When you talk sports dynasties, you think of the Chicago Bulls (six NBA titles in eight years), the New York Yankees (nine World Series titles in 16 years) or the UCLA Bruins (10 national championships in 12 years). But if you consider those dynasties, wha …
Four Western research projects recently shared in nearly $2 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants, the funding body announced last week. The goal of the grants is to increase research and training...
Seven winners representing four different faculties have been awarded Western’s top honour for its highest calling.
If any real progress is to be made in meeting the country’s ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target, Canadian policy-makers need to tackle immediately the sensitive question of how to share the burden, according to an Ivey Business School professor. Set at the...
Western Journalism alumni and siblings Warren, BA’90, MA’94, left, and Carly Weeks, MA’04, far right, visited their alma mater on March 1 to discuss media and share career advice with students in the Health Reporting and Health Communication course. Warren, the...
Western continues to host its second annual Indigenous Awareness Week, March 7-13, in celebration of local Indigenous culture, art and scholarship. Led by Western’s Indigenous Services, part of Western’s Student Experience portfolio, the weeklong event celebrates the...
University officials estimate necessary repairs to and testing of University Drive Bridge will be concluded in three weeks, ending a reconfiguration of three LTC routes as a result of weight restrictions imposed March 4.
The 6 Richmond, 6A Richmond and 13 Wellington routes that currently run over the University Drive Bridge will now stop at the university’s Richmond Gates.
Western officials see the Ontario government’s promise of free university tuition for students from low-income families as a giant leap toward greater access to postsecondary education. In the 2016 Ontario Budget, released last week, the provincial government promised...
A recent Western study into positive psychological factors, like a strong sense of meaning in one’s life, may unlock a new method of enhancing mental health and well-being for adults and seniors. Research by clinical psychologist Marnin Heisel recently explored the...
Like many young Canadians growing up in the heart of sports-minded Toronto, Amish Taploo dreamed of playing for Team Canada. Only not the one that skates on ice. “It’s always hard explaining to people what cricket is, so I try not to get into it too much – unless you...
I am responding to the commentary by Professors Hill and Suarez, which centered on the implications of applying CRISPR/Cas9 technology to modify the human genome (“Looking for a curator of the human species,” Western News, Feb. 25). First of all, it needs to be...
On Friday, Feb. 19, two groups from the University of Western Ontario Staff Association (UWOSA) were given a tour of the Western Greenhouses by Vicky Lightfoot, Facilities Manager in the Biology Department. They were shown both the lower greenhouses, where all the...
Four Western research projects recently shared in nearly $2 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants, the funding body announced last week. The goal of the grants is to increase research and training...
Seven winners representing four different faculties have been awarded Western’s top honour for its highest calling.
If any real progress is to be made in meeting the country’s ambitious 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target, Canadian policy-makers need to tackle immediately the sensitive question of how to share the burden, according to an Ivey Business School professor. Set at the...
Western Journalism alumni and siblings Warren, BA’90, MA’94, left, and Carly Weeks, MA’04, far right, visited their alma mater on March 1 to discuss media and share career advice with students in the Health Reporting and Health Communication course. Warren, the...
Western continues to host its second annual Indigenous Awareness Week, March 7-13, in celebration of local Indigenous culture, art and scholarship. Led by Western’s Indigenous Services, part of Western’s Student Experience portfolio, the weeklong event celebrates the...
University officials estimate necessary repairs to and testing of University Drive Bridge will be concluded in three weeks, ending a reconfiguration of three LTC routes as a result of weight restrictions imposed March 4.
The 6 Richmond, 6A Richmond and 13 Wellington routes that currently run over the University Drive Bridge will now stop at the university’s Richmond Gates.
Western officials see the Ontario government’s promise of free university tuition for students from low-income families as a giant leap toward greater access to postsecondary education. In the 2016 Ontario Budget, released last week, the provincial government promised...
A recent Western study into positive psychological factors, like a strong sense of meaning in one’s life, may unlock a new method of enhancing mental health and well-being for adults and seniors. Research by clinical psychologist Marnin Heisel recently explored the...
Like many young Canadians growing up in the heart of sports-minded Toronto, Amish Taploo dreamed of playing for Team Canada. Only not the one that skates on ice. “It’s always hard explaining to people what cricket is, so I try not to get into it too much – unless you...
I am responding to the commentary by Professors Hill and Suarez, which centered on the implications of applying CRISPR/Cas9 technology to modify the human genome (“Looking for a curator of the human species,” Western News, Feb. 25). First of all, it needs to be...
On Friday, Feb. 19, two groups from the University of Western Ontario Staff Association (UWOSA) were given a tour of the Western Greenhouses by Vicky Lightfoot, Facilities Manager in the Biology Department. They were shown both the lower greenhouses, where all the...