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Springett lot access shifts from Brescia to Huron Friday
Western commuters may need to turn off their autopilots this week as a major change to how vehicles enter the Springett Parking Lot starts Friday morning.
Seven alumni named among power elite
Seven Western alumni have been named to the second annual Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Business People 2014, presented by Canadian Business magazine. According to the magazine, these are the “dealmakers, string-pullers and master manipulators who call the shots in 2014.”...
Turning the page for opportunity
The last year of classes was a busy one for Ivey Business School graduate Chris Janssen. In addition to the pressures and schedules of his academic and personal lives, Janssen sat on a committee that needed to come up with a new idea to raise money for the Terry Fox...
Product mixes innovation and perseverance
Bobby Besant is someone who likes to mix it up. The recent Ivey School of Business graduate may have received the cold shoulder from a professor during his fourth-year New Venture Business project, but his idea has since made its way to the shelves of your local LCBO...
Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive
Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...
Success is in the bag for Dental student
It’s all about the handbag for Sarah Shell. The third-year Dental student’s love for fashion has seen her designer handbags on the arms of such stars as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, among others. While her love for fashion and designing...
Student idea brings comforts of home to campus
Getting ready for your first year of university can be stressful. But a group of Western students are hoping to lessen that burden a bit with their entrepreneurial venture. Northern Rush creates all-in-one packages for postsecondary residence life – combining bedding,...
Giving the Max effort to his idea
Tim Brady’s big idea came after he noticed a gap in the market for endurance athletes like himself. The 22-year-old, going into his second year of the HBA program at Ivey Business School, played football for the Mustangs when he first came to Western and quickly clued...
Making sound connections toward success
More than a decade ago, Lueda Alia started forging friendships online, frequenting absolutepunk.net and engaging with its online community. Today, she’s turned her taste in music and the online community she found into a business all her own. Alia, a Western...
Offering up faster, deeper feedback
Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...
Heat alert issued for today
Don’t count summer out just yet. The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued a heat alert for Tuesday as temperatures are expected in the 30s with a humidex value near 40 degrees. Precautions are urged for those members of the Western community working outside and...
Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards
Western Chemistry professor Joseph Gilroy and Robarts Research Institute postdoctoral scholar Andrea Di Sebastiano have been tapped as Western’s Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award winners for 2014. Gilroy looks to develop revolutionary chelating (i.e. metal binding)...