Don’t tell Elizabeth Krische we have always done things a certain way around here. “I love change,” said a smiling Krische, Director of Procurement Services at Western. Almost everything the university purchases, from pencils to MRIs, is under her watchful eye. And...
Month: October 2015
New post feels like ‘coming home’ for Luker
It was kismet – or something like it, said Jana Luker, Associate Vice-President (Student Experience).
Winders: How leave could have made it go away
He was certain I was missing the story – at least what he saw as the story. More than once, Stephen Goudge, author of the much-discussed Goudge Review of Presidential Compensation Practices, answered my questions succinctly and then punctuated his replies with five...
Everett-Green: Finding my French connection: One student’s lessons from Trois-Pistoles
Our bus arrived half an hour early. The four or five of us who had separately traveled there for the same purpose gathered on the steps of the gas station that doubled as a bus stop, and waited like orphans for our adoptive families. Surely, they would come soon, to...
McMullin: Western students rock the world stage
We know our students are excellent and now the world does, too. As reported in last week’s Western News (“Western students stand atop world in Undergraduate Awards,” Sept. 24), Western students did extremely well in this year’s global Undergraduate Awards competition,...
Doucette: Recognizing the ‘unique and essential role’ we play
With Western’s librarians and archivists currently in negotiations for a new collective agreement, we look to the campus community for your support so we may continue our important work. Librarians and archivists play a unique and essential role in the university’s...
In Pictures: Homecoming 2015 pumped up the volume
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Wang brings message of change to communities
There was a bit of a delayed reaction when Betty Wang won an RBC Students Leading Change Scholarship this past summer.
Bosman eyes a better way of doing business
Justice is one of Jessica Bosman’s passions. As an active executive member of Western’s Amnesty International club, she helps raise awareness about current platforms and disputed cases, collects signatures for petitions and organizes host speakers. Bosman is the...
First sounds of the season
It was a full house last week at the Don Wright Faculty of Music as the Fridays @ 12:30 Series debuted in the brand-new von Kuster Hall. The audience was treated to three performances, including Chant du Ménestrel , op. 71, by pianist Marianna Chibotar-Rutkevich and...
New post feels like ‘coming home’ for Luker
It was kismet – or something like it, said Jana Luker, Associate Vice-President (Student Experience).
Winders: How leave could have made it go away
He was certain I was missing the story – at least what he saw as the story. More than once, Stephen Goudge, author of the much-discussed Goudge Review of Presidential Compensation Practices, answered my questions succinctly and then punctuated his replies with five...
Everett-Green: Finding my French connection: One student’s lessons from Trois-Pistoles
Our bus arrived half an hour early. The four or five of us who had separately traveled there for the same purpose gathered on the steps of the gas station that doubled as a bus stop, and waited like orphans for our adoptive families. Surely, they would come soon, to...
McMullin: Western students rock the world stage
We know our students are excellent and now the world does, too. As reported in last week’s Western News (“Western students stand atop world in Undergraduate Awards,” Sept. 24), Western students did extremely well in this year’s global Undergraduate Awards competition,...
Doucette: Recognizing the ‘unique and essential role’ we play
With Western’s librarians and archivists currently in negotiations for a new collective agreement, we look to the campus community for your support so we may continue our important work. Librarians and archivists play a unique and essential role in the university’s...
In Pictures: Homecoming 2015 pumped up the volume
[gallery type="slideshow" size="full"...
Wang brings message of change to communities
There was a bit of a delayed reaction when Betty Wang won an RBC Students Leading Change Scholarship this past summer.
Bosman eyes a better way of doing business
Justice is one of Jessica Bosman’s passions. As an active executive member of Western’s Amnesty International club, she helps raise awareness about current platforms and disputed cases, collects signatures for petitions and organizes host speakers. Bosman is the...
First sounds of the season
It was a full house last week at the Don Wright Faculty of Music as the Fridays @ 12:30 Series debuted in the brand-new von Kuster Hall. The audience was treated to three performances, including Chant du Ménestrel , op. 71, by pianist Marianna Chibotar-Rutkevich and...