On Aug. 24, 1991, I was one of a handful of foreign journalists working for a British newspaper and in the Ukrainian parliament when legislators surprised the world and voted for Ukraine’s declaration of independence. This year Ukraine is once again s …
History
Outreach event introduces the future to history
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.
Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers
Earth Sciences professor Gail Atkinson and History professor Maya Shatzmiller have been awarded the 2018 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...
Western celebrates top teaching talent
Eighteen winners, representing five different faculties, have been awarded Western’s highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning. This year’s winners join a company of teachers nearly a quarter-century strong.
Newsmakers: The Athlete
Joy Spear Chief-Morris For Joy Spear Chief-Morris, track and field was an escape. The sport was a place to get away from the world, a place she sensed she belonged and, most of all, a place where she chased dreams she never thought possible. Earlier this year, she was...
New book takes Canadians ‘Behind the Lines’
While stories ripped from the battlefield dominate most histories, the contributions of Canadians who remained on home front during the World Wars takes centre stage in McIntosh Gallery’s latest creation. Released this week, Behind the Lines: Canada’s Home Front...
Award honours athlete still running down dreams
Joy Spear Chief-Morris, BA’17, won the 2017 Tom Longboat Award, an honour that recognizes Aboriginal athletes for outstanding contributions to sport in Canada.
Alumnus finds roughs in the diamond
W.G. (Will) Braund loves baseball. But when it comes to chatting about the great American pastime, he’s likely to share stories of wrestling alligators, fighting bears, eating live snakes on the vaudeville stage and partying with the likes of Jack Dempsey, Douglas...
History students find ‘lost’ cemetery stones
Western students working on a Canada150 project at Woodland Cemetery in London have discovered 130 gravestones that had been all but lost to history.
Librarian uncovers historic files using ‘digital forensics’
Vincent Gray has more than 100 early 80s-era floppy discs and a hefty, mustard yellow, Back to the Future-looking laptop tucked away in his office. There’s a wealth of information stored on the dated hardware – detailed logs of 13th and 14th century agrarian practices...
Brush named to top professor honour
Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush smiles as she remembers getting a photo from one of her students doing a cartwheel in front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, just north of Paris, France. She may be an internationally recognized art historian and an...
Winning the ‘battle of minds’
A single game of chess can last longer than a final exam. And making just one move can take far longer than answering the toughest of questions. Once, during a chess tournament, Matthew Blake took 45 minutes to strategize and settle on a move. The game lasted more...
Award aims to level funding support, playing field for female Mustangs
Joy Spear Chief-Morris admits she can sometimes be a bit stubborn. And single minded. But those traits have served the elite athlete, and member of the Mustangs Track and Field team, well – in life and in sport. The fifth-year History and First Nations Studies student...
Outreach event introduces the future to history
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.
Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers
Earth Sciences professor Gail Atkinson and History professor Maya Shatzmiller have been awarded the 2018 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...
Western celebrates top teaching talent
Eighteen winners, representing five different faculties, have been awarded Western’s highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning. This year’s winners join a company of teachers nearly a quarter-century strong.
Newsmakers: The Athlete
Joy Spear Chief-Morris For Joy Spear Chief-Morris, track and field was an escape. The sport was a place to get away from the world, a place she sensed she belonged and, most of all, a place where she chased dreams she never thought possible. Earlier this year, she was...
New book takes Canadians ‘Behind the Lines’
While stories ripped from the battlefield dominate most histories, the contributions of Canadians who remained on home front during the World Wars takes centre stage in McIntosh Gallery’s latest creation. Released this week, Behind the Lines: Canada’s Home Front...
Award honours athlete still running down dreams
Joy Spear Chief-Morris, BA’17, won the 2017 Tom Longboat Award, an honour that recognizes Aboriginal athletes for outstanding contributions to sport in Canada.
Alumnus finds roughs in the diamond
W.G. (Will) Braund loves baseball. But when it comes to chatting about the great American pastime, he’s likely to share stories of wrestling alligators, fighting bears, eating live snakes on the vaudeville stage and partying with the likes of Jack Dempsey, Douglas...
History students find ‘lost’ cemetery stones
Western students working on a Canada150 project at Woodland Cemetery in London have discovered 130 gravestones that had been all but lost to history.
Librarian uncovers historic files using ‘digital forensics’
Vincent Gray has more than 100 early 80s-era floppy discs and a hefty, mustard yellow, Back to the Future-looking laptop tucked away in his office. There’s a wealth of information stored on the dated hardware – detailed logs of 13th and 14th century agrarian practices...
Brush named to top professor honour
Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush smiles as she remembers getting a photo from one of her students doing a cartwheel in front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, just north of Paris, France. She may be an internationally recognized art historian and an...
Winning the ‘battle of minds’
A single game of chess can last longer than a final exam. And making just one move can take far longer than answering the toughest of questions. Once, during a chess tournament, Matthew Blake took 45 minutes to strategize and settle on a move. The game lasted more...
Award aims to level funding support, playing field for female Mustangs
Joy Spear Chief-Morris admits she can sometimes be a bit stubborn. And single minded. But those traits have served the elite athlete, and member of the Mustangs Track and Field team, well – in life and in sport. The fifth-year History and First Nations Studies student...