As summer sets in, perhaps too, the lure to pick up a book. Western News suggests the following works by authors from across campus ─ and across genres ─ touching on family ties, fantasy, the environment, true crime, tourism and Canada’s complex h …
Campus & Community
Read. Watch. Listen. with Nick Shalagan
Find out why Nick Shalagan doesn’t mind a little heavy German opera echoing around the house as he cleans.
New facility opens its doors to come together
University officials celebrated the opening of the Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB) on April 13.
University, union reach tentative deal for GTAs
Western and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, have reached a tentative deal which the negotiating teams have jointly agreed to recommend to their respective parties. Representatives of the university and the union met with a mediator this week and...
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
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
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
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
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...
Engineering student bats in entrepreneurship game
Third-year Western Engineering student Mitchell Godkin is hoping to hit a homerun with his latest entrepreneurial endeavour, the Leadbury Bat Co.
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
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
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...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Nick Shalagan
Find out why Nick Shalagan doesn’t mind a little heavy German opera echoing around the house as he cleans.
New facility opens its doors to come together
University officials celebrated the opening of the Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB) on April 13.
University, union reach tentative deal for GTAs
Western and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, have reached a tentative deal which the negotiating teams have jointly agreed to recommend to their respective parties. Representatives of the university and the union met with a mediator this week and...
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
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
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
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
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...
Engineering student bats in entrepreneurship game
Third-year Western Engineering student Mitchell Godkin is hoping to hit a homerun with his latest entrepreneurial endeavour, the Leadbury Bat Co.
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
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
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...