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Ask most school-aged kids and they may tell you that math is ‘scary.’ But one Western professor would like to change all that.
Discovery Western is the kind of camp mad scientists might have gone to as children.
After Law student Maeve Byrne met her first client, she realized just how important her job was.
Irla Stewart lived in the small town of Goderich for 33 years. She had a community to be a part of. She had friends.
Montcalm Secondary School’s music room looks like a scene from Jack Black’s School of Rock – electric guitars and Roland amps, cables and distortion pedals.
Dr. Marjorie Johnson speaks in front of a large, packed university lecture hall. Everyone sits silently, absorbing each bit of information with breathless enthusiasm. The next PowerPoint slide comes up on the screen.
Swinging a hammer, cutting lumber and giving out gifts are probably not the typical business school activities. But for Ivey Business School students volunteering in the Ivey Connects program, those activities – and more – are an important part of their university experience.
How many earthlings can say they’ve held pieces of the moon and Mars at the same time? Well, definitely the ones who have been to the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory at Western.
Amira Guo came to Western from Beijing to attend Ivey Business School. But she didn’t know she’d also be helping fellow international students find comfort in a new country.
Victoria Esses has been researching discrimination, immigration and prejudice for more than 20 years. She’s taught psychology, published papers and won awards. She has been named a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo and a SSHRC research fellow at the University of Toronto.
Jill Barber looks forward to the last Wednesday of every month.
When Merrick Zwarenstein graduated from a South African medical school in the early 1970s, he left with the scientific training required to be a doctor. But he felt as though the institution of medicine had been ignoring the most crucial part of medical care for generations – the patient.