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...
Three Western Engineering researchers have been recognized with Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Project Grants. Professors Hugo De Lasa, Andy Sun and Denis O’Carroll were three of 78 grant recipients announced Tuesday at...
From a direct lending platform to connecting businesses to retirees, four Western students are part of a group of just 38 students from across Canada chosen to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level.
Imagine knowing if dementia will affect you simply by taking a walk. Approximately 500,000 Canadians are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. That number is expected to soar to 1.1 million within 25 years. While there is no definitive...
Nearly four centuries have passed since his death, but William Shakespeare’s plays and themes remain timeless – not antiquated, argues Education professor Kathy Hibbert. What’s dated, she contends, is the teaching method surrounding The Bard in the modern classroom....
When they tell you it doesn’t matter. When they say it’s a waste of money. Or time. Or effort. When you cannot help yourself and shamefully slide into the muck of reader comments below that London Free Press story. When they call you names. Entitled. Unproductive. In...
How to start? Health promotion is often described as “a process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” What I aim to share here is a health promotion story that, I hope, will spark dialogue – and even debate. I offer myself as an...
The online tool iCAN Plan 4 Safety seems like a really great, innovative way to assist women affected by relationship violence (Online tool puts power back in women’s hands, Feb. 5). However, the fact this tool has been created solely for women saddens me, as domestic...
Growing up, Harpreet Singh Chahal supported his parents, who emigrated from India, when they faced the challenges and barriers of reading, writing and speaking English. Today, he has turned his efforts toward younger learners in the community. A current Epidemiology...
Your opportunity to shape the future of this campus has arrived. Western’s Campus Master Planning Committee is seeking your input on the university’s draft Campus Master Plan 2015.
Your iMac, MacBook and iPod proudly wear a label: “Designed by Apple in California.” The sentiment behind this simple statement is part of a well-established stereotype – the Western world is a hub of creativity and, perhaps, the only place where innovation and new...
Western’s Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL) showed off its new digs this past week. The interdisciplinary research and training environment aims to create healthy and vibrant communities through its work on issues related to urban planning, economic...
Western officials are reaffirming the university’s zero-tolerance stance against racial slurs after an unauthorized user posted a racist tweet to a Western Student Recreation Centre Twitter account earlier this week.
Three Western Engineering researchers have been recognized with Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Project Grants. Professors Hugo De Lasa, Andy Sun and Denis O’Carroll were three of 78 grant recipients announced Tuesday at...
From a direct lending platform to connecting businesses to retirees, four Western students are part of a group of just 38 students from across Canada chosen to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level.
Imagine knowing if dementia will affect you simply by taking a walk. Approximately 500,000 Canadians are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. That number is expected to soar to 1.1 million within 25 years. While there is no definitive...
Nearly four centuries have passed since his death, but William Shakespeare’s plays and themes remain timeless – not antiquated, argues Education professor Kathy Hibbert. What’s dated, she contends, is the teaching method surrounding The Bard in the modern classroom....
When they tell you it doesn’t matter. When they say it’s a waste of money. Or time. Or effort. When you cannot help yourself and shamefully slide into the muck of reader comments below that London Free Press story. When they call you names. Entitled. Unproductive. In...
How to start? Health promotion is often described as “a process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” What I aim to share here is a health promotion story that, I hope, will spark dialogue – and even debate. I offer myself as an...
The online tool iCAN Plan 4 Safety seems like a really great, innovative way to assist women affected by relationship violence (Online tool puts power back in women’s hands, Feb. 5). However, the fact this tool has been created solely for women saddens me, as domestic...
Growing up, Harpreet Singh Chahal supported his parents, who emigrated from India, when they faced the challenges and barriers of reading, writing and speaking English. Today, he has turned his efforts toward younger learners in the community. A current Epidemiology...
Your opportunity to shape the future of this campus has arrived. Western’s Campus Master Planning Committee is seeking your input on the university’s draft Campus Master Plan 2015.
Your iMac, MacBook and iPod proudly wear a label: “Designed by Apple in California.” The sentiment behind this simple statement is part of a well-established stereotype – the Western world is a hub of creativity and, perhaps, the only place where innovation and new...
Western’s Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL) showed off its new digs this past week. The interdisciplinary research and training environment aims to create healthy and vibrant communities through its work on issues related to urban planning, economic...
Western officials are reaffirming the university’s zero-tolerance stance against racial slurs after an unauthorized user posted a racist tweet to a Western Student Recreation Centre Twitter account earlier this week.