On Friday, February 27, Western email accounts received a sophisticated phishing attack that was geared to take advantage of the upcoming migration of student email accounts into Office 365. All Western students, faculty and staff are encouraged to delete this email...
In this second annual special issue, Western News celebrates a handful of the hundreds of programs, organizations and people lending talents to the wider London community – Outside the Gates, if you will.
Through FORGE AHEAD, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Stewart Harris is collaborating with 12 First Nations communities in six provinces across Canada to identify local health challenges and facilitate better care coordination and improved outcomes for diabetes patients.
When Jamie Bone, a Vanier Cup-winning quarterback for the Western Mustangs, returned to the university to coach football, he was taken aback by the lack of skill demonstrated by London’s quarterbacks. “They couldn’t throw the ball, really, as well as they should...
Sydney, 11, loves animals. “In particular, giraffes and lemurs are her two favorites,” her dad says with a chuckle. Sydney is living with cystic fibrosis, a lifelong respiratory condition which affects about one in 4,000 children in Canada. Her one wish was to visit...
A battered woman will confide in her hairdresser about male partner violence long before she will confide in a family member or turn to a professional for help. This finding led the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC)...
An ultimately failed effort to bring healthy food to the community’s most needy people shined a light on the issue that remains a beacon for those who want to do something to help. When Western Nursing students Agata Pawlowski and Steven Trudell started their...
Samantha King hoped her baby would be healthy. But when Addyson was born, King discovered her child’s right ear was missing a canal, limiting the baby girl’s hearing. “It was kind of overwhelming,” King said. “As a parent, you’re hoping and wishing your child all the...
Ben Reid didn’t choose to learn ‘the bro-code’ during his last summer vacation. Instead, he learned the binary code. And he didn’t go to a theatre camp and write a script during the hot summer days. Instead he rehearsed Java script. That’s because Ben, 10, spent a...
Ashley Frost wished when she was younger the Girls Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) camp had been around to help her open up because she was a shy child. Frost, 22, was a counsellor in the Girls LEAD camp this past summer and saw how the environment...
On a Sunday evening, Mabel Lande, 96, dressed in a white blouse and pink cardigan and left to meet her date at the Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre in London. She arrived first, sat down and waited. Lande’s date for the evening was Emily Ballantyne, a second-year...
Hispanic Studies professor Victoria Wolff believes music has the power to enrich this community and profoundly improve the lives of its disadvantaged children. That concept is at the heart of London’s El Sistema Aeolian program, run through the Aeolian Hall, a...
Christina Clarke was having panic attacks after completing her undergraduate degree that were “pretty clearly not normal experiences.” “I knew that they were wrong and I knew that I should ask somebody about it,” said the 26-year-old PhD student. Her first instinct...
In this second annual special issue, Western News celebrates a handful of the hundreds of programs, organizations and people lending talents to the wider London community – Outside the Gates, if you will.
Through FORGE AHEAD, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Stewart Harris is collaborating with 12 First Nations communities in six provinces across Canada to identify local health challenges and facilitate better care coordination and improved outcomes for diabetes patients.
When Jamie Bone, a Vanier Cup-winning quarterback for the Western Mustangs, returned to the university to coach football, he was taken aback by the lack of skill demonstrated by London’s quarterbacks. “They couldn’t throw the ball, really, as well as they should...
Sydney, 11, loves animals. “In particular, giraffes and lemurs are her two favorites,” her dad says with a chuckle. Sydney is living with cystic fibrosis, a lifelong respiratory condition which affects about one in 4,000 children in Canada. Her one wish was to visit...
A battered woman will confide in her hairdresser about male partner violence long before she will confide in a family member or turn to a professional for help. This finding led the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC)...
An ultimately failed effort to bring healthy food to the community’s most needy people shined a light on the issue that remains a beacon for those who want to do something to help. When Western Nursing students Agata Pawlowski and Steven Trudell started their...
Samantha King hoped her baby would be healthy. But when Addyson was born, King discovered her child’s right ear was missing a canal, limiting the baby girl’s hearing. “It was kind of overwhelming,” King said. “As a parent, you’re hoping and wishing your child all the...
Ben Reid didn’t choose to learn ‘the bro-code’ during his last summer vacation. Instead, he learned the binary code. And he didn’t go to a theatre camp and write a script during the hot summer days. Instead he rehearsed Java script. That’s because Ben, 10, spent a...
Ashley Frost wished when she was younger the Girls Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) camp had been around to help her open up because she was a shy child. Frost, 22, was a counsellor in the Girls LEAD camp this past summer and saw how the environment...
On a Sunday evening, Mabel Lande, 96, dressed in a white blouse and pink cardigan and left to meet her date at the Lamplighter Inn and Conference Centre in London. She arrived first, sat down and waited. Lande’s date for the evening was Emily Ballantyne, a second-year...
Hispanic Studies professor Victoria Wolff believes music has the power to enrich this community and profoundly improve the lives of its disadvantaged children. That concept is at the heart of London’s El Sistema Aeolian program, run through the Aeolian Hall, a...
Christina Clarke was having panic attacks after completing her undergraduate degree that were “pretty clearly not normal experiences.” “I knew that they were wrong and I knew that I should ask somebody about it,” said the 26-year-old PhD student. Her first instinct...