Health Studies professor Aleksandra Zecevic has been named a 2020 3M National Teaching Fellow, widely seen as the top national award for teaching leadership at the postsecondary level.
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3M

Zecevic named among classroom elite

Health Studies professor Aleksandra Zecevic has been named a 2020 3M National Teaching Fellow, widely seen as the top national award for teaching leadership at the postsecondary level.

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Western News

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Canada cannot dust off gender roles in home

Canadian couples still divide most household chores along traditional lines - even though women and men, overall, share more home duties more than ever, a new Statistics Canada study of opposite-sex couples shows.

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baron

Baron named to head Western International efforts

Career international education advocate Britta Baron has been named Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (International), effective July 1, through June 30, 2025.

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comms

Althea Blackburn-Evans named Chief Communications Officer

Althea Blackburn-Evans has been named Western’s first-ever Chief Communications Officer in a reorganized communications portfolio, President Alan Shepard announced this week. Reporting to the President, she will lead the Communications & Public Affairs team in her role beginning April 6.

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w40

Future-focused network to boost industry

Mechanical and Materials Engineering professor Tengyuan Zhang, Associate Director of WIN 4.0 (Western’s Industry Network), is utilizing the latest industry revolution - cyber-physical systems - to give businesses the ability to anticipate what will happen in their facilities and address problems even before they happen.

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Working at Western

Faculty of Science

Care Zone program signals help for Science students

Just look for the sign. Science students are closer than ever to wellness supports - be it advice in the moment or a bridge to wider university services - all thanks to the faculty’s new approach based on a not-so-new idea.

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BrainsCAN

Conference highlights diversity in STEM

Inspiring Diversity in STEM will host its third biennial conference on March 21-22. The event is supported by BrainsCAN.

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Events

jazz

Jazz Ensemble Concert: Traditions

Sunday, March 8

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Commentary

ivey

The Ivey Entrepreneur Podcast: Building a product for yourself with Sarah Sklash of The June Motel

Eric Janssen speaks to Sarah Sklash, HBA ’07, co-owner of The June Motel, a 16-room boutique motel in Prince Edward County. Find out how a New Year's Resolution helped Sarah take the leap from side hustle to full-time entrepreneur who, together with her business partner, chose to transform the ‘dive-iest motel you’ve ever seen,’ into one of Ontario's most Instagrammable experiences.

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Endnotes

FRP

Free Range Professor

Think wide open fields of conversation with academics. We talk about their research, why it matters and what the world looks like through their eyes. On this episode we chat with Kate Helsen, a Western Music professor. She uses modern-day artificial intelligence to study 11th-century Gregorian Chants.

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