A journey through the last century and a half no longer requires the complexity of time machine construction - library access will do just fine. Western Libraries is now home to a digitized database of four of North America’s most influential newsmagazines of the past 150 years.
A journey through the last century and a half no longer requires the complexity of time machine construction - library access will do just fine. Western Libraries is now home to a digitized database of four of North America’s most influential newsmagazines of the past 150 years.
Western honoured its long-serving employees (both full- and part-time) at recent celebrations for faculty and staff who have been working at the university for 25 years or more.
Are you desperate to find out, once and for all, if the rock your grandfather found when he was ploughing the family farm in the 1960s actually fell from the heavens? Or what about the weird object you found on the beach in Port Stanley that’s kind of magnetic and shiny and might just be from space, but you’re not quite sure?
When a group of civic-minded citizens of an urban metropolis arrives at a decision to ‘go for the gold’ and lodges a bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host ‘the greatest sports show on earth’ - as well as the most expensive - a fundamental requirement is to accompany such a bid with a declaration of citizen support for the project.
A London ‘fatberg’ - a basketball-sized mass of congealed wetwipes, dental floss and kitchen grease - is an unlikely inspiration for an artistic exhibit. Likewise, few might see possibilities in a cup full of beachcombed ‘nurdles’ - those plastic pellets that serve as raw materials for a host of products.
CareerCentral (westerncareercentral.ca) will be unavailable from Tuesday, July 2 to Friday, July 5 for a system upgrade. Besides a new look and a new name when we re-launch, users shouldn’t experience many changes in how they use the site.
Western goes smoke-free on July 1 - the final step in an evolution that has seen a gradual shrinking of designated smoking areas and an increase in cessation supports.
As long-time readers may know, I am a big fan when it comes to intuitive eating. I’ve written about it lots, including this post “Intuitive Eating: What It Is and Why I Love It.” So I was excited to see an article in Outside online singing its praises as the “ultimate anti-diet.”
This week, Western Chemistry Professor Mark Workentin joins us on the latest episode of PBnJ: Professors Beyond Jobs. This is a Radio Western podcast hosted by Aniruddho Chokroborty Hoque.
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