From New Orleans to Winnipeg, the Belize to Costa Rica, even right here in London, Western’s volunteer teams traveled around the corner or across the globe for Alternative Spring Break 2013, asb.uwo.ca. What follows below are two memories from two te …
Month: February 2013
New site points to help for victims
Western has launched a new website dedicated to bringing everything together in one location for victims of sexual assault within the university community. The site, live today, hopes to provide easy answers to victims asking ‘What now?’
Winders: Help spark a conversation with your Big Idea
Just one little word was all it took.
Guinsburg: Passing of professors needs more attention
As an avid reader of the Western News, whose content and format have recently improved in many respects, I write to express my continued concern about the haphazard coverage of the deaths of emeritus professors.
Lambier: Offering up a ‘Blueprint’ for community engagement
How, in short, will Western advance the ‘civic turn’ currently taking hold in higher education across Canada and the United States?
Chancellor to bring Brescia message to women across country
More than six decades have passed since her graduation from Brescia University College, yet Joan Francolini has been, and still remains, an integral part of its community.
Advanced tech takes flight to track migratory birds
What exactly happens when migratory birds travel from Point A to Point B, and all the stops and starts along the way? Those are questions a new $3.4 million project led by Western’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR) hopes to answer.
Campus Digest: Law professor helps redefine ‘gift’ in giving
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has endorsed a tax reform proposal advocated by Western Law professor Adam Parachin, who appeared before the Standing Committee as an expert witness in January 2012.
Carney: Don’t check core values at the door
Much needed, regained trust in the world’s banking institutions will come at a high moral price, said Canada’s bank governor Mark Carney as he delivered the seventh annual Thomas d’Aquino Lecture on Leadership at the new Ivey building Tuesday afternoon.
Student hopes to draw together writing community
Here to unite writers in the Western community, Alex Carrillo-Hayley is the university’s first Student Writer-in-Residence – believed to be the first in North America.
Examining a pope in full
In many ways, historical accounts have failed Pope Pius XII.
Read All Over reviews
Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work By Matt Stahl Duke University Press, 2012, 312 pages Matt Stahl knows they’re not so different. It’s easy to regard the career of recording artists as glamorous, their finances as abundant and personal...
Normal operations Wednesday (UPDATED 6 a.m.)
Western is running on a normal schedule today, meaning all classes and activities remain as scheduled. Please check Western’s weather page, uwo.ca/weather.html, for updates, if necessary.
New site points to help for victims
Western has launched a new website dedicated to bringing everything together in one location for victims of sexual assault within the university community. The site, live today, hopes to provide easy answers to victims asking ‘What now?’
Winders: Help spark a conversation with your Big Idea
Just one little word was all it took.
Guinsburg: Passing of professors needs more attention
As an avid reader of the Western News, whose content and format have recently improved in many respects, I write to express my continued concern about the haphazard coverage of the deaths of emeritus professors.
Lambier: Offering up a ‘Blueprint’ for community engagement
How, in short, will Western advance the ‘civic turn’ currently taking hold in higher education across Canada and the United States?
Chancellor to bring Brescia message to women across country
More than six decades have passed since her graduation from Brescia University College, yet Joan Francolini has been, and still remains, an integral part of its community.
Advanced tech takes flight to track migratory birds
What exactly happens when migratory birds travel from Point A to Point B, and all the stops and starts along the way? Those are questions a new $3.4 million project led by Western’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR) hopes to answer.
Campus Digest: Law professor helps redefine ‘gift’ in giving
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance has endorsed a tax reform proposal advocated by Western Law professor Adam Parachin, who appeared before the Standing Committee as an expert witness in January 2012.
Carney: Don’t check core values at the door
Much needed, regained trust in the world’s banking institutions will come at a high moral price, said Canada’s bank governor Mark Carney as he delivered the seventh annual Thomas d’Aquino Lecture on Leadership at the new Ivey building Tuesday afternoon.
Student hopes to draw together writing community
Here to unite writers in the Western community, Alex Carrillo-Hayley is the university’s first Student Writer-in-Residence – believed to be the first in North America.
Examining a pope in full
In many ways, historical accounts have failed Pope Pius XII.
Read All Over reviews
Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work By Matt Stahl Duke University Press, 2012, 312 pages Matt Stahl knows they’re not so different. It’s easy to regard the career of recording artists as glamorous, their finances as abundant and personal...
Normal operations Wednesday (UPDATED 6 a.m.)
Western is running on a normal schedule today, meaning all classes and activities remain as scheduled. Please check Western’s weather page, uwo.ca/weather.html, for updates, if necessary.