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• Considering history and memory through the concept of ‘deep time’

  November 29, 2022
  Ruramisai Charumbira joins department of History, with an approach grounded in the idea of Hunhu or Ubuntu, a sense of seeing ourselves as part of a larger human community and the planet.
  

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• Social Science PhD students receive Vanier Canada graduate scholarships

  November 28, 2022
  Joseph Rovetti, in the Department of Psychology, Luis Meléndez Guerrero in the Department of Anthropology, and Sohini Chatterjee in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies receive prestigious graduate studies award.

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• Study provides a new understanding of pain disparities among racial groups in U.S. 

  November 23, 2022
  Researchers say pain can be used as a barometer of mental and physical health of a population.

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• Western Social Science hosts Giueseppe Veltri

  November 22, 2022
  Visit part of first steps to establish collaborative relationships between Western and Italy’s top ranked department of Sociology.

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• Seeking biological roots of eating disorders

  November 21, 2022
  Lindsay Bodell receives funding to study possible links between biological processes and response to social pressures.

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• How accessibility for disabled university students can benefit all students

  November 14, 2022
  Writing in The Conversation, Kim Clark - Professor of Anthropology & Assistant Dean (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Decolonization), Faculty of Social Science - discusses how instructors' everyday practices impact - positively and negatively - students who self-identify as disabled.

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• Ontario introducing Holocaust education in elementary schools to counter rising antisemitism

  November 11, 2022
  Study conducted by Western Political Science post doctoral fellow Alexis Lerner major impetus for change.

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• Millions at risk as drylands degrade, finds study co-authored by Western prof

  November 10, 2022
  Climate change, population pressures hit earth’s largest biome.

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• Western undergraduate students take all top prizes in anthropology story project

  November 07, 2022
  Students in ANTH 1025F, taught by Kelly Linton, took all 20 of the top story prizes in the Centre for Public Anthropology’s Community Action Project.

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• In Memoriam: David Flaherty

  November 04, 2022
  David Flaherty, professor emeritus in the Department of History and the Faculty of Law, passed away on October 11, 2022.

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• Study underscores need for food literacy, national school food program

  October 31, 2022
  Western’s HEAL survey shows kids with higher food knowledge likely to eat more fruit, vegetables.

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• Chloe Lau, PhD, Psychology, receives Governor General’s Gold Medal

  October 24, 2022
  Lau was one of three Western graduates to receive a Governor General’s Academic Medal. Since 1873, the awards have recognized outstanding students across Canada.

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• Climate change and deforestation may drive tree-dwelling primates to the ground

  October 14, 2022
  Western primatologist, Ian Colquhoun, part of massive collaboration of 118 scientists across 3 continents, that studied behaviour change in 47 species of monkeys and lemurs.

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• Psychology undergraduate research receives global recognition

  October 11, 2022
  Justin Zhou’s research on neural network models of vision has been recognized as a Highly Commended paper in the Global Undergraduate Awards. Zhou submitted work he completed during his bachelor’s degree in psychology.

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• Announcing the winners of the Faculty of Social Science Postdoctoral Award

  October 07, 2022
  Manfred Asuman (Nelson Mandela University) and Bruno Bonfa Aruaujo (Universidade São Francisco) are the inaugural recipients of the postdoctoral awards.

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• Researchers set to break new ground on ‘untapped’, alternative brain imaging technique

  October 06, 2022
  Western officially launches new Optical Neuroimaging Research Group

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• Examining the role of violence in the history of settler-colonialism

  October 03, 2022
  Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), Professor of History and American Studies at Yale, will deliver the 2022 Joanne Goodman Lecture Series at Western University.

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• Indigenous studies course focuses on “resilience and resistance”

  September 26, 2022
  First-year introductory course challenges narratives of victimization, trauma.

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• Chantelle Richmond awarded 2022 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Social Sciences

  September 21, 2022
  Richmond will travel to the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, to deepen her understanding of Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) relationships with land, and to generate new research relationships.

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• Christopher Alcantara receives Royal Society of Canada Yvan Allaire Medal

  September 13, 2022
  The award recognizes a distinguished contribution in the area of governance. Alcantara researches multi-level governance, with a particular focus on Indigenous communities, and Indigenous-settler relations.

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• Western offers new minor in Black Studies

  September 13, 2022
  Offered through the department of gender, sexuality and women’s studies, the courses provide a variety of perspectives on Black history, culture and heritage

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• William Fisher, Adrian Owen named as Royal Society of Canada Fellows

  September 13, 2022
  Fellows of the RSC are distinguished Canadians from all branches of learning who have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life.

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• Turning DIY fails into a positive for consumers

  August 26, 2022
  Do it yourself fails can lead to frustration, thrown tools, increased stress, and a few choice words. New research shows that DIY fails can also lead to positive opportunities for some consumers and businesses.

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• Multigenerational living: A strategy to cope with unaffordable housing?

  August 19, 2022
  Writing in The Conversation, Kate Choi, from the Department of Sociology and Sagi Ramaj of the University of Toronto, explore the impact of housing prices on the share of multi-generational households.

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• Building integrated climate models to improve future projections

  August 19, 2022
  Natasha MacBean has joined Western University as an Assistant Professor, cross-appointed in the departments of Geography and Environment and Biology.

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• Western tests minds of The Amazing Race Canada teams during neuroscience challenge

  August 17, 2022
  The meditation challenge was adapted from research conducted in Dr. John Paul Minda’s lab at Western. Minda explains science behind Western’s meditation challenge.

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• Examining the expectations of women in leadership

  July 25, 2022
  Samantha Hancock has joined the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies as an Assistant Professor. Hancock is completing her PhD at Wilfrid Laurier University in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management.

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• Risk factors in addiction, and the impact of culture on treatment efforts

  July 25, 2022
  Jesus Chavarria wants to understand the causes of addiction, and how treatment efforts can better reflect cultural needs. Chavarria is joining the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor.

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• Supporting mutual care relationships

  July 25, 2022
  Pamela Block, professor in Anthropology, partners with Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence (CCCE) and Siblings Canada to understand resources available in mutual care relationships of disabled and non-disabled siblings.

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• Carrie Branch joins Department of Psychology

  July 08, 2022
  Carrie Branch wants to understand why animals do what they do. She researches animal behaviour and cognition, with a focus on the interplay between cognitive abilities and communication systems.

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• Jamie Hyodo joins DAN Management

  July 08, 2022
  Jamie Hyodo is interested in moral and persuasive forces, and how they influence consumer behaviour. Hyodo has joined the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies as an Assistant Professor.

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• Ethno-racial minorities in Canada have less access to affordable housing than whites

  June 27, 2022
  In The Conversation, Kate Choi, and co-author Sagi Ramaj write about their new study on Canada’s affordability crisis that found visible minorities have less access to affordable housing than whites in Canada.

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• Discrimination can make smaller communities unappealing to immigrants, racialized and Indigenous people

  June 27, 2022
  Writing for The Conversation, Mamta Vaswani, Alina Sutter and Victoria Esses say local targeted strategies are sorely needed in smaller communities to combat the virulent discrimination.

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• Katrina Moser new chair in the Department of Geography & Environment

  June 27, 2022
  Moser hopes department can foster a change of perspective for student and increasing in understanding of interconnectedness with the environment.

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• Teaching students to live Aazhawigamig, as a path to reconciliation

  June 27, 2022
  Dr. Renée Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard is joining the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and the Indigenous Studies program.

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• Examining the role of group identity in divided societies

  June 27, 2022
  Evelyne Brie is joining the Department of Political Science at Western University. Brie uses a quantitative approach to understand how group-level identities impact political resentment and voting behaviour.

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• Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis

  June 22, 2022
  An international research team, including Professor Geraint Harvey, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, spent the past 2 years researching the impact of COVID-19 on Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs).

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• Pilot study finds intimate partner violence victims lose 1 month of productivity per year

  June 20, 2022
  Researchers from Western Social Science and the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) conducted the first survey in North America to measure the economic costs of IPV to a workplace.

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• Jason Gilliland receives Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography

  June 20, 2022
  The award recognizes a member of the CAG for outstanding scholarly work in geography either in the form of sustained contributions over many years or as a single major research contribution.

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• Music training promotes better beat perception in Parkinson’s patients: study

  June 14, 2022
  Western neuro researcher Jessica Grahn says findings could help inform early-stage intervention

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• New federal funding supports research on teen online harassment

  June 03, 2022
  Kaitlynn Mendes, professor in Sociology, has been named the new Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender.

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• Using the digital to create a connection to the natural world

  May 27, 2022
  Aranya Iyer is the face of the Animalogic’s ‘World of Birds’ on YouTube, bringing interesting bird facts to people around the world. But her real passion is fostering a deep connection to nature, particularly for marginalized communities.

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• Podcast looks to unearth the career opportunities in Anthropology

  May 27, 2022
  Isabelle Rutherford and Sydney Holland want to let Anthropology students know about the many diverse career paths available to them, within and beyond academia.

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• Highlighting the living history of museums

  May 27, 2022
  Behind every museum display, there is a story. Erin Isaac wants to highlight those stories through her YouTube channel, Historia Nostra.

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• How rural Canada can attract and retain international health-care providers: Address discrimination, provide support

  May 11, 2022
  Common approaches used to encourage internationally educated health-care professionals to work in smaller communities often focus primarily on attraction, but do not address the reasons why they tend to leave.

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• New project brings Social Science research to the community

  May 10, 2022
  The Social Science Community Research Consultancy has received funding from Western’s Strategic Priorities Fund will give community organizations access to high-quality research, and provide research experience for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows outside of academia.

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• Companies are mitigating labour shortages with automation — and this could drastically impact workers

  April 25, 2022
  Writing in The Conversation, DAN Management professor Geraint Harvey examines how companies are responding to labour shortages.

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• Students get lesson on environmental stewardship close to home

  April 20, 2022
  Students in combined Indigenous Studies, Geography and Environment class to learn ‘land healing, responsibility’ through new land-use agreement with Facilities Management.

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• Western Political Science PhD accepts tenure-track position at top-tier American university

  April 14, 2022
  Tyler Girard's appointment is a major accomplishment for a Canadian-trained Political Science PhD, and reflective of changes in the Department of Political Science at Western University.

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• Busy mothers breastfed less in 19th century Netherlands: study

  April 14, 2022
  Research by Andrea Waters-Rist examining infant bones from rural Dutch village found little to no evidence of breastfeeding.

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• Maria Ferraro receives 2022 Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching

  April 08, 2022
  Maria Ferraro, Lecturer in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies has been recognized for excellence in teaching, with the 2022 Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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• Powerful CEOs and Dividend Policy

  March 29, 2022
  Powerful CEOs are considered risky in capital markets - hard to control and more likely to waste resources – but these same CEOs can burnish their reputation by paying out dividends to stockholders when the net value of the reputation is positive. That is the finding in Shahbaz Sheikh’s latest article.

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• ‘Jaw-dropping’ housing market challenging next generation of buyers, Western experts say

  March 25, 2022
  Social Science professors Diana Mok and Michael Haan provide insight into rising house prices, and what an increase in interest rates might mean for home-owners and home-buyers.

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• Partners willing to bend with relationship ‘dealbreakers’: study

  March 24, 2022
  A new study, inventively designed by Western psychologists Nicolyn Charlot and Samantha Joel as a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ revealed one romantic relationship problem may not be enough to call it quits but problems add up over time, eventually turning dealbenders into a dealbreaker.

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• Gig workers aren’t self-employed – they’re modern-day feudal serfs

  March 24, 2022
  Writing in The Conversation, DAN Management professor Geraint Harvey says workers who are dependent on online platforms, like Uber or SkipTheDishes, benefit far less than the organizations they work for.

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• Fostering Multi-Generational Resilience in the face of the Climate Crisis

  March 18, 2022
  Lewis Williams, professor in geography & environment, and the Indigenous Studies program, is part of the organizing team of a Climate Crisis & Multi-Generational Resilience Wisdom Council, bringing together voices from Turtle Island and Alba.

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• Ryan Stevenson named as Western University Faculty Scholar

  March 17, 2022
  Stevenson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and a core member of the Brain and Mind Institute.

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• Kate Choi named as Western University Faculty Scholar

  March 17, 2022
  Kate Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Director of the Centre for Research on Social Inequality (CRSI).

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• Isaac Luginaah named as Distinguished University Professor

  March 17, 2022
  Luginaah is a professor in the department of Geography & Environment, and is co-director of Western’s Centre for Climate Change, Sustainable Livelihoods and Health.

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• Russia’s war on Ukraine highlights need for energy security

  March 02, 2022
  While there is no telling at this point what the potential consequences of the crisis in Europe to Canada’s global trade will be, Geoffrey Wood, a professor in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, said the impacts are likely going to be significant in two Canadian sectors: aerospace and automotive.

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• Reconciliation can help address global problems, but first we need to deal with white supremacy

  February 25, 2022
  Writing in The Conversation, Lewis Williams says mainstream Canadian society is not committed to true change to support reconciliation.

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• Replacing Erin O'Toole exposes the Conservative Party’s ever-deepening divides

  February 16, 2022
  In a piece written for The Conversation, Cristine de Clercy and Sam Routley examine how the different groups within contemporary conservatism can co-exist and collaborate.

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• Improving international migration measurements

  February 14, 2022
  Tracking and comparing migrations statistics across jurisdictions and international boundaries can be very difficult, and Jasmine Ha, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, is working to fix that.

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• In UK, close political connections result in more covid relief funds

  February 14, 2022
  A paper co-authored by Geoffrey Wood and Zulfiquer Haider of DAN Management examined which UK firms received COVID-19 relief funds, and what factors impacted the successful applications.

