Today’s graduates are fortunate to live in Canada where opportunity is endless, where they can, and must, reach for higher mountains every day, said Frank Hasenfratz, chairman and founder of the Board of Linamar, a multi-billion-dollar global manufac …
I recently had Thanksgiving dinner with some of my extended family. A range of generations was represented at the table. My boyfriend and I were the youngest in attendance, as we’re both in our twenties. My cousin and his wife are in their late-thirties and my aunt...
Someone had to say something at some point, right? Senate has been in an odd place since the events of last year. It is working through its transparency issues – still somewhat clumsily, not yet in lockstep. And that is OK. It is never easy to see the bureaucratic...
In the final few days of October 1916, Dr. Edwin Seaborn spent a day in London, shopping with friends and running into acquaintances. He attended a dinner party with colleagues. He also studied the medical equipment at a nearby hospital. The week, however, was an...
Western scholars Shane O’Halloran and Sophia Wen have been named to the Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE Germany) program, and Sviataslau Kohut has been selected by the RISE Professional program, the German Academic Exchange Service – Deutscher...
Western students are being taught the ancient Indigenous art of mukluk-making in the hopes of preserving this tradition for generations to come, thanks to The Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot School, a non-profit, Indigenous artisan-run program led by former Olympian...
Western is counting on students, staff, faculty, alumni and retirees in helping the university meet its lofty goal of $750,000 for this year’s United Way of London & Middlesex campaign. Last year, the university raised $717,858, the largest single donation United...
It was interesting to see the published lists of Western Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors and Board of Governors Chairs in Western News (“Making an historic connection with her subjects,” Sept. 29), and notice the gap between 1914 and 1927 when there is no record of a...
Famed medical researcher Dr. Henry Barnett, co-founder of the Robarts Research Institute, who served as its first scientific director, died peacefully in the company...
Western’s Campus Community Police Service (CCPS) is continuing to investigate occurrences involving a suspicious male on the Western campus in the past 24 hours. This male, identified as a non-student, has been removed and banned from returning to campus. It was...
After three years of preparation, Western’s Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health’s Master of Public Health Program (MPH) has received accreditation for five years from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), making it the first program in the...
The Department of Sociology at Western developed around demography and quantitative analysis, a strength it carries to this day. During the 2016-17 academic year, Sociology is celebrating its 50th anniversary. While part of the university since the 1940s, the earliest...
Taking a year away from university studies is a big decision. Some see it as a refreshing reprieve from academia and an excellent opportunity to gain experience. Others argue it is an unnecessary delay from school and graduation. My sentiments once fell into the...
I recently had Thanksgiving dinner with some of my extended family. A range of generations was represented at the table. My boyfriend and I were the youngest in attendance, as we’re both in our twenties. My cousin and his wife are in their late-thirties and my aunt...
Someone had to say something at some point, right? Senate has been in an odd place since the events of last year. It is working through its transparency issues – still somewhat clumsily, not yet in lockstep. And that is OK. It is never easy to see the bureaucratic...
In the final few days of October 1916, Dr. Edwin Seaborn spent a day in London, shopping with friends and running into acquaintances. He attended a dinner party with colleagues. He also studied the medical equipment at a nearby hospital. The week, however, was an...
Western scholars Shane O’Halloran and Sophia Wen have been named to the Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE Germany) program, and Sviataslau Kohut has been selected by the RISE Professional program, the German Academic Exchange Service – Deutscher...
Western students are being taught the ancient Indigenous art of mukluk-making in the hopes of preserving this tradition for generations to come, thanks to The Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot School, a non-profit, Indigenous artisan-run program led by former Olympian...
Western is counting on students, staff, faculty, alumni and retirees in helping the university meet its lofty goal of $750,000 for this year’s United Way of London & Middlesex campaign. Last year, the university raised $717,858, the largest single donation United...
It was interesting to see the published lists of Western Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors and Board of Governors Chairs in Western News (“Making an historic connection with her subjects,” Sept. 29), and notice the gap between 1914 and 1927 when there is no record of a...
Famed medical researcher Dr. Henry Barnett, co-founder of the Robarts Research Institute, who served as its first scientific director, died peacefully in the company...
Western’s Campus Community Police Service (CCPS) is continuing to investigate occurrences involving a suspicious male on the Western campus in the past 24 hours. This male, identified as a non-student, has been removed and banned from returning to campus. It was...
After three years of preparation, Western’s Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health’s Master of Public Health Program (MPH) has received accreditation for five years from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), making it the first program in the...
The Department of Sociology at Western developed around demography and quantitative analysis, a strength it carries to this day. During the 2016-17 academic year, Sociology is celebrating its 50th anniversary. While part of the university since the 1940s, the earliest...
Taking a year away from university studies is a big decision. Some see it as a refreshing reprieve from academia and an excellent opportunity to gain experience. Others argue it is an unnecessary delay from school and graduation. My sentiments once fell into the...