This is one of those moments. How our students respond this weekend and beyond will define how people will see this university for years to come. That might seem like an overstatement. But given the magnified attention applied to this year’s Reunion Weekend/Homecoming...
Perhaps this was the droid you were looking for. Western Engineering students continued a campus tradition last week by turning the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory into the gigantic R2-D2 from the Star Wars series of films. Over the years, Engineering students have...
It might be the fourth game of the season, but Western will be kicking off a new season on Saturday as Mustangs football helps debut Ontario University Athletics (OUA) football on City TV. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) will launch its Football Game of the Week...
A statement from Jana Luker, Associate Vice-President (Student Experience), regarding the recent Epworth Avenue incident.
An unprecedented federal research funding push will position Western to radically transform humankind’s understanding of brain disorders. On Tuesday, Western’s BrainsCAN: Brain Health For Life initiative received a $66-million investment from the Canada First Research...
Before my father died in January 2015, 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...
Struggling to navigate through the airport due to the weight of an enormous 20-kilogram hiking backpack, I was panting as I reached my group of 28 university students in front of the check-in gate, a crowd equally excited as I was to be embarking on a 20-day Me-to-We...
Not long ago, I was watching an episode of a legal drama TV series and the main protagonist – a cocky New York City corporate lawyer – said something that stuck with me. At the climax of a crucial scene, he stared at his associate and said: “That’s the difference...
While no longer an active member of Western’s Friends of the Gardens (FOG), I applaud the noble effort the Friends (who remain five in number) who for the past 27 years have staged an annual plant sale. More than $70,000 has been raised over these years by FOG, most...
While research surrounding sport-related concussions has gained momentum, females in less contact-heavy sports have received much less attention than their male counterparts. Western researchers see that as a significant oversight.
The Canadian Ambassador to the Netherlands, a past Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, a manufacturing industry titan and two world-renowned economists will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 308th Convocation this fall.
Bachelor of Medical Sciences student Mary Wang was named one of 25 Global Winners in the Undergraduate Awards (UA) annual competition, program officials announced today. She earned a Gold Medal for her paper, Does developmental social pragmatic intervention for...
Eight Western professors have been named among the nation’s top scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), including six newly named Fellows and two New Scholars. James Grier, Paul Potter, Gregor Reid, David Shoesmith, Xueliang...
Perhaps this was the droid you were looking for. Western Engineering students continued a campus tradition last week by turning the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory into the gigantic R2-D2 from the Star Wars series of films. Over the years, Engineering students have...
It might be the fourth game of the season, but Western will be kicking off a new season on Saturday as Mustangs football helps debut Ontario University Athletics (OUA) football on City TV. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) will launch its Football Game of the Week...
A statement from Jana Luker, Associate Vice-President (Student Experience), regarding the recent Epworth Avenue incident.
An unprecedented federal research funding push will position Western to radically transform humankind’s understanding of brain disorders. On Tuesday, Western’s BrainsCAN: Brain Health For Life initiative received a $66-million investment from the Canada First Research...
Before my father died in January 2015, 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...
Struggling to navigate through the airport due to the weight of an enormous 20-kilogram hiking backpack, I was panting as I reached my group of 28 university students in front of the check-in gate, a crowd equally excited as I was to be embarking on a 20-day Me-to-We...
Not long ago, I was watching an episode of a legal drama TV series and the main protagonist – a cocky New York City corporate lawyer – said something that stuck with me. At the climax of a crucial scene, he stared at his associate and said: “That’s the difference...
While no longer an active member of Western’s Friends of the Gardens (FOG), I applaud the noble effort the Friends (who remain five in number) who for the past 27 years have staged an annual plant sale. More than $70,000 has been raised over these years by FOG, most...
While research surrounding sport-related concussions has gained momentum, females in less contact-heavy sports have received much less attention than their male counterparts. Western researchers see that as a significant oversight.
The Canadian Ambassador to the Netherlands, a past Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, a manufacturing industry titan and two world-renowned economists will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 308th Convocation this fall.
Bachelor of Medical Sciences student Mary Wang was named one of 25 Global Winners in the Undergraduate Awards (UA) annual competition, program officials announced today. She earned a Gold Medal for her paper, Does developmental social pragmatic intervention for...
Eight Western professors have been named among the nation’s top scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), including six newly named Fellows and two New Scholars. James Grier, Paul Potter, Gregor Reid, David Shoesmith, Xueliang...