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• Researchers face increased levels of harassment

  February 08, 2022
  A new Royal Society of Canada policy briefing, co-authored by Howard Ramos, examines increasing levels of harassment faced by researchers, and what universities, funding bodies, and the government can do to address the issue.

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• Western researchers zero in on math anxiety

  February 08, 2022
  Teacher competence, parental support influence students’ stress level.

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• Oral history project aims to tell stories from London’s Black community

  February 08, 2022
  Western history professor calls for community contribution to build historical data.

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• Western faculty take part in restoring piece of Black history

  February 01, 2022
  Fanshawe Pioneer Village future home of historic Fugitive Slave Chapel.

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• COVID-19 shutdown allows researchers to better measure urban heat islands

  January 24, 2022
  Cities create and capture heat, and new research with connections to Western sheds light on how much of that is related directly to human activity.

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• NEST study highlights need for better access to justice for immigrants

  January 20, 2022
  Study from NEST and Pathways and Prosperity finds immigrants in London and Toronto experience serious legal problems that adversely impact their lives in Canada, highlighting their need for better access to justice.

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• Wartime Canada given new life through Strategic Priorities Fund grant

  January 12, 2022
  Wartime Canada was originally launched in 2012, to highlight the experience of Canadians during the first and second world war, by digitizing documents related to daily life.

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• Inclusion, walkability will be key to rebuilding cities after the COVID-19 pandemic

  January 11, 2022
  Writing for The Conversation, sociologists Kate Choi and Patrick Denice, look at how city planning effected the impact of COVID-19, and how sustainable and inclusive city planning can help address many societal issues.

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• Western University and the NGO Alagoas Ateliê Ambrosina launch gallery and podcast channel

  December 17, 2021
  Exhibition Portraits Defiças, a Brazilian reference project in the field of Art Disability, premieres on December 20th, 2021.

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• Workers welcome shortened work week, research study finds

  December 17, 2021
  Zorra Township cites flexibility, work/life balance as key benefits in study led by Western University’s Joseph Lyons and York University’s Zachary Spicer.

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• Crime statistics often reflect political and managerial choices, rather than reality

  December 03, 2021
  The public does not understand how crime statistics are gathered, and this has many operational implications for police services, and political and social implications for the public, based on research from Laura Huey.

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• New loneliness numbers ‘not a fluke’

  December 03, 2021
  A Statistics Canada survey shows more than 1 in 10 Canadians reports being lonely often or all the time. Julie Aitken Schermer, professor in DAN Management, says StatsCan numbers reflect pervasive feelings of isolation across country

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• Study shows smiling makes you look older, unless you’re old already

  December 03, 2021
  New research from Mel Goodale, professor in the Department of Psychology, follows up on earlier correlation between facial wrinkles and age perception.

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• New survey reveals pandemic impact on Canadian youth

  December 03, 2021
  New research from Western University’s Human Environments Analysis Laboratory shows how positive coping strategies saved teens during COVID-19 first wave

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• NEST recognized for work in support of diversity, inclusivity and human rights

  November 30, 2021
  The Network for Economics and Social Trends (NEST) has received the 2021 City of London Diversity, Race Relations and Inclusivity Award in recognition for its work towards positive policy impact and social change.

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• New study suggests improvement to region-based pandemic lockdowns

  November 24, 2021
  The study, led by Jed Long in the Department of Geography and Environment, used network mobility data to offer insight on people’s travel trends during COVID-19 restrictions.

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• Mapping ‘the magic’ of music, movement and the brain

  November 17, 2021
  Psychology professor and neuroscientist Jessica Grahn awarded prestigious NSERC research fellowship providing more opportunities to investigate the link between music and movement, and potential interventions to help Parkinson’s disease patients.

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• New study makes sense of sensory processing in autistic children

  November 15, 2021
  Results of a recent study on sensory abilities in autistic childrenm, conducted by psychology professor Ryan Stevenson and BrainsCAN postdoctoral fellow Nichole Scheerer, may have positive consequences to the way supports are provided to them, helping increase their quality of life.

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• COVID-19 an accelerator of digitalization

  November 04, 2021
  The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the digitalization of many workplaces, and it is not a pattern that is likely to be reversed, although the form it takes is likely to continue to change, said Geoffrey Wood, professor and chair of the DAN Department of Management & Organization Studies.

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• The Goodman Lectures: Telling the story of Almighty Voice

  November 03, 2021
  Almighty Voice, a member of the One Arrow Willow Cree, was killed by the North West Mounted Police in 1897. His story, says Waiser, is a way to explore the history and state of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations and reconciliation. On November 16 to 18, Waiser will examine the life and death of Almighty Voice, for the 2021 Joanne Goodman Lectures in the Department of History.

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• Solving the world’s problems through Indigenous connections

  November 02, 2021
  New book by Lewis Williams, professor in Department of Geography and Environment, and Indigenous Studies, examines intergenerational resilience as path to progress.

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• Holding increased inside debt makes CEOs more risk averse

  October 28, 2021
  How an organization decides to provide compensation for its CEO will impact its risk and dividend policy says Shahbaz Sheikh, Professor of Finance in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies.

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• Giving SoHo’s history new life

  October 28, 2021
  Public History students are researching the diverse history of the SoHo neighbourhood and the Old Victoria Hospital grounds, in support of a mixed-income housing project led by Vision SoHo Alliance.

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• Why Facebook and other social media companies need to be reined in

  October 18, 2021
  In a piece originally published in The Conversation, Kaitlynn Mendes, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, and colleagues, examine what should be done to protect children's rights from Facebook and other social media companies.

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• Canada’s worrisome urban-rural political divide has never been greater

  October 13, 2021
  In a piece originally published in The Conversation, Zack Taylor, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and Jack Lucas, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary, examine the growing urban/rural divide among support for the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada.

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• Telling the untold story of Indigenous athletes

  October 01, 2021
  Sociology professor and director of Indigenous studies Janice Forsyth co-authored a book on Indigenous athletes as a direct response to the Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action 87.

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• Exploring cutting edge problems in education

  September 28, 2021
  Western graduate students will have more opportunities to be part of an international, interdisciplinary research group focused on developing digital learning technologies for children through a five-year, nearly $11-million grant from the Jacobs Foundation.

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• Bilingual advantage is a bust, study says

  September 23, 2021
  Research from Bruce Morton and Casandra Lowe refutes popular notion on language proficiency in children

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• Understanding discrimination in London

  September 20, 2021
  Based on responses to a representative survey, four out of 10 immigrants and visible minorities faced discrimination in London and Middlesex in the last three years, and six out of 10 Indigenous respondents experienced discrimination.

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• Considering the Educational Gender Gap

  September 16, 2021
  In developed countries around the world, young men have lower levels of educational attainment, which leads to negative employment and social outcomes. This is a pattern Shelly Lundberg will examine further in the upcoming Department of Economics Distinguished Lecture, titled “Educational Gender Gaps.”

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• Western welcomes first National Indigenous Scholarship recipients

  September 09, 2021
  Recognized for academic excellence, commitment to community, two Indigenous students in Social Science part of first cohort.

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• From Cholera to COVID: New course melds past with present

  September 09, 2021
  Studying outbreaks of previous centuries, students gain context around uncertainty and change, in a new History course taught by Shelly McKellar.

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• Activision Blizzard’s sexual harassment scandal is not a one-off for the gaming industry

  September 09, 2021
  A growing number of major digital gaming studios face allegations over their “frat boy” cultures. These aren’t isolated accusations. They reflect a culture of sexism and discrimination that senior management and human resources departments perpetuate and allow, says Johanna Weststar, Associate Professor in DAN Management.

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• Indigenous environmental health research secures $1.3M grant

  August 09, 2021
  Funds to support professor Diana Lewis’ work measuring impact of industrial development on Indigenous communities

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• Breaking up is hard to do

  August 05, 2021
  Bias towards ‘being in a relationship’ is the norm for most, study from Psychology professor Samantha Joel shows.

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• Amanda Friesen joins Department of Political Science

  August 04, 2021
  Friesen is a political psychologist, interested in social and political behaviour, using psychological and life sciences approaches in investigating these areas.

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• In Memoriam - Sasha Doxtator

  July 26, 2021
  The Western community is mourning the passing of Sasha Doxtator, a recent graduate of the Indigenous Studies program in the Faculty of Social Science, and an incoming student in the Master of Professional Education (MPEd) program in the Faculty of Education. She passed away on Sunday, July 18, 2021, and will be missed by all those who knew her at Western.

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• Labatt Park historical tours swing for the fences

  July 22, 2021
  Western public history students lead first-ever guided tours of legendary ballpark

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• Expert insights: Equal vaccination rates do not mean same infection trend

  July 22, 2021
  Examining COVID-19 disparities that remain in Toronto neighbourhoods

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• Two PhD students in the Faculty of Social Science receive Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

  July 15, 2021
  Elmond Bandauko, in the Department of Geography, and Lorna Ferguson, in the Department of Sociology recognized for unique leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement.

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• Kaitlynn Mendes joins Department of Sociology

  July 15, 2021
  Mendes researches online harassment, and how people use social media to challenge rape culture, sexual violence, sexism and misogyny.

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• Lisa Tarquinio joins Department of Economics

  July 15, 2021
  Tarquinio researches development economics, drawing in information and research related to climate change, political economy, and migration.

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• Expert insights: Helping children by treating specific symptoms of autism or ADHD

  July 15, 2021
  The benefits of providing treatments to children with autism or ADHD, even without a diagnosis, write Ryan Stevenson and Kaitlyn Parks

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• Body of evidence

  July 08, 2021
  New international research applies revised statistical approaches to offer insight on climate change impact on early humans’ size

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• Climate resilience key in pandemic recovery

  July 08, 2021
  New report highlights next steps for Canadian communities post COVID-19

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• Study sheds light on current level of representation in leadership roles

  June 22, 2021
  A study led by researchers Alina Sutter and Victoria Esses at NEST on representation in the public and nonprofit sectors locally and across Ontario offers useful information to organizations and sector leaders aiming to diversify their senior leadership teams.

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• Funding will bring new perspectives and audiences to climate change course

  June 17, 2021
  Katrina Moser, Sara Mai Chitty and Beth Hundey are re-designing Connecting for Climate Change Action, to share both Indigenous and Western perspectives on climate change, in hopes of creating an educated, informed and engaged population.

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• Cody Groat joining Department of History and Indigenous Studies program

  June 15, 2021
  Groat is interested in the approach of provincial, federal, and international bodies toward Indigenous cultural heritage and 'historic sites'

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• Jody Culham named Canada Research Chair for immersive neuroscience methods

  June 15, 2021
  Culham’s research in immersive neuroscience aims to understand brain functions in realistic environments and compelling virtual simulations.

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• Training the brain to recognize voices

  June 07, 2021
  New research from Brain and Mind Institute and UCL suggests people may need to concentrate on the art of conversation more than ever following pandemic lockdowns.

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• ‘Sounding it out’ not so easy for children with dyslexia

  May 25, 2021
  Western cognitive neuroscientists using MRI discovered a biological deficit for some early readers that impairs the ability to sound words out.

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• PhD student develops method to measure the growth of international norms

  May 17, 2021
  Tyler Girard’s paper, published in the top journal in his field, reflects the growing strength of methods training in the department of Political Science

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• David Goldblum joins department of Geography and Environment

  May 17, 2021
  Goldblum researches natural and anthropogenic disturbances on forest, grassland and woodland plant communities

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• The COVID-19 crisis is about physical infrastructure too

  May 07, 2021
  The role of infrastructure ownership and the ability for governments to respond quickly has been missing from the pandemic analysis. Originally published on Policy Options

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• Pandemic may usher in major social changes

  May 05, 2021
  Life expectancy, birth rates and immigration are all significantly impacted say Sociology professors Kate Choi and Patrick Denice

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• Ukraine Calling acts as a primary source on the Russo-Ukrainian War

  May 05, 2021
  In 2014, as Russia invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea, people kept asking Dyczok about the state of affairs. Unable to find a good English-language source, she created her own.

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• New book asks people to consider how to think

  April 30, 2021
  John Paul Minda’s book is a popular science, non-academic approach to explaining cognitive-psychology, -science, and –neuroscience, and how it affects your everyday life.

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• NEST Team Recognized in Templeton World Charity Foundation’s $60 Million Commitment for Innovations in Human Flourishing

  April 29, 2021
  Based at Western University, a team led by Dr. Jordan Mansell, NEST post-doctoral researcher, and co-investigators Victoria Esses and Mathieu Turgeon at Western University, is one of 11 teams selected in the Foundation’s Grand Challenges for Human Flourishing request for ideas.

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• A new strategy to strengthen transitional justice

  April 28, 2021
  Joanna Quinn, Associate Professor in Political Science, feels the transitional justice efforts would benefit from the development of a basic understanding in society, a ‘Thin Sympathy’

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• Three Social Science members named as Western University Faculty Scholars

  April 27, 2021
  Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Professor in Economics, Lisa Hodgetts, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Anna Zajacova, Associate Professor in Sociology, recognized for significant scholarly achievements in teaching and research.

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• Multiracial children born to cohabiting vs. married parents more likely to experience family instability

  April 21, 2021
  While multiracial children born to cohabiting parents are more likely than their single-race counterparts to experience family instability, that increased risk does not exist for multiracial children born to married parents, according to new research.

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• New Geography and Environment program examines the climate crisis

  April 20, 2021
  Climate Change and Society will integrate perspectives from science, social science and the humanities

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• Could COVID help identify teens at risk for mental health problems?

