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5 // SUNDAY
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KING’S CAMPUS MINISTRY
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10:30 a.m. The Chapel at Revera’s
Windermere on the Mount.
CSD POSTER DAY
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On Campus
Presidential pay sparks debate
across university community
BY JASON WINDERS
REVELATIONS ABOUT WESTERN President
Amit Chakma’s 2014 salary have sparked debate
across the university community, including nonconfidence votes being conducted among the
institution’s largest bargaining units. In the face
of that criticism, however, the Chair of Western’s Board of Governors said Chakma is
recognized nationally
and internationally as
one of the most influential academic leaders in Canada, which is
reflected in his salary.
CHAKMA
“The continued
momentum of Western’s drive to become a
world-class research university, and to raise
Canada’s profile as a leader in international education, has benefited greatly from his guidance
since his arrival in 2009, and especially over the
last year,” Chirag Shah said.
Last week, Western figures showed the university president was paid $924,000 (plus $43,244.88
in taxable benefits) in 2014. That number made
him the fourth-highest paid public servant in
Ontario, and highest paid university president.
Chakma’s number is somewhat deceiving as
his annual base salary remained at $440,000.
However, Western made a ‘double-payment’
to the president in lieu of a one-year administrative leave included in his first five-year contract, which concluded
June 2014. The board
re-appointed Chakma
to a second five-year
term extending to June
30, 2019. That contract
also calls for a year
administrative leave or
payment in lieu of that
leave.
SHAH
Shah sees these
terms as necessary for attracting and retaining
the right president at the right time for Western.
Not all agree with the Board chair’s stance.
Outrage over the salary has spanned the
gamut – from simple social media snark to an
anonymously started online petition of nonconfidence in the president and Board chair that
has garnered more than 5,000 signatures in less
than a week.
“The money is outrageous on its own in this
time of austerity,” said Alison Hearn, the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association
(UWOFA) president. “But it’s more shameful in
the context of the cuts we have been seeing on
campus, of rising student debt and tuition, of
class sizes increasing, of rising number of contract faculty who have
no job security and
aren’t paid very well.
The money represents
something greater.
“Everything has
been crystallized by
this particular issue.
The issue has galvanized dissent that was
HEARN
already there.”
On Monday night, nearly 100 members of
UWOFA unanimously called for a non-confidence vote among the membership concerning both the president and Board chair. Those
results will be announced later today.
“I don’t really care if he gives it back or not. He
negotiated that deal, but I cannot say ‘good on
him.’” Hearn said. “He’s the president of a public
institution; he’s not a CEO. That’s tuition money.
That’s taxpayer dollars going into his pocket.
That would mean his job is equivalent to teaching 130 courses to students in a year.
“This signals a larger problem about priorities on campus – not just at Western, but across
Canada. Sure, he could give the money back,
but I don’t think that solves the problem.”
University of Western Ontario Staff
Association (UWOSA)
membership is also
conducting a non-confidence vote among its
members, said Karen
Foullong, UWOSA
president.
Both bargaining
FOULLONG
units said they may
present the results of their votes at the next Senate meeting. Any organization can offer a nonconfidence vote, however only a non-confidence
vote by the university Senate triggers something
beyond symbolic.
The next meeting of Senate is scheduled for
April 10.
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SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS
Western PhD candidates, from left, Kim Martin, Library and Information Science; Beth Compton, Anthropology; and Adriana Soto, Hispanic Studies,
engaged in an online breakout session with their counterparts at the University of Windsor during a Canadian Association of Graduate StudiesSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council roundtable discussion focused on Imagining Canada’s Future.
BY CAROL BEYNON
WHAT COULD BE more important in our academic community than
engaging our brightest minds in the
imagining and decision-making process of designing Canada’s research
future?
Last Friday, about a dozen graduate students from Western’s Social
Sciences and Humanities Research
Council (SSHRC) disciplines were
hosted by the School of Graduate
& Postdoctoral Studies, SSHRC and
the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies (CAGS) to re-imagine
what the future of research could and
should look like in Canada.
As part of its growth into the future,
SSHRC invited all Canadian universities to host graduate student roundtables to address SSHRC’s current
plan to ensure research in the social
sciences, arts and humanities is relevant to, and builds research capacity
in relation to, Canada’s future, longterm societal challenges and opportunities. Fifteen Canadian universities
were chosen to participate and asked
to respond to one of six key questions.
Western partnered with the University of Windsor in a joint roundtable
and focussed on the question: How
can emerging technologies be leveraged to benefit Canadians, with respect
to sustainable, resilient communities;
creativity, innovation and prosperity;
values, cultures, inclusion and diversity;
and governance and institutions?
Through the wonders of almost
seamless technology, students from
Windsor joined Western students
around one large virtual table, and
then worked collaboratively in four
break-out rooms, to respond to the
question.
Western Anthropology professor
Andrew Nelson kicked the morning
off and contextualized the meeting
with a brief outline of SSHRC’s agenda
for this initiative.
Then, Western Anthropology PhD
student Michael Carter presented a
live interactive e-presentation from
Ryerson University, where he is the
director of industry relations and
academic coordinator of their Digital Media Zone, to clarify the term
‘emerging technologies.’ His provocative foreword to the morning provided
a history of the development of now
obvious technologies from the dawn
of history to initial conceptions of
computers and artificial intelligence,
which actually began in the mid 1800s.
His key points drew attention to the
necessity of vision, tenacity, creativity,
and disruption in moving life forward.
During the remainder of the fourhour session, the air was filled with
animated and engaged discussion
among the participants from varied
SSHRC-based disciplines who commented, questioned, argued and
challenged each other in joint breakout sessions. They probed the positives and negatives of technology,
and wrangled with the issue no matter
who, or where, we are, we are always
reacting to some form of emergent
technology because society finds
itself immersed without warning.
The students questioned: How can
we ensure, as responsible citizens,
we become proactive? Is it even possible? How can we ensure technology
is available globally? How do we manage the disparity and the complexity? What happens when technology
uproots and threatens important life
traditions or health or global equity?
Is technology weakening our artistic
creativity because of ease of accessibility? Whose values? Whose culture? Whose definition of diversity?
Who should make the rules around
technology? How do we ensure government doesn’t take advantage of
us technologically through imposing
governance such as in Bill C-31?
“Meetings of the minds, such as
these, are critical in recognizing and
affording graduate students – who are
our next generation of researchers –
the opportunity to imagine and have
a critical voice in creating the future,
not just of Canada, but of our world,”
said Linda Miller, SGPS vice-provost.
On June 1, PhD students Nandita
Dutta (Hispanic Studies) and Kim Martin (Library and Information Science),
both students in the Cultureplex Lab,
will represent Western and Windsor
at the SSHRC Congress, to engage
in the next step of this action project.
Joining them will be their counterparts from across Canada.
This was a highly successful meeting that showed there is likely nothing
more relevant than having our brightest young minds and researchers of
the present/future inform SSHRC in
its processes of implementing its forward- thinking agendas for the future.
Carol Beynon is the associate viceprovost, School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies.
Opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of or receive endorsement from Western News or Western University.
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Editor reflects on Life and everything else
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ALL OVER
B Y A D E L A TA L B O T
DOUGLAS GIBSON WAS an editor at the cusp of his career when he
first met Alice Munro, LLD’76, in the
fall of 1974. As it turns out, Munro, who
had already published three books
at the time, was likewise at the cusp
of hers.
“I was a young editor in publishing
in Toronto, so much a young editor I couldn’t
afford a car.
Through a
mutual friend
I arranged to
have dinner in London with
this superstar, Alice
GIBSON
Munro,” said
Gibson, who has been Munro’s editor
since that day. “As far as I was concerned, she was just a superbly successful writer, so I thought I was about
to have dinner with this superstar,
whose career was rising like a comet.”
Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel
Prize in Literature, had already
received the 1968 Governor General’s
Award for her first collection of short
stories, Dance of the Happy Shades.
At dinner, Gibson expected to “worshipfully sit at the feet ” of Munro. But
the meeting didn’t go as planned.
“What I found was an Alice in crisis.
She told me everyone around her – all
writers, book reviewers, publishers
and booksellers – everyone in the
book business was saying, ‘Alice, you
have to stop writing short stories. This
short story stuff is never going to work.
People aren’t going to take you seriously. You’ve got to write novels.’”
Because the advice was so unanimous, Munro took it seriously – so
seriously she had stopped writing
the stories for which she is known
– and was trying to write novels.
She couldn’t do it. At dinner, Munro
told Gibson she was “blocked” and
“unable to write at all.” He urged her
to continue with short stories, and told
her if she came and published with
him, she would never hear a request
for a novel.
And that changed everything.
That was the day Munro decided
she was a writer of short stories, Gibson said, alluding to words from the
writer herself in
Robert Thacker’s
biography, Alice
Munro: Writing
Her Lives. The two
have collaborated
on more than a
dozen collections
of short stories
since, watching
praises, awards
and accolades roll
in.
In retrospect,
Gibson said,
Munro so obviously made the
right decision. Her
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talent as a wordsmith in the form can
be credited with changing the literary
landscape, and specifically, mitigating
negative conceptions of short stories.
“Tradition goes against the short
story in that the novel, from early 19th
century onwards, was the big event. It
was the form associated with literacy
and great writing and the short story
was always in that shadow,” Gibson
explained.
“In Canada, there was a prejudice
from publishers and book stores
doing orders and that prejudice was
hard to shake. But it’s been shaken
very successfully in Canada,
largely thanks to
Alice Munro, and
people who would
read her and say
‘I never liked short
stories, but Alice is
really terrific.’”
In some sense,
Munro, and the
huge sales that followed her books,
paved the way for
other Canadian
greats in the form,
including Mavis
Gallant and Alistair
The Book Store at Western is hosting an on-campus book club for Western Reads’ April
selection, Dear Life by Alice Munro. Join fellow readers from 12-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April
22, to share your thoughts on this national bestseller. RSVP to Pam Kenward at pmcarthu@
uwo.ca. An evening event follows at 7 p.m. at the Community Gallery, Museum London.
Register at alumni.westernu.ca/learn/western-reads/.
MacLeod. Canada sells more short
stories than the United States and
United Kingdom, and sells them better, Gibson noted.
“Alice has managed to compress
so much life into this short story form,
and that’s quite remarkable. Every
time I read a new Alice Munro short
story, I put it down and look at the
ceiling and say, ‘How does she know
so much about people, other people,
and other people’s lives?’ That’s the
key to all this – this superb, sensitive
intelligence behind all of her stories,”
Gibson added.
Over the years, the writer-editor
relationship has been “wonderful”
between him and Munro, he added.
The pair weathered a storm in the
early days, one he laughs about to
this day.
“The worst moment was the very
first book, Who Do You Think You Are?
The book was already at the printers;
Alice wanted to change the entire
second half to first person, and add a
new story,” Gibson said.
It was, quite literally a “stop-thepresses” kind of situation. But he read
the new story, and thought, ‘Alice is
right.’ The new story was terrific and
it changed the texture of the whole
book. He could see why she wanted
to change the second half. The
printer felt the same way. The presses
stopped, the book was changed,
Munro added in the new material –
the title story in the collection, Who
Do You Think You Are?
It won the 1978 Governor General’s
Award.
“One thing you have to know is, not
only is she universally admired for her
short stories, she’s universally admired
as a person. When the Nobel Prize
came through, it was total jubilation,
excitement all around,” Gibson said
of Munro.
For the Western community reading Munro’s Dear Life, the last installment in this session of Western Reads,
Gibson has the following words.
“The last three stories are clearly
different from any in the book, and any
Alice has written, because they’re so
clearly personal and autobiographical,” he noted.
Allow yourselves to be swept away
into the lives within the stories, and
to walk away, enriched by the experience, Gibson said.
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April 2-5, 2015
Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 PM
Proclamation of the Passion &
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Friday, April 3 at 3 PM
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Saturday, April 4 at 9 PM
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Research
Study eyes power
of the metaphor
SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS
Love may have been the only battlefield for 1980s rocker Pat Benatar, but understanding that metaphor may
be at the true heart of the human condition, according to Western researchers.
B Y A D E L A TA L B O T
LOVE IS A battlefield, according to a 1983 hit by Pat
Benatar. But there’s much more to it than that. The metaphor at the heart of this song – or any metaphor, for that
matter – has the power to elicit empathy.
According to a new study by Western Psychology professor Albert Katz and colleague Andrea Bowes, reading
metaphors significantly increases one’s ability to interpret
the emotional state of another individual, simply by looking
at the person’s eyes.
In other words, reading, using and interpreting metaphors has the potential to bring us closer to someone else.
The paper, Metaphor creates intimacy and temporarily
enhances theory of mind, appeared in the March issue of
Memory & Cognition.
“To understand metaphor, you have to understand the
intent of another person, partly because there’s an ambiguity there, and (the person) could mean to say multiple
things,” said Katz, who is a cognitive psychologist.
“There might be something in the comprehension of the
sentence itself, which orients you to try and figure out why
would someone say that, or what do they mean when they
say that, and that might be what is still active (in the mind)
when doing the eye test.”
The ‘eye test’ Katz refers to is the measure he used with
undergraduate students as part of the study. Katz and
Bowes conducted three different experiments, asking students to read sentences and paragraph-long short stories,
some of which contained a metaphor, and some of which
were expressed entirely in plain language. Immediately
after, students were asked to look at an image of a person’s
eyes and pick one of four adjectives to indicate the emotion expressed in the eyes.
“What we tend to find is, when people read the metaphor, they actually did better on (the eye test), which is
ostensibly an unrelated task,” Katz said.
Experts refer to one’s ability to understand what another
person might be feeling or thinking as ‘Theory of Mind.’
The test used by Katz and Bowes to measure Theory of
Mind is called the Reading the Mind in the Eye Test (RMET),
in which participants have to correctly identify the emotions
or mental state displayed in black-and-white photographs
of 36 pairs of eyes.
The general public, barring certain cognitive conditions
or diagnoses, including forms of autism, can be expected
to perform reasonably well on the RMET. But metaphor
appears to boost the results, according to Katz and Bowes’
study.
“What we found is, students who read the metaphor
did better on this task,” Katz said. “We also gave them a
sentence and asked them to write a paragraph-sized passage where that sentence would be used as a metaphor or
as a sincere statement. When we did that, we found they
created, not surprisingly, different types of passages and
the types of passages they created had more emotion in
them, and had more social interactions in them.
“And once again, when they were given the eye test,
they did better.”
Even if the students were given no context – that is
no paragraph, just one metaphorical sentence, like, ‘the
moon is a balloon’ – they still performed better on the
eye test than the control group that read plain language
statements.
“In some sense, this wasn’t an accident. We did (the
study) because there’s some research that suggests metaphor creates intimacy between people. A study in the
1990s, in the U.S., showed just reading metaphor, people
see themselves as more intimate with another character,”
Katz added.
“There’s some social cognitive network being activated
and it’s being activated in multiple ways, including metaphor, because it creates this intimacy between people.
Most of the work on metaphor and other types of nonliteral language is interested in how you process it – how
you go from surface meaning of a sentence to its underlying meaning? That’s where most research is done, he
continued.
“There’s a smaller group of literature on why you even
use it. And there’s a very small group looking at what metaphor does, how metaphor creates social bonds between
people.”
While reading literature is often cited for higher levels of
empathy, reading metaphors, specifically, is responsible for
this boost, Katz explained.
