I read with great interest the article “Western branches out with tropical flora” (Western News, June 3). My daughter will be attending Western this fall and, last week, we were at the Summer Academic Orientation. During our campus tour, I did see a palm tree at the...
You already have the 90-inch big screen HDTV, complete with surround sound, to watch your favourite episode of Top Chef Canada. Now, if only you could smell the final results of the Elimination Challenge, your sensory entertainment experience would be complete. Or so...
Mark Rayner is hilarious. But channeling that personal humour – apparent to many in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) professor’s classroom – onto the page requires more skill than many may realize. Western News book reviewer Kane Faucher recently...
A fourth-year Psychology project for four King’s University College students made such waves in the community, it recently earned the 2015 Champion of Mental Health Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association. PEARS (Psychological Education, Awareness and...
At 17, he arrived as a stranger in a strange country with his entire life crammed into a single piece of luggage. He didn’t know a soul, speak the language and would not see his parents in his native Albania for five years. “I left a child and went home a grown man,”...
Sofia Herrarte doesn’t want to leave. When she first came to London four years ago, she felt the city was small. Closed off. Less of a metropolis than expected. But when she came to campus, Herrarte’s opinion changed. “I was happy – it was bigger now and there was a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtIGkB9R32Y The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) wants to see an end to the ‘Bachelorette Degree.’ Or rather, the group wants to draw attention to the gender pay gap in Ontario affecting female university graduates. “It’s...
Michelle Hamilton was looking for a way to commemorate the centennial of the First World War. What she and her students found was an intimate portrait of a prominent local family. After sifting through and transcribing thousands of pages – from nearly 500 letters –...
Western Science student Tony Ma has been named one of 30 young Canadian leaders to represent Canada on a Junior Team Canada trade mission to the Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu from Aug. 1-15. The mission looks to create meaningful partnerships...
Is this the University of Florida? Has global warming gone to the extreme? You may think so, upon spotting one of the dozen or so banana palm trees that have sprouted up around campus. Well, they didn’t just sprout up, said Western lead horticulturist Matt Robinson,...
On May 21, the Student Success Centre at Western University, Student Life Centre at Brescia University College and Student Services at Huron University College and their faculty partners invited almost 100 community partners to learn more about how Community Engaged...
HONG KONG - Simon Cua challenged graduates to look beyond a black-and-white world and see a landscape that features a full spectrum of colours. "Ivey is very...
For 30 years, Ravi Menon has paved the way for key developments in the field of brain imaging research – from working on the team that discovered functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to developing and championing the use of ultra-high field MRI techniques for...
You already have the 90-inch big screen HDTV, complete with surround sound, to watch your favourite episode of Top Chef Canada. Now, if only you could smell the final results of the Elimination Challenge, your sensory entertainment experience would be complete. Or so...
Mark Rayner is hilarious. But channeling that personal humour – apparent to many in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) professor’s classroom – onto the page requires more skill than many may realize. Western News book reviewer Kane Faucher recently...
A fourth-year Psychology project for four King’s University College students made such waves in the community, it recently earned the 2015 Champion of Mental Health Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association. PEARS (Psychological Education, Awareness and...
At 17, he arrived as a stranger in a strange country with his entire life crammed into a single piece of luggage. He didn’t know a soul, speak the language and would not see his parents in his native Albania for five years. “I left a child and went home a grown man,”...
Sofia Herrarte doesn’t want to leave. When she first came to London four years ago, she felt the city was small. Closed off. Less of a metropolis than expected. But when she came to campus, Herrarte’s opinion changed. “I was happy – it was bigger now and there was a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtIGkB9R32Y The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) wants to see an end to the ‘Bachelorette Degree.’ Or rather, the group wants to draw attention to the gender pay gap in Ontario affecting female university graduates. “It’s...
Michelle Hamilton was looking for a way to commemorate the centennial of the First World War. What she and her students found was an intimate portrait of a prominent local family. After sifting through and transcribing thousands of pages – from nearly 500 letters –...
Western Science student Tony Ma has been named one of 30 young Canadian leaders to represent Canada on a Junior Team Canada trade mission to the Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu from Aug. 1-15. The mission looks to create meaningful partnerships...
Is this the University of Florida? Has global warming gone to the extreme? You may think so, upon spotting one of the dozen or so banana palm trees that have sprouted up around campus. Well, they didn’t just sprout up, said Western lead horticulturist Matt Robinson,...
On May 21, the Student Success Centre at Western University, Student Life Centre at Brescia University College and Student Services at Huron University College and their faculty partners invited almost 100 community partners to learn more about how Community Engaged...
HONG KONG - Simon Cua challenged graduates to look beyond a black-and-white world and see a landscape that features a full spectrum of colours. "Ivey is very...
For 30 years, Ravi Menon has paved the way for key developments in the field of brain imaging research – from working on the team that discovered functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to developing and championing the use of ultra-high field MRI techniques for...