When it comes to her love of ghost stories and all things supernatural, Kelley Armstrong tends to blame “too many Saturday mornings spent watching Scooby-Doo.” “I was telling stories before I was old enough to write them down. Honestly, I cannot remember the first...
Talking about gender-based violence is hard. If you’re part of a Muslim community, it is markedly harder and a group of young women in London wants to change this. Nearly two years ago, the London Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration hired more...
With Engineering’s undergraduate enrolment expected to jump more than 25 per cent in the next couple of years, the timing could not be better to break ground on a new building. With the goal of enhancing teaching and learning spaces, a new 100,000-square-foot building...
Sharon Sliwinski stumbled across Nelson Mandela’s dream by accident. “I still vividly remember coming across the passage in his book in which he describes a recurring nightmare that he had while he was imprisoned on Robben Island,” said the Faculty of Information and...
Amidst the frenzy that is Homecoming weekend, Stacia Pepper and Shawn Hope quickly responded to an emergency and possibly helped save a young woman’s life. They weren’t hoping for any accolades, but their vigilance and actions earned them Citizen Citation Awards from...
Now, it’s your turn to ‘clear the air.’ Launched Jan. 27 and 28, a campuswide survey exploring opinions on the future of smoking at the institution continues the university’s consultation process into the issue. Last week, members of the university community received...
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” I dropped my favourite Fitzgerald line to an old friend the other night – all part of a conversation we were having about our shared pasts. We were university classmates, roommates,...
Even in total agreement on an issue, Western’s Board of Governors could not shake a spectre of community criticism hanging over its processes as members considered a minor change to The University of Western Ontario Act. The Ministry of Training, Colleges and...
It didn’t take Sarah Saska long to realize academia was not for her. Currently in her last year of a Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD at Western, Saska knew her future wasn’t inside the Ivory Tower from the start. While she didn’t know where she was heading...
With the spirited support of two of Western’s indigenous drumming groups, Western campaign organizers announced the grand total of its 2015...
University Senate ducked discussion of an interim report’s findings into the governing body’s way of doing business and, instead, focused on what some Senators perceived as a lack of participation that comprised the report’s findings. Led by two deans, Senators...
Hanny Hassan refuses to look back any longer. “We have to move away from apologizing. We have gone through this period; we have learned some lessons; we have made some judgments about things we need to change,” said Hassan, BESc’64, who was named the 27th Chair of...
As the school year unfolds, students begin to focus primarily on their schoolwork and tend to neglect other needs such as sleep, stress relief, exercise and healthy eating. Since overall well-being affects academic status, it is crucial students pay attention to their...
Talking about gender-based violence is hard. If you’re part of a Muslim community, it is markedly harder and a group of young women in London wants to change this. Nearly two years ago, the London Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration hired more...
With Engineering’s undergraduate enrolment expected to jump more than 25 per cent in the next couple of years, the timing could not be better to break ground on a new building. With the goal of enhancing teaching and learning spaces, a new 100,000-square-foot building...
Sharon Sliwinski stumbled across Nelson Mandela’s dream by accident. “I still vividly remember coming across the passage in his book in which he describes a recurring nightmare that he had while he was imprisoned on Robben Island,” said the Faculty of Information and...
Amidst the frenzy that is Homecoming weekend, Stacia Pepper and Shawn Hope quickly responded to an emergency and possibly helped save a young woman’s life. They weren’t hoping for any accolades, but their vigilance and actions earned them Citizen Citation Awards from...
Now, it’s your turn to ‘clear the air.’ Launched Jan. 27 and 28, a campuswide survey exploring opinions on the future of smoking at the institution continues the university’s consultation process into the issue. Last week, members of the university community received...
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” I dropped my favourite Fitzgerald line to an old friend the other night – all part of a conversation we were having about our shared pasts. We were university classmates, roommates,...
Even in total agreement on an issue, Western’s Board of Governors could not shake a spectre of community criticism hanging over its processes as members considered a minor change to The University of Western Ontario Act. The Ministry of Training, Colleges and...
It didn’t take Sarah Saska long to realize academia was not for her. Currently in her last year of a Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD at Western, Saska knew her future wasn’t inside the Ivory Tower from the start. While she didn’t know where she was heading...
With the spirited support of two of Western’s indigenous drumming groups, Western campaign organizers announced the grand total of its 2015...
University Senate ducked discussion of an interim report’s findings into the governing body’s way of doing business and, instead, focused on what some Senators perceived as a lack of participation that comprised the report’s findings. Led by two deans, Senators...
Hanny Hassan refuses to look back any longer. “We have to move away from apologizing. We have gone through this period; we have learned some lessons; we have made some judgments about things we need to change,” said Hassan, BESc’64, who was named the 27th Chair of...
As the school year unfolds, students begin to focus primarily on their schoolwork and tend to neglect other needs such as sleep, stress relief, exercise and healthy eating. Since overall well-being affects academic status, it is crucial students pay attention to their...