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Year: 2017

Newsmakers: The Playwright

Newsmakers: The Playwright

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...

Scholar shedding light on how animals perceive threats

Scholar shedding light on how animals perceive threats

It was Badru Mugerwa’s curiosity that drove him to find out who, or what, was killing the cat. The African Golden Cat, to be more specific. But, he wondered, was it actually being killed? Or was ecotourism behind its marked drop in sightings in the Bwindi National...

Music alumna finds self, community in new venture

Music alumna finds self, community in new venture

Carolyn Holdsworth, BMus’01, MMus’03, is using her operatic voice in a new way – by singing the praises of her latest creative venture – what she refers to as “urban art wear.” Holdsworth is the founder of Me & C, a London-based, London-themed shirt company that...

Work pushing wave of printable electronics

Work pushing wave of printable electronics

Western researcher Jun Yang is looking to push the ‘paper’ envelope when it comes to printable electronics, a rapidly growing area of research that could soon revolutionize the electronics industry. Producing paper-based electronics – flexible, stretchable,...

Signage opens door to ‘inclusive’ washrooms

Signage opens door to ‘inclusive’ washrooms

Western is encouraging a shift in how the campus community thinks about washroom facilities with a new poster campaign, launched this week, to foster safe spaces and inclusivity. “We’re calling this an ‘inclusive’ washroom poster campaign. We are trying to move away...

Senate seeks clarity on president’s future

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

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

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

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

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

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.