Western News
| April 2, 2015
GRE
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WAR
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Ideas in
full bloom
ideas to reduce – or even eliminate – some
This year’s winners of the Western Green
Announced Tuesday, the 2015 winners
Awards have helped not only the university,
include the Hospitality Services Sustain-
of today’s most pressing environmental
but the entire London community, continue
ability Team, Group Nomination category;
concerns. In its inaugural year, the competi-
to turn over a new leaf when it comes to
EnviroWestern, Group Nomination catego-
tion aims to generate ideas and initiatives
environmental sustainability.
ry; and Civil and Environmental Engineer-
among Western’s students around the
ing professor Jason Gerhard, Individual
topic of sustainability, and officially recog-
Nomination category.
nize the winning ideas.
Established in 2008, the Western Green
Awards celebrate individuals and/or teams
who initiate or support activities with
Sustainable thinking on campus took
Announced Tuesday, WISE winners
positive environmental outcomes, encour-
centre stage this year, as winners of the
included Soojeong Choe, Undergraduate
age participation and involvement, work
2015 Western’s Ideas for Sustainability
Category; Tarek Rashwan, Graduate Cat-
together with others or demonstrate an en-
and the Environment (WISE) competition
egory co-winner; and Margaret Liu, Lina
vironmentally friendly effort. The purpose
brought new insights to old problems.
Sherazy and Rei Ahn, Graduate Category
of the awards is to help raise awareness of
sustainability at Western.
Launched last fall, WISE asks students to
come up with innovative and high-impact
co-winners.
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Hospitality Services Sustainability Team
The Western Farmers’ Market is a true celebration of food. Gone
are the days where students, faculty and staff had to venture off
campus to purchase our region’s finest farm-fresh produce and
locally made goods like honey, jams and baked goods. The market
became a weekly destination for many of the Western community
where healthy foods at a reasonable price could be obtained, friends
could re-connect and the local movement could be felt through
interaction with the many vendors. The impact of the farmers’ market
was, essentially, immeasurable.
EnviroWestern
Jessica He, coordinator
Group Nomination category
EnviroWestern has evolved into a force for environmental change
on campus. A student-run group within the University Students’
Council, EnviroWestern provides both action and advocacy for environmental issues important to students at Western.
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Gordon Robinson, Anne Zok, Janet Smith
and Ruth Harland
Group Nomination category
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Jason Gerhard
PAUL MAYNE // WESTERN NEWS
Civil and Environmental Engineering professor
Individual Nomination category
Jason Gerhard, the Canada Research Chair in Geoenvironmental
Remediation, has been promoting sustainability and environmental
issues since arriving on Western’s campus in 2007. He has fostered
environmental awareness and positive outcomes toward sustainability through his teaching, research, committee work and many
interdisciplinary activities on campus and in the community.
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Lina Sherazy, Margaret Liu and Rei Ahn
Graduate Category co-winners
The trio aims to promote a concept of ‘sustainable consumerism’
through encouraging the purchase and exchange of used clothing.
Their thought is, the creation of a pop-up campus thrift store, selling fashionable quality clothing, will help mitigate the consumerist
society we live in.
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Tarek Rashwan
Soojeong Choe
Engineering graduate student Tarek Rashwan provided experimental evidence to support the technical efficacy of STARx, a patented and patent pending technology, using smouldering combustion, as a sustainable means for biosolids disposal. The solution has
huge financial savings implications for wastewater treatment plants.
Medical Sciences student Soojeong Choe aims to save 4 million pounds of paper from entering landfills through his Greenline
Program. Inspired by projects like the High Occupancy Vehicle Lane
and Disneyland FASTPASS, Greenline redesigns customer lineups to
promote the use of tumblers and reusable mugs by dedicating one
cash register at every Starbucks, for instance, toward green customers who bring their own mug.
Graduate Category co-winner
HONORARY DEGREE NOMINATIONS
The Senate Honorary Degrees Committee will meet in April
to select candidates for honorary degrees to be awarded at
Western’s Autumn convocation scheduled in October. To ensure
that consideration is given to as many worthy candidates as
possible, the Committee invites the submission of nominations
from any member of the university community.
Nomination forms may be downloaded from the following
website: uwo.ca/univsec/senate/convocation/honorary_
degrees.html and submitted electronically to [email protected]
prior to April 22, 2015, for consideration by the
Honorary Degrees Committee.
Undergraduate Category
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superstar
PAUL MAYNE // WESTERN NEWS
Jesus Christ Superstar is headed
for a geek-filled comic-con
adventure in London’s Musical
Theatre Productions (MTP) twist
on the famed rock opera. The
company is staging the hit 1970s
musical, loosely based on the
Gospel’s accounts of the last
week of Jesus’ life, by casting
super heroes in the roles of famed
religious figures. MTP, a not-forprofit, community organization,
includes numerous Western alumni,
staff and students, including thirdyear Arts & Humanities student
Trevor Richie, who stars in the
role of Jesus/Superman. Jesus
Christ Superstar is on stage at the
McManus Studio Theatre at the
Grand Theatre, April 3-11. Tickets
are available at the Grand Theatre
Box Office.
