Most of us strive to leave a legacy for a few generations. A team led by Chemistry professor Jamie Noël, however, is working towards a million-year legacy - with the highest possible stakes.
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July 26, 2019

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Western key to solving million-year waste dilemma

Most of us strive to leave a legacy for a few generations. A team led by Chemistry professor Jamie Noël, however, is working towards a million-year legacy - with the highest possible stakes.

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Epilepsy Toolkit earns national honours

Sometimes when Dylan Di Girolamo zoned out in class, her teachers or classmates thought she was just tired. One person, thinking she was high, once phoned police for help.

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Student’s story capable of building a nation

While many have dreamed of a better life, Lisbeth Pino’s journey toward making her dream a reality has inspired a nation.

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New appointment to focus on Indigenous law

Frankie Young recently joined Western Law as a professor with an eye on enhancing the faculty’s scholarship and teaching in fields related to Indigenous law and communities.

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Researchers seeking fragments of fireball

Researchers are seeking the public’s help in locating fragments of a fireball that shone as bright as the full moon, observed by Western’s All-Sky Camera Network at 2:44 a.m. ET Wednesday morning.

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Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

ImPaKT Facility Tours for Faculty, Staff & Students

Tour the brand-new ImPaKT Facility and learn about the ways it will enable researchers to push the boundaries of scientific discovery.

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Western Libraries

Course Readings Simplified

Take advantage of Western Libraries’ personalized Course Readings service. Send them your syllabus and they’ll do the rest – from start to finish.

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Events

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Cronyn Observatory - Public Nights. This is a time to view the skies through the telescope and to pose your favorite questions to the astronomer hosting the evening.

Commentary

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Who Do You Think You Are? with Nino Ricci

Strange Bedfellows - Lorelei Lingard. In this episode, Nino and guest Lorelei Lingard share stories of creativity and curiosity as they explore the importance of language and rhetoric in hospitals and other medical settings. At the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Western's Faculty of Education, Lorelei examines how health care teams talk and how communication patterns influence patient safety. Lingard is the Founding Director and Senior Scientist at Western's Centre for Education Research & Innovation.

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Endnotes

PBJs

Professors Beyond Jobs

This week, Joanna Quinn, a political science professor, joins the latest episode of PBnJ: Professors Beyond Jobs. This is a Radio Western podcast hosted by Aniruddho Chokroborty Hoque.

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