In five years, Alex Kopacz went from being a 23-year old Western undergrad who had never seen a bobsleigh, to a Team Canada Olympian and gold-medal winner at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), started as a varsity …
Month: December 2018
Innovation Ambassadors are shifting the culture
In a milestone for the university, every faculty at Western now has at least one Innovation Ambassador whose job it is to help share and cultivate all these ideas and values.
Read. Watch. Listen. with Malcolm Ruddock
From surfboard to sounding board to mountaintop, Malcolm Ruddock answers three questions about his reading, viewing and listening habits on Read. Watch. Listen.
Miller reappointed as Vice-Provost (SGPS)
Linda Miller has been re-appointed as Vice-Provost (School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) for a three-year term, through June 30, 2022, the Board of Governors announced today.
Some Sunday mid-terms to return
Sunday mid-term exams will be reintroduced, for just three weekends per term, during an 18-month trial period that will start during this winter term.
Calculating the costs of movie piracy
Movie piracy may be siphoning less money from the box office than some analysts suggest, a paper by a Western PhD student says. In fact, the word-of-mouth promotion generated by people who view illegal downloads could, in some cases, offset movie-house losses as the...
‘Frontiers fund’ created for cutting-edge work
International, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking research is newly eligible for federal grants from a New Frontiers in Research Fund.
Remembering the Montreal 14
Students, faculty and staff gathered solemnly at different places on campus Thursday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Report shows tragic patterns in domestic homicides
A new report examining five years of domestic homicides in Canada is a painful reminder of the social, criminal and public-health toll experienced by women, children and men every day.
Case studies skew women leaders’ roles: study
Despite the strong presence of women students in university business programs, women leaders are portrayed stereotypically – or not at all – in many business case studies, new research shows.
Times Higher Ed digital among new, free publications
Western faculty, staff and students now have access to the latest higher-education news from across the world, through free access to digital newsletters of Times Higher Education.
Kind Mail eases exam stress
More than 1,800 on- and off-campus students preparing for exams will be receiving postcards with personal messages from alumni as Western delivers its third year of Kind Mail.
Alumnus wins major prize for addiction work
Western alumnus Terry Robinson has won a prestigious award for his research into the neuropsychology of addiction.
Innovation Ambassadors are shifting the culture
In a milestone for the university, every faculty at Western now has at least one Innovation Ambassador whose job it is to help share and cultivate all these ideas and values.
Read. Watch. Listen. with Malcolm Ruddock
From surfboard to sounding board to mountaintop, Malcolm Ruddock answers three questions about his reading, viewing and listening habits on Read. Watch. Listen.
Miller reappointed as Vice-Provost (SGPS)
Linda Miller has been re-appointed as Vice-Provost (School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies) for a three-year term, through June 30, 2022, the Board of Governors announced today.
Some Sunday mid-terms to return
Sunday mid-term exams will be reintroduced, for just three weekends per term, during an 18-month trial period that will start during this winter term.
Calculating the costs of movie piracy
Movie piracy may be siphoning less money from the box office than some analysts suggest, a paper by a Western PhD student says. In fact, the word-of-mouth promotion generated by people who view illegal downloads could, in some cases, offset movie-house losses as the...
‘Frontiers fund’ created for cutting-edge work
International, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking research is newly eligible for federal grants from a New Frontiers in Research Fund.
Remembering the Montreal 14
Students, faculty and staff gathered solemnly at different places on campus Thursday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Report shows tragic patterns in domestic homicides
A new report examining five years of domestic homicides in Canada is a painful reminder of the social, criminal and public-health toll experienced by women, children and men every day.
Case studies skew women leaders’ roles: study
Despite the strong presence of women students in university business programs, women leaders are portrayed stereotypically – or not at all – in many business case studies, new research shows.
Times Higher Ed digital among new, free publications
Western faculty, staff and students now have access to the latest higher-education news from across the world, through free access to digital newsletters of Times Higher Education.
Kind Mail eases exam stress
More than 1,800 on- and off-campus students preparing for exams will be receiving postcards with personal messages from alumni as Western delivers its third year of Kind Mail.
Alumnus wins major prize for addiction work
Western alumnus Terry Robinson has won a prestigious award for his research into the neuropsychology of addiction.