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Reaching out
into the world
manitarian Award recognizes faculty, staff
The committee also singled out a sub-
professor Jack Scott has been named the
and students, who are engaged in a range
mission by Dasha Peregoudova, a Western
2015 Western Humanitarian Award winner
of efforts directed toward improving the
Law student, for special recognition. She
– so honoured for his First Nation Hearing
quality of life for individuals and communi-
was recognized for her work with The Olive
Health program, which addresses hearing
ties around the world. Funded by the Of-
Branch for Children, an organization that
health issues in James Bay First Nations
fice of the Vice-President (Research), this
helps remote communities in Tanzania.
communities, the Award Selection Com-
award provides a maximum of $5,000 in
A luncheon honouring Scott and
mittee announced today.
support of humanitarian efforts as chosen
Peregoudova, will be held Thursday, April
by the recipient.
9.
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Established in 2010, the Western Hu-
JACK SCOTT
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Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Health Sciences
The First Nation Hearing Health program
Substantial hearing health issues in James Bay First Nations communities, combined with reduced access to specialized hearing
health services, continue to create education and quality-of-life challenges for residents. Enter the First Nation Hearing Health program,
led by Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Jake Scott.
Scott’s program looks to increase accessibility to health services
for these underserved areas, as well as train future audiologists in
the skills necessary to implement hearing health outreach programs.
This program has highlighted the importance of hearing health
issues to teachers, administrators, health-care staff, elders and community members. It has also provided opportunities for, thus far, nine
Clinical Audiology graduate students, who have learned methods
for implementing outreach programs in underserved communities.
“His direct, on-site supervision of our graduate students in audiology with clients from First Nations communities is nothing short of
spectacular,” wrote J.B. Orange, a fellow Communication Sciences
and Disorders professor. “This program of his, run for over five years
in parallel to a similarly newly developed clinical placement for our
graduate students in Speech-language Pathology, is a model of
success that is well-acknowledged by our dean of the Faculty of
Health Sciences, by folks in our central administration and by peerreviewers.
“I am very proud of Jack’s distinguished efforts in teaching our
students about and showing them the real hearing issues among
Canada’s First Nations Communities.”
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DASHA PEREGOUDOVA
Juris Doctor candidate (2016), Law
The Olive Branch for Children
PAUL MAYNE // WESTERN NEWS
In 2013, Western Law student Dasha Peregoudova started working with The Olive Branch for Children, an organization that helps
remote communities in Tanzania assess their primary needs and
establish programs that target the most vulnerable.
In June 2013, Peregoudova raised more than $7,500 through a
fundraising event, A Branch for Brotherhood, where more than 200
people attended.
Last December, she traveled to Mbeya, Tanzania, for two weeks
to lead an artistic development and empowerment camp at Olive
Branch. While there, she participated in the next phase of the
orphanage and school’s development, by providing access to physical activity, music and theatre education for children.
“Since first meeting Ms. Peregoudova, we at The Olive Branch for
Children have been very impressed by her vision and commitment
to developing a positive learning experience for children within our
care,” wrote Deborah McCracken-Nangereke, The Olive Branch for
Children founder and Tanzanian coordinator. “She is hardworking,
dedicated, passionate and compassionate. She believes strongly
in using her extensive and admirable skills to ‘be the change’ she
wishes to see in the world.”
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Applied Math PhD candidate Matthew Betti admits he has humanity’s future dessert choices in mind as he
uses the power of math to address factors threatening once-healthy honeybee hives.
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Calculating a new version of pi(e)
BY JENNIFER WAIN
“The beauty of
math is numbers
are just numbers.
Our equations look
like nonsense to
most people, but
computer models
can crunch a lot of
data to find patterns.
We really can help
people see the forest
through the trees.”
- Matthew Betti
Applied Math PHD candidate
MATTHEW BETTI LOVES strawberry-rhubarb pie so much he’s
devoted his PhD studies to protecting it. Narrow focus? Maybe. But the
Applied Math PhD candidate is thinking about the rest of us, too.
A convergence of factors is threatening once-healthy honeybee hives
across Canada and, without their pollinating powers, we could see a future
with no strawberries or rhubarb.
Beyond pie, it’s an important problem to solve: Honeybees are responsible for pollinating a food crop worth
more than $13 billion worldwide,
every year.
“Without bees,” Betti said, “you’d
either have fruits that are prohibitively
expensive at the supermarket, or nonexistent. Apples, berries and even
broccoli will become rare.
“Without the bees, there will be no
more apple pie.”
It’s a problem Betti said is getting
worse; it’s a problem Applied Math
can solve.
Betti has an answer for the mostasked question in any high school
math class: “But how are we going to
use this in the real world?”
Betti turns the real world into a
set of equations and identifies patterns. Last summer, he developed
a mathematical model using data
from field biologists and discovered
when something is threatening the
colony, forager bees leave the hive at
a younger than normal age.
In normal conditions, forager bees
leave the hive at 14 days old. They
do the important work of gathering
food to bring back to the hive – and
they happen to pollinate crops in the
process.
But in adverse conditions, an unsustainable cycle ensues: The hive pushes
out younger and younger bees in a
desperate attempt to get more food
to save itself. Most of the young bees
don’t make it and, eventually, the
whole colony collapses.
“It’s like sending a teenager out
into the world,” Betti said. “The
human may survive, but a 9-day-old
bee is not likely to make it.”
