October 4, 2024
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Liam Peters and Zaidis Deleary are learning traditional Indigenous singing and drumming at Culture Nights hosted by Western's Wampum Learning Lodge.
The Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies is housed in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and Nursing Building (Photo source: Faculty of Information and Media Studies)
Led by a collaborative team of FIMS professors, the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies aims to educate and empower communities about the impacts of digital technologies.
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A team of researchers led by Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor David Heinrichs is studying how bacteria survive and evade antibiotics. Their goal is to develop new treatments and vaccines to help keep us healthy.
Jane Rylett (Photo source: Schulich Communications)
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Jane Rylett shares insights on the health challenges of aging in Canada and highlights innovative research in this critical field.
The Impact Project
Explore how the Western community is collectively contributing to meaningful change in the world, today.
Sunil Gurmukh (Image source: Crystal Carter/Western Communications)
Sunil Gurmukh: How data can support the fight for human rights.
Coming Up
October 7 (1 to 5 p.m.)
AI and artificial history
Hear how AI is changing and challenging historical research from University of South Australia professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Emory professor Jo Guldi and Georgetown professor Dagomar Degroot, along with a roundtable discussion led by Western history professor William J. Turkel. D.B. Weldon Library, Community Room. Register online.
October 9 (3 p.m.)
Battle for America
A panel of experts including political science professor and chair Amanda Friesen, political science professor Matt Lebo and King’s professor Alison Meek discuss the U.S. presidential race. D.B. Weldon Library, Community Room.
October 9 (4 to 5:15 p.m.)
Guest lecture: Terri Favro
Author Terri Favro reads from her work and discusses her craft as part of an ongoing 2024 creative writers speaker series presented by English and writing studies. University Community Centre, Rm. 56.
October 9 (4:30 to 5:30 p.m)
RISE! Speaker series: Robert Savage
Join colleagues for a presentation to help educators understand and implement the Ontario Right-to-Read recommendations by York professor and dean of education Robert Savage. Presented by the Centre for the Science of Learning. Register online. Faculty of Education building.
Working at Western
Academic procession (Photo source: Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications)
Join the autumn 2024 academic procession
Autumn Convocation is Oct. 23 to 25. Members of faculty, Senate, the Board of Governors and emeriti professors/archivists/librarians are invited to take part in the academic procession. Register online.
Photo of the Week
Western served up 600 plates of pancakes for a student breakfast held on campus during Homecoming 2024. (Photo source: Frank Neufeld)
Western in the News
In addition to the news above, your colleagues have been featured in the following media outlets.
Joshua Pearce (Photo source: Western Engineering)
The New York Times
The food of space travel could be based on rocks
New research from Ivey and engineering professor Joshua Pearce demonstrates how compounds from space rocks could be transformed into food through a chemical and physical process involving bacteria.
CBC London
Indigenous youth in London, Ont., reflect on what truth and reconciliation means to them
Indigenous studies students Alicia Kewageshig and Claudia Zavitz share what truth and reconciliation means to them.
Canadian Press
JD Vance and Tim Walz face-off during U.S. vice-presidential debate
The U.S. vice-presidential debate took place this week. Political science professor Matthew Lebo explained what the candidates hoped to achieve.
