On Aug. 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected, thereby dividing overnight a city, families and dueling ideologies for the next 28 years. On Nov. 9, 1989, the world watched as jubilant crowds gathered on both sides of that Wall to celebrate the opening of its...
Be it golf, swimming, skating, basketball, soccer or dance, London’s Child and Youth Network wants children to get active – and they’re willing pay for it. ACT-i-Pass, offered to all Grade 5 students in London, allows for free access to indoor and outdoor sporting...
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, have been named among the international winners of The Undergraduate Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing top undergraduate work. Through the competition, student work in 25...
Soccer players Christian Douglas and Lauren Winquist have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week for the period ending Oct. 5. Douglas, a third-year Kinesiology student from Oakville, scored three goals in two games last week, helping the Mustangs defeat...
Indigenous student success takes centre stage during two events this week. On Tuesday, a World Café will focus on what elements contribute to Indigenous graduate student success, and what the Western community can do to promote them. The event runs from 11 a.m.-4 p.m....
Western students are being asked to answer the challenge yet again. Sponsored by Western International, the second annual World’s Challenge Challenge brings together teams of three students to choose a problem that the world is facing, and present and innovative...
There is life after Typhoon Haiyan. Highly compromised. Totally devastated. But still there. When I returned to Tacloban in May, I was surprised by how little was rebuilt and how utterly devastated the region was. First, there were very little accommodations for the...
A multi-level parkade could be in Western’s future, just don’t expect to see one anytime soon, said Gitta Kulczycki, Western’s vice-president (resources & operations). Speaking to Senate regarding the ongoing construction and traffic congestion across campus,...
Sara Seager will keep searching, because she has no other choice. “The belief there is ‘something else,’ something else beyond the tedium of our daily lives, whether people express that through religion, belief in UFOs or the desire to find intelligent life in the...
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started five years ago. Western News asked three students...
Three common passions brought this trio together. Western graduates Sonja Fernandes, Samantha Laliberte and Bianca Lopes met during their studies through the campus business incubator, immediately forging a connection. This spring, they launched Ezzy Lynn, a business...
Marylynn Steckley doesn’t want this to turn into American Idol. Her research, she stresses, is a collective effort – larger than any one competition’s winner. “My work is really just a small contribution to the work many Haitian activists and social movements are...
The mood, it would seem, changed overnight in Scotland. “People were talking about the referendum everywhere – they would encounter each other at bus stops and strike up conversations. They’d meet in a pub and immediately start talking, mostly in a very circumspect...
Be it golf, swimming, skating, basketball, soccer or dance, London’s Child and Youth Network wants children to get active – and they’re willing pay for it. ACT-i-Pass, offered to all Grade 5 students in London, allows for free access to indoor and outdoor sporting...
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, have been named among the international winners of The Undergraduate Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing top undergraduate work. Through the competition, student work in 25...
Soccer players Christian Douglas and Lauren Winquist have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week for the period ending Oct. 5. Douglas, a third-year Kinesiology student from Oakville, scored three goals in two games last week, helping the Mustangs defeat...
Indigenous student success takes centre stage during two events this week. On Tuesday, a World Café will focus on what elements contribute to Indigenous graduate student success, and what the Western community can do to promote them. The event runs from 11 a.m.-4 p.m....
Western students are being asked to answer the challenge yet again. Sponsored by Western International, the second annual World’s Challenge Challenge brings together teams of three students to choose a problem that the world is facing, and present and innovative...
There is life after Typhoon Haiyan. Highly compromised. Totally devastated. But still there. When I returned to Tacloban in May, I was surprised by how little was rebuilt and how utterly devastated the region was. First, there were very little accommodations for the...
A multi-level parkade could be in Western’s future, just don’t expect to see one anytime soon, said Gitta Kulczycki, Western’s vice-president (resources & operations). Speaking to Senate regarding the ongoing construction and traffic congestion across campus,...
Sara Seager will keep searching, because she has no other choice. “The belief there is ‘something else,’ something else beyond the tedium of our daily lives, whether people express that through religion, belief in UFOs or the desire to find intelligent life in the...
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started five years ago. Western News asked three students...
Three common passions brought this trio together. Western graduates Sonja Fernandes, Samantha Laliberte and Bianca Lopes met during their studies through the campus business incubator, immediately forging a connection. This spring, they launched Ezzy Lynn, a business...
Marylynn Steckley doesn’t want this to turn into American Idol. Her research, she stresses, is a collective effort – larger than any one competition’s winner. “My work is really just a small contribution to the work many Haitian activists and social movements are...
The mood, it would seem, changed overnight in Scotland. “People were talking about the referendum everywhere – they would encounter each other at bus stops and strike up conversations. They’d meet in a pub and immediately start talking, mostly in a very circumspect...