https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHU5GPrqxps&feature=youtu.be Western University will be closed for regular business after 7 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, and re-open on Sunday, Jan. 4 to welcome students back to residence for the start of academic term. All residences...
Charles Trick had only one question on his young mind: ‘What would it be like to live under the sea?’ Assigned an annual English composition from Grade 5 through Grade 9, Trick never strayed from that single notion, although he also never repeated himself. “The twist...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose Western’s Collider Centre for Technology Commercialization in the Advanced Manufacturing Park Monday afternoon as a backdrop for a $5.8 billion announcement of new infrastructure spending across the country, including...
Janice Deakin, Western provost and vice-president (academic), along with seven university alumnae have been named recipients of the 2014 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network announced this morning. Co-presented by Scotiabank and...
Members of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) and Professional and Managerial Association (PMA) will receive a 1.25 per cent salary increase this year, followed by 1 per cent increases each of the next three years, according to terms of...
SmartAPPetite, a new smartphone app developed by Western researchers and their partners, provides southwestern Ontarians with the motivation and information to buy local, eat smart and get healthy.
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...
Charles Trick had only one question on his young mind: ‘What would it be like to live under the sea?’ Assigned an annual English composition from Grade 5 through Grade 9, Trick never strayed from that single notion, although he also never repeated himself. “The twist...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper chose Western’s Collider Centre for Technology Commercialization in the Advanced Manufacturing Park Monday afternoon as a backdrop for a $5.8 billion announcement of new infrastructure spending across the country, including...
Janice Deakin, Western provost and vice-president (academic), along with seven university alumnae have been named recipients of the 2014 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network announced this morning. Co-presented by Scotiabank and...
Members of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) and Professional and Managerial Association (PMA) will receive a 1.25 per cent salary increase this year, followed by 1 per cent increases each of the next three years, according to terms of...
SmartAPPetite, a new smartphone app developed by Western researchers and their partners, provides southwestern Ontarians with the motivation and information to buy local, eat smart and get healthy.
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...