News and Events for the Community

London Reads - February event

Ragged Company, Good to a Fault and The Outlander are the three books for the 2010 edition of London Reads. Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott will be discussed by celebrity readers Jonathan Vance, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture, Department of History, and Jane Roy, Co-Executive Director of London Food Bank,

on Thursday, February 11, 7 p.m. in the Stevenson & Hunt Room, Central Library.

Record-breaking donation to United Way

Western faculty, staff, retirees and students raised a record-breaking $590,383 for the United Way of London & Middlesex this year. The total surpasses last year’s donation of $534,000, making it the largest employee-generated donation ever to the local United Way.

Target Earth: Impacts Large and Small - Feb. 9

February's “Classes without Quizzes" lecture is called Target Earth: Impacts Large and Small. The Earth is constantly bombarded by asteroids and comets. Peter Brown, physics & astronomy associate professor at Western, will discuss the threat these extraterrestrial impacts pose, and how they also offer researchers unparalleled opportunities to better understand our solar system and how it formed. The lecture takes place on Tuesday, February 9 at the Medway Community Centre, Sherwood Forest Square, Wonderland Road North, London. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 7 p.m.

Finding Your Way - Psychology in Everyday Life

Clinical psychology graduate students present the third annual "Finding Your Way: Psychology in Everyday Life" series of free talks for the general public at the London Central Library throughout February 2010. Topics include: Parenting: Developing Healthy Relationships with Your Children; Managing Stress in the Real World; Collaborative Problem Solving with Children; How do I Look? Understanding Human Interest in Body Image; The Road to Success: How to Promote Healthy Brain Development in Children
and How to Have a Good Night’s Sleep.

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