John Doerksen’s role as Western University’s Vice-Provost (Academic Programs) has been renewed for a three-year term beginning on July 1, 2019. His re-appointment was approved by Western’s Board of Governors as recommended by the Senate-appointed Vice …
University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Lisa Henderson has been appointed to a five-year term as the new Dean of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS), starting Jan. 1, 2019, Western announced today. She follows Thomas Carmichael to the position.
Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak will become the Provost & Vice-President (Academic), effective Aug. 1, following the approval of his appointment by Western’s Board of Governors.
Tracy Isaacs champions passion, joy, strength, and health on the printed page – and beyond.
Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains unfinished, according to one Western researcher. More than half of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing population hasn’t...
Huron County is about as agricultural as it’s possible to be in Ontario. Its rural roads are lined with cornfields and livestock barns; its towns, dotted with equipment dealerships and co-op stores. Any residents who don’t work the land are almost certainly related to...
It is always a struggle for individuals to transition from high school to university, but for mature students, the transition is even more daunting. They are not simply moving from one learning environment to the next. Often, mature students are not trading in their...
As an expert on violent sex crimes and serial offending, I was recently invited to speak to what was supposed to be a cadre of seasoned investigators in the Toronto region. I found myself confronted, however, by an inexperienced bureaucrat who questioned my...
Executive salaries across the broader public sector, including those at Ontario universities, have been frozen by the provincial government since 2010. In accordance with the provincial regulations, Western has developed a draft framework for executive salaries going...
Following an extensive ground and aerial survey led by wind engineering experts at Western, it has been determined that the tornado outbreak of June 18, 2017 in southern Québec is officially the largest recorded in the province’s history and, consequently, one of the largest ever recorded in Canada.
What most separates humankind from the animal kingdom is an arrogance destroying our planet, famed primatologist and anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall told attendees at a special convocation ceremony.
As the two-year renovation project to the interior of University College comes to a close this spring, construction will begin to revitalize the surrounding outdoor space.
There was no Plan B for Carly Stone. From the moment Tim Long, a writer and producer for The Simpsons spoke to her Humour Writing class at Western, her fate was sealed. “He came and did a presentation with some artwork, some episodes. I was so excited as he talked...
University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Lisa Henderson has been appointed to a five-year term as the new Dean of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS), starting Jan. 1, 2019, Western announced today. She follows Thomas Carmichael to the position.
Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak will become the Provost & Vice-President (Academic), effective Aug. 1, following the approval of his appointment by Western’s Board of Governors.
Tracy Isaacs champions passion, joy, strength, and health on the printed page – and beyond.
Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains unfinished, according to one Western researcher. More than half of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing population hasn’t...
Huron County is about as agricultural as it’s possible to be in Ontario. Its rural roads are lined with cornfields and livestock barns; its towns, dotted with equipment dealerships and co-op stores. Any residents who don’t work the land are almost certainly related to...
It is always a struggle for individuals to transition from high school to university, but for mature students, the transition is even more daunting. They are not simply moving from one learning environment to the next. Often, mature students are not trading in their...
As an expert on violent sex crimes and serial offending, I was recently invited to speak to what was supposed to be a cadre of seasoned investigators in the Toronto region. I found myself confronted, however, by an inexperienced bureaucrat who questioned my...
Executive salaries across the broader public sector, including those at Ontario universities, have been frozen by the provincial government since 2010. In accordance with the provincial regulations, Western has developed a draft framework for executive salaries going...
Following an extensive ground and aerial survey led by wind engineering experts at Western, it has been determined that the tornado outbreak of June 18, 2017 in southern Québec is officially the largest recorded in the province’s history and, consequently, one of the largest ever recorded in Canada.
What most separates humankind from the animal kingdom is an arrogance destroying our planet, famed primatologist and anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall told attendees at a special convocation ceremony.
As the two-year renovation project to the interior of University College comes to a close this spring, construction will begin to revitalize the surrounding outdoor space.
There was no Plan B for Carly Stone. From the moment Tim Long, a writer and producer for The Simpsons spoke to her Humour Writing class at Western, her fate was sealed. “He came and did a presentation with some artwork, some episodes. I was so excited as he talked...