Betti’s mathematical model has
resulted in a valuable warning sign
farmers can use now to make decisions in the field: If they see a lot of
young bees flying out of the hive, they
can act quickly and test for disease,
isolate a particular hive or cull healthy
bees and transfer them to a new hive.
Betti’s work was recently published
in the journal PLOS ONE, in collaboration with Applied Math professors
Lindi Wahl and Mair Zamir.
His next step is designing a more
complex mathematical model that
could reveal multiple indicators of
hive health.
“The beauty of math is numbers
are just numbers,” he said. “Our
equations look like nonsense to most
people, but computer models can
crunch a lot of data to find patterns.
We really can help people see the forest through the trees.”
Betti talks about standing at the top
of the stairs at 5 p.m. in Toronto’s busy
Bloor/Young subway station. Looking down, all of the people appear
as one big mass. Looking closer, he
sees patterns – people in suits head
southbound, people in jeans tend to
go westbound.
His new work takes a similar view
from the top. By grouping bees by
age, he can see patterns among bees
at 1 day old, 2 days old and onward
through their life cycle.
This more complex model allows
Betti to accurately capture activity.
If he can understand hive patterns,
he can correlate behavior to threats,
whether that’s pesticides or infection.
Although pesticides have been in
the news lately as the biggest threat to
bee health, Betti said current scientific
studies point to a combination of factors causing overwintering losses of
up to 29 per cent of hives, as reported
by Health Canada.
“We should also be looking at
infections and farming practices,” he
said. “The big farms, the ones that
require bees most to pollinate their
crops, still tend to work in a very industrial manner.”
Industrial farms plant acres and
acres of a single crop – giving bees
access to plentiful food, but only one
kind of food – and then take it all away
at harvest. The lack of biodiversity and
stable food source results in weaker
bees. Infections, parasites and pests
are other significant factors, Betti said.
“There are a million different travel
routes for people, fruits, vegetables.
Any disease spreads faster these days
because of how much people and
goods are travelling.”
Although farmers directly control
pesticides, they can’t simply stop, or
infestations will kill the crops we need.
Betti notes studies are underway to
determine optimal pesticide use for
both bee and crop health.
It will take a while to see improvements, even if all of these factors are
addressed. In the meantime, Betti is
confident we can have our pie and eat
it, too, if we start using math models
to optimize hive health now.
“We’re finding warning signs so we
can prevent an impact, rather than
react to one,” he said. “If we do things
right, and do them now, no one will
see a change in their everyday lives.
“You know we’ve failed if you go to
the supermarket and they laugh when
you ask for apples.”
Western Finance - Year End Deadlines
The University’s year end is Thursday, April 30, 2015. All transactions occurring before year end must be dated April 30, 2015 or earlier to be
included in the 2014/2015 budget year. It is the responsibility of each department to submit its accounting records before the deadlines
listed below. The transactions received before these deadlines will be included in the 2014/2015 budget year.
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before Thursday April 30, 2015 in order to be processed with an April
date. All deposits made after April 30 will be May dated. In order to
accommodate year end processing, the cashier hours will be extended
as follows: April 29 & 30 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 and 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Travel costs for non-Western employees incurred prior to April 30, 2015
must be submitted no later than Friday, April 24, 2015. Employees must
use the on-line travel expense system. On-line expense reports must
be approved by the final approver by April 30, 2015 to be included in
the 2014/2015 budget year. All outstanding travel advances should be
cleared by that date. Hard copies of on-line expense reports with original
receipts attached must be forwarded to the Travel desk, SSB 6100 by
Monday, May 11, 2015.
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Expenses incurred prior to April 30, 2015 must be submitted through the
central cashier no later than Friday May 1, 2015 to be processed with an
April date. It is strongly encouraged that petty cash claims be submitted
prior to April 30 where possible to ensure your claim will be processed in
the 2014/2015 budget year. The cashier will be accepting petty cash
reimbursements up to and including May 1, 2015.
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budget year and invoiced before May 1, 2015 must be approved and
released in Mustang Market by April 30, 2015 to be processed
in the 2014/2015 budget year. Purchase orders for goods and
services shipped, received and invoiced after May 1, 2015 will
be committed against the 2015/2016 budget year.
The last day for submission of the physical inventory sheets is Tuesday,
May 5, 2015.
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later than Friday, May 1, 2015. Ensure the Accounting Date on the Journal
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9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday.
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sentation online and visit their website
for the Learning Help Centre drop-in
schedule, sdc.uwo.ca/learning.
Writing Support Centre
The Writing Support Centre offers many
presentations for undergraduate and
graduate students, including a dropin centre in Weldon Library (next to
Quotes Café) from 2-7 p.m. MondayThursday and 12-3 p.m. Saturdays, and
individual appointments. Please call for
an appointment at 519-661-3655 or visit
their website to register for presentations, sdc.uwo.ca/writing.
Undergraduate Sessional Dates
April 3: Good Friday.
April 5: Easter Sunday.
April 8: Fall/Winter Term classes end.
April 9–10: Study Days.
April 11–30: Final examination period.
April 30: Second term ends for all
faculties except Dentistry, Education,
Law and Medicine. Last day to receive
applications for graduation: Spring Convocation.
