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). The accomplished global sports executive will begin at his new post on Jan. 7 …
Year: 2018
Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives
Dog-eared pages, stacks of magazines and a worn library card can all represent the rich relationship senior Canadians have with their books. And Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Paulette Rothbauer is using these representations to help change...
Study: Creativity is state of mind, can be trained
As an undergraduate student at York University, Joel Lopata was studying film production and jazz performance when a discrepancy became apparent. “I noticed students in the jazz program were really developing a language of creative engagement, whereas in the film...
Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone’s capital city, amidst an uneasy peace in the bloody aftermath of the country’s civil war, sat a shipping container converted into a makeshift courtroom. And inside this metal box, a team of lawyers sought to bring justice to women and young girls of...
Closure to disrupt Wharncliffe traffic on April 28
Western students, faculty and staff are being advised of a construction project that will be disrupting normal traffic flow from 5 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, April 28.
Budget gets Senate OK; heads to BOG
Key elements of Western’s proposed 2018-19 budget entail several multi-million-dollar projects, including re-locating the Western Wellness Centre to Thames Hall, renewing a pair of libraries and completing construction on the new Engineering building. Added academic...
Chair: Senate changes have not been forgotten
Senators received assurances that progress into implementing recommendations as to how the university governing body operates have not been forgotten – and will, in fact, be revealed soon.
Hearn: Where are the promised changes to Senate?
By Alison Hearn, Western Communications Senator Alison Hearn submitted the following notice of motion that she intends to ask Senate to speed up implementing revisions to the governing body's representation, at Senate's regular meeting April 13: I am disappointed to...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Nick Shalagan
Find out why Nick Shalagan doesn’t mind a little heavy German opera echoing around the house as he cleans.
Perry knows Mansbridge makes everything sound better
Bookmarks spotlights the personalities and published books of faculty, staff and alumni. Today, Daniel Perry, BA ’06 (English and French), author of the short story collections Nobody Looks That Young Here and Hamburger, answers 12 questions on his ‘bookishness’ and...
New facility opens its doors to come together
University officials celebrated the opening of the Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB) on April 13.
University, union reach tentative deal for GTAs
Western and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, have reached a tentative deal which the negotiating teams have jointly agreed to recommend to their respective parties. Representatives of the university and the union met with a mediator this week and...
Forging on the feminist fitness journey
It started as a personal blog on which philosophers Tracy Isaacs and Samantha Brennan would share their fitness journeys, publicly tackling a challenge to be in the best shape of their lives by the age of 50.
Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives
Dog-eared pages, stacks of magazines and a worn library card can all represent the rich relationship senior Canadians have with their books. And Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Paulette Rothbauer is using these representations to help change...
Study: Creativity is state of mind, can be trained
As an undergraduate student at York University, Joel Lopata was studying film production and jazz performance when a discrepancy became apparent. “I noticed students in the jazz program were really developing a language of creative engagement, whereas in the film...
Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone’s capital city, amidst an uneasy peace in the bloody aftermath of the country’s civil war, sat a shipping container converted into a makeshift courtroom. And inside this metal box, a team of lawyers sought to bring justice to women and young girls of...
Closure to disrupt Wharncliffe traffic on April 28
Western students, faculty and staff are being advised of a construction project that will be disrupting normal traffic flow from 5 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, April 28.
Budget gets Senate OK; heads to BOG
Key elements of Western’s proposed 2018-19 budget entail several multi-million-dollar projects, including re-locating the Western Wellness Centre to Thames Hall, renewing a pair of libraries and completing construction on the new Engineering building. Added academic...
Chair: Senate changes have not been forgotten
Senators received assurances that progress into implementing recommendations as to how the university governing body operates have not been forgotten – and will, in fact, be revealed soon.
Hearn: Where are the promised changes to Senate?
By Alison Hearn, Western Communications Senator Alison Hearn submitted the following notice of motion that she intends to ask Senate to speed up implementing revisions to the governing body's representation, at Senate's regular meeting April 13: I am disappointed to...
Read. Watch. Listen. with Nick Shalagan
Find out why Nick Shalagan doesn’t mind a little heavy German opera echoing around the house as he cleans.
Perry knows Mansbridge makes everything sound better
Bookmarks spotlights the personalities and published books of faculty, staff and alumni. Today, Daniel Perry, BA ’06 (English and French), author of the short story collections Nobody Looks That Young Here and Hamburger, answers 12 questions on his ‘bookishness’ and...
New facility opens its doors to come together
University officials celebrated the opening of the Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (WIRB) on April 13.
University, union reach tentative deal for GTAs
Western and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 610, have reached a tentative deal which the negotiating teams have jointly agreed to recommend to their respective parties. Representatives of the university and the union met with a mediator this week and...
Forging on the feminist fitness journey
It started as a personal blog on which philosophers Tracy Isaacs and Samantha Brennan would share their fitness journeys, publicly tackling a challenge to be in the best shape of their lives by the age of 50.