Tag: university
A New Paradigm: How climate change is shaping mental landscapes in the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Now
In a weekly Good Grief Network session held on July 25, time and space were created for participants to reflect on their feelings of uncertainty in an unstable environment over Zoom. Trained facilitators kept time for each participant to speak while the other participants bore witness as listeners. The overarching rule was no cross-talk, which means not directly responding or referring to what a person shared.
Picket lines may greet Western University students on move-in day
Western University students may have to navigate picket lines when they move into residences at month’s end as contract negotiations between the school and the union representing cleaners, landscaping staff and tradespeople are at a standstill. The union representing about 330 caretakers, landscape services and trades workers was unable unable to reach an agreement last […]
LHSC cuts another five executives as it targets $150M deficit
Five more senior administrators have exited London Health Sciences Centre as the hospital continues to slash its top brass
Local expert weighs in on London’s weekend tornado scare
While a twister touched down an hour’s drive east, in Ayr, toppling trees and severely damaging buildings, London went unscathed
Harnessing mussels to filter fresh water: A biological cure for contaminants is being studied | Great Lakes Echo
By Amalia Medina Water tanks line a room in Philadelphia’s Water Works on the bank of the Schuylkill River. Inside are small fish that are hosts to tiny organisms that researchers say can help solve polluted waterways. Tucked under the fish gills are microscopic mussels that will mature and become capable of filtering 10 to […]
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Wheels of fortune: Area cheesemaker medals twice at big competition
Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese scored first- and second-place finishes at the American Cheese Society’s annual competition last month.
Can the dead speak? Prof treads unusual academic ground – after-death contact
Text messages from a dead loved one. The sensation of being hugged. A familiar whiff of perfume while walking in a forest.
Summerfolk is a music festival embracing the joy of discovery
It’s a wet and swampy Saturday night at the Summerfolk Music Festival in the Scenic City — but the crowd is riding the wave. Whether in defiance of the atrocious weather or deference to it, the “folkies” in their tarp-covered lawn chairs push rain-matted hair out of their eyes and take in the show. Sporadic […]
Beloved baseball duo steps away after decades running London youth team
A London couple is hanging up their baseball gloves after more than two decades helping some of the city’s littlest ballplayers learn the game.
Two executives exit London hospital amid fight against looming $150M deficit
London Health Sciences Centre has begun slashing its top administration, long the subject of criticism as bloated and overstaffed, amid a looming $150-million budget deficit.