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      <image:caption>Yan Wu, public art curator and Daniels PhD student.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>A dictionary set Yecid Ortega&apos;s course</image:title>
      <image:caption>Yecid Ortega at his December 2025 book launch in OISE&apos;s Nexus Lounge.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nine lives of work receive university honours</image:title>
      <image:caption>The nine recipients of U of T&apos;s 2026 honorary degrees.</image:caption>
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  <url>
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      <image:title>Veronica Wu weighs her next kitchen move</image:title>
      <image:caption>Veronica Wu with her trophy after winning MasterChef Canada&apos;s eighth season.</image:caption>
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  <url>
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      <image:title>Hilda Gan carries nursing into business</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hilda Gan, nursing graduate and president of People Bright Consulting.</image:caption>
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  <url>
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      <image:title>Zachary Miller completes Canada&apos;s first DrPH</image:title>
      <image:caption>From left: Ted Witek, Zachary Miller and Anne Wojtak at convocation.</image:caption>
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  <url>
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      <image:title>NordSpace prepares Taiga for another launch attempt</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rahul Goel at NordSpace&apos;s manufacturing facility in Markham, Ontario.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/nordspace-prepares-taiga-for-another-launch-attempt/index.md</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-55-0.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Peter Fritz puts AI on dentistry&apos;s agenda</image:title>
      <image:caption>Peter Fritz alongside an AI-generated version of his likeness.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/peter-fritz-puts-ai-on-dentistrys-agenda/index.md</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/two-nurses-put-their-handover-into-print/</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-56-0.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Two nurses put their handover into print</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tilda Shalof and Lisa Mochrie appear beside the cover of The Handover.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/two-nurses-put-their-handover-into-print/index.md</loc>
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  <url>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-57-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Afua Cooper brings overlooked histories into view</image:title>
      <image:caption>Afua Cooper, historian and leader of A Black People&apos;s History of Canada.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/afua-cooper-brings-overlooked-histories-into-view/index.md</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/jasmine-wemigwans-paints-a-thread-of-knowledge/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-58-0.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Jasmine Wemigwans paints a thread of knowledge</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jasmine Wemigwans&apos;s acrylic self-portrait connects information studies with her Anishinaabe worldview.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/jasmine-wemigwans-paints-a-thread-of-knowledge/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/varsity-blues-alumni-take-their-winter-places/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Varsity Blues alumni take their winter places</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gabrielle De Serres, Paul Poirier and Luka Stoikos in a composite image.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/varsity-blues-alumni-take-their-winter-places/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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  <url>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-60-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The therapists behind Canada&apos;s winter teams</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sport physical therapists Mireille Landry and Michael Lenart.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-therapists-behind-canadas-winter-teams/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-61-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sarah Hime turns pain into a film</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sarah Hime, right, plays Alice during a scene from Alice is Fine.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/sarah-hime-turns-pain-into-a-film/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-62-0.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Alphonse Daniel keeps Hart House connections open</image:title>
      <image:caption>Alphonse Daniel with Hart House&apos;s Youth Advisory Council.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/alphonse-daniel-keeps-hart-house-connections-open/index.md</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-63-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Krystal Brant brings teaching into health care</image:title>
      <image:caption>Krystal Brant, a 2025 Master of Social Work graduate.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/krystal-brant-brings-teaching-into-health-care/index.md</loc>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/sidon-grange-studies-viruses-and-builds-community/</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-64-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Sidoné Grange studies viruses and builds community</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sidoné Grange, UTM biology graduate and former Black Students&apos; Association co-president.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/sidon-grange-studies-viruses-and-builds-community/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-65-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>A floor lamp takes on laundry</image:title>
      <image:caption>Syncere founders Aaron Tan, left, and Angus Fung.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-floor-lamp-takes-on-laundry/index.md</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-66-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Heather Stark reads the story behind numbers</image:title>
      <image:caption>Heather Stark, chief financial officer of The Fertility Partners.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/heather-stark-reads-the-story-behind-numbers/index.md</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-67-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>U of T ties among national honourees</image:title>
      <image:caption>Order of Canada medals.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/u-of-t-ties-among-national-honourees/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-68-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Fieldwork helped Hargun Rekhi find her place</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hargun Rekhi beside the lake at Koffler Scientific Reserve.</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/fieldwork-helped-hargun-rekhi-find-her-place/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/arda-minocherhomjee-returns-support-to-doctoral-students/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/editorial/story-69-0.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Arda Minocherhomjee returns support to doctoral students</image:title>
      <image:caption>Arda Minocherhomjee, pharmacology graduate and private equity investor.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/arda-minocherhomjee-returns-support-to-doctoral-students/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-language-degree-becomes-a-community-practice/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-01.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>A language degree becomes a community practice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Four graduates make up the inaugural cohort of UBC Okanagan’s Bachelor of St’át’imc Language Fluency. The degree was built with community partners and follows earlier Interior Salish language programs at UBCO. The source reports fewer than 50 fluent speakers in the northern St’át’imc area, making the cohort’s work part of a much larger effort to keep language in use. Graduates described applying what they learned in early-childhood education, at home and in continued study. The story’s most durable image is not a credential alone. It is a circle of learners who supported one another across distance, then returned that learning to families and communities.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-language-degree-becomes-a-community-practice/index.md</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-02.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>When dependence becomes leverage</image:title>