  April 20, 2021
  Pre- and post-pandemic fMRI brain scans may drive early detection and interventions for vulnerable adolescents

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• William Turkel recognized for excellence in teaching

  April 20, 2021
  History professor receives Western Award For Innovations In Technology-Enhanced Teaching

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• Nearly 40,000 kids in the U.S. who lost a parent to COVID-19 need immediate support

  April 05, 2021
  New international study reveals one in every 13 COVID-related deaths results in a child under 18 years of age losing a parent.

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• Student launches missing persons research hub

  March 31, 2021
  New research from Lorna Ferguson, PhD student in the Department of Sociology, is helping understand how many Canadians go missing, and why.

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• Global study shows income inequality, not poverty, tied to higher COVID-19 mortality rates

  March 31, 2021
  Research from Jim Davies, professor emeritus in the Department of Economics, drew from data across 144 countries, associating poverty with fewer deaths.

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• Pandemic reveals strengths and ‘fault lines’ in Canada’s immigration system

  March 25, 2021
  Victoria Esses and her collaborators examine Canada’s immigration system prior to the pandemic, and suggest changes for success moving forward.

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• Western partners with London Economic Development Corp to help new grads launch careers

  March 15, 2021
  New Western graduates will receive more local career opportunities, and London will retain more skilled talent, through the Social Science Career Apprenticeship

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• Support from retired professor turned history student opens door to experiential learning in history

  March 15, 2021
  Students in the Public History Minor at Western will have more hands-on learning opportunities, through the Betty Bartlett Public History Experiential Learning Fund for Local History.

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• Brands, give consumers some distance, says new research

  February 23, 2021
  Marketing managers want consumers to feel closely connected to brands but new research from Scott Connors and co-authors shows that brands may be better served accepting a level of distance between themselves and consumers and communicating accordingly.

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• Pay secrecy policies contribute to lower wages for women and racialized people

  February 17, 2021
  Patrick Denice, along with Shengwei Sun of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and Jake Rosenfeld of Washington University in St Louis, surveyed workers to determine how prevalent these polices were, and what impact they had on workers’ actions.

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• Rory McGee joins Department of Economics.

  February 03, 2021
  McGee focuses much of his research on retirement, how people finance their old age, and financial planning in retirement. McGee’s work was recently recognized with a Netspar Thesis award.

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• Expansion of parental benefits saved marriages

  January 13, 2021
  Using Statistics Canada data, professor Rachel Margolis found a policy change to parental benefits in Quebec led to a 6-per-cent decrease in separation and divorce among heterosexual couples.

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• Harvey researches the impact of changing employment trends

  January 04, 2021
  Geraint Harvey researches changing employment trends, with particular attention to how they impact employment in the aviation industry. Harvey is joining DAN Management as the inaugural DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization.

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• Report tells stories of Indigenous resilience through COVID-19

  January 04, 2021
  Narratives of strength and hope during COVID-19 are the focus of a new report on Indigenous health.

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• Ken McRae named as a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society

  December 18, 2020
  Through his research on language comprehension, McRae has focused on how people understand sentences, people’s knowledge of common events in the world, and how the components of language comprehension interact with each other.

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• Kam Abado honoured with 2020 Western Award of Excellence.

  December 11, 2020
  Kam Abado, Network Administrator in the Faculty of Social Science is a recipient of a 2020 Western Award of Excellence.

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• Mark Cleveland has been named as the DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Consumer Behaviour

  December 01, 2020
  Much of Cleveland’s work has focused on how globalization and ethnic identities affect consumer behaviour.

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• New centre launches to understand the politics behind it all

  November 30, 2020
  The Centre for the Study of Political Behaviour (CSPB) brings together researchers from across the Faculty of Social Science, as well as King’s University College and the Ivey School of Business, to study political behaviour.

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• Esses: We should not be complacent about Canadians’ welcoming attitudes toward immigrants

  November 27, 2020
  Victoria Esses and colleagues Leah Hamilton from Mount Royal University and Aurelie Lacassagne from Laurentian University published an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail, outlining some reasons why Canadians should not be complacent about Canadians’ welcoming attitudes toward immigrants

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• Data on race and COVID could help design a better pandemic response

  November 19, 2020
  As COVID-19 rates rise across Canada, data shows that racialized Canadians are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Variances in how provinces collect race-based data may affect how they can respond to these impacts, say researchers in the Department of Sociology.

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• For Professor Martin Petrin, the future is now.

  November 16, 2020
  MArtin Petrin has joined Western as the inaugural Dancap Private Equity Chair in Corporate Governance, jointly appointed to Western’s DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies and the Faculty of Law.

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• Nick Harney to become new dean of Western’s Faculty of Social Science

  November 10, 2020
  Harney will serve a five-year term beginning Aug. 1, 2021.

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• Anonymous gift opens door to experiential learning in history

  October 23, 2020
  Students in the Public History Minor at Western will have more hands-on learning opportunities, through the Public History Experiential Learning Fund for Local History, thanks to an anonymous donor.

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• Teaching the decision-making behind finance

  October 23, 2020
  Feng Zhan wants his finance students to think outside the box. Zhan has joined the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies as an Associate Professor.

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• Indigenous resurgence and socio-ecological resilience

  October 13, 2020
  Lewis Williams has joined the Department of Geography and Environment, cross-appointed with the Indigenous Studies program. Williams researches Indigenous resurgence and socio-ecological resilience.

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• Hear, Here receives ACO Public Education and Engagement Award

  October 06, 2020
  Hear, Here London, a project of the Public History program, is the recipient of the 2020 ACO Public Education and Engagement Award

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• Group norms and personal well-being

  September 30, 2020
  How is your health shaped by your memberships in social groups? This is one of the big questions Blair Evans researches. Evans has joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor.

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• Defining the meaning in relationships

  September 30, 2020
  It’s complicated. That’s what John Sakaluk’s research tell us about relationships. Sakaluk has joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor

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• Catherine Li, undergraduate student in Psychology, among top winners in global competition

  September 22, 2020
  Social Science students named as global winners, regional winners and highly commended in the 2020 Global Undergraduate Awards.

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• Trish Regier named new Manager of Undergraduate Student Services for the Faculty of Social Science

  September 22, 2020
  Regier to lead counselling staff in supporting students through changing times.

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• Yini Liu joins DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies

  September 22, 2020
  Yini Liu has joined the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies as an Assistant Professor. Liu researches non-traditional methods of financing, such as private investment in public equities (PIPEs) and reverse mortgages.

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• Jessica Grahn named to College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

  September 09, 2020
  Jessica Grahn has been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Grahn is a world leader in the area of cognitive neuroscience of music. She investigates why we move to rhythm and how movement and rhythm may be connected in the brain.

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• MRPE has now received final approval from the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance

  September 08, 2020
  New MA in Research for Policy and Evaluation (MRPE) Will Prepare Students for Careers in Government, Not-for-Profit, and Private Sectors

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• Samantha Joel's landmark study on what makes a successful relationship featured on CNN!

  July 29, 2020
  Samantha Joel's (Department of Psychology) landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored what makes relationships successful.

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• Ansari named as CRC in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning

  July 28, 2020
  Ansari, a Professor in the Department of Psychology, will hold the chair in the Faculty of Social Science and the Faculty of Education.

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• Coming soon: The Canadian Communities Policy Observatory

  July 19, 2020
  Western’s Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST) is pleased to announce the Canadian Communities Policy Observatory, a new web-based platform that will make it easier for policy makers, non-profit organizations, academics, journalists, and businesses to access data on Canadian urban centres, neighbourhoods, and regions.

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• City-builder John Fleming joins Western’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance

  June 15, 2020
  Western’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance is excited to welcome nationally recognized urban planner John M. Fleming as a Distinguished Practitioner Research Fellow. Over the next two years, John will build on his significant professional experience to carry out research on local governance, civic engagement, and policy making in the field of city building and design. He will also collaborate with faculty and mentor students.

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• Future Governor of the Bank of Canada

  May 07, 2020
  Tiff Macklem (Western Economics Ph.D. 1989) has been named the new Bank of Canada Governor by Finance, continuing the tradition of Western alumni in leadership roles at the central bank.

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• Pandemic making economic future uncertain

  April 17, 2020
  With reports of six million people applying for Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Economics professor Audra Bowlus estimates the unemployment rate in April could approach 30 per cent. That number surpasses even the highest unemployment rate recorded during the Great Depression.

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• Allies and Obstacles examines how allies may be part of the problem

  April 16, 2020
  A new book, co-authored by Pamela Block, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, examines how allies can be part of the problem in the realm of disability activism. Allies and Obstacles looks at the history of parent activism, comparing approaches of parents in different impairment groups.

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• No universal stress response to COVID-19

  April 14, 2020
  As the world responds to the COVID-19, many people are feeling more stress than they normally would. How deeply this affects them and how they respond to this stress will depend on many factors says Elizabeth Hayden, professor in the Department of Psychology.

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• Pandemic offers pause, not end, to globalization

  April 14, 2020
  Mark Cleveland, Associate Professor in DAN Management, says Covid-19 pandemic is not likely to stop the process of globalization.

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• Erin Heerey named as a Western University Faculty Scholar for 2020

  April 09, 2020
  Heerey, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, has an international reputation for her research determining how people use social cues in decision-making contexts.

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• Julie Schermer named as a Western University Faculty Scholar for 2020.

  April 09, 2020
  Schermer, professor in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, researches personality psychology, specializing in broadening the understanding of individual differences at the observed, genetic and environmental levels.

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• Faculty collects PPE for London Health Sciences

  April 08, 2020
  As health care services respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased need for personal protective equipment. Ed Eastaugh, Lab Manager in the Department of Anthropology saw an opportunity to help with the efforts. Eastaugh put out a call for any extra PPE from labs and offices, and the faculty responded.

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• Yoshida focuses on Creating Dialogues between the Community and the Academic

  April 02, 2020
  Yoko Yoshida is joining the Department of Sociology as an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on immigration and immigrant integration, race and ethnic relations, as well as social inequality. She has also worked on issues of health inequality.

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• Ramos translates Social Science to Help Communities

  April 02, 2020
  Howard Ramos is joining Department of Sociology as professor and Department Chair. A common thread through Ramos’ research is a focus on social justice and translating social science to help communities and facilitate public engagement of pressing issues.

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• Jason Gilliland receives Children’s Health Foundation CHRI Scientist of the Year Award

  March 13, 2020
  Jason Gilliland, professor in the Department of Geography, has received the Children’s Health Foundation CHRI Scientist of the Year Award. The purpose of this award is to recognize the Scientist or Associate Scientist of the CHRI (Children’s Health Research Institute) who has made a significant contribution to the field of children’s health research from 2017-2019.

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• Students, classes team up for climate change action

  February 27, 2020
  Beth Hundey, an eLearning and Curriculum Specialist with the Centre for Teaching and Learning, and Political Science professor Radoslav Dimitrov combined their classes as ‘diplomats’ and ‘scientists’ to confront the challenges of global climate change.

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• Self-policing not working in Canadian sport

  February 25, 2020
  Sport Canada’s new suite of Safe Sport for All policies should be seen as a positive step towards addressing public concerns about harassment, abuse and discrimination in sport. Yet, recent signs suggest the system is failing its victims say Janice Forsyth and Taylor McKee

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• Sexual orientation plays part in pay gap

  February 24, 2020
  A recent study by Western Sociology professor Sean Waite showed that lesbian, gay and bisexual community members continue to find themselves on the lower end of the pay scale compared to their heterosexual men counterparts.

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• Canada cannot dust off gender roles in home

  February 20, 2020
  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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• Divorce data revealing – and still murky

  February 13, 2020
  Sociology professor Rachel Margolis’ research around divorce shows that more Canadian couples are staying married – but garnering such important information has become much harder since Statistics Canada stopped collecting vital statistics on divorce in 2008.

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• DAN Management Distinguished Lecture in Consumer Behavior, “Global Consumer Culture: Evolution and Impact on Business.”

  February 11, 2020
  What it means to be a global brand has changed, and how people see themselves in relation to global brands has also changed, said Atilla Yaprak, Professor of Marketing and International Business, in the Mike Ilitch School of Business at Wayne State University

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• Getting at underlying factors of eating disorders

  February 10, 2020
  Western Psychology professor Lindsay Bodell, director of the the Psychobiology of Eating And Related Disorders lab, is focusing her research on identifying the biological and psychological causes that lead to eating disorder behaviours.

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• New book eyes rethink of transitional justice

  February 05, 2020
  Political Science professor Joanna Quinn has co-edited the recently released Transitional Justice in Comparative Perspective: Preconditions for Success, a book “underpinned by an inherent sense of optimism,” as one reviewer put it, that goes beyond simply identifying obstacles to transitional justice but additionally offers ideas on how those obstacles might be overcome.

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• Mosaic X-rays reveal Peruvian mummy mysteries

  February 04, 2020
  Western researchers, including two undergraduate students, have become pivotal players in developing a mobile X-ray protocol that could transform how mummies are examined in the field. Anthropology professor Andrew Nelson and his team have pioneered a process to digitize and stitch together X-ray images so that they can non-destructively ‘view’ Peruvian mummy bundles in their entirety. The process will enable other anthropologists to conduct valuable work without damaging the objects.

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• Celebrating "Womxn in Leadership"

  February 03, 2020
  “Empowered Womxn Empower Womxn”; this statement served as inspiration for members of the Social Science Students Council as they organized the first ever “Womxn in Leadership” breakfast. The event brought together nearly 100 female-identifying students and faculty in the Faculty of Social Science to celebrate women in leadership roles.

