left to right) Katie Big-Canoe, Indigenous research officer; Qing Liu, bibliometrics and research impact analyst; Shawn Garner, research data analyst; Alexandra Levine, research officer; and Mariam Hayward, director. (Photo source: @HaywardMariam)
Coming Up
Oludamini Ogunnaike, associate professor of African religious thought and democracy, University of Virginia (Submitted photo)
October 14 (5-7 p.m.)
The significance and importance of the Islamic Arts
Learn more about the culture, societies and rich intellectual history of the Islamic and Arab world during a lecture by Oludamini Ogunnaike, associate professor of African religious thought and democracy at the University of Virginia.
October 17 (12 p.m.)
Mindful Moments
Relax, recharge and refocus with weekly drop-in mindfulness practices live on Zoom.
October 18 (12:30-1:45 p.m.)
Distinguished speaker series: Beverley Jacobs
Beverley Jacobs, senior advisor to the president on Indigenous relations and outreach at the University of Windsor, will present her talk, Respect and relationships: Learning from Haudenosaunee women. Hosted by Western Law.
October 19 (1 p.m.)
We have always been here: Sharing queer Muslim voices
Writer, photographer and activist Samra Habib will explore some of the ideas from their best-selling memoir We Have Always Been Here, and stories of queer Muslims from around the world. Hosted by the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and the department of gender, sexuality and women's studies, this free event is open to all.
Western in the News
Kinesiology director and professor Laura Misener (Photo source: Faculty of Health Sciences)
CBC The Current
Hockey Canada's new leadership should include voices from outside the sport, says expert
As the CEO and board of directors at Hockey Canada stepped down this week, kinesiology director and professor Laura Misener says it’s now time to take a hard look at the culture of sport in order for meaningful change to happen.
Newsweek
Mystery fireball that lit up sky and baffled scientists finally explained
Research from physics and astronomy postdoctoral scholar Denis Vida has shown that a mysterious space rock that lit up the skies over parts of Canada last year wasn't a comet, despite coming from a distant part of the solar system where comets are thought to originate.
The New York Times
The Hockey Canada scandal: Rethinking how sports are governed
Kinesiology professor MacIntosh Ross says if Hockey Canada is ultimately replaced by another organization it will be important to rethink that organization’s structure and not simply replace the current system.
National Post
'X-ray specs': Canadian scientists starry-eyed over James Webb space telescope
Canadian scientists, including physics and astronomy professor Els Peeters, are using spectacular images from the James Webb Space telescope to look at young stars in the constellation Orion and understand their influence on the interstellar material around them.
Commentary
Dr. Jillian Horton (Submitted photo)
In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, writer and physician Dr. Jillian Horton, BA’96, MA’97, reflects on her time as a third-year Western student and how professor Donald Hair’s English class made her a better doctor.
