Western students working on a Canada150 project at Woodland Cemetery in London have discovered 130 gravestones that had been all but lost to history. Pictured are, from left, Piotr Dobrzynski …
Month: May 2017
Premier makes budget pitch during whistle stop on campus
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Western last week to share news from her recently released provincial budget, which included $6 million in additional funding, over the next three...
The New Yorker cover inspires looks at women surgeons
Female surgeons and residents from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London gathered recently in operating rooms across the city to add their voices to a global rallying cry for women surgeons. They did so by taking a photo and sharing it for the world to see.
UWOFA celebrates Ratcliffe’s lasting legacy of unity
Shortly after her arrival as a tenured professor in the late 1990s, Marjorie Ratcliffe took up the cause to unionize Western’s faculty. It was at that time the late Allan Heinicke, a Math professor and former Chair and President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), told her she was making a big mistake.
About face: Your smile may be aging you
Want to look younger? Sleep well. Eat right. Exercise. And, just maybe, don’t smile.
Alumnus finding sound footing with underdogs
For Patrick Spence, being the underdog isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Unlike his peers, who took more conventional routes into consulting or banking after graduating from Ivey Business School, Spence decided to go off the beaten path and join a small, Canadian...
Smith: Not just the students who get stressed out
8:45 a.m. Fifteen minutes until go time. More than 1,100 exams and score sheets are neatly stacked and patiently waiting in 10 different classrooms to be distributed by an army of proctors. Large swarms of second-year genetics students anxiously migrate to their...
Suárez: Time of retreat is over for humanities
Juan Luis Suárez knows when it comes to the arts, humanities and social sciences, universities are standing at an impasse. And it will take scholars from these fields to move towards progress, he said.
Vandenbosch named acting Ivey Dean
Ivey Business School professor Mark Vandenbosch has been named the school’s Acting Dean, effective July 1, Western Provost & Vice-President (Academic) Janice Deakin announced today. Vandenbosch, the Kraft Professor of Marketing at Ivey and Associate Dean...
Provost to step down in 2018; search to begin immediately
Western Provost & Vice-President (Academic) Janice Deakin, one of the longest-serving provosts among Canada’s U15 universities, will step down from her role July 31, 2018, Western President Amit Chakma announced today.
Flood warning issued for Medway, Talbot parking lots
With Environment Canada advising that London may experience total rainfall amounts of 40-70mm between today and tomorrow, there is potential for flooding, including the Medway Parking Lot (located behind Elgin Hall) and Talbot Parking Lot (located across from Talbot...
Suárez tapped to lead non-STEM efforts
Western professor Juan Luis Suárez has been named Associate Vice-President (Research), a position university officials envision proving unprecedented support for scholarship in the social sciences, arts and humanities, Research Western announced today.
Western marks Mental Health Week
Western’s Alumni Hall will glow green this week, part of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s initiative to Shine Green for Mental Health Week. While other universities, including McMaster, Toronto and Lakehead, are also taking part, Western is the only...
Premier makes budget pitch during whistle stop on campus
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Western last week to share news from her recently released provincial budget, which included $6 million in additional funding, over the next three...
The New Yorker cover inspires looks at women surgeons
Female surgeons and residents from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London gathered recently in operating rooms across the city to add their voices to a global rallying cry for women surgeons. They did so by taking a photo and sharing it for the world to see.
UWOFA celebrates Ratcliffe’s lasting legacy of unity
Shortly after her arrival as a tenured professor in the late 1990s, Marjorie Ratcliffe took up the cause to unionize Western’s faculty. It was at that time the late Allan Heinicke, a Math professor and former Chair and President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), told her she was making a big mistake.
About face: Your smile may be aging you
Want to look younger? Sleep well. Eat right. Exercise. And, just maybe, don’t smile.
Alumnus finding sound footing with underdogs
For Patrick Spence, being the underdog isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Unlike his peers, who took more conventional routes into consulting or banking after graduating from Ivey Business School, Spence decided to go off the beaten path and join a small, Canadian...
Smith: Not just the students who get stressed out
8:45 a.m. Fifteen minutes until go time. More than 1,100 exams and score sheets are neatly stacked and patiently waiting in 10 different classrooms to be distributed by an army of proctors. Large swarms of second-year genetics students anxiously migrate to their...
Suárez: Time of retreat is over for humanities
Juan Luis Suárez knows when it comes to the arts, humanities and social sciences, universities are standing at an impasse. And it will take scholars from these fields to move towards progress, he said.
Vandenbosch named acting Ivey Dean
Ivey Business School professor Mark Vandenbosch has been named the school’s Acting Dean, effective July 1, Western Provost & Vice-President (Academic) Janice Deakin announced today. Vandenbosch, the Kraft Professor of Marketing at Ivey and Associate Dean...
Provost to step down in 2018; search to begin immediately
Western Provost & Vice-President (Academic) Janice Deakin, one of the longest-serving provosts among Canada’s U15 universities, will step down from her role July 31, 2018, Western President Amit Chakma announced today.
Flood warning issued for Medway, Talbot parking lots
With Environment Canada advising that London may experience total rainfall amounts of 40-70mm between today and tomorrow, there is potential for flooding, including the Medway Parking Lot (located behind Elgin Hall) and Talbot Parking Lot (located across from Talbot...
Suárez tapped to lead non-STEM efforts
Western professor Juan Luis Suárez has been named Associate Vice-President (Research), a position university officials envision proving unprecedented support for scholarship in the social sciences, arts and humanities, Research Western announced today.
Western marks Mental Health Week
Western’s Alumni Hall will glow green this week, part of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s initiative to Shine Green for Mental Health Week. While other universities, including McMaster, Toronto and Lakehead, are also taking part, Western is the only...