Gary Barwin and Emma Donoghue, both former Western Writers-in Residence, were among six authors named to the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist, announced last week. A third title named to the list was published by Windsor, Ont.-based Biblioasis, founded...
If anyone were to tout the benefits of opening yourself up to new voices, it would be Alan Kalbfleisch. Last summer, at the halfway point of earning his master’s degree in Engineering, Kalbfleisch satisfied his interest in learning more about business by taking the...
Mazen El-Baba has married a personal passion for social justice with his studies in neuroscience to better his community. Born in Lebanon, the Neuroscience masters student witnessed how addiction and mental-health issues were often addressed in the Middle East and...
Mark Ormrod knows you may ask about Donald Trump. And he is ready for it. “So many of us are troubled by this idea politics used to be all about principle and has now become just about personality, about the person who can shout the loudest. And yet, personality has...
For co-founder Shawn Slade, Booch Organic Kombucha is a nod to yesteryear when health-promoting products were available at the corner store. Even its branding – with its stubby brown bottle and stylized cursive lettering – evokes the idea of grandpa’s old cough...
Postdoctoral fellows at Western have won the right to unionize following a recent settlement between the university and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the Ontario Labour Relations Board announced. Following the settlement, a December 2015 vote by...
The story had all the right ingredients – two high-profile names pitted against one another; calls of defamation and slander; a resultant court case that ended in a $260,000 payout. But the trial went largely uncovered as it unfolded. This month’s Faculty of...
Canadian Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan said those who drive innovation through knowledge and ideas, in particular university professors and researchers, are among Canada’s greatest assets and the reason for the return of a Statistics Canada survey to support the...
Women are a minority in the energy sector everywhere in the world – and Canada is no exception. Concerns about climate change and fossil fuel insecurity have ensured significant interest in Canada in the technologies and financing for transitioning to clean energy,...
I cannot help but feel like we have been here before. Even so, I understand how waves are generated when the head of the Carnegie Corporation of New York says academic degrees are “preposterous,” and that except in only “a few strong professions such as medicine and...
Health Sciences professor Helene Berman and Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Dale Laird have been named among 36 new fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the organization announced Thursday at its 2016 Forum and Annual General...
Therese Quigley, one of the most respected and decorated athletic leaders in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), announced her retirement today as Director of Sports and Recreation Services, effective Dec. 31.
It is important to support and celebrate research and innovation, but at the end of the day, what matters most is the impact...
If anyone were to tout the benefits of opening yourself up to new voices, it would be Alan Kalbfleisch. Last summer, at the halfway point of earning his master’s degree in Engineering, Kalbfleisch satisfied his interest in learning more about business by taking the...
Mazen El-Baba has married a personal passion for social justice with his studies in neuroscience to better his community. Born in Lebanon, the Neuroscience masters student witnessed how addiction and mental-health issues were often addressed in the Middle East and...
Mark Ormrod knows you may ask about Donald Trump. And he is ready for it. “So many of us are troubled by this idea politics used to be all about principle and has now become just about personality, about the person who can shout the loudest. And yet, personality has...
For co-founder Shawn Slade, Booch Organic Kombucha is a nod to yesteryear when health-promoting products were available at the corner store. Even its branding – with its stubby brown bottle and stylized cursive lettering – evokes the idea of grandpa’s old cough...
Postdoctoral fellows at Western have won the right to unionize following a recent settlement between the university and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the Ontario Labour Relations Board announced. Following the settlement, a December 2015 vote by...
The story had all the right ingredients – two high-profile names pitted against one another; calls of defamation and slander; a resultant court case that ended in a $260,000 payout. But the trial went largely uncovered as it unfolded. This month’s Faculty of...
Canadian Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan said those who drive innovation through knowledge and ideas, in particular university professors and researchers, are among Canada’s greatest assets and the reason for the return of a Statistics Canada survey to support the...
Women are a minority in the energy sector everywhere in the world – and Canada is no exception. Concerns about climate change and fossil fuel insecurity have ensured significant interest in Canada in the technologies and financing for transitioning to clean energy,...
I cannot help but feel like we have been here before. Even so, I understand how waves are generated when the head of the Carnegie Corporation of New York says academic degrees are “preposterous,” and that except in only “a few strong professions such as medicine and...
Health Sciences professor Helene Berman and Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Dale Laird have been named among 36 new fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the organization announced Thursday at its 2016 Forum and Annual General...
Therese Quigley, one of the most respected and decorated athletic leaders in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), announced her retirement today as Director of Sports and Recreation Services, effective Dec. 31.
It is important to support and celebrate research and innovation, but at the end of the day, what matters most is the impact...