For Western professor Wendy Pearson, teaching excellence is about valuing people as much as pedagogy. It is a lifelong commitment that has earned her recognition among the national classroom elite.
For Western professor Wendy Pearson, teaching excellence is about valuing people as much as pedagogy. It is a lifelong commitment that has earned her recognition among the national classroom elite.
In an environment often associated with ‘publish or perish’ pressures, emerging scholars face the highest barriers. In response, Western Kinesiology PhD candidates Taylor KcKee, Andrew Pettit and Jared Walters recently took publication matters into their own hands with the launch of The Journal of Emerging Sport Studies.
There is a strong purple-and-proud feeling among honourees of the eighth annual YMCA Women of Excellence Class of 2019, the YMCA of Southwestern Ontario announced last week.
Sam Trosow is “walking on air” following news of his appointment to the Board of Governors. But having served as a member of Senate, he is well aware of the occasional moments of tension between the university’s bicameral governing bodies.
We often think of our brains as the centre of complex motor function and control, but how ‘smart’ is your spinal cord? Turns out, it is smarter than we think.
Western talked – and listened – in record numbers on social media during Bell Let’s Talk Day on Jan. 30. But the 2,600 tweets and retweets from a variety of university-affiliated accounts represented just a fraction of the deeper discussions that took place.
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Haiti’s public utility company just announced it’s reducing output again. The move comes after a series of blackouts throughout the country, some lasting weeks. The power outages are the result of a weeks-long fuel shortage that has led to fuel rationing and gas station closures as reserves run dry.
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