Don’t expect John Schweitzer to get teary at the thought of yesterday. “I detest nostalgia. I never look back,” he said with a laugh from his Montreal home this week. “You will not see me ruminating through photo albums, saying, ‘Oh look at me, I had lots of hair.’’...
Changes are coming for members of Western’s Retirement Income Fund (RIF), as the Board of Governors approved Sun Life Financial as the university’s preferred external provider. The move to discontinue the Western RIF, in favour of a group RIF program with an external...
Western Classics professor Charles Stocking will deliver the 2014 Ioannides Address, How to Kill an Athlete: The Use and Abuse of Training Science in Antiquity, at 4:40 p.m. Thursday in HSB 236. The event is sponsored by Western’s International Centre for Olympic...
Two campus parking lots – Medway and Talbot – are closed this morning due to flooding from a rising Thames River, Campus Community Police Service officials said this morning. Please check Western’s weather page, uwo.ca/weather.html, www.westernu.ca or follow @WesternU...
More people die from HIV/AIDS in a 48-hour period than have died in the entire Ebola epidemic, so far. With 27 million people infected worldwide, HIV/AIDS continues to be the world’s No. 1 killer. These statistics are part of what drives researchers at the Schulich...
Hockey player Adam McKee and wrestler Valerie Ouellette have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week. McKee, a first-year Graduate Studies student from London, recorded three goals and three assists to help the Mustangs defeat both Concordia and UQTR this...
Educating students about sexual violence is a topic Western refuses to shy away from – instead, university officials say, they confront the topic from Day One. “We start right away. Our demographics are such that we feel we need to provide a lot of education and...
Last month, I attended the pre-World Health Summit (a student-run preparation workshop) and the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. It was a truly humbling experience to be surrounded by a thousand renowned leaders from academia, politics, industry, the private...
I was on the wrong side of history. During a high-profile public smoking fight years ago, I came out against a proposed ban in my home state by suggesting the measure was an overreach. Why should the state blunt my choice in using a perfectly legal substance, one that...
A pair of labour agreements inched closer to completion this week as the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) began its membership ratification vote, while the Professional and Managerial Association (PMA) awaited final word from Western’s Board...
Earlier this fall, when Connell Miller saw an email soliciting for a local marching band to be featured in a music video starring teen pop star Shawn Mendes, he saw an opportunity. So did his 17-year-old sister, Molly.
English and Writing Studies professor Kim Solga, along with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues, has revived the theatre on campus through the launch of Theatre Studies in the faculty.
Last week, students in Health Sciences professor Jennifer Irwin’s Health Promotions class went on an unusual field trip – one they asked for, planned and executed on their own. With a goal of spreading compassion across campus, the class – comprised of 350 second-year...
Changes are coming for members of Western’s Retirement Income Fund (RIF), as the Board of Governors approved Sun Life Financial as the university’s preferred external provider. The move to discontinue the Western RIF, in favour of a group RIF program with an external...
Western Classics professor Charles Stocking will deliver the 2014 Ioannides Address, How to Kill an Athlete: The Use and Abuse of Training Science in Antiquity, at 4:40 p.m. Thursday in HSB 236. The event is sponsored by Western’s International Centre for Olympic...
Two campus parking lots – Medway and Talbot – are closed this morning due to flooding from a rising Thames River, Campus Community Police Service officials said this morning. Please check Western’s weather page, uwo.ca/weather.html, www.westernu.ca or follow @WesternU...
More people die from HIV/AIDS in a 48-hour period than have died in the entire Ebola epidemic, so far. With 27 million people infected worldwide, HIV/AIDS continues to be the world’s No. 1 killer. These statistics are part of what drives researchers at the Schulich...
Hockey player Adam McKee and wrestler Valerie Ouellette have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week. McKee, a first-year Graduate Studies student from London, recorded three goals and three assists to help the Mustangs defeat both Concordia and UQTR this...
Educating students about sexual violence is a topic Western refuses to shy away from – instead, university officials say, they confront the topic from Day One. “We start right away. Our demographics are such that we feel we need to provide a lot of education and...
Last month, I attended the pre-World Health Summit (a student-run preparation workshop) and the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany. It was a truly humbling experience to be surrounded by a thousand renowned leaders from academia, politics, industry, the private...
I was on the wrong side of history. During a high-profile public smoking fight years ago, I came out against a proposed ban in my home state by suggesting the measure was an overreach. Why should the state blunt my choice in using a perfectly legal substance, one that...
A pair of labour agreements inched closer to completion this week as the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) began its membership ratification vote, while the Professional and Managerial Association (PMA) awaited final word from Western’s Board...
Earlier this fall, when Connell Miller saw an email soliciting for a local marching band to be featured in a music video starring teen pop star Shawn Mendes, he saw an opportunity. So did his 17-year-old sister, Molly.
English and Writing Studies professor Kim Solga, along with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues, has revived the theatre on campus through the launch of Theatre Studies in the faculty.
Last week, students in Health Sciences professor Jennifer Irwin’s Health Promotions class went on an unusual field trip – one they asked for, planned and executed on their own. With a goal of spreading compassion across campus, the class – comprised of 350 second-year...