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40 unusual facts about University of Western Ontario


2010 TK7

The orbital information was published in the journal Nature by Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario, Martin Connors of Athabasca University and Christian Veillet, the executive director of the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.

Alexander Pruss

Pruss graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics.

Articular cartilage repair

New research by Dr. Robert Litchfield, September 2008, of the University of Western Ontario concluded that routinely practised knee surgery is ineffective at reducing joint pain or improving joint function in people with osteoarthritis.

BCIE

The Bell Centre for Information Engineering, a research group at the The University of Western Ontario in the area of Wireless Communications and Networking

Carl Franz Robinow

Following formative research experience in Denmark, England, and the U.S. he came to Canada in 1949 and worked in Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.

Charles Ling

He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

16 physicians elected by their peers on a geographical basis every three years; 3 physicians appointed from among the six faculties of medicine (at the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University, University of Toronto, Queen's University, University of Ottawa, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine); no fewer than 13 and no more than 15 non-physician or 'public' members appointed by the provincial government for terms decided by the government.

David Lawee

He earned a philosophy degree at the University of Western Ontario, a law degree at McGill University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Ehsan Hoque

By 1987, he had become a medical doctor; he completed his Ph.D. in 1995, and his postdoctoral fellowship in 1997 at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Gabriel Leung

After that, he moved to Canada, where he received his medical degree from University of Western Ontario, master from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from University of Hong Kong.

George William Sulman

Between 2003-2004 a collaborative effort between the University of Western Ontario, Chatham-Kent Museum and sculptor Christian Cardell Corbet was created where Corbet sculpted a forensic reconstruction of what the Sulman Mummy would have looked like.

Glenn Stevens

He subsequently obtained a Masters degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Gloria M Gutman

She was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Western Ontario in 2010.

Goli Rezai Rashti

Goli Rezai-Rashti (Persian: گُلی رضایی رشتی) is an Iranian-born Canadian educational sociologist and professor at The University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Jack Zunz

He received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1993 and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Glasgow in 1994.

John C. Yuille

He attended the University of Western Ontario, receiving his Bachelors of Arts in 1964, his masters in 1965, and his Ph.D. in 1967.

Jon Erlichman

Erlichman graduated Summa Cum Laude in economics from the University of Western Ontario.

Khaled J. Saleh

After completing his medical training at the University of Western Ontario, Saleh completed his postgraduate training in orthopaedic surgery at University of Toronto followed by a fellowship in geriatric orthopaedics at University of Toronto at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Excelling in Math and Science, Saleh went on to attend the University of Western Ontario on an academic scholarship .

Lawrence Sealewyn Holmes

Holmes graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1906, and completed postgraduate studies in Chicago and New York.

Lord Morpheous

Morpheous attended the University of Western Ontario and acquired his bachelor’s degree in education and an honors degree in visual arts.

Lyndon Lea

In 1990, after graduating in business administration from the University of Western Ontario, his career started in the mergers and acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs in New York.

Melvyn A. Goodale

He is Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience.

Merilyn Simonds

Merilyn Simonds spent her childhood in Brazil, returning to Canada as a young teenager, where she was educated at the University of Western Ontario.

Michael Lysko

After his firing, Lysko became the director of athletics at the University of Western Ontario, which included the renovations of TD Waterhouse Stadium, Alumni Hall and Thames Hall.

Museum of Ontario Archaeology

The museum is an Affiliated Research Institute of The University of Western Ontario.

Paul Wiegert

Paul Wiegert is a Canadian astronomer and professor at the University of Western Ontario, specialising in study of unusual orbits of both observed objects and theorised classes of objects.

Regna Darnell

Currently she is professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Richard Harshman

Dr Richard A. Harshman was a member of the Department of Psychology of the University of Western Ontario since 1976, rising in the ranks to the level of Full Professor.

Robert McMurtry

In 1992, he became Dean of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario and subsequently Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, a post he held until 1999.

