Get Rob Silver, LLB’00, talking politics and you might be a while. Get him talking about baseball and you’ll need to grab a seat. The Western alumnus is a founding partner of Crestview Strategy, a Toronto- and Ottawa-based government relations firm. He may be a...
When you sing “Happy Birthday,” chances are you aren’t thinking much about the “shape” of the cheerful song. Music Theory PhD student Kristen Wallentinsen most definitely is. Her research is focused on mathematical representations of melodic contour, or shape, in...
Western has received more than $1.4 million from eCampusOntario to help promote access, collaboration and innovation in online and technology-enabled learning, boosting learning and development opportunities in this ever-growing field, said Western’s eLearning...
Feminist thinkers at Western are giving women in fitness a voice – and now, they’re receiving recognition for it, too. Western professors Tracy Isaacs and Samantha Brennan were recently nominated as one of OptiMYz magazine’s Top 100 Health Influencers. Their blog, Fit...
Eleven professors are receiving Western’s highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning in their students.
Trish Tucker, a professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, is currently working on a study that aims to increase the physical activity levels of preschoolers during childcare hours.
With walking tours, trivia nights, food tasting events and art programming, this goes beyond your average book club experience. Aiming to engage readers from all corners of the city, while celebrating Canada’s sesquicentennial, the London Public Library (LPL) recently...
Representing a major overhaul of Western’s security framework, the university effected a new Computing, Technology and Information Resources Policy earlier this week. The last substantive policy changes were implemented almost 10 years ago. “The new information...
Innovators, politicians, academics, an iconic Canadian author, a handful of industry titans and a former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada highlight a lineup of honorary degrees recipients when Western hosts its 309th Convocation this spring....
Prior to the Paralympic Games in Rio last summer, Laura Misener found herself cringing after watching a broadcast interview with a Canadian athlete who uses a wheelchair. The female athlete, who has children, was asked by a befuddled reporter, ‘You have two children?...
One surgery can change the life of a person living with epilepsy. It can mean the difference between daily seizures and none at all. In Canada, approximately 200 epilepsy surgeries are performed every year, but before 2011, it wasn’t an option at all in Peru, a...
Rick McGhie’s appearances at The Spoke and at The Grad Club have been called ‘legendary,’ a ‘tradition,’ and a ‘rite of passage’ for Western students. “It’s what I do,” he said.
If there’s one thing Travis McKenna didn’t want to do with his life, it was work a regular 9-5 job. A career in aviation seemed anything but traditional, so out of high school he applied, and was accepted to the Commercial Aviation Management (CAM) program in...
When you sing “Happy Birthday,” chances are you aren’t thinking much about the “shape” of the cheerful song. Music Theory PhD student Kristen Wallentinsen most definitely is. Her research is focused on mathematical representations of melodic contour, or shape, in...
Western has received more than $1.4 million from eCampusOntario to help promote access, collaboration and innovation in online and technology-enabled learning, boosting learning and development opportunities in this ever-growing field, said Western’s eLearning...
Feminist thinkers at Western are giving women in fitness a voice – and now, they’re receiving recognition for it, too. Western professors Tracy Isaacs and Samantha Brennan were recently nominated as one of OptiMYz magazine’s Top 100 Health Influencers. Their blog, Fit...
Eleven professors are receiving Western’s highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning in their students.
Trish Tucker, a professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, is currently working on a study that aims to increase the physical activity levels of preschoolers during childcare hours.
With walking tours, trivia nights, food tasting events and art programming, this goes beyond your average book club experience. Aiming to engage readers from all corners of the city, while celebrating Canada’s sesquicentennial, the London Public Library (LPL) recently...
Representing a major overhaul of Western’s security framework, the university effected a new Computing, Technology and Information Resources Policy earlier this week. The last substantive policy changes were implemented almost 10 years ago. “The new information...
Innovators, politicians, academics, an iconic Canadian author, a handful of industry titans and a former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada highlight a lineup of honorary degrees recipients when Western hosts its 309th Convocation this spring....
Prior to the Paralympic Games in Rio last summer, Laura Misener found herself cringing after watching a broadcast interview with a Canadian athlete who uses a wheelchair. The female athlete, who has children, was asked by a befuddled reporter, ‘You have two children?...
One surgery can change the life of a person living with epilepsy. It can mean the difference between daily seizures and none at all. In Canada, approximately 200 epilepsy surgeries are performed every year, but before 2011, it wasn’t an option at all in Peru, a...
Rick McGhie’s appearances at The Spoke and at The Grad Club have been called ‘legendary,’ a ‘tradition,’ and a ‘rite of passage’ for Western students. “It’s what I do,” he said.
If there’s one thing Travis McKenna didn’t want to do with his life, it was work a regular 9-5 job. A career in aviation seemed anything but traditional, so out of high school he applied, and was accepted to the Commercial Aviation Management (CAM) program in...