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Month: August 2014

Western welcomes its largest first-year class ever

Western welcomes its largest first-year class ever

Western rolls out the purple carpet this weekend for its largest, and among its most diverse, first-year classes in the school’s history. An incoming class of 5,314 full-time, first-year students arrives on Western’s campus this weekend. The majority of the students...

Outdoor Food Festival kicks off Tuesday

Outdoor Food Festival kicks off Tuesday

Mark your calendar, Western foodies. Hosted by Hospitality Services, the Western Outdoor Food Festival will take place daily next week, running 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, at the Farmers’ Market location in the green space beside McIntosh Gallery.

Seven alumni named among power elite

Seven alumni named among power elite

Seven Western alumni have been named to the second annual Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People 2014, presented by Canadian Business magazine. According to the magazine, these are the “dealmakers, string-pullers and master manipulators who call the shots in 2014.”...

Turning the page for opportunity

Turning the page for opportunity

The last year of classes was a busy one for Ivey Business School graduate Chris Janssen. In addition to the pressures and schedules of his academic and personal lives, Janssen sat on a committee that needed to come up with a new idea to raise money for the Terry Fox...

Product mixes innovation and perseverance

Product mixes innovation and perseverance

Bobby Besant is someone who likes to mix it up. The recent Ivey School of Business graduate may have received the cold shoulder from a professor during his fourth-year New Venture Business project, but his idea has since made its way to the shelves of your local LCBO...

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...

Success is in the bag for Dental student

Success is in the bag for Dental student

It’s all about the handbag for Sarah Shell. The third-year Dental student’s love for fashion has seen her designer handbags on the arms of such stars as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, among others. While her love for fashion and designing...

Student idea brings comforts of home to campus

Student idea brings comforts of home to campus

Getting ready for your first year of university can be stressful. But a group of Western students are hoping to lessen that burden a bit with their entrepreneurial venture. Northern Rush creates all-in-one packages for postsecondary residence life – combining bedding,...

Giving the Max effort to his idea

Giving the Max effort to his idea

Tim Brady’s big idea came after he noticed a gap in the market for endurance athletes like himself. The 22-year-old, going into his second year of the HBA program at Ivey Business School, played football for the Mustangs when he first came to Western and quickly clued...

Making sound connections toward success

Making sound connections toward success

More than a decade ago, Lueda Alia started forging friendships online, frequenting absolutepunk.net and engaging with its online community. Today, she’s turned her taste in music and the online community she found into a business all her own. Alia, a Western...

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...

Heat alert issued for today

Heat alert issued for today

Don’t count summer out just yet. The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued a heat alert for Tuesday as temperatures are expected in the 30s with a humidex value near 40 degrees. Precautions are urged for those members of the Western community working outside and...

Outdoor Food Festival kicks off Tuesday

Outdoor Food Festival kicks off Tuesday

Mark your calendar, Western foodies. Hosted by Hospitality Services, the Western Outdoor Food Festival will take place daily next week, running 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, at the Farmers’ Market location in the green space beside McIntosh Gallery.

Seven alumni named among power elite

Seven alumni named among power elite

Seven Western alumni have been named to the second annual Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People 2014, presented by Canadian Business magazine. According to the magazine, these are the “dealmakers, string-pullers and master manipulators who call the shots in 2014.”...

Turning the page for opportunity

Turning the page for opportunity

The last year of classes was a busy one for Ivey Business School graduate Chris Janssen. In addition to the pressures and schedules of his academic and personal lives, Janssen sat on a committee that needed to come up with a new idea to raise money for the Terry Fox...

Product mixes innovation and perseverance

Product mixes innovation and perseverance

Bobby Besant is someone who likes to mix it up. The recent Ivey School of Business graduate may have received the cold shoulder from a professor during his fourth-year New Venture Business project, but his idea has since made its way to the shelves of your local LCBO...

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...

Success is in the bag for Dental student

Success is in the bag for Dental student

It’s all about the handbag for Sarah Shell. The third-year Dental student’s love for fashion has seen her designer handbags on the arms of such stars as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, among others. While her love for fashion and designing...

Student idea brings comforts of home to campus

Student idea brings comforts of home to campus

Getting ready for your first year of university can be stressful. But a group of Western students are hoping to lessen that burden a bit with their entrepreneurial venture. Northern Rush creates all-in-one packages for postsecondary residence life – combining bedding,...

Giving the Max effort to his idea

Giving the Max effort to his idea

Tim Brady’s big idea came after he noticed a gap in the market for endurance athletes like himself. The 22-year-old, going into his second year of the HBA program at Ivey Business School, played football for the Mustangs when he first came to Western and quickly clued...

Making sound connections toward success

Making sound connections toward success

More than a decade ago, Lueda Alia started forging friendships online, frequenting absolutepunk.net and engaging with its online community. Today, she’s turned her taste in music and the online community she found into a business all her own. Alia, a Western...

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...

Heat alert issued for today

Heat alert issued for today

Don’t count summer out just yet. The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued a heat alert for Tuesday as temperatures are expected in the 30s with a humidex value near 40 degrees. Precautions are urged for those members of the Western community working outside and...