Ken Meadows, Western Teaching and Learning Services, has been named the winner of the 2015 Christopher Knapper Outstanding Volunteer Award, the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) announced Tuesday. The award recognizes society members who...
BY THE NUMBERS: The Office of the Provost has established a 2015-16 University Budget page, including copies of operating and capital budgets from this and previous years, budget presentations and supporting documents. Visit https://provost.uwo.ca/budget2015/. * * ...
He laughed a bit when I suggested it. When I first interviewed Chirag Shah in January 2014, we spoke of his journey from Western Science student to Alumni Association volunteer to Board of Governors member to, eventually, chair of that governing body. At the time, one...
Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in University Affairs on April 8. It was published as the 10th – and final – installment of the magazine’s Student Voices series, all written by the 10 Canadian postsecondary students who were named 2014 3M National...
We’re in a time of crisis and change, which is a time to remember what works here. I was waiting in my exam room, University Community Centre (UCC) 53, at 1:30 on Wednesday, April 22, ready for my examination in Old English Language and Literature. Students really...
I want to express my admiration for the fine manner in which you have covered the controversy over President Chakma in Western News. Dealing with such an issue in the university’s newspaper is a delicate challenge and I believe you have met it with discernment and...
Higher-than-normal mercury levels may be wiping out the endangered arctic ivory gull, but now Western researchers are warning other species – including humans – are at risk from this deadly neurotoxin. And we have only ourselves to blame.
The stars have aligned for Anahi Granada. The University of Geneva postdoctoral scholar, along with her husband Jorge German Rubino, a visiting geophysicist in Geology, will call London home for the next 18 months thanks to a $90,000 grant she received as an Advanced...
The saddest line of a wonderful career is this – he never held his academic life’s work. Mel Usselman came to Western’s campus in the 1960s. And never left. Here, he earned an Honors BSc in Chemistry in 1968, a PhD in Chemistry in 1973 and, after flirting with a new...
Gord Lambert believes today’s graduates are owed a more collaborative playing field, if we expect them to solve tomorrow’s problems. “I see these young people who have a passion for the environment, a passion for their communities and they want to make a difference....
Tornadoes and downbursts wreak havoc on transmission towers across Ontario. While Engineering professor Ashraf El Damatty, third from left, cannot control the weather, he can do the next best thing – help build a better tower. Along with fellow Engineering professors...
Planetary Science PhD candidate Marianne Mader is opening up the world of creativity to kids and adults through her non-profit creation, STEAMLabs.
Click here to participate in the 2015 Western News Readership Survey. The survey, our first since 2008, will remain open until May 29.
BY THE NUMBERS: The Office of the Provost has established a 2015-16 University Budget page, including copies of operating and capital budgets from this and previous years, budget presentations and supporting documents. Visit https://provost.uwo.ca/budget2015/. * * ...
He laughed a bit when I suggested it. When I first interviewed Chirag Shah in January 2014, we spoke of his journey from Western Science student to Alumni Association volunteer to Board of Governors member to, eventually, chair of that governing body. At the time, one...
Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in University Affairs on April 8. It was published as the 10th – and final – installment of the magazine’s Student Voices series, all written by the 10 Canadian postsecondary students who were named 2014 3M National...
We’re in a time of crisis and change, which is a time to remember what works here. I was waiting in my exam room, University Community Centre (UCC) 53, at 1:30 on Wednesday, April 22, ready for my examination in Old English Language and Literature. Students really...
I want to express my admiration for the fine manner in which you have covered the controversy over President Chakma in Western News. Dealing with such an issue in the university’s newspaper is a delicate challenge and I believe you have met it with discernment and...
Higher-than-normal mercury levels may be wiping out the endangered arctic ivory gull, but now Western researchers are warning other species – including humans – are at risk from this deadly neurotoxin. And we have only ourselves to blame.
The stars have aligned for Anahi Granada. The University of Geneva postdoctoral scholar, along with her husband Jorge German Rubino, a visiting geophysicist in Geology, will call London home for the next 18 months thanks to a $90,000 grant she received as an Advanced...
The saddest line of a wonderful career is this – he never held his academic life’s work. Mel Usselman came to Western’s campus in the 1960s. And never left. Here, he earned an Honors BSc in Chemistry in 1968, a PhD in Chemistry in 1973 and, after flirting with a new...
Gord Lambert believes today’s graduates are owed a more collaborative playing field, if we expect them to solve tomorrow’s problems. “I see these young people who have a passion for the environment, a passion for their communities and they want to make a difference....
Tornadoes and downbursts wreak havoc on transmission towers across Ontario. While Engineering professor Ashraf El Damatty, third from left, cannot control the weather, he can do the next best thing – help build a better tower. Along with fellow Engineering professors...
Planetary Science PhD candidate Marianne Mader is opening up the world of creativity to kids and adults through her non-profit creation, STEAMLabs.
Click here to participate in the 2015 Western News Readership Survey. The survey, our first since 2008, will remain open until May 29.