By now, you’ve likely read the email. But what can, and what should, you do now that you’ve read it? A note from Vice-Provost (Academic Programs) John Doerksen landed in faculty in-boxes earlier this week, spreading the word about the state of e-learning and new...
Two teams of Western students have advanced to the regional finals of the sixth annual Hult Prize Challenge, putting the eight students in line for the competition’s $1-million prize, the organization announced today. Sponsored by the Hult Prize Foundation, the...
London Police Service (LPS) continues to investigate a fatal car crash from early Sunday morning on the Western campus. A car travelling along Perth Drive, near the Chemistry Building, left the road and struck a tree some time after 3 a.m. Sunday. LPS confirmed Jan...
Finding a way to improve the efficiency of how heavy oil is upgraded is a challenge Western Engineering professor Cedric Briens is excited to take on as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Syncrude/ExxonMobil Industrial Research...
When Mina Gerges was a kid living in Abu Dhabi, he would sneak into his mom’s closet to try on her shoes and dresses. At the time, it was something he hid from everyone. “I felt different, and I was worried – terrified – other kids would find out and make fun of me,”...
I get we live in a hashtag world. So, when religious zealots attacked the Paris offices of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, last week, killing 12, I knew what to expect. Seemingly moments after the attack, the outpouring of virtual support, especially from the...
Shyra Barberstock has created a social network that is all business. Barberstock, a fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student, and her husband, Rye Barberstock, recently launched the Okwaho Network, a social-networking site dedicated...
Whether viewing organisms through microscopes, or sifting through sediment at the bottom of the Thames River, Western Geography students now have a new space outfitted with the latest tools to get the answers they need. On Friday, the Department of Geography unveiled...
Editor’s note: The following editorial, ‘Surgery in patients with Ebola virus disease,’ originally appeared in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (Issue 57, pages 264-5) and is reprinted here with permission of the author and publisher. It has been edited for space. To...
You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...
You might spot Gloria Zhu on campus one of these days. The Media and Public Interest student might ask you, ‘Have you ever felt like a fish out of water?’ She hopes you’ll say yes.
Just a month into his City Hall office, London Mayor Matt Brown sees positive town-and-gown relations as driving the city’s evolution from a traditional manufacturing centre into its still undefined future. Western News reporter Adela Talbot sat down with the mayor to...
Starting in February, the Faculty of Education will begin Phase One of the Single Ceiling initiative, a project designed to put all child-focused mental-health systems under one roof, making it easier for area children to get the help they require. Organizers hope the...
Two teams of Western students have advanced to the regional finals of the sixth annual Hult Prize Challenge, putting the eight students in line for the competition’s $1-million prize, the organization announced today. Sponsored by the Hult Prize Foundation, the...
London Police Service (LPS) continues to investigate a fatal car crash from early Sunday morning on the Western campus. A car travelling along Perth Drive, near the Chemistry Building, left the road and struck a tree some time after 3 a.m. Sunday. LPS confirmed Jan...
Finding a way to improve the efficiency of how heavy oil is upgraded is a challenge Western Engineering professor Cedric Briens is excited to take on as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Syncrude/ExxonMobil Industrial Research...
When Mina Gerges was a kid living in Abu Dhabi, he would sneak into his mom’s closet to try on her shoes and dresses. At the time, it was something he hid from everyone. “I felt different, and I was worried – terrified – other kids would find out and make fun of me,”...
I get we live in a hashtag world. So, when religious zealots attacked the Paris offices of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, last week, killing 12, I knew what to expect. Seemingly moments after the attack, the outpouring of virtual support, especially from the...
Shyra Barberstock has created a social network that is all business. Barberstock, a fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student, and her husband, Rye Barberstock, recently launched the Okwaho Network, a social-networking site dedicated...
Whether viewing organisms through microscopes, or sifting through sediment at the bottom of the Thames River, Western Geography students now have a new space outfitted with the latest tools to get the answers they need. On Friday, the Department of Geography unveiled...
Editor’s note: The following editorial, ‘Surgery in patients with Ebola virus disease,’ originally appeared in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (Issue 57, pages 264-5) and is reprinted here with permission of the author and publisher. It has been edited for space. To...
You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...
You might spot Gloria Zhu on campus one of these days. The Media and Public Interest student might ask you, ‘Have you ever felt like a fish out of water?’ She hopes you’ll say yes.
Just a month into his City Hall office, London Mayor Matt Brown sees positive town-and-gown relations as driving the city’s evolution from a traditional manufacturing centre into its still undefined future. Western News reporter Adela Talbot sat down with the mayor to...
Starting in February, the Faculty of Education will begin Phase One of the Single Ceiling initiative, a project designed to put all child-focused mental-health systems under one roof, making it easier for area children to get the help they require. Organizers hope the...