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Grad discovers unexpected muse in opportunities

Grad discovers unexpected muse in opportunities

Jill Smith came Western believing she was a painter and photographer. But when she graduates this spring with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, she leaves grateful for her program’s focus on contemporary and interdisciplinary art, as it has shaped the artist she is today.

Alumni make music in The Early Morning

Alumni make music in The Early Morning

A simple love of music brought a lawyer, a dietician and a French immersion teacher together to form a band and craft their own unique sound – after their day jobs and the kids are asleep. Western alumni Malcolm Scott, Johanna Kaipainen and Sandy MacDonald are all...

Change expands horizons for staffers

Change expands horizons for staffers

As two Western staff members prepare for their Leave for Change service excursions, two others are still reflecting on their experiences with the Western International-led program from the past year. “With how many international students I have in my department, I...

Preserving Canadian memory on Juno Beach

Preserving Canadian memory on Juno Beach

Rebecca (Cline) Le Savoureux, BA’05 (Political Science, French), is ensuring the world never forgets the contributions of Canadian soldiers who liberated a country and freed a planet from fascism during the Second World War.

Harmless appropriation to you; but our preservation

Harmless appropriation to you; but our preservation

A thousand years ago, I wrote a play titled Dead White Writer on the Floor. In it, six familiar native stereotypes – all created by non-Native writers – wander across the stage pondering the point of their creation. Perhaps many of these settler writers merely wanted...

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Western professors Kathryn Brush (Visual Arts) and Tsun-Kong Sham (Chemistry) have been awarded the 2017 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...

Suárez: Time of retreat is over for humanities

Suárez: Time of retreat is over for humanities

Juan Luis Suárez knows when it comes to the arts, humanities and social sciences, universities are standing at an impasse. And it will take scholars from these fields to move towards progress, he said.

Suárez tapped to lead non-STEM efforts

Suárez tapped to lead non-STEM efforts

Western professor Juan Luis Suárez has been named Associate Vice-President (Research), a position university officials envision proving unprecedented support for scholarship in the social sciences, arts and humanities, Research Western announced today.

Grad discovers unexpected muse in opportunities

Grad discovers unexpected muse in opportunities

Jill Smith came Western believing she was a painter and photographer. But when she graduates this spring with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, she leaves grateful for her program’s focus on contemporary and interdisciplinary art, as it has shaped the artist she is today.

Alumni make music in The Early Morning

Alumni make music in The Early Morning

A simple love of music brought a lawyer, a dietician and a French immersion teacher together to form a band and craft their own unique sound – after their day jobs and the kids are asleep. Western alumni Malcolm Scott, Johanna Kaipainen and Sandy MacDonald are all...

Change expands horizons for staffers

Change expands horizons for staffers

As two Western staff members prepare for their Leave for Change service excursions, two others are still reflecting on their experiences with the Western International-led program from the past year. “With how many international students I have in my department, I...

Preserving Canadian memory on Juno Beach

Preserving Canadian memory on Juno Beach

Rebecca (Cline) Le Savoureux, BA’05 (Political Science, French), is ensuring the world never forgets the contributions of Canadian soldiers who liberated a country and freed a planet from fascism during the Second World War.

Harmless appropriation to you; but our preservation

Harmless appropriation to you; but our preservation

A thousand years ago, I wrote a play titled Dead White Writer on the Floor. In it, six familiar native stereotypes – all created by non-Native writers – wander across the stage pondering the point of their creation. Perhaps many of these settler writers merely wanted...

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Western professors Kathryn Brush (Visual Arts) and Tsun-Kong Sham (Chemistry) have been awarded the 2017 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...

Suárez: Time of retreat is over for humanities

Suárez: Time of retreat is over for humanities

Juan Luis Suárez knows when it comes to the arts, humanities and social sciences, universities are standing at an impasse. And it will take scholars from these fields to move towards progress, he said.

Suárez tapped to lead non-STEM efforts

Suárez tapped to lead non-STEM efforts

Western professor Juan Luis Suárez has been named Associate Vice-President (Research), a position university officials envision proving unprecedented support for scholarship in the social sciences, arts and humanities, Research Western announced today.