Astronomer Pauline Barmby will be spending a week in Toronto with other top scientists learning how to communicate her love of science to the public, media, and potential funders.

See the full story in the Western News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7p28SiRnO8&feature=youtu.be

When Kyle Gilbert graduated with his PhD in medical physics in 2008, he had no inkling of what would lie ahead in his career.

He has since then become an integral part of a world-leading science and engineering research team in the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping at the Robarts Research Institute.

See the full story at “Building Better Science“.

Here is a video titled “Toilet Paper Revisited“, by Don Moorcroft, which recreates at talk that he gave at the University of Saskatchewan in the fall of 2005. It is illustrates some revised experimental physics from the original talk “The One-handed Toilet Paper Problem“, which had been given on April 1, 2005 at Western.

Faranak Sharifi (photo above) has been awarded the Robert and Ruth Lumsden Graduate Fellowship for 2013-2014.

Faranak works with supervisor Dr. Giovanni Fanchini in the area of condensed matter physics, specifically with nanomaterials and nano-optoelectronics.

These fellowships were made possible by a bequest to Foundation Western by the late Ruth V. Lumsden (BA ’79) and Robert O. Lumsden (BA ’78).

Have a telecon ! Shown are Prof. Bob Sica’s students and researchers communicating with him while he is on sabbatical in Switzerland.

On March 15 2014, there was an inaugural Colour of Hope Run at Western. Despite the cold, we had a good turn out and it was a lot of fun.  It raised funds for the Canadian Cancer Society and for Western’s students in cancer research (CaRTT).  Among the participants were 3rd year undergraduate Physics student David Uren and Physics graduate Tom Hrinivich.  More photos on can be found here.

http://vimeo.com/89551067

This important news just in:

http://blog.purplecrowlidar.ca/2014/04/uwuo-weather-guru-predicts-extreme.html

Led once again by Western meteorite collection archivist Dr. Phil McCausland, an optimistic group of meteorite hunters took to the ground north of St. Thomas on Sunday. The skies were blue and the weather perfect, but it was typical spring conditions on the ground, ranging from grass, snow, and ice. The group steered clear of very muddy areas.