It’s an early spring in early winter on campus as a warm spell covering most of Ontario this month has allowed faculty, staff and students, like third-year Kinesiology student Michaela Khan, to ride their bikes to work or to study for exams. Temperatures will drop to...
With the use of cellular imaging, Paula Foster plays a sophisticated game of ‘I Spy’ by tracking the movement of cancer cells and treatments in the body.
A memorial service for Andrea Christidis, a first-year Health Sciences student from Scarborough and resident of Medway-Sydenham Hall, has been set for 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, in the Mustang Lounge of the University Community Centre. This memorial service is open to...
The message from the campus has been clear. “There is an expectation Western’s Board of Governors be more open and transparent in how it functions,” said Matthew Wilson, Chair, Board Governance Review Task Force.
Western’s Board of Governors released today its Report of the Governance Review Task Force. The Task Force was created by the Board in June 2015 in response to issues and concerns about governance that were triggered by decisions with respect to the president’s...
For Jeff Tennant, it is a tribute to a career he fell into, after falling in love with the French language in his teenage years.
A century ago this month, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation, the General Theory of Relativity, by publically debuting it during presentations to the Prussian Academy in November 1915. A seminal text, this paper led to a scientific...
The Refugee Sponsorship Fund, established by the Faculty of Social Science, in partnership with the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, has surpassed its original goal of $30,000 and raised more than $44,000 to provide for a G5 Private Sponsorship Application for a...
Dr. Kenneth Wright, founder of Western’s Dental Outreach Community Service (DOCS) Program, recently received the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award, which recognizes Canadians who have made a significant and sustained contribution to their community through...
Western Engineering MEng candidates Rohit Kulkarni, Yuyang Wang and Ziyu Zhang finished second in the 5th annual Project Management Paper Competition (PMPC) in September. The team of students held off opponents from Queen’s University, Trent University, the University...
Frederick Banting and Fred Possmayer, PhD’65, have been named in the top-five favourite game-changing Ontario research discoveries, as voted on by the public. In 1921, Frederick Banting, who taught at Western at the time, came up with the idea of extracting insulin...
Matthew Teeter, a Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor and Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, won the 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize. The $20,000 award recognizes the excellence of Teeter’s research in joint replacement. It was presented at...
Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...
With the use of cellular imaging, Paula Foster plays a sophisticated game of ‘I Spy’ by tracking the movement of cancer cells and treatments in the body.
A memorial service for Andrea Christidis, a first-year Health Sciences student from Scarborough and resident of Medway-Sydenham Hall, has been set for 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, in the Mustang Lounge of the University Community Centre. This memorial service is open to...
The message from the campus has been clear. “There is an expectation Western’s Board of Governors be more open and transparent in how it functions,” said Matthew Wilson, Chair, Board Governance Review Task Force.
Western’s Board of Governors released today its Report of the Governance Review Task Force. The Task Force was created by the Board in June 2015 in response to issues and concerns about governance that were triggered by decisions with respect to the president’s...
For Jeff Tennant, it is a tribute to a career he fell into, after falling in love with the French language in his teenage years.
A century ago this month, Albert Einstein achieved his long-sought theory of gravitation, the General Theory of Relativity, by publically debuting it during presentations to the Prussian Academy in November 1915. A seminal text, this paper led to a scientific...
The Refugee Sponsorship Fund, established by the Faculty of Social Science, in partnership with the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, has surpassed its original goal of $30,000 and raised more than $44,000 to provide for a G5 Private Sponsorship Application for a...
Dr. Kenneth Wright, founder of Western’s Dental Outreach Community Service (DOCS) Program, recently received the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award, which recognizes Canadians who have made a significant and sustained contribution to their community through...
Western Engineering MEng candidates Rohit Kulkarni, Yuyang Wang and Ziyu Zhang finished second in the 5th annual Project Management Paper Competition (PMPC) in September. The team of students held off opponents from Queen’s University, Trent University, the University...
Frederick Banting and Fred Possmayer, PhD’65, have been named in the top-five favourite game-changing Ontario research discoveries, as voted on by the public. In 1921, Frederick Banting, who taught at Western at the time, came up with the idea of extracting insulin...
Matthew Teeter, a Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor and Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, won the 2015 John Charles Polanyi Prize. The $20,000 award recognizes the excellence of Teeter’s research in joint replacement. It was presented at...
Einstein has become such a cultural touchstone that the internet is full of dubiously sourced quotations attributed to him. One of the most famous usually appears as “I refuse to believe that God plays dice with the universe” – or more simply “God doesn’t play dice.”...