There’s a photo in A Township at War of a young boy and girl, posing before a German artillery piece, a trophy of battle transplanted four decades earlier to their small-town Ontario park. The gun belongs to Waterdown’s history as much as to the mem …
Two town-hall meetings have been scheduled to allow the university community an opportunity to understand and ask questions about the current status of Western's planning process, including a preliminary budget overview for the coming years. The two meetings – hosted...
Colin Couchman wants you to take inventory of your digital life. The new Director of Cyber Security and Business Services at Western hopes you will always protect your passwords; remember that your identity, activity, work and intellectual property are all vulnerable...
Western Chancellor, Jack Cowin, BA’64, LLD’00, and his wife, Sharon, BA’64 have donated $5 million to Western Engineering and to name its newest building the Amit Chakma Engineering Building.
Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. Now he has gone and found one – although, at about 700 light years from Earth, it would be a tough commute. The Western University graduate student has teamed with Paul Wiegert, Graduate Program...
Researchers at Western will share $23.9 million in fundamental research grants and scholarships from the federal government – with grant-supported projects across the country seeing a 20 per cent increase over last year’s funding. More than 90 projects at Western will...
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits – what one book or newspaper/magazine article is grabbing your attention;...
Alien invasions, shark-bite incidents and punk rock – nope, history is definitely not what it used to be. More than 500 students from a dozen Ontario high schools were treated to some unconventional history lectures during Western's High School History Day on Oct. 11....
The abrupt closing of University Drive Bridge is a result of an engineering firm’s findings that the bridge won’t be able to move as it should during winter’s freeze-thaw cycle.
For more than 125 years, the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medals have recognized the outstanding scholastic achievements of students in Canada. The prestigious medal is based solely on academic criteria. Three Western graduates are among recipients of the honour...
Preliminary results from the world’s largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between seven to eight hours per night performed better cognitively than those who slept less – or more – than this amount.
This gap in Earth Sciences MSc student Jordan Hawkswell’s new home’s environmentally conscious initiatives has led to a grassroots movement across the city focused on a different way of living. And it all started when she decided to focus on her own efforts.
It is with great sadness, but with fond memories and great esteem for one of Western’s most prominent scholars and deans of the 1970s, that the passing of Earle Zeigler is noted.
Two town-hall meetings have been scheduled to allow the university community an opportunity to understand and ask questions about the current status of Western's planning process, including a preliminary budget overview for the coming years. The two meetings – hosted...
Colin Couchman wants you to take inventory of your digital life. The new Director of Cyber Security and Business Services at Western hopes you will always protect your passwords; remember that your identity, activity, work and intellectual property are all vulnerable...
Western Chancellor, Jack Cowin, BA’64, LLD’00, and his wife, Sharon, BA’64 have donated $5 million to Western Engineering and to name its newest building the Amit Chakma Engineering Building.
Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. Now he has gone and found one – although, at about 700 light years from Earth, it would be a tough commute. The Western University graduate student has teamed with Paul Wiegert, Graduate Program...
Researchers at Western will share $23.9 million in fundamental research grants and scholarships from the federal government – with grant-supported projects across the country seeing a 20 per cent increase over last year’s funding. More than 90 projects at Western will...
Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits – what one book or newspaper/magazine article is grabbing your attention;...
Alien invasions, shark-bite incidents and punk rock – nope, history is definitely not what it used to be. More than 500 students from a dozen Ontario high schools were treated to some unconventional history lectures during Western's High School History Day on Oct. 11....
The abrupt closing of University Drive Bridge is a result of an engineering firm’s findings that the bridge won’t be able to move as it should during winter’s freeze-thaw cycle.
For more than 125 years, the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medals have recognized the outstanding scholastic achievements of students in Canada. The prestigious medal is based solely on academic criteria. Three Western graduates are among recipients of the honour...
Preliminary results from the world’s largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between seven to eight hours per night performed better cognitively than those who slept less – or more – than this amount.
This gap in Earth Sciences MSc student Jordan Hawkswell’s new home’s environmentally conscious initiatives has led to a grassroots movement across the city focused on a different way of living. And it all started when she decided to focus on her own efforts.
It is with great sadness, but with fond memories and great esteem for one of Western’s most prominent scholars and deans of the 1970s, that the passing of Earle Zeigler is noted.