As the year winds down and you are preparing for the holiday break, Western News brings you a list of book recommendations from members of our campus community. Below are some favourite reads of 2017, listed in alphabetical order of author names. Enjoy …
Thirteen Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2017 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.
#ILookLikeASurgeon Female surgeons and residents from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London gathered in operating rooms across the city to add their voices to a global rallying cry for women...
Sarah Svenningsen Sarah Svenningsen, who completed her PhD in Medical Biophysics at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry last year, received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in 2017, presented by the Council of Ontario Universities, which recognizes...
David Huebert Over the past four years, Peninsula Sinking has shed its skin many times. English PhD candidate David Huebert first workshopped the short-story collection in 2013 with award-winning writer and University of Toronto professor David Layton. It was only...
Camille Intson Camille Intson, a third-year English and Theatre and Performance Studies student, is an accomplished playwright whose works have been produced professionally across the country. Winner of a National Playwriting Contest, she is the co-founder and...
Erik Mandawe Erik Mandawe, BA’17 (Music), was recently named by the London Arts Council (LAC) as its first Artist in Residence in 2017. Like the music he creates, he is an ever-shifting landscape. He studied anthropology in Siberia and Toronto, graduated with a music...
Shane Smith and Vivian McAlister Improvised explosive devices are just as deadly in warfare as landmines, according to a Western-led study that was published this year. At one point in history, a soldier in combat would have been injured with a bow and arrow. That bow...
Madalena Kozachuk For Madalena Kozachuk, it’s all about bringing history back into focus. And her attempts to do so garnered much attention earlier this year. The Western PhD student is working to preserve 19th Century Canadian artifacts by analyzing the chemical...
Melvyn Goodale Melvyn Goodale, Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at Western, and Tzvi Ganel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, co-authored a study in 2017 that indicates smiling can make you appear to be one year older than if you wear a poker face. We...
Time Capsule Commissioned by Western’s Canada 150 Committee, Engineering student Ethan Kellough created and designed a one-of-a-kind time capsule to help the university celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday this past year. Soon on permanent display in the D.B. Weldon...
Janice Forsyth Janice Forsyth is the new Director of First Nations Studies program in the Faculty of Social Science. As the program undergoes review and looks toward attaining department status, Forsyth is excited by the momentum and institutional support generated by...
Adrianne Pieczonka John A. Macdonald. Terry Fox. Frederick Banting. Bryan Adams. The Queen. Their likenesses have all appeared on a Canadian stamp. This year, Western alumna and Canadian opera singer Adrianne Pieczonka, BMus’85, DMus’12, joined them. In her 30-year...