      <image:caption>Harish Krishnan’s analysis begins with a concrete question about Bombardier and the US market. The wider lesson is about dependence: when one market matters disproportionately, access can become a source of pressure. The article connects current tariff politics with a broader argument about economic leverage. It also notes a limit to that leverage, because cross-border firms bring suppliers, workers and customers on both sides of the relationship. For alumni watching their own industries, the useful takeaway is a question rather than a forecast: where are the alternatives, and what would it take to build them?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/when-dependence-becomes-leverage/index.md</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-03.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>The long way back to an earlier passion</image:title>
      <image:caption>The final instalment of UBC Magazine’s Readers Write career series asks alumni to look backward without treating the past as a plan. Their stories include sport, design, food, science and other interests that reappeared after apparently unrelated work. One contributor moved from competitive skiing through film production, sales and business development before finding a way back to sport. The value of the account is not a universal formula for career change; it is permission to notice which skills travelled with the detour. A career can be nonlinear without being incoherent. Hindsight supplies the connective tissue, but the next move still has to be chosen in the present.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-long-way-back-to-an-earlier-passion/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-gift-designed-for-the-next-generation-of-care/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-04.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>A gift designed for the next generation of care</image:title>
      <image:caption>UBC says the gift is the largest ever made to a Canadian school of nursing. In recognition, the school and its future home will carry the MacIsaac name when the change launches in early fall. The stated use is broad but concrete: strengthen nursing education, research and clinical learning, and prepare health-care leaders for changing needs in British Columbia and beyond. The donors’ own alumni relationship is part of the story’s logic of return. The announcement is a commitment, not evidence that future outcomes have already been achieved. Its significance will be measured later in facilities, learning and care.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-gift-designed-for-the-next-generation-of-care/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/biodiversity-is-a-memory-test-with-consequences/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-05.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Biodiversity is a memory test with consequences</image:title>
      <image:caption>The quiz moves through mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, asking readers to identify species from photographs and clues. It is light in form, but the context is serious: the province’s biodiversity is under pressure as the climate changes. The piece also marks the first anniversary of the Beaty Biodiversity Centre expansion, a $45-million project that brings researchers, students and community partners together around biodiversity questions. A quiz cannot measure ecological knowledge or protection. It can make the names of local species harder to forget, which is a small but useful beginning.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/biodiversity-is-a-memory-test-with-consequences/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/brain-health-is-also-a-social-question/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-06.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>Brain health is also a social question</image:title>
      <image:caption>The article reports five takeaways from an alumni UBC MEDTalks session on lifelong brain health. The experts frame dementia risk as influenced by more than genetics, with midlife behaviour and the surrounding environment both relevant. Social connection is one of the themes. The piece also points to modifiable factors and the idea that beneficial changes are not limited to one age bracket. These are educational points from a public discussion, not a personal diagnosis or treatment plan. For an alumni audience, the connection is direct: staying mentally well is not only an individual project. It can involve relationships, habits, care and the communities that make those habits possible.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/brain-health-is-also-a-social-question/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-return-measured-in-care-not-distance/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-07.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>A return measured in care, not distance</image:title>
      <image:caption>The pelt, held by the Smithsonian since 1859, is returning to the region connected to its history. Woolly dogs were bred by Salish and Makah peoples for hair used in weaving blankets, robes and clothing; the animals disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century. The loan runs from September 2026 to August 2027. The source emphasizes that the object’s return is being shaped by community request and knowledge, including time for Elders, knowledge keepers and weavers before exhibition. That sequence matters. A museum loan is not simply a transfer of an object. It can also be a chance to reconnect material, memory, territory and living practice.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-return-measured-in-care-not-distance/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-science-behind-the-foam/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/ubc/editorial/story-08.png</image:loc>
      <image:title>The science behind the foam</image:title>
      <image:caption>For Pamely Keung, the test is whether steamed oat milk holds its foam over espresso without separating. As director of research and development at Earth’s Own, the double UBC alum works at the point where formulation, manufacturing and consumer experience meet. The article describes years of trials to balance nutrition, taste, structure and reliable production. It also places that work in a wider university–industry relationship: research becomes useful when it can survive contact with a real process and a real customer. The latte is the visible endpoint. Behind it are experiments, constraints and a chain of decisions that most drinkers never see.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-science-behind-the-foam/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/plant-trees-where-ecosystems-can-thrive/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-01.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Plant trees where ecosystems can thrive</image:title>
      <image:caption>Planting trees in drylands is not always a climate solution. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/plant-trees-where-ecosystems-can-thrive/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/musics-next-chapter-with-sophie-roland/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-02.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Music&apos;s next chapter, with Sophie Roland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sophie Roland named Faculty of Music dean. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/musics-next-chapter-with-sophie-roland/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/an-alums-public-service-arc-returns-to-campus/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-03.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>An alum&apos;s public-service arc returns to campus</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western honorary degree recipient Mitch Frazer. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/an-alums-public-service-arc-returns-to-campus/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/western-backs-its-founders-with-a-5-million-bridge/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-04.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Western backs its founders with a $5-million bridge</image:title>
