At 10:30 a.m. on weekday mornings, Robarts Research Institute trainees come together for coffee and conversation. While it is an informal social opportunity, given the environment, science and collaboration often come up. And it was such a chance encounter over coffee...
Month: November 2017
Senate seeks clarity on president’s future
Stay tuned, Western. That was the unanimous response to questions that arose during last week’s Senate meeting regarding future plans of Western President Amit Chakma. Senators raised a number of questions regarding the university’s presidential review and appointment...
Chakma: Be mindful of help in time of grief
The sudden deaths of two Western students this month have been terrible shocks to our campus community and I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to the families, friends, fellow classmates, faculty and staff members who knew Cara and Brandon personally.
Quinn tapped to head RSC New College
Political Science professor Joanna Quinn has been named President-Elect of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the organization announced Tuesday.
Western mourns death of Science student
The Western community is mourning the death of Brandon Joseph Papp, 21, a Faculty of Science student, who died suddenly on Sunday, Nov. 19, in London.
Western student named Rhodes Scholar
Levi Hord, a fourth-year Sexuality Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Arts & Humanities (SASAH) and Scholar’s Electives student, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship.
Using arts as a way to manage waste
By showing them beauty in waste, Western Education professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is nurturing the next generation of creative problem-solvers.
TD gift addresses challenges – one data point at a time
A newly announced $1-million investment by TD Bank Group will enable Western researchers to explore the increasingly complex realm of numbers and data points.
Campaign fires up hiring opportunities for students
With high youth unemployment rates and loads of student debt, the picture for university graduates in 2014 did not look promising. To address this problem, Western launched the hirewesternu campaign with goals of increasing the number of employment and work integrated...
How sweet it is
It was sweet revenge – a year in the making – for the...
Western tapped among Canada’s greenest
A recent ranking of Canadian universities has Western seeing green – and the institution is quite happy about it. Corporate Knights recently named Western as the second greenest university in Ontario, and ninth overall in Canada, using data from the Sustainability...
FIMS/Nursing Building earns design honours
Western’s bright and bustling FIMS & Nursing Building, home to the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and the Faulty of Information and Media Studies, garnered top prize in the 2017 London Urban Design Awards. The honour celebrates original design concepts and...
Iconic footwear may have been an historic pain
The iconic Dutch clog – or ‘klompen’ – may be one of the most recognizable symbols of the nation, but it also might have been a tremendous pain in the foot for rural citizens in the 19th Century, according to Western co-authored research. In 2011, Western Anthropology...
Senate seeks clarity on president’s future
Stay tuned, Western. That was the unanimous response to questions that arose during last week’s Senate meeting regarding future plans of Western President Amit Chakma. Senators raised a number of questions regarding the university’s presidential review and appointment...
Chakma: Be mindful of help in time of grief
The sudden deaths of two Western students this month have been terrible shocks to our campus community and I wish to express my heartfelt condolences to the families, friends, fellow classmates, faculty and staff members who knew Cara and Brandon personally.
Quinn tapped to head RSC New College
Political Science professor Joanna Quinn has been named President-Elect of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the organization announced Tuesday.
Western mourns death of Science student
The Western community is mourning the death of Brandon Joseph Papp, 21, a Faculty of Science student, who died suddenly on Sunday, Nov. 19, in London.
Western student named Rhodes Scholar
Levi Hord, a fourth-year Sexuality Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Arts & Humanities (SASAH) and Scholar’s Electives student, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship.
Using arts as a way to manage waste
By showing them beauty in waste, Western Education professor Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw is nurturing the next generation of creative problem-solvers.
TD gift addresses challenges – one data point at a time
A newly announced $1-million investment by TD Bank Group will enable Western researchers to explore the increasingly complex realm of numbers and data points.
Campaign fires up hiring opportunities for students
With high youth unemployment rates and loads of student debt, the picture for university graduates in 2014 did not look promising. To address this problem, Western launched the hirewesternu campaign with goals of increasing the number of employment and work integrated...
How sweet it is
It was sweet revenge – a year in the making – for the...
Western tapped among Canada’s greenest
A recent ranking of Canadian universities has Western seeing green – and the institution is quite happy about it. Corporate Knights recently named Western as the second greenest university in Ontario, and ninth overall in Canada, using data from the Sustainability...
FIMS/Nursing Building earns design honours
Western’s bright and bustling FIMS & Nursing Building, home to the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and the Faulty of Information and Media Studies, garnered top prize in the 2017 London Urban Design Awards. The honour celebrates original design concepts and...
Iconic footwear may have been an historic pain
The iconic Dutch clog – or ‘klompen’ – may be one of the most recognizable symbols of the nation, but it also might have been a tremendous pain in the foot for rural citizens in the 19th Century, according to Western co-authored research. In 2011, Western Anthropology...