May 1: Last day to withdraw an application for graduation: Spring Convocation. Last day to receive admission
applications for summer day courses
from students applying for the first time
- all supporting documentation must be
submitted within seven days of this date.
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Apply to Graduate
The online application for the Spring
2015 Convocation is open until April 30
through your Student Center. Tickets for
the Spring Convocation will be released
starting at the end of May. convocation.
uwo.ca.
A central website displays advertisements for all vacant academic positions. The following positions are among
those advertised at uwo.ca/facultyrelations/faculty/academic_positions.html
Please review, or contact the faculty,
school or department directly.
Full-Time Academic Appointments
Western Libraries
Head, Research and Instructional Services, The D.B. Weldon Library
Western Libraries is seeking a dynamic
and innovative leader for the position of
Head, Research and Instructional Services, The D.B. Weldon Library. Applicants
are required to submit a covering letter,
a curriculum vitae and the names and
contact information for three references
in electronic format, by March 27. Quote
reference #DBW-HRIS-1503.
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biomechanics of the Head
Seeks applicants for a Tier 2 Canada
Research Chair (CRC) in Biomechanics
of the Head. Based on qualifications
and experience, the successful applicant
will receive a probationary or tenured
academic appointment at the rank of
assistant or associate professor; consideration may also be given to a joint
appointment with the Schulich School
of Medicine & Dentistry or the Faculty
of Health Sciences. Applications will be
accepted until the position is filled.
Review of applications will begin after
May 1.
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Seeks a board-certified veterinary
pathologist (DACVP) in the area of
experimental pathology, with particular
emphasis on rodent pathobiology and
comparative pathology of animal models of human disease. We invite applications from outstanding early career
investigators to fill a tenure-track position at the level of assistant or associate
professor, effective Sept. 1, or as soon as
possible thereafter. Applications will be
accepted until May 15.
April 2015 Exam Schedule
The final April exam schedule is available. Visit registrar.uwo.ca/examinations
for information.
Tax Receipt Information
T2202As and T4As
T2202As (tuition tax receipts) and T4As
(scholarships, awards and bursaries tax
receipts) for the 2014 tax year are available through your Student Centre (student.uwo.ca). See registrar.uwo.ca for
information on the online tax receipt
services.
Spring Convocation
(June 9-12, 15-17)
Graduates and guests, please check
convocation.uwo.ca for Convocation
details. Tickets for the June Convocation will be available online beginning
May 26.
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Learning Skills Services
Learning Skills offers both drop-in assistance and a variety of presentations
throughout the year. Register for a pre-
encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will
be given priority. Western is committed
to employment equity and welcomes
applications from all qualified women
and men, including visible minorities,
Aboriginal people and persons with
disabilities.
All positions are subject to budgetary
approval. Applicants should have fluent
written and oral communication skills
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Western News
| April 2, 2015
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Campus Digest
Western researchers take
lead on violence prevention
Barnett led the global study that demonstrated Aspirin could prevent strokes, creating new possibilities for the treatment
and prevention of heart disease;
BY JASON WINDERS
WESTERN RESEARCHERS WILL be at the
forefront of preventing, detecting and combating family violence and child abuse as part of a
10-year, $100-million investment by the federal
government.
PreVAiL – Preventing Violence Across the
Lifespan Research Network – will serve as a colead agency on the first funded project, Development of Pan-Canadian Public Health Guidance on Family Violence, which will receive $4.47
million over three years. Working in conjunction
with the British Columbia Centre of Excellence
for Women’s Health, PreVAiL will develop educational materials to assist health professionals
in supporting victims of violence.
Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research’s Institute for Gender and Health, PreVAiL brings together more than 60 researchers
and partners from Canada, the United States,
the United Kingdom, Asia, Europe and Australia
to produce and share knowledge that will help
children, women and men exposed to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence.
“This amount of funding is really unprecedented for this kind of work,” Faculty of Information and Media Studies professor Nadine
Wathen said. “It will allow our group to develop
evidence-based, practice-oriented guidance for
health and social service providers to provide
consistent, safe and compassionate care to
those experiencing family violence.
“Western has been a leader in research and
education on family violence, and the health
system response to violence against women and
children – this new funding speaks to this expertise, and the success of our PreVAiL network.”
Wathen serves as co-lead investigator with
PreVAiL, along with Harriet MacMillan, a McMaster Psychiatry and Pediatrics professor. The
network also includes Western researchers Jen
MacGregor, FIMS postdoctoral fellow; Anita
Kothari, Health Studies professor; and Marilyn
Ford-Gilboe, Nursing professor.
On this project, Ford-Gilboe will chair one of
the evidence review groups. Kothari will work on
implementing and evaluating knowledge mobilization strategies.
“A key strength of our approach is the involvement, from the beginning, of more than a dozen
key national health and social service provider
organizations, including the Canadian Nurses
Association, Canadian Medical Association
and those representing child welfare, violence
against women services, psychologists, dentists
and dental hygienists,” Wathen continued. “This
will allow us to develop curriculum, protocols
and tools that can be tailored for these different
service contexts, and evaluated to assess their
impact on service delivery and ultimately on
women and children’s health.”
