When Marjorie Johnson first stepped in front of a room full of university students more than two decades ago, she had no idea what she was doing. She didn’t know what pedagogy meant. She was given a textbook, told when and where to show up and to simply “go forth and...
Western honoured its long-serving, part-time employees at recent celebrations for faculty and staff who have been working at the university for 25 years or more. While spending a quarter of a century at a single institution might seem like an anomaly today, these...
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Emeritus Peter Castle has been awarded the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Kaufmann Award “for development of applied electrostatic devices and processes in industry, agriculture, and...
David Suzuki, Canadian environmental activist and science broadcaster, confronts the challenges of the unfolding 21st century in his lecture, Experience a New Vision, at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Alumni Hall. Organized by the Science Students’ Council and the University...
The music is not going to stop for Aboudi Lahib any time soon.
With just the click of a button, a complex medical journal or government website will become crystal clear in an instant if one Western alumna has her way.
It’s a feeling of coming full circle for Don Wright Faculty of Music alumnus Adam Scime, BMus’07, MMus’09, as his new composition, Liminal Pathways, was performed recently by ECM+ musical ensemble at Western Music’s von Kuster Hall. “Some of the first pieces I ever...
The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...
The Western Medical Innovation Fellowship was the best thing that could have happened to John Matheson. “Medical residency was always the goal, but this program is going to be invaluable for my future as a clinician,” he said. “You don’t get the opportunity to stop...
Come for Emma Donoghue and a screening of Room. Stay for a chance to see movies you might not otherwise see anywhere else in London. Regional film festivals – such as the inaugural Forest City Film Festival, taking place Nov. 11-13 at the London Public Library’s Wolf...
At my birth, my mother asked “What is it?” immediately after I left her body, as if I was not human until I was sexed, gendered and categorized into the sex and gender binary. The doctor curiously responded, “It’s a girl. No ... it’s a boy!” And so my life as...
If you think adding something as innocuous as an extra half-inch to a nail would not make any difference when building a house, Greg Kopp wants you to think again. “It’s a surprising little difference. You go from a two-inch nail to a two-and-a-half-inch nail and it...
Western honoured its long-serving, part-time employees at recent celebrations for faculty and staff who have been working at the university for 25 years or more. While spending a quarter of a century at a single institution might seem like an anomaly today, these...
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Emeritus Peter Castle has been awarded the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Kaufmann Award “for development of applied electrostatic devices and processes in industry, agriculture, and...
David Suzuki, Canadian environmental activist and science broadcaster, confronts the challenges of the unfolding 21st century in his lecture, Experience a New Vision, at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Alumni Hall. Organized by the Science Students’ Council and the University...
The music is not going to stop for Aboudi Lahib any time soon.
With just the click of a button, a complex medical journal or government website will become crystal clear in an instant if one Western alumna has her way.
It’s a feeling of coming full circle for Don Wright Faculty of Music alumnus Adam Scime, BMus’07, MMus’09, as his new composition, Liminal Pathways, was performed recently by ECM+ musical ensemble at Western Music’s von Kuster Hall. “Some of the first pieces I ever...
The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...
The Western Medical Innovation Fellowship was the best thing that could have happened to John Matheson. “Medical residency was always the goal, but this program is going to be invaluable for my future as a clinician,” he said. “You don’t get the opportunity to stop...
Come for Emma Donoghue and a screening of Room. Stay for a chance to see movies you might not otherwise see anywhere else in London. Regional film festivals – such as the inaugural Forest City Film Festival, taking place Nov. 11-13 at the London Public Library’s Wolf...
At my birth, my mother asked “What is it?” immediately after I left her body, as if I was not human until I was sexed, gendered and categorized into the sex and gender binary. The doctor curiously responded, “It’s a girl. No ... it’s a boy!” And so my life as...
If you think adding something as innocuous as an extra half-inch to a nail would not make any difference when building a house, Greg Kopp wants you to think again. “It’s a surprising little difference. You go from a two-inch nail to a two-and-a-half-inch nail and it...