https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_-Yie98Djo&feature=youtu.be The world can be a complicated, intolerant and trying place, but you must carry the love of this day forward with you, Cindy Blackstock told graduates at the Wednesday morning se …
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Brescia names Queen’s Mumm as its new Principal
Susan Mumm has been appointed the 12th Principal of Brescia University College, effective July 2016, the Brescia Board of Trustees announced today. Mumm, currently Dean of Arts and Science at Queen’s University, follows Colleen Hanycz, who left to become president of...
Looking back at previous Newsmakers of the Year
How do you remember each passing year on this campus? If you are like us, it is probably through the faces we see every day on this side of The Gates. Since 2010, Western News has celebrated an always-entertaining, if not wholly original, tradition of Newsmakers of...
Sports and Rec gallops under new leadership
Western Sports and Recreation Services will continue its “proud tradition of excellence” under new leadership as the unit shifts under the leadership of the Associate Vice-President (Student Experience) portfolio, assured Health Sciences Dean Jim Weese. Senate...
Western News celebrates A Year in Photos 2015
From classrooms to playing fields, long-serving legends to our freshest faces, Western News presents the best photographs of 2015.
Running the team who runs in the background
Carmen Bertone runs the team who runs the university. In the background, that is. “A lot of the things we do, you don’t see. You see the buildings, you walk in, you take for granted that it might be a comfortable temperature. But there’s a lot of things that go into...
Schofield: Revisiting ‘The Bard’ 400 years later
Scholars, theatre practitioners and curators around the world are readying themselves for a huge global celebration of Williams Shakespeare and his drama. Commemorating 400 years since the death of The Bard in 1616, Shakespeare 400 has inspired Vintage Books to launch...
Huron names St. Thomas’ Craig as its new Principal
Barry L. Craig has been appointed the 17th Principal of Huron University College, effective July 1, the Huron Executive Board announced today. Craig, currently Vice-President (Academic and Research) at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., follows Stephen...
Western to conduct campus traffic study this week
Western will be conducting a two-day traffic survey on all university entrance and exit points on Tuesday and Thursday, Dec. 1 and 3. The results of the survey will inform a number of areas of university planning involving traffic patterns, including the Campus Master...
Board ratifies librarians and archivists agreement
At its regular Thursday meeting, Western’s Board of Governors approved a new four-year contract (July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2019) with the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA), a union representing 49 librarians and...
Hassan named new Board of Governors Chair
Western’s Board of Governors named Hanny Hassan as the university governing body’s next Chair at its regular meeting Thursday. His term begins Jan. 1. Named to the Board by the Alumni Association in 2009, Hassan is President of Alef Consulting. He received a BESc from...
Western Law professor at centre of doping report
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent commission recently released a scathing report accusing many of Russia’s top track and field athletes of participating in a systematic doping program. Along with the athletes, the report said coaches, trainers, doctors...
Bentley puts Canadian identity in the spotlight
English professor David Bentley, the 2015 winner of the Killam Prize, delivered the second address in the President’s Lecture Series, ‘Simile, Metaphor, and the Making and Perception of Canada,’ to a packed audience Wednesday in the Paul Davenport Theatre.