CARL works long hours. He won’t fidget or flinch. He’s always available to lend an ear. And experts around the world are confident he is head and shoulders above any audiology patient simulator on the market.
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October 1, 2019

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CARL revolutionizing audiology education

CARL works long hours. He won’t fidget or flinch. He’s always available to lend an ear. And experts around the world are confident he is head and shoulders above any audiology patient simulator on the market.

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Study IDs offset to cannabis side-effects

The development of safer, more effective cannabis for patients and recreational users prone to its more severe side-effects may be possible thanks to a ground-breaking study by Western researchers.

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Alumna baking up batches of kindness

Former London educators Joanne Lombardi and Deb Parr-Nash have left the classroom, donned aprons, and now spend their days transforming attitudes and encouraging small acts of kind-heartedness with their cookies.

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Investment looks to aid, train BC educators

If federal and provincial investments in early childhood learning signal a society willing to consider it a public right, then the system should be prepared with the most well-trained educators possible, according to a Western researcher.

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Media partnership to elevate student voices

A new partnership between Western and Alternatives Media, one of the country’s leading environmental publishers, will offer students a powerful channel for environment-based reporting and storytelling - all with an eye toward changing the world.

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Board of Governors

By-election for undergraduate representatives

For faculty and staff who work with undergraduate students, please help make them aware of an opportunity to represent the undergraduate constituency on Western’s Board of Governors until June 30, 2020. Nominations for this by-election close on Friday, Oct. 4 at 4:00 p.m.

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Broughdale response ‘cause for optimism’

Officials are crediting early and frequent collaboration across the city as a “cause for optimism” related to managing the annual unsanctioned street party on Broughdale Avenue.

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Social Highlights

Instagram

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Every Child Matters. Yesterday we traded our purple shirts for orange, and took time to honour the survivors and remember those who did not return home from Canada’s residential schools.⠀ ⠀

Twitter

Congratulations to all the honourees of the 2019 @atlohsa Peace Awards, including #WesternU's @BrunetteCandace and @westernuSocSci professor Jerry P. White.

Commentary

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Gradcast: CanMoon - Lunar Sample Return Analogue Mission

CanMoon is a Canadian Lunar Analogue Mission funded by the Canadian Space Agency, run by the CPSX program at Western in collaboration with The University of Winnipeg. Hosts Nikol and Greg chat with Cassandra Marion, the mission's 'MOM', about what it's like to simulate controlling a rover on the Moon.

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Journey into the ‘Dark’

Take a journey into the not-so-distant past and future, along with a 'Dark' present that wrestles with both, when English and Writing Studies professor Chris Keep takes his turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

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