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• Moving the needle on active transportation

  February 03, 2020
  With the support of a $1-million grant, the Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL) will investigate the effectiveness of methods to change people’s attitudes and promote more active and sustainable models of transportation to and from school.

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• Policing partnership puts big data on patrol

  January 16, 2020
  Sociology PhD student Jacek Koziarski is working with Barrie Police Service to provide evidence-based research to help police become more effective in addressing specific crimes in the community. Koziarski is a graduate student of Sociology professor Laura Huey, Director of the Canadian Society of Evidence-Based Policing.

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• Haiti ‘still in crisis’ 10 years after earthquake

  January 13, 2020
  “Everyone I know in Haiti says it’s the worst it’s ever been. The earthquake isn’t even a touchpoint now for them of how bad it’s been,” said Anthropology professor Greg Beckett, author of There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince.

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• Investigating the patterns of language learning

  December 18, 2019
  Funded by a NSERC grant, Laura Batterink will research the neural mechanisms underlying statistical learning, and which mechanisms are engaged at different stages of the language learning process.

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• Andersen reflects on success of shift in Social Science as he moves to new position

  December 18, 2019
  “It is remarkable this worked,” said Andersen, as he looks back at his tenure as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Science. As of January 1, 2020, Andersen ends his term, and will be taking a position as Associate Dean, Faculty Development, at the Ivey Business School.

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• Understanding our changing abilities to learn

  December 16, 2019
  As we age, our ability to learn new things changes. Paul Minda, Professor in the Department of Psychology and a core member of the Brain and Mind Institute, wants to understand the fundamental cognitive mechanisms that underlie these changes.

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• Millman scholarship to honour a legacy of service

  December 03, 2019
  Alumni and faculty in the Department of History coming together to honour the memory of Brock Millman

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• Honouring exemplary contributions to geography

  November 25, 2019
  On Thursday November 21st, Dan Shrubsole, Professor in the Department of Geography, was awarded the prestigious honour of becoming a Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS)

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• Spence Lecture to discuss role of body farms in forensics

  November 11, 2019
  On November 15, Shari Forbes will present the 2019/20 Spence Lecture in the Department of Anthropology, entitled “What happens AFTER death?: Taphonomy of human decomposition and the role of ‘body farms.’”

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• Jerry White earns Atlohsa Peace Award

  November 05, 2019
  Sociology professor emeritus Jerry White was named one of seven individuals to be presented with an Atlohsa Peace Award for their social contributions in the spirit of truth and reconciliation in the areas of media, arts, education and advocacy.

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• Considering the Social Construction of Risks and Hazards

  November 04, 2019
  Not acts of God, but acts of people; not natural disasters, but disasters as they involve intersections of natural systems and human systems. That is how Susan Cutter suggests society should view floods, forest fires and other natural events that destroys homes and buildings, and displace people.

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• DAN Management alumna receives global recognition for research into attitudes toward globalization

  November 04, 2019
  Georgia McCutcheon, a graduate from the DAN Management Consumer Behaviour program was the Regional Winner in the field of Business for North America, for the Global Undergraduate Awards.

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• Social Science staff celebrate their commitment to continued education

  October 22, 2019
  This fall, five staff from the Faculty of Social Science will be among the graduates celebrating their Convocation. The graduands completed degrees while balancing work, family and social commitments, and are examples of hard work and a dedication to education, in diverse fields.

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• Young Adult Cohabitation: Redefining Relationships

  October 17, 2019
  Wendy Manning will deliver the Balakrishnan Distinguished Lecture in Population Dynamics and Inequality at Western University, entitled “Young Adult Cohabitation: Redefining Relationships.”

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• Rebecca Northcott honoured with Western Award of Excellence

  October 11, 2019
  Rebecca Northcott, Undergraduate Program Advisor in the Department of History is a recipient of a 2019 Western Award of Excellence.

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• Angela Lucaci honoured with Western Award of Excellence

  October 11, 2019
  Angela Lucaci, Undergraduate Assistant and Program Advisor in the Department of Geography is a recipient of a 2019 Western Award of Excellence

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• The Lucky Bench

  October 01, 2019
  A Western professor has been honoured with the naming of a bench in Jasper National Park that provides a view of Angel Glacier and Mount Edith Cavell, where he has carried out research for over 50 years.

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• Re-evaluating the innovation impact of public-to-private buyouts

  September 30, 2019
  Conventional wisdom in the business world states that private equity investors risk institutional investor capital to add value to business, and bring innovation in the economy. Douglas Cumming thinks this conventional wisdom should be re-evaluated, particularly in the case of private equity public-to-private buyout transitions where a public company is delisted from a stock exchange.

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• Understanding Abusive Supervision through Attachment Bonds

  September 26, 2019
  Jennifer Robertson has investigated whether the roots of abusive supervision may lie in supervisors’ perceptions of themselves, others and relationships that are developed during infancy.

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• Recognizing a year of incubating new ideas with NEST

  September 24, 2019
  In September 2018, the Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST) launched as a dynamic opportunity to incubate new ideas in social science research and policy. In the year since, NEST has hosted a very successful speaker series, issued calls for graduate and post-doctoral fellowships, developed a new Master’s program, and laid the groundwork for exciting cross-disciplinary research.

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• Economics alumnus named as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada

  September 20, 2019
  Toni Gravelle joins three other Western alumni in leadership positions in country’s central bank.

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• Janice Forsyth named to College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

  September 18, 2019
  Janice Forsyth has been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Her research focuses on the way sports have been used as tools for colonization and how Indigenous people have used those same activities for cultural regeneration and survival.

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• The Politics of Nakedness & the Dilemma of British Morality

  September 16, 2019
  Nakedness is a natural state. We are born naked, many creation stories start with naked humans, and yet, nakedness is treated as obscene and something that must be protected against. Philippa Levine will explore the societal approach to nakedness in the 2019 Joanne Goodman Lectures

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• Health of multiracial children is more than just black and white

  September 16, 2019
  Over the past five decades, North American countries have seen the unprecedented rise in numbers of interracial unions and mixed-race individuals. Kate Choi, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, has investigated how this demographic change will affect racial inequality.

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• Lefty, righty brains count on same area for numbers

  August 29, 2019
  Celia Goffin, a Western PhD student in Developmental Psychology, found the brains of left-handed and right-handed people process numbers in the same way.

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• HEAL recognized for community impact

  August 29, 2019
  The HEAL Lab in Western’s Department of Geography has been named as a finalist for the Pillar Nonprofit Network's Community Innovation Award. The award recognizes people and groups in London and area that invest in positive community impact.

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• First Nations Studies Program officially renamed to Indigenous Studies program

  July 30, 2019
  Change to Indigenous Studies intended to be reflective of a more inclusive understanding of Indigenous issues in Canada and abroad, and reflects the inclusion of all Indigenous people - Inuit, Métis, First Nation, urban, non-status.

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• Social Science faculty receive nearly $4-million in SSHRC funds

  July 22, 2019
  Researchers in the Faculty of Social Science have received nearly $4-million in grant funding from the Social Science Humanities Research Council, from 11 grants.

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• Building partnerships to strengthen Canadian democracy

  July 22, 2019
  Decreasing voter turnout, increased cynicism and threats from outside sources are beginning to undermine the strength of Canadian democracy. A new project, funded by a SSHRC Partnership Grant valued at $2,500,000, aims to take on this challenge.

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• Are happy relationships discovered or built?

  July 22, 2019
  Samantha Joel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology has received a 5-year SSHRC grant, valued at $228,442, to investigate “Are happy romantic relationships discovered or built? The role of early investment regulation in shaping relationship quality.”

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• For Nelson, the mummy is a microcosm of a society

  July 22, 2019
  Andrew Nelson, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, has received a 3-year, $253,435 grant to examine mummy bundles to determine the impact of the takeover on the peoples of the central coast of Peru.

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• Luginaah investigates a traditional response to our modern problems

  July 22, 2019
  Can a traditional farming practice help farmers mitigate the challenges created by climate change? Isaac Luginaah, Professor in the Department of Geography, has received a 4-year, $175,265 SSHRC grant to understand how seed security and social connections may help farmers in Malawi deal with the effects of climate change.

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• Hayden receives SSHRC funding to investigate impact of youth stress

  July 22, 2019
  Stressful life events are a robust predictor of negative mental health outcomes, particularly depression. Elizabeth Hayden, professor in the Department of Psychology, wants to know why some youth develop greater vulnerability to stressors than others.

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• Wolfgang Lehmann on education and the working class

  July 17, 2019
  Wolfgang Lehmann spoke with Maclean's reporter Shannon Proudfoot on how Canadian's view class, and how students from working-class backgrounds carry their class forward through life.

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• Developing organized labour in the game industry

  July 16, 2019
  Precarious employment, long work hours, digitization of labour, these are some of the challenges facing people working in the video game industry. Johanna Weststar has been studying the working conditions in the video game industry for 10 years.

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• Lifelong Learning an exciting adventure for double degree holder

  July 05, 2019
  Greg Lee graduated with a dual degree in Economics and Business Administration, During his time as a student, he served two years in the Korean military.

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• Erin Kaufman joining Department of Psychology

  July 02, 2019
  Kaufman researches the mechanisms underlying borderline personal disorder (BPD), and self-injurious behaviour.

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• Aubrey Dan has been named as a member of the Order of Canada

  June 28, 2019
  Dan, Western alumnus, who donated $10-million in support of the DAN Management program, receives national honour.

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• Building the future of Indigenous hockey

  June 18, 2019
  Janice Forsyth, Director of the First Nations Studies program, and four Western students recently traveled to Whitehorse to conduct research at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships

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• Increased tariffs mean increased risks

  June 18, 2019
  Increased tariffs risk manufacturing jobs, and risk tearing apart the world order that has existed since the Second World War. These are some of the conclusions John Whalley has come to.

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• Award winner's education a long path to new experiences and perspectives

  June 07, 2019
  Anita Rooke’s completed her undergraduate degree as a part-time student. The 12-year journey to her degree was an interesting path that opened her eyes to new experiences and new perspectives.

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• Our obligations to future generations

  June 04, 2019
  Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is joining the Department of Political Science as an Assistant Professor, researching obligations to future generations, and how we make decisions related to these concerns.

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• Understanding firm responses

  June 04, 2019
  Daniel Chaves is joining the Department of Economics as an Assistant Professor, researching industrial organization and applied microeconomics.

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• Focusing on the differences

  June 04, 2019
  Sergio Ocampo-Diaz is joining the Department of Economics as an Assistant Professor, focusing on macroeconomic theory and heterogeneous agent macroeconomics.

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• Vicki Esses named a Fellow of CIFAR program in Boundaries, Membership and Belonging

  May 29, 2019
  The Boundaries, Membership and Belonging group brings together social scientists and political and legal theorists to consider why membership matters in a globalizing world.

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• Ambtman-Smith and Vanloffeld named as Trudeau Foundation Scholars

  May 27, 2019
  Two PhD students in the Department of Geography have been invited to be part of a national leadership and mentorship network.

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• Two decades of visionary leadership

  May 10, 2019
  Celebrating Mel Goodale’s twenty-year tenure as Director of the Brain and Mind Institute

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• Tracey Adams receives John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award.

  May 08, 2019
  Adam’s book Regulating Professions: The Emergence of Professional Self- Regulation in Four Canadian Provinces was named winner by the Canadian Sociological Association.

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• “It’s hitting everyone where they are.”

  May 06, 2019
  Pamela Block will be joining the Department of Anthropology as a Professor, researching the history and experiences of disability activists and scholars, with comparative work in the US and Brazil.

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• A great opportunity to advance the Department of Political Science: Lebo

  May 06, 2019
  Matthew Lebo joining Department of Political Science as Professor and new Department chair.

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• Co-creation increases employee corporate social responsibility for many, but not all, employees

  April 29, 2019
  Engaging consumers and constituents in design efforts can strengthen connections with an organization. New research featuring Western employees as the study sample provides further insight into this relationship.

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• Local history is only a phone call away.

  April 12, 2019
  On April 27th, a new portal for recognizing and celebrating local history will officially launch.

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• Green Awards laud sustainability efforts of Political Science professor

  April 03, 2019
  Radoslav Dimitrov, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science is a recipient of a 2019 Western Green Award.

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• Is technological progress a thing of the past?

  March 26, 2019
  On April 16, Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University, will deliver the Department of Economics Distinguished Lecture. Drawing on the past experience from technological progress in the last 300 years, Mokyr will shed some like on this debate.

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• Laura Stephenson named as Faculty Scholar

  March 19, 2019
  Stephenson has been at the forefront in pushing the field on comparative political behaviour and institutions in new and substantial directions. Her research investigates how individuals behave politically in response to the institutional structures in their lives.

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• Shelley McKellar named as Faculty Scholar

  March 19, 2019
  McKellar is known internationally as one of Canada’s leading experts in the history of medicine and is a specialist in the history of surgery, medical technologies, and the material culture of medicine. She is also a prominent public historian and the co-director of the Medical Artifact Collection at Western University.

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• Godwin Arku named as Faculty Scholar

  March 19, 2019
  Arku has made exceptional contributions to research, public policy, and student training in the area of Urban and Economic Geography, with a focus on three substantive areas of research: housing, urban development, and economic development.

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• David Sherry named as a Western University Distinguished University Professor

  March 19, 2019
  Sherry is widely acknowledged as the international research leader in his field. His research, teaching and service activities have helped shape Western’s global reputation as an internationally leader in the fields of neuroscience as well as avian research, and for being an international destination for students.

