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Koval earns Distinguished Service Award

Koval earns Distinguished Service Award

Mathematics professor John Koval, King's University College, was named among seven outstanding statisticians honoured at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Statistician Society of Canada (SSC), on June 5. Koval received the 2016 Distinguished Service Award, an honour...

Opening doors – and eyes – to India

Opening doors – and eyes – to India

Physics and Astronomy professor Shantanu Basu feels the next generation of university graduates should be primed to answer the call for highly educated and creative thinkers to address the challenges facing the developing world. As the former chair of Physics and...

Honorary degree recipients named

Honorary degree recipients named

Sixteen distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 307th Convocation this spring. The ceremonies, featuring addresses by the honorary degree recipients, are scheduled for the following days: Dr. Harold Merskey Schulich School of...

Awarding the top of the classroom

Awarding the top of the classroom

Five more professors can add their name to Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching list, co-presented by the University Students’ Council, The Bank of Nova Scotia and the university’s Alumni Association. Honoured as the best in the classroom this year...

Leonard, Shoemaker named to top professor honour

Leonard, Shoemaker named to top professor honour

Two professors are the latest recipients of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) awards, joining a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers. Honoured this year are John Leonard, English and Writing Studies, Arts &...

New ICOS director gets in ‘The Games’

New ICOS director gets in ‘The Games’

Michael Heine will be the first call a lot of reporters make this summer. “Oh yes, we are on the international media Rolodex – that is for sure,” he laughed.

Western-Waterloo ink ethics partnership

Western-Waterloo ink ethics partnership

Western recently partnered with the University of Waterloo to streamline research ethics processes and shorten turnaround times for multi-site research. The new process currently applies to collaborative research projects with Waterloo. Researchers are to submit one...

‘Trial and Sorrow’ earns heritage prize

‘Trial and Sorrow’ earns heritage prize

A Western Public History program looking looking for a way to commemorate the centennial of the First World War has been recognized for their work with a Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards, presented recently in Toronto. The awards recognize individuals,...

Senate wrestles with student assessment timing

Senate wrestles with student assessment timing

A minor tweak to language defining when undergraduate students would receive a benchmark of their course progress set off an energized debate about academic freedom and course feedback during the university Senate meeting on March 11. In the end, Senate tabled a...

University sees apology as ‘right thing to do’

University sees apology as ‘right thing to do’

Calling it the “right thing to do,” Western officials issued an apology today for the university's role in and response to the actions of former Student Health Services psychiatrist Dr. Stanley Dobrowolski. “We apologize for the trauma and pain his victims endured as...

Western statement on Dobrowolski response

Western statement on Dobrowolski response

Today, Western President Amit Chakma issued a public apology for the manner in which the university responded to the conduct of former London psychiatrist Dr. Stanley Dobrowolski more than 20 years ago.

Opening doors – and eyes – to India

Opening doors – and eyes – to India

Physics and Astronomy professor Shantanu Basu feels the next generation of university graduates should be primed to answer the call for highly educated and creative thinkers to address the challenges facing the developing world. As the former chair of Physics and...

Honorary degree recipients named

Honorary degree recipients named

Sixteen distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees when Western hosts its 307th Convocation this spring. The ceremonies, featuring addresses by the honorary degree recipients, are scheduled for the following days: Dr. Harold Merskey Schulich School of...

Awarding the top of the classroom

Awarding the top of the classroom

Five more professors can add their name to Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching list, co-presented by the University Students’ Council, The Bank of Nova Scotia and the university’s Alumni Association. Honoured as the best in the classroom this year...

Leonard, Shoemaker named to top professor honour

Leonard, Shoemaker named to top professor honour

Two professors are the latest recipients of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) awards, joining a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers. Honoured this year are John Leonard, English and Writing Studies, Arts &...

New ICOS director gets in ‘The Games’

New ICOS director gets in ‘The Games’

Michael Heine will be the first call a lot of reporters make this summer. “Oh yes, we are on the international media Rolodex – that is for sure,” he laughed.

Western-Waterloo ink ethics partnership

Western-Waterloo ink ethics partnership

Western recently partnered with the University of Waterloo to streamline research ethics processes and shorten turnaround times for multi-site research. The new process currently applies to collaborative research projects with Waterloo. Researchers are to submit one...

‘Trial and Sorrow’ earns heritage prize

‘Trial and Sorrow’ earns heritage prize

A Western Public History program looking looking for a way to commemorate the centennial of the First World War has been recognized for their work with a Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards, presented recently in Toronto. The awards recognize individuals,...

Senate wrestles with student assessment timing

Senate wrestles with student assessment timing

A minor tweak to language defining when undergraduate students would receive a benchmark of their course progress set off an energized debate about academic freedom and course feedback during the university Senate meeting on March 11. In the end, Senate tabled a...

University sees apology as ‘right thing to do’

University sees apology as ‘right thing to do’

Calling it the “right thing to do,” Western officials issued an apology today for the university's role in and response to the actions of former Student Health Services psychiatrist Dr. Stanley Dobrowolski. “We apologize for the trauma and pain his victims endured as...

Western statement on Dobrowolski response

Western statement on Dobrowolski response

Today, Western President Amit Chakma issued a public apology for the manner in which the university responded to the conduct of former London psychiatrist Dr. Stanley Dobrowolski more than 20 years ago.