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Year: 2018

The Sound Of Summer

The Sound Of Summer

It was 2012 when Western student Joe Depace was heading up the DJ Club and fellow student, and music enthusiast, Andrew Fedyk strolled into their first meeting. Neither would have thought that within six years their partnership as Loud Luxury would put the …

Alumnae among Most Powerful Women

Alumnae among Most Powerful Women

Nine Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.

Mustangs players, coach win top awards

Mustangs players, coach win top awards

Three members of the Western Mustangs won major honours and three were named first team all-stars at the U SPORTS All-Canadian Awards Thursday night.

Library reno consultations to start in January

Library reno consultations to start in January

Western’s largest and busiest library is “past-due” for a revitalization, and detailed consultations on its transformation will take place with the campus community during next few months, said Catherine Steeves, vice-provost and chief librarian. Opened in 1972, The...

Neuroscience grants promote teamwork

Neuroscience grants promote teamwork

Seven teams of researchers have been awarded funding for transformational research projects in neuroscience, through the first round of the McGill-Western BrainsCAN collaboration grants.

Brain, body linked to cardiovascular health

Brain, body linked to cardiovascular health

The slow, precise demands of research can be frustrating - but there are times the work becomes personal, and then it takes on a greater urgency. Nárlon C. Boa Sorte Silva, is researching the benefits of exercise for older adults with high blood pressure or...

Dresses speak for Indigenous women

Dresses speak for Indigenous women

It’s likely you’ve seen a red dress hanging somewhere on Western’s main campus. On trees. Lampposts. Signs. It’s part of the REDress Project to acknowledge the need for justice for Indigenous women.

Fighting to win the war against epilepsy

Fighting to win the war against epilepsy

You can’t describe Sophie Cowin without more than a mention of the epilepsy that relentlessly threatens her life. But you also can’t define the 17-year-old solely by her seizures.

Alumnae among Most Powerful Women

Alumnae among Most Powerful Women

Nine Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.

Mustangs players, coach win top awards

Mustangs players, coach win top awards

Three members of the Western Mustangs won major honours and three were named first team all-stars at the U SPORTS All-Canadian Awards Thursday night.

Library reno consultations to start in January

Library reno consultations to start in January

Western’s largest and busiest library is “past-due” for a revitalization, and detailed consultations on its transformation will take place with the campus community during next few months, said Catherine Steeves, vice-provost and chief librarian. Opened in 1972, The...

Neuroscience grants promote teamwork

Neuroscience grants promote teamwork

Seven teams of researchers have been awarded funding for transformational research projects in neuroscience, through the first round of the McGill-Western BrainsCAN collaboration grants.

Brain, body linked to cardiovascular health

Brain, body linked to cardiovascular health

The slow, precise demands of research can be frustrating - but there are times the work becomes personal, and then it takes on a greater urgency. Nárlon C. Boa Sorte Silva, is researching the benefits of exercise for older adults with high blood pressure or...

Dresses speak for Indigenous women

Dresses speak for Indigenous women

It’s likely you’ve seen a red dress hanging somewhere on Western’s main campus. On trees. Lampposts. Signs. It’s part of the REDress Project to acknowledge the need for justice for Indigenous women.

Fighting to win the war against epilepsy

Fighting to win the war against epilepsy

You can’t describe Sophie Cowin without more than a mention of the epilepsy that relentlessly threatens her life. But you also can’t define the 17-year-old solely by her seizures.