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Inclusive leadership program helps leaders develop, model EDI lens

Inclusive leadership program helps leaders develop, model EDI lens

A new workshop as part of Western’s Excellence in Leadership program is helping equip leaders with skills and perspectives to cultivate inclusion on their teams and across campus.  A partnership between Western Human Resources and the Office of Equi …

Forging on the feminist fitness journey

Forging on the feminist fitness journey

It started as a personal blog on which philosophers Tracy Isaacs and Samantha Brennan would share their fitness journeys, publicly tackling a challenge to be in the best shape of their lives by the age of 50.

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Aiming to bridge the gap between the Ivory Tower and the general public, Western has committed to being a founding member of The Conversation Canada. The Conversation, a daily independent news and analysis online publication, delivers expertise from the academic and...

Grant looks to bring brain researchers closer together

Grant looks to bring brain researchers closer together

Organizers see a first-of-its-kind grant program as more about collaboration, rather than competition, in supporting the efforts of researchers to address challenges in brain health. The McGill-Western Collaboration Grant program supports neuroscience and...

Teaching Fellows promote new thinking

Teaching Fellows promote new thinking

Western’s Teaching Fellows are outstanding educators who, in partnership with the Teaching Support Centre, provide educational leadership to the university community through research on teaching and learning. Each Fellow develops, implements, and assesses the impact...

Project opens book on learning here and abroad

Project opens book on learning here and abroad

Aikansha Chawla had never written a children’s book – let alone one in Spanish. But that is exactly what the Science student did this semester. And soon, her book, along with more than 125 others created by fellow classmates, will come to life in the hands of school...

New fellow stands among his heroes

New fellow stands among his heroes

Kibret Mequanint now counts his heroes among his peers. And he could not be more excited. The Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows for...

Music provides way to Arabic language understanding

Music provides way to Arabic language understanding

Educators have long aspired to create innovative pedagogical methods to improve the instruction of languages to non-native speakers. But the reliance on emphasizing grammatical rules, without capturing the attention or stimulating the enthusiasm of the students, has...

Artist’s work a reminder of work to be done

Artist’s work a reminder of work to be done

On June 7, 2006, while on a lunch break as a special education instructor with the Thames Valley District School Board, Vanessa Zita Vanderidder was found dead along the side of her car. Or at least, that is what first responders pronounced her when they arrived on...

Kubrick’s AI nightmare, 50 years later

Kubrick’s AI nightmare, 50 years later

As David Bowman – the surviving crew member aboard the Discovery One spacecraft in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey – disassembles HAL 9000, the sentient computer pleads in an affectless, monotone voice: “I’m afraid, Dave.” “Dave, my mind is going. I can feel...

From one mom to another

From one mom to another

Bookmarks spotlights the personalities and published books of faculty, staff and alumni. Today, Cynthia Lockrey, BA’95 (English/History), author of Bed Rest Mom: Surviving Pregnancy-Related Bed Rest with Your Sanity and Dignity Intact, answers questions on her...

Forging on the feminist fitness journey

Forging on the feminist fitness journey

It started as a personal blog on which philosophers Tracy Isaacs and Samantha Brennan would share their fitness journeys, publicly tackling a challenge to be in the best shape of their lives by the age of 50.

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Aiming to bridge the gap between the Ivory Tower and the general public, Western has committed to being a founding member of The Conversation Canada. The Conversation, a daily independent news and analysis online publication, delivers expertise from the academic and...

Grant looks to bring brain researchers closer together

Grant looks to bring brain researchers closer together

Organizers see a first-of-its-kind grant program as more about collaboration, rather than competition, in supporting the efforts of researchers to address challenges in brain health. The McGill-Western Collaboration Grant program supports neuroscience and...

Teaching Fellows promote new thinking

Teaching Fellows promote new thinking

Western’s Teaching Fellows are outstanding educators who, in partnership with the Teaching Support Centre, provide educational leadership to the university community through research on teaching and learning. Each Fellow develops, implements, and assesses the impact...

Project opens book on learning here and abroad

Project opens book on learning here and abroad

Aikansha Chawla had never written a children’s book – let alone one in Spanish. But that is exactly what the Science student did this semester. And soon, her book, along with more than 125 others created by fellow classmates, will come to life in the hands of school...

New fellow stands among his heroes

New fellow stands among his heroes

Kibret Mequanint now counts his heroes among his peers. And he could not be more excited. The Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows for...

Music provides way to Arabic language understanding

Music provides way to Arabic language understanding

Educators have long aspired to create innovative pedagogical methods to improve the instruction of languages to non-native speakers. But the reliance on emphasizing grammatical rules, without capturing the attention or stimulating the enthusiasm of the students, has...

Artist’s work a reminder of work to be done

Artist’s work a reminder of work to be done

On June 7, 2006, while on a lunch break as a special education instructor with the Thames Valley District School Board, Vanessa Zita Vanderidder was found dead along the side of her car. Or at least, that is what first responders pronounced her when they arrived on...

Kubrick’s AI nightmare, 50 years later

Kubrick’s AI nightmare, 50 years later

As David Bowman – the surviving crew member aboard the Discovery One spacecraft in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey – disassembles HAL 9000, the sentient computer pleads in an affectless, monotone voice: “I’m afraid, Dave.” “Dave, my mind is going. I can feel...

From one mom to another

From one mom to another

Bookmarks spotlights the personalities and published books of faculty, staff and alumni. Today, Cynthia Lockrey, BA’95 (English/History), author of Bed Rest Mom: Surviving Pregnancy-Related Bed Rest with Your Sanity and Dignity Intact, answers questions on her...