Western’s Be Extraordinary Campaign, the most ambitious campaign in the university’s history, raised a record-breaking $805 million. This accomplishment stems from a decade of work, generosity and the collective energy of more than 49,000 alumni and fr …
Campus construction boom
Vladimir Hachinski, Killam Prize winner
Today, we offer you the 9th annual Western News Newsmakers of the Year – a celebration of some of the people, places and things that shaped the year at this institution.
At first, everything was fine. At 11, Mariana Garcia emigrated from Mexico to Canada. She welcomed the chance to make a life in a new country. “ But soon, the realities of her situation took hold. No one at her school spoke Spanish, leaving Mariana isolated. By the final years of high school, she was quite vulnerable.
At first glance, Jason Paiero seems like he was always on track to thrive at Western.
At 22, Fanny Munezero has survived more than what most people face in a lifetime.
Houston, there is no problem here. On Nov. 26, NASA’s InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) landing ellipse on Mars. Now, the team has pinpointed InSight’s exact location using images from HiRISE, a powerful...
A new study led by Western University’s Natasha Mhatre shows how black widow spiders’ body dynamics and posture help them decode important vibrations that travel through their webs and up their legs.
John Doerksen’s role as Vice-Provost (Academic Programs) has been renewed for a three-year term beginning on July 1, 2019.
After spending the past seven years overseas as the head of NBA China, Western alumnus David Shoemaker, LLB’96, is coming home to lead the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC).
Western’s Ivey Business School has been named Canada’s best business school, in a ranking conducted by one of the world’s leading business magazines.
During the past year, a team of geologists led by Corcoran and Earth Sciences professor Elizabeth Webb have worked with Pelee Island Winery to fine-tune its soil management practices and produce better grapes.