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• Preparing firms to face the challenges of the future

  March 08, 2019
  Geoffrey Wood will be the new chair of the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies. Wood will also be the inaugural holder of the Dancap Private Equity Chair in Change and Innovation.

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• Seeing the meaning of visual signals

  March 01, 2019
  Marieke Mur has joined the Department of Psychology. Mur researches how the brain extracts meaning from incoming visual signals.

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• Western Social Science ranked 84 in the QS University Rankings, an increase of 64 spots in five years

  February 28, 2019
  The reputation of Social Science at Western University is once again ranked as one of the top 100 in the world. Social Science at Western is ranked number 84 in the 2019 QS University Rankings, surpassing 64 other institutions since 2015.

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• Porn habits may fuel partner eating disorders

  February 25, 2019
  Psychology professor Rachel Calogero co-authored a study showing that when a woman is aware her partner is sexually objectifying women through porn use, this could prompt negative outcomes – even if women do not report concern about it.

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• Shifting your consumer behaviour

  February 21, 2019
  Katherine White has developed a framework of five factors for changing consumer behaviour. On March 8th, White will be delivering a lecture entitled “SHIFT: A Framework for Changing Sustainable Consumer Behaviours for Good” as part of the DAN Management Distinguished Lecture series.

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• Amanda Michaud has joined the Department of Economics

  February 11, 2019
  Michaud researches labour force participation

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• Juan Carlos Hatchondo joins Department of Economics

  February 11, 2019
  Juan Carlos Hatchondo researches international finance and sovereign debt

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• Meet your new digital colleague

  February 04, 2019
  Siri, Alexa and Cortana. Artificial Intelligence is making its way into our homes and smartphones, and is increasingly finding its place in the workforce. A group of researchers from Western’s Department of Psychology has partnered with an AI start-up company to study how companies can most effectively integrate AI into their operations.

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• Understanding the impact of misinformation

  January 31, 2019
  Mathieu Turgeon has joined the Department of Political Science, as an Associate Professor. His research on political behaviour, studying how citizens form and develop political opinions and process political information.

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• "Looking for life" in Haiti, surrounded by crisis

  January 31, 2019
  “Haiti is dead, there is no more Haiti.” This idea, repeated to Greg Beckett many times while he was in Haiti, is reflective of how Haitians live their lives, while surrounded by crisis.

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• Canada’s first groundhog was a bear

  January 30, 2019
  Alan MacEachern, Professor in the Department of History, has dug deep into Canadian newspapers from the late 1800s to discover how close we actually came to celebrating ‘Bear Day’ on Feb. 2.

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• Populism in the City

  January 21, 2019
  What does the success of Ford Nation say about populism? Zack Taylor has researched the growth of populism in Ontario, and the success of Ford Nation, in two recent publications.

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• Understanding the roots of loneliness

  January 15, 2019
  Julie Aitken Schermer, Professor in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, is concerned with what she sees as a growing level of isolation, especially among her students.

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• Use of parental leave unequal, despite policy objectives

  January 11, 2019
  New research from Western Sociologists shows that while many governments try to encourage more equal sharing of parental leave not everyone has equal ability to access these benefits or chooses to use them, and policy changes often affect some subgroups more than others.

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• DAN Management ‘gave confidence to go forward and not feel restricted in business’

  December 18, 2018
  Keshav Gupta let his passion guide his education, and it has allowed him to find business success well outside his field of study.

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• In Memoriam: Rajulton Fernando

  December 17, 2018
  The Faculty of Social Science mourns the passing of Rajulton Fernando, professor emeritus from the Department of Sociology.

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• Q&A with Marc Joanisse: Understanding Reading Disorders in Children via BrainsCAN Communications

  December 14, 2018
  On October 22, Professor Marc Joanisse from the Department of Psychology at Western spoke at the London Central Library on the topic of reading development and reading disorders in children. His work in this area, supported by BrainsCAN, focuses on language acquisition, language processing, computational models and how language is represented in the brain. In this Q&A, Dr. Joanisse discusses the underlying problems of reading disorders and how they are identified in children.

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• Labour unions benefit all workers, new research shows

  December 13, 2018
  Across the US and Canada, the share of workers belonging to a labour union has dropped dramatically, and this has resulted in significant loss of wages for non-unionized workers, according to new research.

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• Calculating the costs of movie piracy

  December 11, 2018
  Movie piracy may be siphoning less money from the box office than some analysts suggest, a paper by a Western PhD student says.

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• New centre considers the challenges of the modern city

  December 07, 2018
  On November 23, 2018, Western’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance hosted its first official event: a public roundtable on The Intentional City: Shaping London’s Urban Future

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• In Memoriam: Brock Millman

  December 05, 2018
  The Faculty of Social Science mourns the passing of Brock Millman, professor of History.

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• Encouraging smart appetite in youth

  November 21, 2018
  How do you change how youth think about food and health? Jason Gilliland thinks the answer may be in the palm of our hands.

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• Isaac Luginaah named as a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences

  November 20, 2018
  The AAS recognizes individuals who have excelled in their fields of expertise, and who have contributed to developing their fields in Africa.

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• A new network aims to connect and support Indigenous scholars

  November 16, 2018
  Maclean's magazine spoke with Vanessa Ambtman-Smith and Chantelle Richmond about their involvement in the Indigenous Mentorship Network

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• Working paper examines employment, marriage prospects and financial security

  November 05, 2018
  The marriage gap between white and black women in the US is growing, and this may have long-lasting impacts.

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• What does Conservation Look Like in the Anthropocene?

  October 30, 2018
  Does human activity always lead to less bio-diversity? Not necessarily, says Paul Robbins, Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. On November 12, Robbins will present the Western University Department of Geography Distinguished Lecture, entitled “What does Conservation Look Like in the Anthropocene: Coffee, Frogs, and Workers in the Indian Aravalli.”

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• Aubrey Dan receives honorary degree

  October 26, 2018
  Alumni, donor, and now honorary degree holder. On October 26, 2018 Aubrey Dan received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD) from Western University, as part of the Fall 2018 Convocation ceremonies.

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• Public History students have new opportunity to know history

  October 23, 2018
  Through support from a historical services firm, MA students in the Public History will be eligible for the Know History Scholarship, which includes an annual internship of $20,000.

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• The Wide World of Cheating

  October 03, 2018
  “Cheating,” said Richard Pound, “is endemic in almost every area of life.” And Pound has a lot of experience dealing with cheating.

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• Where does the gender revolution stand?

  October 03, 2018
  Relying on US data from the last 50 years, Paula England will investigate what the trends are in the gender gap in pay, women’s employment, and segregation in employment fields.

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• Inter-disciplinary researchers work to decolonize hockey

  October 02, 2018
  Hockey; for many people, hockey is a defining aspect of Canadian culture. But what is being represented by that idea, and who is not represented in the standard vision and idea of Canadian hockey?

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• NEST opens doors to incubate new ideas in social science research and policy

  October 01, 2018
  On September 28, the Faculty of Social Science celebrated the opening of the Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST), the umbrella organization for all six Western Research Centres in the Faculty of Social Science.

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• Bringing wrongful convictions out of the shadows

  September 24, 2018
  Every year, thousands of Canadians are affected by wrongful conviction, blamed and punished for a crime that they did not commit, and in some cases, which did not even happen.

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• Linda Brock honoured with Award of Excellence

  September 18, 2018
  Brock, Director of Administration for the Faculty of Social Science is described by colleagues as the “heart and soul of the dean’s office.”

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• States of Fear: How the Quest for Security has Eroded Democracy

  September 17, 2018
  How does fear impact the health of a democracy? Can the belief in a common good exist and thrive when a population is focused on fear? These are some of the questions to be examined through this year’s Joanne Goodman Lecture series in the Department of History.

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• William Turkel named to College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

  September 12, 2018
  Turkel is internationally recognized for his innovative work in digital history, using machine learning, text mining and computational techniques.

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• Study questions role of lead in Franklin Expedition deaths

  August 28, 2018
  A team of investigators from across Canada, including Andrew Nelson, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, have raised serious doubt about the popular belief that lead poisoning played a role in the death of members of the famed Franklin Expedition.

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• Donald Abelson named as Director, Mulroney Institute of Government at St. Francis Xavier University

  August 23, 2018
  A specialist in Canadian-American relations, U.S. politics and U.S. foreign policy, Abelson has been with Western for the past 25 years, and severed as professor and chair, Department of Political Science, Director of the Centre for American Studies and Director of the Canada-US Institute.

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• Research details education’s role in independence fight

  August 14, 2018
  For nearly 15 years, Anthropology professor Randa Farah has tracked the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara, often living among them for months at a time to better understand their lives and struggle for independence.

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• In Memoriam: Rick Burjaw

  August 10, 2018
  Rick Burjaw, former instructor in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, passed away on August 7, 2018

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• In Memoriam: Roger Hatton King

  August 08, 2018
  Roger Hatton King, Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Department of Geography, passed away in Penicuik, Scotland on August 5th, 2018 at the age of 76.

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• Western economist MacGee joins Bank of Canada

  August 02, 2018
  Western economist Jim MacGee has been appointed the Bank of Canada’s new Managing Director of Economic and Financial Research for a two-year term, beginning Jan. 2, 2019.

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• Research looking for love in all the right data

  July 30, 2018
  Psychology professor Lorne Campbell’s work about human connections comes at a time when loneliness and aloneness, a lack of meaningful relationship with others, is on the rise in Canada.

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• Joint project targets Indigenous water crisis

  July 20, 2018
  Political Science professor Chris Alcantara, together with a team of researchers from Guelph University, recently received grant funding to study collaborative relationships between First Nations and municipalities in Ontario towards the goal of creating water-sharing agreements.

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• New evidence leads to an evolving understanding of human origins

  July 20, 2018
  In human evolution studies, it had long been accepted that modern humans evolved from a single region and population in Africa. Jay Stock, Professor of in the Department of Anthropology is part of a group challenging that idea.

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• Toward a new understanding of Indigenous Health

  July 16, 2018
  “Academics can’t just do research on Indigenous communities; they have to do research with Indigenous communities.” For Chantelle Richmond and Diana Lewis, it is time for Indigenous health research to fundamentally change.

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• In Memoriam – Grant Reuber

  July 10, 2018
  Grant Reuber, former Professor and the first Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at Western University, passed away on July 7, 2018. He was in his 91st year.

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• Value and Pitfalls of Clique Membership in Adolescence

  July 06, 2018
  Psychology professor Lynne Zarbatany has watched hundreds of hours of video of children interacting on playgrounds, giving new insight into bullying and the development of cliques.

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• DAN Management courses plant seeds of success for food delivery business

  July 03, 2018
  Alysaa Co and Divyansh Ojha recently completed their 2nd year in the Consumer Behaviour module of DAN Management, while also launching their business, Food Fund, a food delivery service focused on reducing food waste

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• Sociology professor and student trace the lasting impact of experiences

  June 21, 2018
  Andrea Willson, and her PhD student Loanna Heidinger, study the long-term effects of early life disadvantages and whether improvements through someone’s life would change the impact of the earlier factors

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• A new option to study education options

  June 21, 2018
  Nirav Mehta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, is interested in studying the effectiveness of different approaches to education, but ran into difficulty with the standard approach to studying the topic.

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• Kasey Stanton joining Department of Psychology

  June 21, 2018
  Stanton researches potential negative effects of positive moods, specifically looking at excessive levels of positive moods.

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• Scott Connors joining DAN Management

  June 18, 2018
  Connors researches in the areas of branding, self-identity and implicit cognition, exploring “both the light and dark sides of consumers’ interactions with brands"

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• School tackles ‘big job’ of Indigenous health

  June 13, 2018
  Vanessa Ambtman-Smith, a Western graduate student in Geography, plans to explore an in-hospital medicine lodge on her way to join other scholars at the inaugural Indigenous Mentorship Network Summer School.

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• A warm welcome from the Western community

  June 12, 2018
  Wareeth Hilalih and Wazeera Khaddour and their two children are settling into their new home, thanks to the support of the Western University Community, the culmination in of a two-year process to help bring the Syrian refugee family to Canada.

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• Unique patient offers insights into the brain’s quest to see

  June 11, 2018
  Jody Culham and her team are unlocking new understanding into the plasticity of the human brain, and how visual pathways can adapt even to catastrophic injury.

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• ‘Hear, Here’ dials up history around city

  June 05, 2018
  Hear, Here will collect stories of London’s past and deliver them in bite-size audio clips associated with historical and cultural sites around the city

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• Diana Lewis joining Department of Geography, will teach in First Nations Studies program

  June 05, 2018
  Lewis researches resource development, and the impacts of resource development on the health of Indigenous peoples, using a methodology that combines both Indigenous and western-based sciences

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• Esses paper among most downloaded in 2017

  June 01, 2018
  Journal article on improving public attitudes and facilitating refugee resettlement downloaded more than 6,000 times

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• Building a more flexible model for firm productivity

  May 31, 2018
  It was 11 years in the making, challenged long-held assumptions in the study of economics and has resulted in interest from governments and agencies around the world.

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• Samantha Joel joining the Department of Psychology

  May 31, 2018
  Joel’s research focuses on romantic relationships and the decision making processes in relationships.

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• Outreach event introduces the future to history

  May 17, 2018
  More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday, May 16 to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.

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• Greg Beckett joining Department of Anthropology

  May 17, 2018
  Beckett studies crises, disaster and trauma, from the standpoint of moral experience.

