When director of Indigenous studies and sociology professor Janice Forsyth came across a forgotten cache of cardboard boxes in the Faculty of Social Science four years ago, she knew she struck gold. Inside the boxes sat audio recordings of Smoke Sig …
Celebrating a life as an environmental scholar, John Smol, CRC in Environmental Change at Queen’s University, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science, honoris causa (DSc), at the Wednesday afternoon session of Western’s 309th Convocation.
Max Wu likes a challenge. He arrived at Western speaking two languages and will graduate fluent in three.
In recognition of her accomplished career as a journalist, Carol Off, author, commentator and host of CBC’s ‘As It Happens,’ was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), at the Wednesday morning session of Western’s 309th Convocation.
In recognition of his accomplished career as an economist, academic and entrepreneur, David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, received an honorary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), at the Tuesday morning session of Western’s 309th Convocation.
Jane Kovarikova doesn’t mince words when it comes to how she feels about the child-protection system in Ontario and the fate of youth who have transitioned from or simply ‘aged-out’ of it.
Shortly after her arrival as a tenured professor in the late 1990s, Marjorie Ratcliffe took up the cause to unionize Western’s faculty. It was at that time the late Allan Heinicke, a Math professor and former Chair and President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), told her she was making a big mistake.
Want to look younger? Sleep well. Eat right. Exercise. And, just maybe, don’t smile.
Led by a team of Western students, a new social enterprise focused on providing affordable and accessible breast milk to mothers and children in need hopes to improve infant mortality rates and empower families worldwide, according to the organization’s founders....
The recent release of the Naylor Report marked an important landmark in the development of the Canadian research ‘ecosystem,’ and it is appropriate for Western to “applaud federal re-investment in scientific research.” (Seize the moment: Western applauds federal...
Retiring Sociology professor Jerry White has made a few “mistakes” in his life – from being kicked out of his undergraduate engineering program two months in, to almost getting arrested in the Soviet Union in 1974. Yet, despite the errors of his ways, he has embraced...
While a lack of access to safe and nutritious food can contribute to malnutrition, and a whole host of other physical effects, what, if any, are the effects on mental health? According to Geography PhD candidate Kilian Atuoye, MA’16, heads of households who experience...
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...
Celebrating a life as an environmental scholar, John Smol, CRC in Environmental Change at Queen’s University, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science, honoris causa (DSc), at the Wednesday afternoon session of Western’s 309th Convocation.
Max Wu likes a challenge. He arrived at Western speaking two languages and will graduate fluent in three.
In recognition of her accomplished career as a journalist, Carol Off, author, commentator and host of CBC’s ‘As It Happens,’ was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), at the Wednesday morning session of Western’s 309th Convocation.
In recognition of his accomplished career as an economist, academic and entrepreneur, David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, received an honorary Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD), at the Tuesday morning session of Western’s 309th Convocation.
Jane Kovarikova doesn’t mince words when it comes to how she feels about the child-protection system in Ontario and the fate of youth who have transitioned from or simply ‘aged-out’ of it.
Shortly after her arrival as a tenured professor in the late 1990s, Marjorie Ratcliffe took up the cause to unionize Western’s faculty. It was at that time the late Allan Heinicke, a Math professor and former Chair and President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), told her she was making a big mistake.
Want to look younger? Sleep well. Eat right. Exercise. And, just maybe, don’t smile.
Led by a team of Western students, a new social enterprise focused on providing affordable and accessible breast milk to mothers and children in need hopes to improve infant mortality rates and empower families worldwide, according to the organization’s founders....
The recent release of the Naylor Report marked an important landmark in the development of the Canadian research ‘ecosystem,’ and it is appropriate for Western to “applaud federal re-investment in scientific research.” (Seize the moment: Western applauds federal...
Retiring Sociology professor Jerry White has made a few “mistakes” in his life – from being kicked out of his undergraduate engineering program two months in, to almost getting arrested in the Soviet Union in 1974. Yet, despite the errors of his ways, he has embraced...
While a lack of access to safe and nutritious food can contribute to malnutrition, and a whole host of other physical effects, what, if any, are the effects on mental health? According to Geography PhD candidate Kilian Atuoye, MA’16, heads of households who experience...
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...