When Ethan Li arrives at Western this fall, he’ll bring a peace of mind and confidence he gained attending Community Connections, an optional, immersive experience for incoming students. Et …
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Western News Newsmakers 2015
How will we remember 2015? Probably through one or more of these faces. Join us in this spotlight, in brief words and striking images, of some of our favourites from the last year.
Student turns royal meeting into a family affair
Colin Grimm turned his royal encounter into a family affair earlier this fall. The fourth-year French Language and Literature student joined his younger brother, Quinten, in Toronto in October to pick up their Duke of Edinburgh International Award program Gold Medals...
France celebrates professor’s contributions
Western French Studies professor Jeff Tennant received a national order of France at the Dr. David S.H. Chu International Student Centre earlier this week, recognizing his work in French phonetics and sociolinguistics, alongside his dedication to fostering shared...
Exploring our social response to Paris attacks
One tweet from One Direction member Louis Tomlinson during the Paris attacks summarily proves the true impact of celebrity and the existence of the global connectivity.
Bentley puts Canadian identity in the spotlight
English professor David Bentley, the 2015 winner of the Killam Prize, delivered the second address in the President’s Lecture Series, ‘Simile, Metaphor, and the Making and Perception of Canada,’ to a packed audience Wednesday in the Paul Davenport Theatre.
Shopify co-founder to deliver Digital Creativity lecture
Daniel Weinand, Shopify Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, will share his trials and triumphs in building a billion-dollar, Canadian-based e-commence company during his keynote lecture at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, in Arts & Humanities Building, room 1R40. My...
Tennant to receive Ordre des Palmes Académiques
For Jeff Tennant, it is a tribute to a career he fell into, after falling in love with the French language in his teenage years.
Of Space, Time and The Mind
A century ago this month, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation, the General Theory of Relativity, by publically debuting it during presentations to the Prussian Academy in November 1915. A seminal text, this paper led to a scientific...
Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics
Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...
Celebrating Einstein
A popular picture of scientific revolutions, such as Einstein’s overthrow of Newtonian physics, paints them as involving something like a gestalt shift; they involve a sudden reorientation of the perspective through which we see the world. The perspective, through...
Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist
In December 2014, Stathis Psillos, former Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western, suggested the idea of Einstein @ Rotman, a series of events culminating with a museum exhibit with manuscripts related to Einstein’s theory of general...
Games God plays: Einstein, God, dice and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
To most of us, Albert Einstein is known as one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century - perhaps even of all time. He introduced new ways of thinking about space and time in the Special and General Theories of Relativity, and these were not even the...
Western News Newsmakers 2015
How will we remember 2015? Probably through one or more of these faces. Join us in this spotlight, in brief words and striking images, of some of our favourites from the last year.
Student turns royal meeting into a family affair
Colin Grimm turned his royal encounter into a family affair earlier this fall. The fourth-year French Language and Literature student joined his younger brother, Quinten, in Toronto in October to pick up their Duke of Edinburgh International Award program Gold Medals...
France celebrates professor’s contributions
Western French Studies professor Jeff Tennant received a national order of France at the Dr. David S.H. Chu International Student Centre earlier this week, recognizing his work in French phonetics and sociolinguistics, alongside his dedication to fostering shared...
Exploring our social response to Paris attacks
One tweet from One Direction member Louis Tomlinson during the Paris attacks summarily proves the true impact of celebrity and the existence of the global connectivity.
Bentley puts Canadian identity in the spotlight
English professor David Bentley, the 2015 winner of the Killam Prize, delivered the second address in the President’s Lecture Series, ‘Simile, Metaphor, and the Making and Perception of Canada,’ to a packed audience Wednesday in the Paul Davenport Theatre.
Shopify co-founder to deliver Digital Creativity lecture
Daniel Weinand, Shopify Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, will share his trials and triumphs in building a billion-dollar, Canadian-based e-commence company during his keynote lecture at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, in Arts & Humanities Building, room 1R40. My...
Tennant to receive Ordre des Palmes Académiques
For Jeff Tennant, it is a tribute to a career he fell into, after falling in love with the French language in his teenage years.
Of Space, Time and The Mind
A century ago this month, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation, the General Theory of Relativity, by publically debuting it during presentations to the Prussian Academy in November 1915. A seminal text, this paper led to a scientific...
Dice Capades: Einstein and quantum mechanics
Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...
Celebrating Einstein
A popular picture of scientific revolutions, such as Einstein’s overthrow of Newtonian physics, paints them as involving something like a gestalt shift; they involve a sudden reorientation of the perspective through which we see the world. The perspective, through...
Relics of a life: Einstein museum exhibit brings an interactive twist
In December 2014, Stathis Psillos, former Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western, suggested the idea of Einstein @ Rotman, a series of events culminating with a museum exhibit with manuscripts related to Einstein’s theory of general...
Games God plays: Einstein, God, dice and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
To most of us, Albert Einstein is known as one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century - perhaps even of all time. He introduced new ways of thinking about space and time in the Special and General Theories of Relativity, and these were not even the...