A softening of the language in Western’s rapid transit proposal pushed discussion forward as the planned Lambton Drive route received unanimous support from the Board of Governors Thursday afternoon. Western’s initial proposal to the city for rapid transit on campus...
For Karissa French and her family, education is a lifeline amid the damaging ripple effects of residential schools, substance abuse and inequality. Watching her parents return to school as mature students – overcoming personal challenges and eventually, earning their...
In a quiet corner of Robarts Research Institute, hidden behind a maze of cubicles and black curtains, researchers are pushing the boundaries of reality. It’s in this curious and creative space that PhD candidate Adam Rankin, BSc’07, MSc’09, is taking medical imaging...
Astrobiologist alumna Alexandra Pontefract, PhD’13 (Geology), knows finding DNA on the Red Planet will be no easy feat. But it is possible. What’s more, if DNA is found, it’s not far-fetched to think it would be proof of shared ancestry between Earth and Mars. “There...
Ghana’s water supply is devastatingly vulnerable to the point where, one Western researcher believes, the country’s 25 million people could soon be at risk – “an alarming thing we should all be concerned about.” Environmental Engineering graduate student Ahmed...
What started as a grade school journal has now evolved into a larger effort by a Western Anthropology graduate student to help his community tell its stories in ways that are more creative. “I grew up with a passion for painting. By the time I was in Grade 12, it...
To tell you the truth, we don’t know. There is nothing more painful for an academic than acknowledging we don’t know something. If we are unable to explain a phenomenon the whole world is watching, the feeling is even worse. So, how can I confess we humanists don’t...
Rod Martin remembers when humour wasn’t serious business. In the 1970s, psychologists didn’t exactly see humour as a worthwhile topic of study, said Martin, who in July, retired after more than three decades of teaching Clinical Psychology at Western. Such perceptions...
Thanks to James Good, one of 33 known copies of William Wordsworth’s An Evening Walk – the first published collection of the famed poet’s works – now resides at Western.
Western officials have narrowed down what rapid transit could look like on and around campus. But that will be just one piece of a larger series of changes to come in how people move about the campus, they stressed. Last month, Peter White, Executive Director...
Starting this week, Western’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) is pushing members of the university community who have not changed their official university password in five years or more to do so as soon as possible.
Western is looking for feedback from students, faculty, staff and alumni regarding the City of London’s push towards a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) model with a pair of consultation sessions on campus. The first meeting is set for this Thursday (Jan. 5) from noon-2 p.m. in...
There is a strong purple presence on London Mayor Matt Brown’s annual Honour List for this past year as former staff members Susan Grindrod and Therese Quigley, along with former professor emeritus Joseph Cummins, Don Wright Faculty of Music lecturer Dale Yoshida and alumna Sandra Miller, MLIS’01, have been recognized for their community involvement.
For Karissa French and her family, education is a lifeline amid the damaging ripple effects of residential schools, substance abuse and inequality. Watching her parents return to school as mature students – overcoming personal challenges and eventually, earning their...
In a quiet corner of Robarts Research Institute, hidden behind a maze of cubicles and black curtains, researchers are pushing the boundaries of reality. It’s in this curious and creative space that PhD candidate Adam Rankin, BSc’07, MSc’09, is taking medical imaging...
Astrobiologist alumna Alexandra Pontefract, PhD’13 (Geology), knows finding DNA on the Red Planet will be no easy feat. But it is possible. What’s more, if DNA is found, it’s not far-fetched to think it would be proof of shared ancestry between Earth and Mars. “There...
Ghana’s water supply is devastatingly vulnerable to the point where, one Western researcher believes, the country’s 25 million people could soon be at risk – “an alarming thing we should all be concerned about.” Environmental Engineering graduate student Ahmed...
What started as a grade school journal has now evolved into a larger effort by a Western Anthropology graduate student to help his community tell its stories in ways that are more creative. “I grew up with a passion for painting. By the time I was in Grade 12, it...
To tell you the truth, we don’t know. There is nothing more painful for an academic than acknowledging we don’t know something. If we are unable to explain a phenomenon the whole world is watching, the feeling is even worse. So, how can I confess we humanists don’t...
Rod Martin remembers when humour wasn’t serious business. In the 1970s, psychologists didn’t exactly see humour as a worthwhile topic of study, said Martin, who in July, retired after more than three decades of teaching Clinical Psychology at Western. Such perceptions...
Thanks to James Good, one of 33 known copies of William Wordsworth’s An Evening Walk – the first published collection of the famed poet’s works – now resides at Western.
Western officials have narrowed down what rapid transit could look like on and around campus. But that will be just one piece of a larger series of changes to come in how people move about the campus, they stressed. Last month, Peter White, Executive Director...
Starting this week, Western’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) is pushing members of the university community who have not changed their official university password in five years or more to do so as soon as possible.
Western is looking for feedback from students, faculty, staff and alumni regarding the City of London’s push towards a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) model with a pair of consultation sessions on campus. The first meeting is set for this Thursday (Jan. 5) from noon-2 p.m. in...
There is a strong purple presence on London Mayor Matt Brown’s annual Honour List for this past year as former staff members Susan Grindrod and Therese Quigley, along with former professor emeritus Joseph Cummins, Don Wright Faculty of Music lecturer Dale Yoshida and alumna Sandra Miller, MLIS’01, have been recognized for their community involvement.