      <image:caption>New Western Propel Fund invests in startups. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/western-backs-its-founders-with-a-5-million-bridge/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/let-the-disciplines-cross/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-05.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Let the disciplines cross</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cadence McGillicuddy is Western&apos;s student writer-in-residence. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/let-the-disciplines-cross/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/seeing-the-pressure-inside-a-reactor/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-06.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Seeing the pressure inside a reactor</image:title>
      <image:caption>Engineers investigate cracking in nuclear reactors. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/seeing-the-pressure-inside-a-reactor/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/purple-and-proud-in-motion/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-07.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Purple and proud, in motion</image:title>
      <image:caption>In photos: Western University&apos;s OWeek 2026. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/purple-and-proud-in-motion/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/every-map-makes-a-choice/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-08.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Every map makes a choice</image:title>
      <image:caption>Why the Mercator map projection doesn&apos;t work for all. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/every-map-makes-a-choice/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-syllabus-can-still-surprise-you/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-09.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The syllabus can still surprise you</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cool, unique courses at Western University. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-syllabus-can-still-surprise-you/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-campus-keeps-moving-outward/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-10.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The campus keeps moving outward</image:title>
      <image:caption>Around the world with Western in 2026. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-campus-keeps-moving-outward/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-careful-way-back/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-11.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>The careful way back</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seeking safe return to school, sports after teen concussions. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/the-careful-way-back/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/welcome-is-a-designed-experience/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-12.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Welcome is a designed experience</image:title>
      <image:caption>Welcome back, Western: Celebrating OWeek 2026. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/welcome-is-a-designed-experience/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/recognition-then-responsibility/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-13.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Recognition, then responsibility</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western scholars. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/recognition-then-responsibility/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
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    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-social-scientist-in-the-room/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-14.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>A social scientist in the room</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western School of Health Studies director named to U.K. academy. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-social-scientist-in-the-room/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-lagoon-as-a-living-laboratory/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-15.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>A lagoon as a living laboratory</image:title>
      <image:caption>Venice Lagoon living lab for studying climate change. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/a-lagoon-as-a-living-laboratory/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/watching-a-living-model-change/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-16.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Watching a living model change</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western lands 4D imaging system for organoid research. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/watching-a-living-model-change/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/forecasting-the-storms-ahead/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-17.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Forecasting the storms ahead</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western recruits severe storm expert as Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/forecasting-the-storms-ahead/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/electric-fields-offer-new-hope-against-aggressive-brain-cancer/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-18.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Electric fields offer new hope against aggressive brain cancer</image:title>
      <image:caption>Electric fields offer new hope against aggressive brain cancer. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/electric-fields-offer-new-hope-against-aggressive-brain-cancer/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/ultra-processed-foods-linked-to-cardiovascular-disease/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-19.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Ultra-processed foods linked to cardiovascular disease</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ultra-processed foods linked to cardiovascular disease. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/ultra-processed-foods-linked-to-cardiovascular-disease/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/western-researchers-earn-16-3m-in-cihr-funding/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-20.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Western researchers earn $16.3M in CIHR funding</image:title>
      <image:caption>Western researchers earn $16.3M in CIHR funding. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/western-researchers-earn-16-3m-in-cihr-funding/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/when-scholarship-changes-the-law/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-21.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>When scholarship changes the law</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scholars shape landmark intimate partner violence ruling. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/when-scholarship-changes-the-law/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/designing-movement-for-more-people/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
    <image:image>
      <image:loc>https://alumnidigest.com/assets/western/editorial/story-22.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Designing movement for more people</image:title>
      <image:caption>AdaptAbility shows accessible sport, exercise activities. Official Western News image.</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/designing-movement-for-more-people/index.md</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.6</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://alumnidigest.com/stories/health-research-with-a-longer-horizon/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
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