Western’s Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children has been named among 20 global organizations chosen as finalists for the fourth annual Avon Communications Awards, which recognize outstanding communications campaigns that are...
Sixteen distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 305th Convocation this spring. The ceremonies, featuring addresses by the honorary degree recipients, are scheduled for the following days: Edward Byrne Schulich School of Medicine...
Up to 80 per cent of sexually active people will get an HPV (human papillomavirus) infection during their lifetime. And the prevalence peak of HPV infection occurs in the 18-24 age group – that is, university-aged individuals. However, according to one Western...
Western Science students Mohammed Asmail and Thasan Kandasamy were named among a select group of North American research poster winners at the 2015 PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium in Toronto. Asmail won first prize in the Masters Category for his poster, Host...
In 2008, Colleen Hanycz found a Brescia University College in trouble – not a deep or unique kind of trouble, but trouble nonetheless. “A lot changed between December 2007, when I took the job, and summer 2008, when I started the job. It didn’t just change for...
Three Western students nabbed top honours in the 2014 Modern Languages and Literatures Photo Contest for snapshots of their varied international experiences. Last fall, students were asked to contribute one photograph of their experience abroad for an online photo...
George Connell, LLD’85, the renowned Canadian biochemist who served as president of both Western University and the University of Toronto, died Friday at the Kensington Gardens nursing home in Toronto. He was 84. Upon his arrival as Western’s sixth president in 1977,...
No Western student-athlete will be left on the ‘academic sideline’ if Coleen Dalton and Bonnie Cooper have anything to say about it. For the last five years, the pair has teamed up to help first-year student-athletes transition to the most demanding academic and...
Perhaps we can chalk this up as another kind of March Madness on U.S. campuses. Released last week, Inside Higher Ed’s fifth annual Survey of College and University Presidents painted a bizarre portrait of U.S. higher education chief executives as dangerously out of...
Results of an international study exploring the effectiveness of a revolutionary stroke treatment may lead to a new lease on life for millions of sufferers previously facing disability or even death, Western researchers say.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, wrote the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, you are sure to wake up somebody. Nobody agrees with those words more than Justin Bansal. Following graduation last year, the Business Administration major...
Spot on observation regarding the decline in our faith in science (“Finding ways to rekindle faith in science,” March 5). I see it, however, as just a single aspect of a much larger movement: the move to dismantle the civilization created, since the Renaissance, based...
Western’s latest honorees of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) join a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers.
Sixteen distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 305th Convocation this spring. The ceremonies, featuring addresses by the honorary degree recipients, are scheduled for the following days: Edward Byrne Schulich School of Medicine...
Up to 80 per cent of sexually active people will get an HPV (human papillomavirus) infection during their lifetime. And the prevalence peak of HPV infection occurs in the 18-24 age group – that is, university-aged individuals. However, according to one Western...
Western Science students Mohammed Asmail and Thasan Kandasamy were named among a select group of North American research poster winners at the 2015 PDAC-SEG Student Minerals Colloquium in Toronto. Asmail won first prize in the Masters Category for his poster, Host...
In 2008, Colleen Hanycz found a Brescia University College in trouble – not a deep or unique kind of trouble, but trouble nonetheless. “A lot changed between December 2007, when I took the job, and summer 2008, when I started the job. It didn’t just change for...
Three Western students nabbed top honours in the 2014 Modern Languages and Literatures Photo Contest for snapshots of their varied international experiences. Last fall, students were asked to contribute one photograph of their experience abroad for an online photo...
George Connell, LLD’85, the renowned Canadian biochemist who served as president of both Western University and the University of Toronto, died Friday at the Kensington Gardens nursing home in Toronto. He was 84. Upon his arrival as Western’s sixth president in 1977,...
No Western student-athlete will be left on the ‘academic sideline’ if Coleen Dalton and Bonnie Cooper have anything to say about it. For the last five years, the pair has teamed up to help first-year student-athletes transition to the most demanding academic and...
Perhaps we can chalk this up as another kind of March Madness on U.S. campuses. Released last week, Inside Higher Ed’s fifth annual Survey of College and University Presidents painted a bizarre portrait of U.S. higher education chief executives as dangerously out of...
Results of an international study exploring the effectiveness of a revolutionary stroke treatment may lead to a new lease on life for millions of sufferers previously facing disability or even death, Western researchers say.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, wrote the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, you are sure to wake up somebody. Nobody agrees with those words more than Justin Bansal. Following graduation last year, the Business Administration major...
Spot on observation regarding the decline in our faith in science (“Finding ways to rekindle faith in science,” March 5). I see it, however, as just a single aspect of a much larger movement: the move to dismantle the civilization created, since the Renaissance, based...
Western’s latest honorees of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) join a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers.