How will we remember 2015? Probably through one or more of these faces. Today, Western News presents its 6th annual Newsmakers issue, a celebration of those who contributed to our campus conversation in the last year. Join us in this spotlight, in brie …
Guidelines to help treat Canadian children and adults with acne received a facelift after 15 years thanks to one Western professor. Management of acne: Canadian clinical practice guidelines, published last month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, offer...
Now that she’s here, Psychology graduate student Madeleine Brodbeck is ready to change gears.
It’s not that its practices are particularly reticent – they’ve just been seldom discussed. That is, until now. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professors Nagalingam (Raj) Rajakumar and Timothy Regnault hope to engage members of the Western community – and...
Although Western’s Board of Governors unanimously backed the Report of the Board Governance Review Task Force, the “make-or-break” test for the university governing body starts with what they do next, according to one of the review’s co-authors. “One of the things...
Over the years, Eddy Smet’s comic book collection grew so fast, he couldn’t keep up with it. Of the thousands he once owned, he’s only read a small portion. “I had my first comic book collection when I was a young boy in the mid-1950s. I don’t know how many I had, but...
One tweet from One Direction member Louis Tomlinson during the Paris attacks summarily proves the true impact of celebrity and the existence of the global connectivity.
Before my father died, before his mind started to fail him, and matters like this were no longer of consequence to his rapidly condensing world, he asked me, “If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?” I never offered him a very good answer....
The Dark and Light sides of The Force clashed earlier this week as the 2015 Business Cares Food...
Western will be conducting a two-day traffic survey on all university entrance and exit points on Tuesday and Thursday, Dec. 1 and 3. The results of the survey will inform a number of areas of university planning involving traffic patterns, including the Campus Master...
At its regular Thursday meeting, Western’s Board of Governors approved a new four-year contract (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019) with the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA), a union representing 49 librarians and...
Western’s Board of Governors named Hanny Hassan as the university governing body’s next Chair at its regular meeting Thursday. His term begins Jan. 1. Named to the Board by the Alumni Association in 2009, Hassan is President of Alef Consulting. He received a BESc from...
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent commission recently released a scathing report accusing many of Russia’s top track and field athletes of participating in a systematic doping program. Along with the athletes, the report said coaches, trainers, doctors...
Guidelines to help treat Canadian children and adults with acne received a facelift after 15 years thanks to one Western professor. Management of acne: Canadian clinical practice guidelines, published last month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, offer...
Now that she’s here, Psychology graduate student Madeleine Brodbeck is ready to change gears.
It’s not that its practices are particularly reticent – they’ve just been seldom discussed. That is, until now. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professors Nagalingam (Raj) Rajakumar and Timothy Regnault hope to engage members of the Western community – and...
Although Western’s Board of Governors unanimously backed the Report of the Board Governance Review Task Force, the “make-or-break” test for the university governing body starts with what they do next, according to one of the review’s co-authors. “One of the things...
Over the years, Eddy Smet’s comic book collection grew so fast, he couldn’t keep up with it. Of the thousands he once owned, he’s only read a small portion. “I had my first comic book collection when I was a young boy in the mid-1950s. I don’t know how many I had, but...
One tweet from One Direction member Louis Tomlinson during the Paris attacks summarily proves the true impact of celebrity and the existence of the global connectivity.
Before my father died, before his mind started to fail him, and matters like this were no longer of consequence to his rapidly condensing world, he asked me, “If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?” I never offered him a very good answer....
The Dark and Light sides of The Force clashed earlier this week as the 2015 Business Cares Food...
Western will be conducting a two-day traffic survey on all university entrance and exit points on Tuesday and Thursday, Dec. 1 and 3. The results of the survey will inform a number of areas of university planning involving traffic patterns, including the Campus Master...
At its regular Thursday meeting, Western’s Board of Governors approved a new four-year contract (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019) with the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA), a union representing 49 librarians and...
Western’s Board of Governors named Hanny Hassan as the university governing body’s next Chair at its regular meeting Thursday. His term begins Jan. 1. Named to the Board by the Alumni Association in 2009, Hassan is President of Alef Consulting. He received a BESc from...
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent commission recently released a scathing report accusing many of Russia’s top track and field athletes of participating in a systematic doping program. Along with the athletes, the report said coaches, trainers, doctors...