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• Funny bone offers serious insight into personality

  May 15, 2018
  DAN Management professor Julie Aitken Schermer’s research linking psychology and humour has serious implications. “It’s the self-deprecating humour style that I am particularly worried about,” she said.

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• "Without passion, teaching is like a body without a soul," - Shahbaz Sheikh

  May 09, 2018
  Shahbaz Sheikh, Associate Professor of Finance in the DAN Management is the 2018 recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Faculty of Social Science.

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• Laura Batterink joining Department of Psychology

  May 09, 2018
  Batterink’s research focuses on the neural basis of language processing and language acquisition, and implicit learning and implicit memory.

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• Building relational accountability with Indigenous communities

  May 03, 2018
  For Chantelle Richmond, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, it is time for Indigenous health research to fundamentally change. Richmond is the newly named Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health and the Environment.

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• CRC to bring new tools to change social science research

  May 03, 2018
  Dave Armstrong has been named as Canada Research Chair in Political Methodology, with a focus on how to bring new research tools into social science.

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• Lindsay Bell joining the Department of Anthropology

  May 03, 2018
  Bell researches the ethics and culture of mining industries and corporate-community relationships around resource development projects.

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• HEAL helps Huron County understand food needs

  May 01, 2018
  A team led by Geography professor Jason Gilliland and HEAL helped interpret the degree of food insecurity in Huron County, and its reasons.

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• Maya Shatzmiller receives Hellmuth Prize, celebrating elite research

  May 01, 2018
  History professor Maya Shatzmiller, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2003, is the world’s leading economic historian of the pre-modern Middle East.

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• Sociology student receives Vanier Scholarship to help find Allies on Campus

  April 25, 2018
  Leona Bruijns, a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology, wants male varsity athletes to be leaders in preventing sexual violence on campus. Bruijns has been named as recipient of the Vanier Scholarship.

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• Sean Hingston joining DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies

  April 25, 2018
  Hingston researches consumer behaviour, looking at the psychological basis of the aversion to genetically modified foods.

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• Understanding the brain’s hidden superpowers

  April 18, 2018
  Researchers Blake Butler, PhD, and Stephen Lomber, PhD, are looking at the anatomy underlying sensory enhancements to better understand how the deaf brain transforms and reorganizes itself. Their latest study shows changes in the outputs from auditory regions of the brain are dramatically altered following hearing loss.

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• Lindsay Bodell joining Department of Psychology

  April 17, 2018
  Bodell’s research is broadly focused on identifying psychological and biological processes that contribute to the development and maintenance of eating disorders.

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• A Noble gift in support of Public History

  April 11, 2018
  Thanks to a gift from a Western alumna, and a bit of serendipity, students in Western’s Masters in Public History program will have a funded internship opportunity with Canada’s History Society.

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• Patrick Denice joining Department of Sociology

  April 10, 2018
  Denice’s research focuses on how institutions contribute to inequality across the life-course, particularly investigating how education options impact later opportunities for people.

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• Live crowds find their groove together

  April 09, 2018
  Neuroscientist Jessica Grahn, a Western Psychology professor in the Brain and Mind Institute, co-led a study that shows the brain waves of concertgoers synchronize at the event, indicating they enjoy music more when it is live and experienced as part of a group.

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• Social Science Faculty receive more than $400,000 in Insight Development Grants

  April 02, 2018
  Researchers from the Faculty of Social Science have received six Insight Development Grants in the 2017 grant competition, worth more than $400,000.

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• Margolis and Navarro named as 2018 Faculty Scholars

  March 27, 2018
  Congratulations to Rachel Margolis, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Salvador Navarro, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics.

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• Undergraduate Teaching Success

  March 27, 2018
  Social Science Faculty members have been recognized for the innovative and collaborative approach to teaching.

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• Turning the paper into policy

  March 26, 2018
  For students, the policy implications of their research may often seem distant. Awish Aslam, PhD student in the Department of Sociology, was one of three people who was recently recognized for the policy potential of their work.

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• Stephen D. Williamson named 2018 recipient of The Bank of Canada's Fellowship Award

  March 23, 2018
  Stephen D. Williamson, professor in the Department of Economics, has been named a 2018 recipient of The Bank of Canada's Fellowship Award.

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• Michael Dove and Michelle Hamilton receive Award for Excellence in Collaborative Teaching

  March 15, 2018
  Friends for more than two decades, colleagues for one decade, Michelle Hamilton and Mike Dove have been recognized for their commitment to collaboration.

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• Lisa Hodgetts receives 2018 Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching

  March 15, 2018
  Lisa Hodgetts, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology has been recognized for excellence in teaching.

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• Assistance to the Poor in the United States: Growing or Falling?

  March 14, 2018
  Robert Moffitt is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. On Thursday, March 22, Moffitt will present the Western University Department of Economics Distinguished Lecture, entitled “Assistance to the Poor in the United States: Growing or Falling?”

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• Award to help build research team in Autism-focused lab

  March 12, 2018
  Ryan Stevenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Brain & Mind Institute, has received an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario.

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• A little bit of Mars, here on Earth

  March 06, 2018
  Natalie Allen has set her sights on Mars or, at least, a suitable Earth-based stand in. Allen, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western, is taking part in AMADEE-18, a Mars analogue mission organized by the Austrian Space Forum.

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• Attack ads become a double negative

  March 02, 2018
  Western Political Science professor Chris Alcantara said going negative in an election has no effect in winning over voters and, in fact, has a negative effect on the attacker’s own campaign.

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• Political Science alumna embraces new ‘Power’ player role

  February 22, 2018
  Political Science alumna Vassy Kapelos will be taking the helm of the CBC's flagship daily political program, Power & Politics, starting in March.

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• Cross-border love a complex affair

  February 16, 2018
  Kate Choi is researching how international migration alters marriage choices in both origin and destination countries – pioneering ways of studying the consequences of international migration.

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• In Memoriam – Professor Emeritus Ron Wonnacott

  February 01, 2018
  Ron Wonnacott, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics, passed away on Monday, January 29, 2018. He was in his 88th year.

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• CIHR grant supports research of motor learning by observing

  January 31, 2018
  Can you learn by watching? Paul Gribble thinks so. He has received a CIHR grant to research sensory motor neuroplasticity and motor learning by observing.

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• New book gets to the heart of the matter

  January 30, 2018
  The heart is physically and symbolically one of the most important organs in the human body. As such, efforts to repair or replace hearts are celebrated among the highest achievements in modern medicine. Shelley McKellar examined the history of these efforts in two recent works.

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• Prehistoric women more powerful than today’s top female athletes

  January 25, 2018
  Prehistoric women had stronger arms than even today’s top female athletes, according to the first study to compare their relative bone strength, conducted by Jay Stock and colleagues.

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• Research project is a sound collaboration

  January 25, 2018
  A new collaboration is bringing together researchers from across Western, with the goal of changing how people hear the world around them.

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• Sabin examines the role of religion in Canadian politics

  January 24, 2018
  Does religion play a role in Canadian politics? For many, this question may seem out of place in Canadian political discourse. But Jerald Sabin, along with his colleagues found that religion does have an impact on Canadian politics.

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• Helping the EU tell its climate story

  January 23, 2018
  Radoslav Dimitrov, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, is playing an important role in reworking how the European Union is communicating its climate policies.

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• Geography student provides Indigenous leadership on police board

  January 18, 2018
  Vanessa Ambtman-Smith knows the grim statistics: Indigenous women are more likely to be victims of violence than any other group in Canada. This is something she hopes to address as the first Indigenous person to sit on London’s Police Services Board.

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• Richmond to lead Ontario hub for community-based Indigenous health training

  January 12, 2018
  Western University has become the hub of a provincial network of Indigenous health training that is both culturally relevant and scientifically rigorous.

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• Canada’s unemployment rate reached its lowest point in over 40 years

  January 08, 2018
  Audra Bowlus, Chair of the Department of Economics, spoke with Global News, providing a province-by-province breakdown of Canada’s record-low unemployment rates.

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• Understanding numbers, around the world

  January 02, 2018
  A new fellowship award will help give Daniel Ansari’s research a global scope. Ansari has been awarded a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, valued at 400,000 Swiss Franc.

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• Department of Geography named Esri Canada Centre of Higher Education Excellence

  December 15, 2017
  The Department of Geography recently signed on to become the 11th Esri Canada Centre of Higher Education Excellence (ECCE).

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• DAN Management study-abroad opportunity “a new model for Western”

  December 15, 2017
  For seventeen students in the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, the Winter 2018 term will be an experience unlike any other.

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• A strategic partnership to consider the future of manufacturing

  December 15, 2017
  The Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing, a new provincially-funded organization, has set-up shop in the Social Science Centre, with the goal that the collaboration goes beyond just being neighbours.

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• DAN Management receives transformative $5-million gift

  December 11, 2017
  The Faculty of Social Science has received a $5-million gift from Aubrey Dan, funds that will help re-shape and expand the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies.

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• Understanding our place in the world, through community engagement

  December 06, 2017
  Anthropology students partnered with the South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre to get first-hand experience working with refugees, through a new community engagement initiative.

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• David Calnitsky joins the Department of Sociology

  November 27, 2017
  David Calnitsky will join the Department of Sociology in January 2018. His recent research focuses of the “Mincome” experiment conducted in Dauphin, Manitoba in the 1970s.

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• Joanna Quinn selected President-Elect of College of New Scholars

  November 22, 2017
  Western University Political Science professor's two-year term as President of The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada will begin in November 2018.

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• Gender and the gym

  November 21, 2017
  Are there typically masculine or feminine activities in a gym? Is weight-training only for men? And cardio only for women? Or is it more complex? Stephanie Coen, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Geography, examined how activities and spaces within gyms become gendered.

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• Walk a mile in my klompen

  November 07, 2017
  They are an iconic item, a distinctly Dutch shoe, but wearing wooden clogs, or ‘klompen’ may have also resulted in a distinct pattern of damage to Dutch farmers.

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• Recreating the 16th-century, with 21st-century technology

  November 03, 2017
  While prospective students are visiting Western University on Fall Preview Day, they will also have the opportunity to transport themselves to a 16th-century longhouse, through the use of 21st-century technology.

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• Labatt virtual exhibit highlights work of public history students

  October 24, 2017
  Students in the Department of History played a major role in a new project highlighting the 170-year history of one of London’s biggest companies.

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• Aging population leading to divergent health and social outcomes, Margolis finds

  October 20, 2017
  Across Canada and the United States, people are living longer, and their social networks and activities have a major impact on their quality of life.

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• Honouring excellence within the Faculty of Social Science

  October 17, 2017
  Two of our staff members, Debra Merrifield and Lori Johnson, were recognized by the University, with the 2017 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.

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• Occupational and Income Mobility in the USA, 1994-2016: Demography Counters Inequality

  October 03, 2017
  On November 2, Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology at New York University, will discuss the changes in social mobility, as part of the Balakrishnan Distinguished Lecture in Population Dynamics and Inequality at Western University.

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• Study unlocks why public appeals may fall flat with some would-be donors

  September 28, 2017
  Bonnie Simpson, Professor in DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, was lead author into study of why some people are — and aren’t — motivated by public appeals

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• Faculty of Social Science awarded more than $3-million in NSERC and SSHRC grants

  September 22, 2017
  The Faculty of Social Science has been awarded eight SSHRC Insight grants totaling more than $1.4 million, and six NSERC Discovery grants, totaling more than $1.6 million.

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• Understanding how the brain makes sense of it all

  September 22, 2017
  Ryan Stevenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, received both a NSERC grant and a SSHRC Insight grant to investigate questions related to sensory integration.

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• Goodman Lectures to examine popular history and national consciousness

  September 18, 2017
  As Canada celebrates it sesquicentennial, the Department of History is hosting a lecture series focused on how people understand and interact with Canadian history.

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• Politics, Philosophy, and Economics coming to Western University

  September 14, 2017
  The Department of Economics is collaborating with Political Science and Philosophy to offer a new limited enrolment program, one with roots at Oxford University.

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• Laura Huey named among emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada.

  September 13, 2017
  Huey, Professor in the Department of Sociology, has been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

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• Celebrating 100 years of considering the past

  September 13, 2017
  2017 marks Canada’s 150th anniversary. It also marks a Century of History at Western.

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• Bruno Salcedo joins the Department of Economics

  August 17, 2017
  Salcedo joins as an Affiliated Researcher, and will be named an Assistant Professor in January 2018, researching econometrics, industrial/organizational economics, and game theory.

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• Roy Allen joins Department of Economics

  August 17, 2017
  Allen recently completed his PhD at the University of California, San Diego, with a specialization in Econometrics.

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• In Memoriam – Professor Emeritus Bob Young

  August 17, 2017
  It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing away of Dr. Bob Young. Young developed a reputation for being an excellent teacher and an authority on a broad number of aspects of political science.

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• Western Social Science moves up 57 spots on QS World Rankings to 91

  July 27, 2017
  The reputation of Social Science at Western University is on an upward move. According to the 2017 QS University Rankings, it is now ranked 91 in the world, and is number four in Canada.

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• Janice Forsyth named Director of the First Nations Studies program

  July 24, 2017
  Forsyth researches the history of Indigenous physical culture, and how it can be used to understand the history of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Her current research is a SSHRC-funded project on physical culture in the Indian Residential School system.

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• World’s largest sleep study launches from Western’s Brain and Mind Institute via Western Media Relations

  July 10, 2017
  Renowned Western University neuroscientist Adrian Owen has launched the world’s largest sleep-and-cognition study to help researchers learn the effects on our brains of sleep and sleep deprivation.