The funding is part of a 10-year, $100 million
investment to prevent, detect and combat family violence and child abuse, Minister of Health
Rona Ambrose announced last month. The
investment will be administered through the
Public Health Agency of Canada ($7 million/year)
and Health Canada ($3 million/year).
“Family violence has very serious and lasting
impacts on the health and mental wellbeing of
those who are victimized by it,” said Ambrose.
“Our government is committed to ensuring
the health and safety of all Canadians and will
continue to stand up for victims of violence. It is
my hope that, through this investment, we will
be able to better support victims of violence and
their children, wherever they live, so they may
• Treating Diabetes (1921). Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.J.R. Macleod and J.B.
Collip developed insulin to treat diabetes,
a life-saving discovery for millions that
Banting conceived at Western; and
• Understanding the Present (2002). Magaret MacMillan, LLD’12, has demonstrated
the past’s influence on current international politics and how history can suggest
solutions for today’s issues.
All 50 contributions were highlighted at the
Ontario and Canada Research Chairs Symposium in Toronto this week.
To vote for your favorite ‘game changer,’
visit the full list at yourontarioresearch.ca/
game-changers/.
Justice Eileen Gillese, former dean of Western Law, has been named chancellor of
Brescia University College, the Board of
Trustees announced Monday. Gillese, who
follows Joan Francolini to the position, will
assume the role at the Western affiliate’s
baccalaureate ceremony on June 14.
“We are so grateful Justice Gillese has
accepted this important ambassadorial role
at Brescia,” said Elizabeth Hewitt, Board of
Trustees chair. “Throughout her career, she
has been, and continues to be, a mentor
and a role model for women, whether they
are students, lawyers or her own daughters.”
SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS
Minister of Health Rona Ambrose announced a 10-year, $100 million investment last month
to prevent, detect and combat family violence and child abuse.
heal and rebuild their lives toward a healthier
future.”
NEWS AND NOTES
Western professor Gordon Osinski, crossappointed between Earth Sciences and
Physics & Astronomy, has been named the
recipient of both the Faculty of Science
Florence Bucke Award, as well as the Mineralogical Association of Canada’s Young
Scientist Award.
King’s University College professor Paul
Werstine, a Literature professor and Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada, has been
named the first Hugh Mellon Excellence in
Research Award recipient, the King’s Faculty
Research Activities Committee announced
last week. Werstine has been a model of
excellence in research and publication, the
committee said, and has radically transformed the field of Shakespeare scholarship.
Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Emily
Abrams Ansari won the Cambridge University Press Award at the Society for American
Music’s annual conference this past month in
California.
Ansari’s paper, The Virtue of American Power
and the Power of American Virtue: Exceptionalist Tropes in Early Cold War Musical
Nationalism, received top honours for the
best paper presented at the conference by
a scholar working outside the United States.
Western researchers and alumni are highlighted among 50 “game-changing” innovations at Ontario universities, identified by
Research Matters, a collaborative project
involving Ontario’s 21 publicly assisted universities. The Western-connected accomplishments include:
• Discovering the Power of Grapefruit
(1991). Schulich School of Medicine
& Dentistry professor Dr. David Bailey
proved grapefruit can affect the way your
body metabolizes drugs, the first discovery that what we eat can affect drug
effectiveness;
• Defining Wind Engineering (1965). Engineering professor Alan Davenport defined
the modern field of wind engineering by
developing an equation to measure wind
loads, making building structures safer
and more economical;
• Preventing Strokes (1978). Professor and
Robarts Research Institute founder Henry
Gillese was appointed to the Ontario
Court of Appeal in 2002, after serving as
a Superior Court Justice from 1999-2002.
Prior to her judicial appointments, she was
dean and professor of law with Western’s
Faculty of Law, where she taught trusts,
pensions, property, administrative law, and
legal research and writing (1983-99). She
has received a number of teaching awards,
including the Edward Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching and the inaugural National
3M Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching.
She holds a bachelor of business administration and commerce from the University
of Alberta and undergraduate and graduate law degrees from Oxford University,
England, which she attended as a Rhodes
Scholar. Born in Edmonton, Alta., she is married to Robert Badun and has four children.
Health Information Science graduate students hosted several events during last
week’s celebration of Health Information
Professionals Week. They held information
sessions on Monday and Friday in the lobby
of Health Sciences Building, providing information for students on both undergraduate
and graduate program in Health Informatics
and Health Information Science, as well as
describing the roles and functions of health
information professionals and Canadians’
privacy rights and responsibilities. A lunchand-learn session with Gail Crook, CEO of
the Canadian Health Information Management Association, and Nadine Wathen,
director of the FIMS/FHS graduate program
in Health Information Science, attended by
students from across campus on Wednesday.
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Western News
| April 2, 2015
USC celebrates the best in the classroom
ADELA TALBOT // WESTERN NEWS
Left to right, French professor
Sebastien
Ruffo,
Chemistry
professor Felix Lee, English
and Writing Studies professor
Larry Garber, French professor
Mario Longtin and Chemistry
professor Mark Workentin were
honoured for their classroom
excellence Monday night during
the University Students’ Council
Awards ceremony. The five
were named recipients of the
2014-15 University of Western
Ontario Award of Excellence in
Undergraduate
Teaching,
an
honour co-presented by the USC,
The Bank of Nova Scotia and
Western’s Alumni Association.