Western will slash its carbon emissions with the installation of a new electric boiler to generate steam for heating and hot water. Nearly $4.75 million in federal funding from carbon tax proceeds will help the university replace one of its natural ga …
Two weeks after Western Law professor Randal Graham’s first work of fiction, Beforelife, was released, he was sitting upstairs in his home, writing, when he got an unexpected home visit. “It was one of the editors of ECW Press, she was freaking out because she had...
Thy Phu wants you to see beyond the photograph. She wants you to consider not only what is pictured, but what is missing – and why. She wants you to think about who is taking the photo and the power that comes with selecting the image that resides in the frame. This...
A new study of water intake among people with chronic kidney disease is literally a “glass-half-full scenario,” said Dr. William Clark. Clark, professor at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, said standard...
On March 27, 2015, astronaut Scott Kelly rode a rocket to the International Space Station. Waving up at him from Earth was Mark Kelly, his moustachioed twin brother. While they were 400 vertical kilometres apart, NASA scientists studied how the human body reacts to...
*Posted May 14th on his personal blog* A few days ago, I wrote about our first day of field trials for an open source 3D-printed tourniquet in Gaza. The Glia team worked overtime to address and fix the problems we identified. Thanks to help from the 3D printing,...
Following the Ontario provincial election campaign has been a “new toy, every day” for Western Political Science professor Cristine de Clercy. “This is a really complicated election. If we look at the economic issues alone, not just the state of the provincial...
The plight of music teachers has fallen on Ontario politicians’ tone deaf ears, a Western Music professor contends. Despite ongoing public discussion about the importance of music education, many Ontario public school students will never get to experience the joy of...
After an historic 46-year run, Western News will publish its final print edition on June 21, accelerating an exciting digital chapter – one already well underway.
When Ann Lamanes came to Western in 1996, she hoped to study Geography and perhaps pursue a career in urban planning. But rapid technological advances changed the map – and her plans.
Pirates and punk rock. Gruesome assassinations and weird operations. More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.
Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...
Douglas Keddy understands what a good story can accomplish.
Two weeks after Western Law professor Randal Graham’s first work of fiction, Beforelife, was released, he was sitting upstairs in his home, writing, when he got an unexpected home visit. “It was one of the editors of ECW Press, she was freaking out because she had...
Thy Phu wants you to see beyond the photograph. She wants you to consider not only what is pictured, but what is missing – and why. She wants you to think about who is taking the photo and the power that comes with selecting the image that resides in the frame. This...
A new study of water intake among people with chronic kidney disease is literally a “glass-half-full scenario,” said Dr. William Clark. Clark, professor at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, said standard...
On March 27, 2015, astronaut Scott Kelly rode a rocket to the International Space Station. Waving up at him from Earth was Mark Kelly, his moustachioed twin brother. While they were 400 vertical kilometres apart, NASA scientists studied how the human body reacts to...
*Posted May 14th on his personal blog* A few days ago, I wrote about our first day of field trials for an open source 3D-printed tourniquet in Gaza. The Glia team worked overtime to address and fix the problems we identified. Thanks to help from the 3D printing,...
Following the Ontario provincial election campaign has been a “new toy, every day” for Western Political Science professor Cristine de Clercy. “This is a really complicated election. If we look at the economic issues alone, not just the state of the provincial...
The plight of music teachers has fallen on Ontario politicians’ tone deaf ears, a Western Music professor contends. Despite ongoing public discussion about the importance of music education, many Ontario public school students will never get to experience the joy of...
After an historic 46-year run, Western News will publish its final print edition on June 21, accelerating an exciting digital chapter – one already well underway.
When Ann Lamanes came to Western in 1996, she hoped to study Geography and perhaps pursue a career in urban planning. But rapid technological advances changed the map – and her plans.
Pirates and punk rock. Gruesome assassinations and weird operations. More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.
Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...
Douglas Keddy understands what a good story can accomplish.