Award-winning paper takes swing at historic hockey violence
Taylor McKee was “pleased, tickled and over the moon” when he heard the news. A second-year PhD student in Kinesiology, McKee recently won the International Award for Excellence from The International Journal of Sport and Society. His article, The Rink and the Stage:...
Western students help name craters on Mars
Western names are now written among the stars – or, at least in this case, written upon a planet. On April 3, the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System approved names for two craters on Mars – names proposed by Western Science students...
Survey: Workforce well-prepared for an uncertain future
Western employees are building more resourceful, resilient teams in the face of internal and external challenges – and that kind of response bodes well for a university facing the same uncertain future as all other public-sector institutions, according to organizers...
Alumna sets sights on world’s tallest peak
Only two years ago, Illina Frankiv had never set foot on a mountain. Today, she has successfully summited some of the most formidable peaks in the world, and now has her sights set on the Earth’s tallest – Mount Everest.