While its name may have changed, the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), formerly the Teaching Support Centre, still sees itself as the teaching hub of the university. “The name change will not bring a change of focus. Instead, the change catches …
Month: July 2018
Researchers return with shredded tents, bear tales
Earth Sciences professor Gordon Osinski has an unexpected souvenir of his 18th research expedition to Canada’s Far North: a tent shredded nearly to ribbons by the 15-centimetre-long claws of a polar bear. Osinski, Director of the Centre for Planetary Science and...
Remembering the ‘father of the modern Western’
With the death of Grant Reuber, the Western community mourns the loss of a vital force in the university’s progress over a half century. Those who called him friend are stunned by the disappearance of a truly remarkable man who had seemed indestructible.
Computer network outage scheduled for Sunday
Computer network services will be interrupted in several campus buildings early Sunday morning while scheduled maintenance takes place. During the interruption, some emergency ‘blue phones’ – the standalone campus phone booths marked ‘EMERGENCY’ – will be out of...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Alex Kulczycki
Alex Kulczycki knows that dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not really widely reported
Keeping class connected earns professor honours
His Western course may be completely online, but Michael Friesen makes sure his students remain deeply connected.
Straw poll: Western chooses paper over plastic
Western is taking steps in September towards becoming a campus free of plastic straws, even as Starbucks works to eliminate single-use plastic straws from all its locations by 2020.
Alumni named among Order of Canada recipients
OTTAWA – Five Western alumni were named among 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada, Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, recently announced. The new member list includes 3 Companions, 20 Officers and 82 Members. The Western honourees included: David Fox,...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Tricia Johnson
If you listen closely to Tricia Johnson’s suggestions, you’ll hear tales of mid-century printmakers, the rise and fall of civilizations and, perhaps, nothing at all.
Western mourns death of former Chancellor, economist
Western is mourning the passing of former Chancellor Grant Reuber, BA’50, LLD’85, who served the university in multiple capacities, including as head of Economics and Sociology, the first dean of the Faculty of Social Science, as Provost & Vice-President...
Unearthing the forgotten
Whose names and stories do we remember? How do we choose which to preserve? How – and why – do we perpetuate those that we remember? Western student historians working at Woodland Cemetery grappled with these questions and more as they worked toward curating "Lost...
Western mourns death of Social Science student
The Western community is mourning the death of Zohaib Jailani, 19, a Social Science student from Brampton, Ont. who died Friday, June 29, in Toronto. Zohaib was entering his third year of studies within the Faculty of Social Science, pursuing a degree in Media,...
Alumni earn Top Immigrant honours
Western alumni Kundan Joshi, BESc’04 (Software Engineering), founder and CEO of TheAppLabb, and Dr. Boluwaji Ogunyemi, BSc’08 (Medical Sciences & Sociology), a dermatologist, have been named among the 10th annual RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants, a list that...
Researchers return with shredded tents, bear tales
Earth Sciences professor Gordon Osinski has an unexpected souvenir of his 18th research expedition to Canada’s Far North: a tent shredded nearly to ribbons by the 15-centimetre-long claws of a polar bear. Osinski, Director of the Centre for Planetary Science and...
Remembering the ‘father of the modern Western’
With the death of Grant Reuber, the Western community mourns the loss of a vital force in the university’s progress over a half century. Those who called him friend are stunned by the disappearance of a truly remarkable man who had seemed indestructible.
Computer network outage scheduled for Sunday
Computer network services will be interrupted in several campus buildings early Sunday morning while scheduled maintenance takes place. During the interruption, some emergency ‘blue phones’ – the standalone campus phone booths marked ‘EMERGENCY’ – will be out of...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Alex Kulczycki
Alex Kulczycki knows that dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not really widely reported
Keeping class connected earns professor honours
His Western course may be completely online, but Michael Friesen makes sure his students remain deeply connected.
Straw poll: Western chooses paper over plastic
Western is taking steps in September towards becoming a campus free of plastic straws, even as Starbucks works to eliminate single-use plastic straws from all its locations by 2020.
Alumni named among Order of Canada recipients
OTTAWA – Five Western alumni were named among 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada, Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, recently announced. The new member list includes 3 Companions, 20 Officers and 82 Members. The Western honourees included: David Fox,...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Tricia Johnson
If you listen closely to Tricia Johnson’s suggestions, you’ll hear tales of mid-century printmakers, the rise and fall of civilizations and, perhaps, nothing at all.
Western mourns death of former Chancellor, economist
Western is mourning the passing of former Chancellor Grant Reuber, BA’50, LLD’85, who served the university in multiple capacities, including as head of Economics and Sociology, the first dean of the Faculty of Social Science, as Provost & Vice-President...
Unearthing the forgotten
Whose names and stories do we remember? How do we choose which to preserve? How – and why – do we perpetuate those that we remember? Western student historians working at Woodland Cemetery grappled with these questions and more as they worked toward curating "Lost...
Western mourns death of Social Science student
The Western community is mourning the death of Zohaib Jailani, 19, a Social Science student from Brampton, Ont. who died Friday, June 29, in Toronto. Zohaib was entering his third year of studies within the Faculty of Social Science, pursuing a degree in Media,...
Alumni earn Top Immigrant honours
Western alumni Kundan Joshi, BESc’04 (Software Engineering), founder and CEO of TheAppLabb, and Dr. Boluwaji Ogunyemi, BSc’08 (Medical Sciences & Sociology), a dermatologist, have been named among the 10th annual RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants, a list that...