Amid the hallowed and fabled walls of one of the world’s oldest universities, Vasiliki Economopoulos, BEng’08, PhD’13, is revelling in a life-changing milestone. A current postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University, she is a recent recipient of the distinguished Marie...
Month: March 2015
When The Walrus Talks, the people listen
The Walrus Talks Creativity brought nine of Canada’s most creative minds, including five Western alumni, to share thought-provoking ideas exploring...
Grants to fuel Canada’s future scientists, engineers
Canada’s future scientists and engineers will benefit from a pair of PromoScience grants awarded to two Western researchers, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced Wednesday. Civil and Environmental Engineering professor...
CBC Windsor, Journalism students bring stories to life
Students in Western’s Master of Arts in Journalism program have partnered with CBC Windsor's Afternoon Drive radio show (which broadcasts all over southwestern Ontario) to produce audio documentaries as part of their coursework. CBC Windsor is promoting the...
AFAR researchers bring songbird plight to CBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eKQMK0YwM Western researchers, in association with Canadian documentary filmmaker Su Rynard, are sounding the alarm about the mass depletion of songbirds in the Americas in a new film, debuting on CBC this week. SongbirdSOS debuts at...
Mustangs earn CIS Women’s Hockey Championship
CALGARY – A three-goal second period and 38-saves from Kelly Campbell led the Western Mustangs to its first-ever CIS Women’s Hockey Championship title with a 5-0 win over the McGill Martlets Sunday night at the Markin MacPhail Centre. “I was reflecting on this in the...
George Connell, former Western president, dies at 84
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, according to media reports. He was 84. A native of Saskatoon and a...
Celebrating the Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Six winners representing six different faculties have been awarded Western’s highest honour for the “highest calling.”
Western Reads: Moore embraces the ‘infinite form’
As Lisa Moore sees it, short stories live in secret pockets, hidden in the corners of our lives. And when we come across them, they engulf us – if only for a little while – only to leave us, ideally affected by the words we just read. “Short stories can appear in...
Anderson: Special issue showed value of town-gown relationship
Congratulations on your Outside the Gates special edition (Feb. 26) as it was an excellent presentation of the many ways Western contributes to the community. The university needs to do more of this sort of promotion of town and gown. London is fortunate to have a...
Building hospitality expertise half a world away
Frank Miller spent last November more than 13,000 kilometres from the comfort of his London home. And while he’s since returned, his skills remain in high demand in Vietnam. “I told them I would continue helping them because I want to,” said Miller, director of...
Students get on board for transit Shift in city
It’s an understatement, for sure. Around campus, especially during peak hours, city buses are crowded. They’re often late. And sometimes, when full, they roll by campus bus stops, leaving students to wait for the next ride. But times are changing and London’s public...
Miller honoured as Hostelry Institute fellow
Hospitality Services director Frank Miller has been honoured by the Ontario Hostelry Institute as a Fellow of the Institute 2015 inductee. Miller was recognized for his contributions to the culinary, hospitality and tourism industry, along with his personal and...
When The Walrus Talks, the people listen
The Walrus Talks Creativity brought nine of Canada’s most creative minds, including five Western alumni, to share thought-provoking ideas exploring...
Grants to fuel Canada’s future scientists, engineers
Canada’s future scientists and engineers will benefit from a pair of PromoScience grants awarded to two Western researchers, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced Wednesday. Civil and Environmental Engineering professor...
CBC Windsor, Journalism students bring stories to life
Students in Western’s Master of Arts in Journalism program have partnered with CBC Windsor's Afternoon Drive radio show (which broadcasts all over southwestern Ontario) to produce audio documentaries as part of their coursework. CBC Windsor is promoting the...
AFAR researchers bring songbird plight to CBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eKQMK0YwM Western researchers, in association with Canadian documentary filmmaker Su Rynard, are sounding the alarm about the mass depletion of songbirds in the Americas in a new film, debuting on CBC this week. SongbirdSOS debuts at...
Mustangs earn CIS Women’s Hockey Championship
CALGARY – A three-goal second period and 38-saves from Kelly Campbell led the Western Mustangs to its first-ever CIS Women’s Hockey Championship title with a 5-0 win over the McGill Martlets Sunday night at the Markin MacPhail Centre. “I was reflecting on this in the...
George Connell, former Western president, dies at 84
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, according to media reports. He was 84. A native of Saskatoon and a...
Celebrating the Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Six winners representing six different faculties have been awarded Western’s highest honour for the “highest calling.”
Western Reads: Moore embraces the ‘infinite form’
As Lisa Moore sees it, short stories live in secret pockets, hidden in the corners of our lives. And when we come across them, they engulf us – if only for a little while – only to leave us, ideally affected by the words we just read. “Short stories can appear in...
Anderson: Special issue showed value of town-gown relationship
Congratulations on your Outside the Gates special edition (Feb. 26) as it was an excellent presentation of the many ways Western contributes to the community. The university needs to do more of this sort of promotion of town and gown. London is fortunate to have a...
Building hospitality expertise half a world away
Frank Miller spent last November more than 13,000 kilometres from the comfort of his London home. And while he’s since returned, his skills remain in high demand in Vietnam. “I told them I would continue helping them because I want to,” said Miller, director of...
Students get on board for transit Shift in city
It’s an understatement, for sure. Around campus, especially during peak hours, city buses are crowded. They’re often late. And sometimes, when full, they roll by campus bus stops, leaving students to wait for the next ride. But times are changing and London’s public...
Miller honoured as Hostelry Institute fellow
Hospitality Services director Frank Miller has been honoured by the Ontario Hostelry Institute as a Fellow of the Institute 2015 inductee. Miller was recognized for his contributions to the culinary, hospitality and tourism industry, along with his personal and...