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• Study suggests why seniors are less able to filter ‘cocktail-party’ noise

  July 10, 2017
  Older people have difficulty attuning themselves to conversation in a noisy room because their brains have a tougher time tracking speech rhythms and patterns, suggests a new study led by a Western University researcher.

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• Alex Benson is joining the Department of Psychology at Western University as Assistant Professor.

  July 03, 2017
  Benson’s research focuses on group dynamics, including how groups shape the experiences of individuals, and how individuals can shape group processes.

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• Undergraduate Geography provides unique research opportunities

  July 03, 2017
  Coming to Western as a Geography student, Destiny Allen-Green let her academic curiosity guide her.

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• Moving research to action to improve health of children

  June 23, 2017
  The Children's Health and the Environment Workshop & Symposium is bringing together researchers and policy makers from across North America to help move "research to action."

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• Grahn and Lomber named Fellows of the APS

  June 23, 2017
  Jessica Grahn and Stephen Lomber, Professors in the Department of Psychology at Western University, have been named Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science.

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• Dean Robert Andersen awarded Outstanding Contribution Award by the Canadian Sociological Association

  June 22, 2017
  Robert Andersen, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, Statistics and Actuarial Science recognized for outstanding scholarly contributions.

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• DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies renamed in honour of Aubrey Dan

  June 22, 2017
  The Department of Management and Organizational Studies in Western University’s Faculty of Social Science is now officially known as the DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies.

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• A time of celebration for Jason and Lori George

  June 15, 2017
  For Jason George and Lori Kim George, graduating with their Honors Specialization in First Nations Studies is not only a personal success, but is part of their mission to be examples to their family and their communities.

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• Alcantara wins American Political Science Association book award

  June 15, 2017
  Negotiating the Deal by Christopher Alcantara, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the American Political Science Association's S.M. Lipset Best Book Award for 2017.

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• Economist, academic and entrepreneur, David Greenaway, presented with honorary degree

  June 15, 2017
  In recognition of his accomplished career as an economist, academic and entrepreneur, David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, received an honorary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), at the Tuesday morning session of Western’s 309th Convocation. During the ceremony, he spoke to graduates from the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and the Faculty of Social Science.

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• "There is no weight in carrying a language around"

  June 07, 2017
  For more than 25 years, David Kanatawakhon has worked to increase knowledge of the Mohawk language, teaching courses at Western University and Brock University.

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• Building gender equality in post-conflict Liberia

  June 05, 2017
  Erica Lawson, Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research has received a SSHRC grant to research Peace Huts, Gender Equality, and Women’s Post-Conflict Aspirations in Liberia.

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• Digital project to bring cultural artifacts back to Inuvialuit

  June 05, 2017
  Lisa Hodgetts, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, has received a SSHRC grant to support Co-creating Inuvialuit Digital Archaeology and Heritage.

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• Jeff Hopkins receives CAG Award for Excellence in Teaching Geography

  June 05, 2017
  The Canadian Association of Geographer’s has recognized Associate Professor Jeff Hopkins for his contribution to teaching in the field of Geography.

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• Gordon McBean honoured for work in meteorology and climatology

  May 23, 2017
  McBean, professor emeritus with the Department of Geography, has received the sixty-second IMO Prize from the World Meteorological Organization.

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• Money Man: Stephen Williamson is the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking

  May 16, 2017
  The Faculty of Social Science and the Department of Economics at Western University are proud to welcome Stephen Williamson as the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking. Williamson is an expert in monetary policy, and most recently held the position of Vice President in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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• Lisa Hodgetts is the 2017 recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

  May 15, 2017
  Lisa Hodgetts, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, incorporates innovative experiential learning into her courses, including working to bring ‘the field’ into the classroom.

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• Data can aid ‘broken’ child-protection system

  May 15, 2017
  Political Science PhD student Jane Kovarikova’s recent report urges Ontario to take a deeper look at how at it cares for Crown Wards and the resulting outcome of youth who age-out of the system.

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• Chris Ellis recognized for outstanding contribution to archaeology

  May 15, 2017
  Chris Ellis’ career in archaeology could be defined by his meticulous detail and attention paid to the many Ontario sites he has worked on over the past 40 years. Ellis, a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, was awarded the Smith-Wintemberg Award for his contribution to the field of archaeology.

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• After tough times, pre-teens’ brains are wired for rewards

  May 04, 2017
  Adversity leads pre-teens to be more impulsive by making their brains more sensitive to rewards, a new Western University study by J. Bruce Morton and Niki H. Kamkar has found.

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• Sean Waite joins the Department of Sociology

  May 04, 2017
  Sean Waite is joining the Department of Sociology at Western University as Assistant Professor. Waite’s research focuses on labour market stratification and wage inequality, with a particular focus on gender and sexual orientation.

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• Learning about leaders with the Mayors Project

  April 20, 2017
  Kate Graham, a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and an employee with the City of London, toured Canada to study the role of mayors, and better understand the role in Canada’s unique context.

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• Study shows link between food insecurity and poor mental health

  April 11, 2017
  In a recent research study published in the journal of Social Science & Medicine, Health Geography PhD candidate Kilian Atuoye, highlights elevated mental distress in heads of households where food insecurity is moderate to high.

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• Western History welcomes high school students with History: It's About Time!

  April 07, 2017
  On May 17, the History Department will welcome high school students from across the London area to expand their idea of what it means to study history, showcasing history as an interactive and engaging field of study.

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• Recognizing 40 years of engaged education

  April 06, 2017
  For more than 40 years, Anton Allahar has tried to challenge others. The professor of Sociology at Western University has challenged his students to think outside their comfort zone, and be engaged.

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• Language Training and Immigrants' Success in Canada

  April 05, 2017
  How does language training impact the success rate of immigrants? George Orlov, a PhD student in Economics, investigated this question and is presenting his findings as part of the university-wide Three Minute Thesis competition.

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• The Sting of Rejection: Why Depressed Individuals Suffer More

  April 05, 2017
  Katerina Rnic, a PhD student in Clinical Psychology, is researching how depression-prone people respond to social rejection. Rnic is presenting her findings as part of the university-wide Three Minute Thesis competition.

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• Why we should all be tweeting about birds

  April 05, 2017
  Pavlina Faltynek is a graduate student in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, researching the responsiveness and resiliency of birds in response to social stressors. She is presenting her findings as part of the university-wide Three Minute Thesis competition.

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• Three Social Science professors named as Faculty Scholars

  March 29, 2017
  Three Professors in the Faculty of Social Science have been named as 2017 Faculty Scholars: Mark Cleveland, Associate Professor in Management and Organizational Studies, Laura Huey, Associate Professor in Sociology, and Robert MacDougall, Associate Professor in History.

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• Anthropology professors recognized for efforts in collaboration

  March 23, 2017
  Andrew Walsh and Ian Colquhoun, Associate Professor in Anthropology, have offered a unique exchange and learning opportunity for students. Their efforts were recently recognized with the inaugural Vice-Provost (Academic Programs) Award for Excellence in Collaborative Teaching.

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• Revealing the Six Secrets of Social Behavior

  March 21, 2017
  Erin Heerey, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology studies face-to-face behavior and interactions. Heerey will be speaking at the London Public Library as part of The Science of Being Human 2017 Lecture Series.

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• Bringing Big Data to Political Science

  March 20, 2017
  Dave Armstrong has joined the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on methodology, statistics, and quantitative analysis in political science.

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• "If I don’t find it interesting, I don’t know how students will find it interesting"

  March 16, 2017
  Political Science professor Dan Bousfield is the 2017 recipient of the Marilyn Robinson Award for Excellence in Teaching at Western.

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• Postdoc fellow tuning in to rhythmic patterns in brain, music

  March 09, 2017
  Western postdoctoral fellow Molly Henry,part of Jessica Grahn’s Music and Neuroscience Lab at the Brain and Mind Institute, was recognized with the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award.

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• Western University study says wind energy plans should generate more equitable benefits to neighbours

  March 02, 2017
  The more a community is involved in wind energy planning – including getting direct benefits from nearby turbines – the more likely it is that a development will have local support, says newly published research from Western University.

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• Study: Narcissism and desire to belong leading to deception on social media

  March 02, 2017
  High levels of narcissism and a weaker sense of peer belonging is leading millions of young adults to take part in deceptive like-seeking avenues on Instagram, a recent Western study revealed.

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• "When people learn their language, they have a better sense of identity"

  February 22, 2017
  For Frazer Sundown, learning the Oneida language and performing traditional powwow music has helped define his identity – and his plans for the future.

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• Western University Anthropology professor and forensic sculptor work to reject Scottish King Robert’s leprosy label

  February 16, 2017
  A Western University bio-archaeologist and a Western-trained forensic sculptor have laid to rest a pernicious 700-year-old rumour: Scottish warrior-king Robert the Bruce did not have leprosy.

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• Economics Professor leaves lasting legacy

  February 15, 2017
  Former Western University Economics Professor John Knight, who passed away in January 2016, invested $5.25 million in London Health Sciences Centre’s research with a gift from his estate

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• New Anthropology hires add to bioarchaeology strength

  February 13, 2017
  Andrea Waters-Rist will join as an Associate Professor. Jay Stock will initially join as an Adjunct Research Professor

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• Bank of Canada presents inflation update at Western University

  February 09, 2017
  Speaking at Western like “speaking on home turf” said Lawrence Schembri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada

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• Public History students contribute to unique Canada 150 project

  February 08, 2017
  Students from Western’s MA Public History Program have contributed to A Driving Force: Women of the London, Ontario, Visual Arts Community 1867-2017, a unique Canada 150 project

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• Shauna Sexsmith changed the 
world by changing herself via Alumni Gazette

  February 07, 2017
  Shauna Sexsmith, BA’08 (Philosophy and Political Science), heads International Project Development for the World Education Foundation.

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• History alumna Palvetzian has her finger on the pulse of the GTA via Alumni Gazette

  February 07, 2017
  Sevaun Palvetzian, earned her BA and MA in History, and is now CEO of CivicAction working to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

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• Alumnus’ musical set for Broadway stage via Western News

  February 07, 2017
  Political Science alumnus Michael Rubinoff is heading the Broadway production of "Come From Away"

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• Book by Geography professor named as Outstanding Academic Title

  January 20, 2017
  The International Atlas of Mars Exploration Volume 2, by Phil Stooke has been included on the Association of College & Research Libraries annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles.

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• Student organized conference to help "Find Your Way"

  January 20, 2017
  Billed as “a lecture series on the psychology of everyday life,” graduate students in Clinical Psychology will deliver 12 lectures over four days at the Central Library, as part of “Finding Your Way.”

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• New Reading Room a Signature Space for Social Science Students

  January 13, 2017
  The Faculty of Social Science and the Social Science Students’ Council have come together to provide students in the Social Science Centre with a new, quiet modern space to study and collaborate.

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• Rachel Calogero joins Department of Psychology

  January 12, 2017
  Rachel Calogero has joined the Western University Department of Psychology as an Associate Professor. Calogero researches the objectification of women and other relevant gender-related issues.

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• Anna Zajacova joins Department of Sociology

  January 12, 2017
  Anna Zajacova has joined the Department of Sociology at Western University as Associate Professor. Her primary research area is social determinants of health; she focuses on education and health among adults in the United States.

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• Jamie Voogt new Chair of Department of Geography

  January 10, 2017
  Many incoming undergraduate students are not familiar with Geography, and this represents a challenge for Western University’s Department of Geography, as well as a chance for renewal and rebranding, said incoming Department Chair, Jamie Voogt.

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• Margolis receives €160,000 grant to look at impact of aging populations

  December 21, 2016
  Rachel Margolis, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western University, is part of a team of researchers from five countries studying “Care, Retirement and Wellbeing of Older People across Different Welfare Regimes.”

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• Intensive new MOS program gives graduates leg up

  December 19, 2016
  Following a successful first year, the Graduate Diploma in Accounting, offered by the Department of Management and Organizational Studies, is aiming to double enrollment.

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• Western professor wants you to share your WorkStory

  December 18, 2016
  WorkStory is a website where young workers tell the story of their career and their path in the professional world.

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• Perverse pricing, variable voting and criminal conspiracies

  December 18, 2016
  Al Slivinski, Professor in the Department of Economics, will explore these themes in a mini-lecture delivered during Fall Preview Day.

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• When is a name more than just a name?

  December 08, 2016
  Karen Pennesi, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, is researching how names impact our understanding of ourselves and others.

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• History Professor helps tell the story of Dr. Oronhyatekha

  December 05, 2016
  Michelle Hamilton, Associate Professor in the Department of History, worked with First Nations researcher, writer and educator Keith Jamieson to publish Dr. Oronhyatekha: Security, Justice and Equality.

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• Segregation and the Perpetuation of Poverty

  December 02, 2016
  Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, spoke about segregation and the impact is has on poverty, health and economic well being of people and communities

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• Examining the impact of student loans on student success

  December 02, 2016
  Lance Lochner, Professor in the Department of Economics, has been named as the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Human Capital and Inequality.

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• Filling a gap in bird research

  November 28, 2016
  It looks like an old-fashion television antenna, but a new device installed on the roof of the Social Science Centre will fill a gap in a continent-wide network used to track bird behavior and movement.

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• Social Science students step up to solve the world’s challenges

  November 27, 2016
  Robert Celik, a student in the Department of Geography, was a member of the first place team, along with Linta Mustafa and Anisha Khanna, students in the Faculty of Health Sciences. The team looked at addressing the sustainability of contemporary agricultural food systems.

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• Creating a signature space for Social Science students

  November 17, 2016
  A new space, the Social Science Student Reading Room, will open in January, providing the faculty’s large student population a modern, dedicated and quiet space to call their own.

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• Dyczok investigates media, memory and disinformation

  November 14, 2016
  Marta Dyczok, an Associate Professor cross-appointed in History and Political Science, is concerned with how people get their information and how this contributes to the development of memories.

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• Mummies, money and medieval beads: high tech scanning in archaeology

  November 09, 2016
  Andrew Nelson, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, will explore these themes in a mini-lecture delivered during Fall Preview Day.

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• True Histories: Zombies, Vampires and the End of Days

  November 09, 2016
  Jonathan Vance, Professor in the Department of History, will explore these themes in a mini-lecture delivered during Fall Preview Day.

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• Anthropology students combines creative arts and studies to inspire

  November 08, 2016
  Aaron Bengall is an entrepreneur, an artist, an author and is dedicated to educating and uniting Type I diabetes communities in London. He does all this while also completing a Master’s degree in Anthropology.

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• Chantelle Richmond featured in Maclean's Magazine

  November 03, 2016
  Professor in the Department of Geography featured in Maclean's Magazine for her research in the field of health geography, in particular the connection with Indigenous peoples.

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• Department of Economics recognizes 50th anniversary

  November 02, 2016
  On October 28, and 29, the Department of Economics recognized its 50th Anniversary with a conference and speaker series featuring alumni and former faculty.

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• Western University approves Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance

  October 25, 2016
  The Centre will bring together faculty and researchers who conduct local and urban research with a focus on policy implications.

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• Donation from Professor Emeritus creates Sociology speaker series

  October 24, 2016
  A generous donation provided by Professor Emeritus T.R. Balakrishnan and Lois F. Leatham will establish a speaker series bringing in well-known researchers in Sociology.

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• The men who made the ‘Golden Era’; Western to honour David Laidler and Michael Parkin

  October 24, 2016
  For the Department of Economics, the 1980s has been called the “Golden Era”. On Friday, October 28 two of the faculty members who played a prominent role in creating that era, David Laidler and Michael Parkin, will receive honorary degrees, as part of Western University’s 308th Convocation.

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• Internship a great learning and working experience for 4th year Urban Development student

  October 23, 2016
  Dianne Ramos is a 4th-year student in the Urban Development program. She completed an internship with Jones Lang LaSalle, a leading financial and professional services firm specializing in commercial real estate services and investment management.

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• Economics student inspired to impact world through One Young World Summit

  October 23, 2016
  Michelle Ampadu is a fourth-year student in the Honors Economics program. Committed to making the world a better place, Ampadu attended the One Young World Summit in Ottawa

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• Goodale's findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences via Media Relations

  October 19, 2016
  An international team of neuroscientists has shown that a person’s ability to see fine visual detail can be sharpened by simply staring for a few seconds at a rapidly flickering display.

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• Melaine Stone receives a 2016 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship via Western News

  October 17, 2016
  PhD candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research recently named among 166 recipients of the 2016 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

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• Ryan Stevenson joins Department of Psychology

  October 12, 2016
  Stevenson’s research is in developmental psychology with a focus on how the brain combines sensory information from multiple senses to perceive it as one unified signal. He applies this specifically to people with different developmental delays, in particular children with autism.

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• The first issue of the Social Newsletter is out via The Faculty of Social Science

  October 10, 2016
  The Social is the new newsletter for the Faculty of Social Science. Our goal is to keep you up to date on some of the biggest developments in the Faculty of Social Science. We plan to produce two issues a year, one in the fall and one in the winter.

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• Officer-turned-researcher explores police culture via

  October 06, 2016
  It’s not enough to diversify police forces, stresses Lesley Bikos, a Sociology PhD student at Western. The culture within the forces themselves must change if working conditions are to improve for officers – particularly for women and visible minority officers.

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• Economics Professor Emeritus receives Order of Canada for contribution to free trade debate

  October 04, 2016
  Ron Wonnacott was just a professor in a small economics department, but his research would trigger a debate that would change the Canadian economy.

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• Craig Boydell named to the Alumni Sports Hall of Fame in the “Builder” category

  October 03, 2016
  During his 40 year career at Western Craig Boydell has been a leader in the classroom and on the basketball court, developing courses and programs in Social Science, and as a Varsity basketball coach

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• Drought study sounds another ‘wake-up call’ via Western News

  September 28, 2016
  An unprecedented exploration of historical climate data strongly indicates increasing levels of greenhouse gases have the potential to lock California into drought conditions for centuries to come, according to research by Katrina Moser and partners.

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• Social Science Undergraduates well represented in University Affairs awards

  September 22, 2016
  Western Social Science was well represented in the 2016 Undergraduate Awards, with three papers recognized as regional winners.

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• Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan speaks at Faculty of Social Science

  September 15, 2016
  The Faculty of Social Science welcomed the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science to announce the reinstatement of the Full-time University and College Academic Staff System (FT-UCASS) survey.

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• Abelson shines a light on Canadian Think Tanks

  September 14, 2016
  Why do ideas developed by think tanks gain more traction than those that come from universities? That is one of the questions that Don Abelson, considers in his new book, Northern Lights: Exploring Canada’s Think Tank Landscape

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• 2015 Faculty of Social Science Research Highlight Report via The Faculty of Social Science

  September 07, 2016
  The Faculty of Social Science has released the 2015 Research Highlight Report, reflecting the wide-ranging research achievements of the Faculty.

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• Sandra Kagango, winner of National Bank Women in Financial Markets Scholarship

  September 06, 2016
  Sandra Kagango is an incoming student in Western University’s Master of Financial Economics (MFE) program. She was recently selected for the prestigious National Bank Women in Financial Markets Scholarship.

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• Craig Logan, winner of The Montreal Exchange Canadian Derivatives Exchange Scholarship

  September 06, 2016
  Craig Logan is a student in the Master of Financial Economics (MFE) program, with plans to graduate in December 2016. He received The Montreal Exchange Canadian Derivatives Exchange Scholarship. The scholarship is a $10,000 research grant for a master’s student pursing research on derivatives.

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• Strength in numbers – Department of Sociology celebrates 50 years as leader in demography

  September 05, 2016
  The Department of Sociology at Western developed around demography and quantitative analysis, a strength it carries to this day. During the 2016/17 academic year, the Department of Sociology is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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• A tradition of excellence, a future of success – Western Economics celebrates its 50th anniversary

  September 05, 2016
  The Department of Economics is celebrating its 50th anniversary during the 2016/17 academic year. During those 50 years, the Department has had a strong international reputation of academic excellence, a path it continues on to this day.

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• Reuber planted the seeds of success for Economics and Sociology

  September 05, 2016
  The Departments of Economics and Sociology are each celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. The separate development of these departments owe much to the focus and work of Grant Reuber.

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• Donation from the estate of Professor Ken Hilborn creates awards for history students

  September 01, 2016
  Professor Kenneth Hilborn bequeathed an estate gift of $1,000,000 to Western University, of which $750,000 was directed to the Department of History to establish awards for undergraduate and graduate students.

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• Department of Psychology strengthens Social Psychology focus

  August 29, 2016
  The Department of Psychology at Western University is bringing together professors to strengthen the areas of psychology focused on human social behaviour.

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• MOS announces new research clusters

  August 29, 2016
  The Department of Management and Organizational Studies has organized its faculty into two new research clusters to build on their award winning research and provide guidance for further growth.

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• Helping refugees find the information they need

  August 25, 2016
  Victoria Esses, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western University, and three co-investigators have received a SSHRC-Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) grant to research refugee information needs and how refugees receive and use information.

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• Understanding the toll of war on children

  August 24, 2016
  Mazel El-Baba is bringing together his passion for social justice, and his study of neuroscience, to better both and better his community.

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• Western doctoral student makes mummified mice to better understand ancient diseases

  August 18, 2016
  Jennifer Willoughby, a doctoral student in bioarchaeology at Western University studies cancer in mummified remains. To help her better identify what a mummified tumor looks like, Willoughby created her own mummies.

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• Community partnership works to revitalize an endangered language

  August 11, 2016
  Students in the Anthropology course, Language Revitalization in Practice, partnered with the Oneida Language and Cultural Centre to support the Centre’s work in encouraging use of the Oneida language.

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• Pier 21 partnership puts Public History program on the national stage

  July 25, 2016
  Through the 2015-2016 academic year, students from the MA in Public History program worked with the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 to tell stories of US immigration to Canada.

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• Visiting students help improve cross-cultural understanding

  July 25, 2016
  What is the value of cultural exchange? That was one of the questions addressed by a group of Anthropology students, working with visiting students from the University of Antsiranana in Madagascar.

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• MOS Professor won the 2016 Hans B. Thorelli award for research on marketing

  July 07, 2016
  Mark Cleveland won the Hans B. Thorelli award for research on marketing in globalized societies, looking at what factors - ethnic, demographic or psychographic - affect the way people make decisions.

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• Asteroid named after Western's first Geography professor, Edward Pleva

  June 30, 2016
  The International Astronomical Union accepted a submission by Robert and Peter Jedicke to rename asteroid number 21367 Edwardpleva, in honour of the long-serving Western University professor.

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• Anders Holm joins Department of Sociology

  June 29, 2016
  Anders Holm has joined Western's Department of Sociology, specializing in quantitative methodology, and contributing to the methodological development of quantitative sociology.

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• Study uses GPS to determine how exposure to junk food outlets influences youth

  June 28, 2016
  Jason Gilliand, professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL), used GPS technology to determine when children passed near a junk food outlet, and whether they made a buy, or had food purchased for them.

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• Social Science mourns the passing of Allan Urho Paivio

  June 24, 2016
  The Faculty of Social Science mourns the passing of Allan Urho Paivio, emeritus professor of psychology.

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• Faculty of Social Science thanks friend and supporter Cecilia Yau

  June 23, 2016
  Cecilia Yau has been an ongoing supporter of the Faculty, and in particular, the Department of Geography.

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• MOS professors receive Emerald Citations of Excellence

  June 17, 2016
  Jennifer Robertson and Bonnie Simpson, professors in the Department of Management and Organizational Studies received Emerald Citations of Excellence for 2016.

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• Michael Haan discusses economic and social situation facing Millennials

  May 30, 2016
  Michael Haan, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Canada Research Chair in Migration and Ethnic Relations was part of a panel on The Agenda on TVO, "Measuring Generation Millennial."

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• $2-million gift puts Western at the forefront of Central Banking Teaching and Research

  May 30, 2016
  The Faculty of Social Science has received a $2-million donation to establish the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking in the Department of Economics.

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• Archaeology field school teaches students the art of not digging

  May 26, 2016
  You could call it a non-field school. This spring, students in Anthropology 3396A - Site Management and Service are taking a different approach to standard archaeology, learning how not to dig up a site.

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• Kevin Lynch, former top public servant, receives honorary doctorate

  May 25, 2016
  Kevin Lynch, a Canadian economist, served as Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada’s most senior civil servant, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He can now add Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD) to his list of accomplishments, as he received an honorary doctorate as part of the 307th Western University Convocation ceremony.

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• World-renowned political scientist Janice Stein presented with honorary doctorate

  May 25, 2016
  Janice Stein, a world-renowned political scientist and international relations expert, is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and was the founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto received an honorary doctorate from the Western University as part of the Social Science convocation in June 2016.

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• Internationally renowned Social Science alumni receives honorary doctorate

  May 25, 2016
  Yue-Man Yeung completed his MA at Western University in 1966. He continued his studies and received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1972. Yeung was recently recognized for his achievements, with an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, at Western University's Hong Kong convocation ceremony.

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• Robert MacDougall wins international award for latest book

  May 25, 2016
  Professor Robert MacDougall received the 2016 Albert B. Corey Prize for his latest book The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age.

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• Western Professor Jason Gilliland Speaks at Parliament Hill

  May 19, 2016
  Western Geography Professor and Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL) Director Jason Gilliland was at Parliament Hill speaking on "Pediatric Research and Child Health in Canada".

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• Student art projects on display at Museum of Ontario Archaeology

  April 22, 2016
  Students in their first year of the First Nations Studies program at Western are showcasing what they learned, with an art display at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology.

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• Western University’s Sustainable Archeology project contributes to AGO exhibit

  April 22, 2016
  A member of the Faculty of Social Science has contributed to an international investigation into the construction of miniature art, led by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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• Alcantara wins Petro-Canada Young Innovator Western award to study political myths and assumptions in Canada

  April 21, 2016
  Christopher Alcantara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He recently received the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Western award.

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• Faculty of Social Science awarded more than 15 SSHRC & NSERC grants.

  April 15, 2016
  The Faculty of Social Science has been awarded nine SSHRC Insight grants totaling more than $1.6 million and eight NSERC Discovery grants, totaling more than $370,000.

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• Grahn and Richmond named as 2016 Faculty Scholars

  April 15, 2016
  Congratulations to Jessica Grahn, Department of Psychology and Chantelle Richmond, Department of Geography, two of the recipients of this year’s Faculty Scholar awards.

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• First winners of the Social Science Dean’s Excellence Award for Teaching

  April 15, 2016
  We are pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the Social Science Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching: Andrew Sancton, Jeff Hopkins, and David Sherry.

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• Jennifer Robertson receives Emerald Citations of Excellence Award

  December 08, 2022
  Jennifer Robertson receives Emerald Citations of Excellence Award for research on the influence of leaders on employees’ environmentally responsible behaviors.

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• Bonnie Simpson receives Emerald Citation of Excellence award

  December 08, 2022
  Bonnie Simpson receives Emerald Citation of Excellence award for research into influencing sustainable consumer behaviour

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