McMurtry is Professor of Surgery at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario and Orthopedic Consultant at St. Josephs Health Care in London, Ontario.

Ronald Paul Hubert

In 1984, Hubert graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Psychology, with his thesis "Custody & Access Project, London Family Court Clinic."

Soldotna Sports Center

Usually billed as "The Showdown in So-Town," The University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves Division I men's hockey team have played a pair of recent exhibition contests in front of SRO crowds at the Sports Center – once in 2004 against Grant MacEwan College (where UAA won 5-1), and again in 2006 against the University of Western Ontario (where UWO won 3-1).

Steve Rucchin

His coach happened to also be an assistant with the University of Western Ontario and recruited him.

Thomas B. Costain

He received a Doctor of Letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of Western Ontario in May 1952 and he received a gold medallion from the Canadian Club of New York in June 1965.

Veropedia

Tim Blackmore, an associate professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies of the University of Western Ontario, expressed scepticism toward the project, since there are already encyclopedias in existence where "content is checked and articles are reviewed".

W. Michael Cox

During this time he took leave to work as a visiting assistant professor for the University of Rochester and the University of Western Ontario.

Western University

The University of Western Ontario, branded as Western University, a university in London, Ontario, Canada

Yisa Braimoh

Braimoh was educated as an engineer at the University of Western Ontario, Ontario Canada (1982), Cranefield Institute of Technology, Cranefield UK (1981) and Engineering College, Penzance, Cornwall UK (1969-1970).

Zhivargo Laing

Later, he was enrolled at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, graduating with a Bachelor of Art's Degree in Agro-economics.


2011 Lorca earthquake

A team led by Dr Pablo Gonzalez of the University of Western Ontario in Canada reported in the journal Nature Geoscience in October 2012 that the pattern of earth movement was consistent with changes in stresses caused by the removal of water from underground reservoirs.

Albino Squirrel Preservation Society

In the following years, ASPS chapters were formed at the University of Western Ontario, Cambridge University, Texas A&M University, Illinois State University, the Juilliard School of Music, the University of Louisville, and Concord High School in Concord, California.

Colin H. Williams

In 1973 he gained an English Speaking Union Scholarship tenable at the Department of Geography, the University of Western Ontario' and undertook field work on the challenges facing the French language in Quebec and Acadia.

Devon Island

On July 16, 2013, the Canadian Space Agency assigned Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen to a secondment with the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration of the University of Western Ontario at Haughton Crater in preparation for a potential future manned exploration of Mars, the Moon or the asteroids.

Goldwin Corlett Elgie

He was born in Dresden, the son of George Albert Elgie and Margaret Elizabeth Corlett, and was educated in Dresden, at Albert College, Western University and Osgoode Hall.

Imants Barušs

He has served in a number of administrative roles including Chair of the Department of Psychology and member of the Senate of the University of Western Ontario, and belongs to various professional organizations including the Society for Scientific Exploration and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Jacqui Malouf

Raised in Canada, she attended the University of Western Ontario, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, before beginning her career as a stand-up comic.

Jarkko Kari

He married Lila Kari, a later mathematics student at Turku; they divorced, and afterwards Lila Kari became a professor of computer science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Jennifer Hedger

A native of London, Ontario, Hedger grew up in Lambeth and Westminster, Ontario and later graduated from the University of Western Ontario.

Margaret Heng

Born 1961 in Singapore, Heng is an alumna of Raffles Girls' School, National Junior College, University of Western Ontario, and George Washington University.

Michael J. Perry

Perry began his teaching career at Ohio State University College of Law (1975-82) and has taught as a visiting professor at several law schools, including Yale Law School, Tulane University School of Law, New York Law School, University of Tokyo, University of Alabama School of Law, and University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Paul McKeever

McKeever graduated from Trent University with an Honours Bachelor of Science in 1989 and a Master of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1991 and a law degree from the same university in 1995.

Vic Emery

Involved in athletics from a young age, Emery was a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and the Harvard Business School where he earned an MBA.