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Jan 21, 2025 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
In July 2023, the Ontario government mandated reading screening for children in senior kindergarten through Grade 2 in publicly funded schools. The results of these screenings will be included on children’s report cards for the first time this winter, as they are sent home in the first months of 2025. But what does it mean if a child is not reaching the benchmark for early reading? Katelyn Bryant is assistant director and a supervising psychologist at Western’s Mary J.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Justin Zadorsky
Western researchers who study activity among young kids have created an online course to help tackle a pervasive problem: Children are not getting enough daily movement, especially while in childcare. "We've been working in childcare settings for more than a decade, trying to understand environmental factors that influence physical activity in kids," said Trish Tucker, professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Western.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
Western researchers who study activity among young kids have created an online course to help tackle a pervasive problem: Children are not getting enough daily movement, especially while in childcare. “We’ve been working in childcare settings for more than a decade, trying to understand environmental factors that influence physical activity in kids,” said Trish Tucker, professor in the School of Occupational Therapy at Western.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
In communities and classrooms around the country, Western history professor Jonathan Vance’s First World War postcard project is teaching a new generation about the everyday people who fought in one of the world’s deadliest wars. Vance completed the first round of the project last year, sending more than 400 replicas of postcards sent by Canadian soldiers during the First World War to the original Canadian addresses that received them.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Justin Zadorsky
ShareOn Nov. 5, Americans will head to the polls to cast their vote for president of the United States. How a candidate wins the election is more complicated than just votes. It actually comes down to an often misunderstood body called the Electoral College. But what is the Electoral College and what role does it play in choosing the next president of the United States?
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
On Nov. 5 Americans will head to the polls to cast their vote for president of the United States. How a candidate wins the election is more complicated than just votes. It actually comes down to an often misunderstood body called the Electoral College. But what is the Electoral College and what role does it play in choosing the next president of the United States?
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
Gathering from all directions, a flock of starlings will take complex shapes, moving and weaving in different formations across the sky, all for the protection and collective good of the birds. It’s this trait that inspired the name behind the Faculty of Information and Media Studies’ (FIMS) first-ever research centre: Starling. The Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies aims to educate and empower communities on the impacts of digital technologies on our lives.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
phys.org | Justin Zadorsky
Nestled in the Uinta Mountains of northern Utah, a series of pristine lakes are facing a new threat—humans. Geography professor and chair Katrina Moser led a team of researchers in the region this summer to better understand how human activity, like agriculture and warming temperatures because of climate change, is leading to dramatic changes in a water system far from populous areas.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
Nestled in the Uinta Mountains of northern Utah, a series of pristine lakes are facing a new threat – humans. Geography professor and chair Katrina Moser led a team of researchers in the region this summer to better understand how human activity, like agriculture and warming temperatures because of climate change, is leading to dramatic changes in a water system far from populous areas. “The most notable change is that air and water temperatures are warmer,” said Moser.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
news.westernu.ca | Justin Zadorsky
August is a key month for meteor enthusiasts with one of the most famous showers, the Perseids, expected to peak in the coming days. While the best time to look to the skies will occur after nightfall on Sunday, Aug. 11 and into the early morning of Monday, Aug. 12, you may already be able to catch a few meteors if you know where to look. Western physics and astronomy professor Peter Brown, Canada Research Chair in planetary small bodies, also leads the Western Meteor Physics Group.
