Geneviève de Viveiros never expected 21st-Century tools to lend such important insights into a 19th-Century mind. Then again, who knew a popular video website that gave the world Justin Bieber, Gangnam Style and Grumpy Cat could also augment our understanding into French novelist Émile Zola?
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July 12, 2019

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Famed French author finds new life online

Geneviève de Viveiros never expected 21st-Century tools to lend such important insights into a 19th-Century mind. Then again, who knew a popular video website that gave the world Justin Bieber, Gangnam Style and Grumpy Cat could also augment our understanding into French novelist Émile Zola?

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Dancap chair prepares companies for change

Geoffrey Wood’s research strives to understand and explain how complex organizational and business systems work.

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Training gives control back to the caregivers

Delivering proper care to thousands living with dementia means personal-support workers must understand more than patients’ medical histories - they need to know the people behind them.

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Mathematician seeks solutions in symmetry

Known for his enthusiastic teaching style - including his penchant for dancing for joy when a student solves a thorny problem - Mathematics professor Jan Mináč has been named a fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

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Organ donation guidelines start needed conversation

Three years after its legalization, medical assistance in dying - known as MAiD - remains a murky subject for health-care providers and patients to navigate.

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Working at Western

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Researchers celebrated

Members of Western’s Bone and Joint Institute were celebrated recently by the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies (ICORS) at the group’s annual meeting.

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Head Coach of Mustangs Women’s Basketball Team­ named

Nate McKibbon is the new Head Coach of the women's basketball team. McKibbon comes to Western with nearly 20 years of basketball coaching experience, most recently as Head Coach of the women's basketball program at Mount Royal University in Calgary.

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Events

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Join us Monday, July 15 on Concrete Beach as we raise the Rainbow Flag in recognition of our commitment to being an inclusive campus and to show support for members of our LGBTQ2S+ community.

Commentary

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Who Do You Think You Are? with Nino Ricci

Is The Truth Out There? In this episode, Nino and guest Jeremy Copeland discuss the important role of journalists when the leader of the free world thinks most mainstream media are purveyors of fake news. Before joining Western’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Copeland spent 15 years as a multimedia journalist with some of the biggest news networks in the world including CBC, BBC and Al Jazeera English TV.

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Endnotes

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PBnJ - Professors Beyond Jobs

This week, biology professor David Smith, who studies genome architecture, genetic diversity, and the evolutionary forces that fashion genes and chromosomes, joins the latest episode of PBnJ: Professors Beyond Jobs. This is a Radio Western podcast hosted by Aniruddho Chokroborty Hoque.

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