March 1, 2024
(Photo source: Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications)
Dive into a virtual ocean, explore anxiety-busting climate strategies and experience music-infused tornado adventures during SDG Week, a celebration of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to build a better world.
(From left) President Alan Shepard with Lisa Saksida and Ravi Menon (Photo source: Steven Anderson/Western Communications)
Lisa Saksida and Ravi Menon, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professors and BrainsCAN co-scientific directors recently sat down with President Alan Shepard to discuss the latest advances in neuroscience and cognition.
Members of the Mustangs women's track and field team (Photo source: Western Mustangs)
For the first time in history, the Mustangs won both the men’s and women’s team titles at the OUA Track and Field Championships Feb. 24-25.
Emily Nichols (left) and Emma Duerden (Photo source: Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications)
A new interdisciplinary study led by Emma Duerden and Emily Nichols uses MRI to examine the placenta's pivotal role in fetal brain health and offers potential insights for early interventions.
Inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument (Image source: NASA, ESA, CSA, PDRs4All ERS Team; Salomé Fuenmayor)
Western astrophysicists Els Peeters and Jan Cami along with a team of NASA Webb Telescope researchers have found the destruction and re-formation of an ocean's worth of water found in the Orion Nebula.
(Front, from left) Hind and Zahraa Al-Mosuli; (back, from left) Helya Mahmoudy-Baybourdy and Emma Slater (Photo source: Kim McCready/Faculty of Health Sciences)
Health Sciences students are empowering women of all ages and backgrounds through their innovative women’s-only fitness program developed during an experiential learning placement at a city YMCA.
Working at Western
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Western Day
Show your Western pride and join your colleagues during a coffee break on Thursday, March 7.
Call for nominations: Honorary degrees
The Senate honorary degrees committee is inviting members of the community to nominate individuals meriting an honorary degree.
Parr Centre for Thriving: Submit a proposal
Do you have an innovative idea with the potential to transform student mental health and thriving? The Parr Centre for Thriving will be funding high-impact, innovative and collaborative project ideas from Western faculty and staff.
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Stay up to date on eLearning workshops throughout the year. Subscribe to the mailing list and learn new strategies for leveraging technology.
Photo of the Week
Western wrapped up Black History Month hosting The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean as part of the Robbins-Ollivier speakers’ series Speak on It!, presented in collaboration with the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity.(Photo source: Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications)
Coming Up
Téa Mutonji (Photo source: Sarah Bodri)
March 4 (10 a.m.)
Canada Reads viewing party
Cheer on Western’s writer-in-residence Téa Mutonji as her book is featured as part of the 2024 CBC Canada Reads competition. The first debate will be live streamed in University College, Conron Hall 3110.
March 4 (noon to 1 p.m.)
Black Studies at the Interregnum with Rinaldo Walcott
Join University of Buffalo chair of Africana and American studies Rinaldo Walcott for an important discussion surrounding the development of Black studies in Canada.
March 6 (1 p.m.)
W'at Abowt Us: Film screening and panel
Watch as women from diverse backgrounds share their stories of vulnerability, showing that systematic harassment knows no barriers. The screening will be followed by an interactive Q&A session with director Shelley Jarret. McKeller Room, UCC.
March 6 (noon to 1:30 p.m.)
Learn at Lunch: Using inclusive language workshop
Identify the guiding principles of inclusive language and examine how and why certain language related to EDI-D has changed. Participating in the workshop will count towards the completion of the EDI Certificate Programs.
March 7 (10 to 11:30 a.m.)
Empowering Women in Innovation
Celebrate International Women's Day at the Empowering Women in Innovation event dedicated to honouring the remarkable achievements and contributions of those who identify as women in the field of innovation. All are invited to join this inclusive event, regardless of gender identity. RSVP by March 4.
March 8 (noon)
The Role of Empathy and Vulnerability
Explore the importance of empathy and vulnerability in effective leadership during this online event with McGill University professor and author of Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides Terri Givens.
Western in the News
Mansour Haeryfar (Photo source: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry)
National Geographic
What is “immune amnesia?” a long-term side affect of the measles
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Mansour Haeryfar explains how those who recover from measles become immunosuppressed.
CNN
Dead ‘cannibal’ star spotted with metal scar after consuming part of a plane
Physics and Astronomy professor emeritus John Landstreet offers insight on the discovery of a white dwarf with a unique dark metallic “scar” on its surface.
Global News
Financial concern a key reason Canadians are having fewer kids
Sociology professor Kate Choi was quoted about a recent poll that found most Canadians are having fewer children than they would like due to the cost.
CTV London
One ocean's worth of water destroyed every month in Orion Nebula, researchers say
Professor of physics and astronomy, Els Peeters discusses her team's discovery of the destruction and re-formation of an ocean's worth of water in the heart of the Orion Nebula.
Commentary
Illustration of Pyrococcus furiosus, an extremophile first discovered thriving at 100 C near a volcanic vent in Italy. (Image source: Michelle Kropf)
In this Conversation article, biology professor Kathleen Hill and collaborators have shown that extremophiles - small organisms that live in extreme environments - actually have information encoded in their genome about the type of environments they live in.
