Reviews and trailers that reveal a movie’s plot can draw a bigger audience and more box-office dollars, a Western study shows.
Debora Van Brenk
Activist author Desmond Cole challenges journalists, media and status quo
Advocacy and activism can be exhausting but it’s less soul-searing than the systemic racism endured every day by Canadians who are Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.
Alumnus Frank Worrell named psychology association president
His mother’s demand that he aim high led Worrell to Western, and to the top of the American Psychological Association.
Scholarships launched in memory of Iranian students
Chemistry student Hadis Hayatdavoudi and three other Western students aboard Flight PS752 will be remembered through scholarships.
The year that was … completely unpredictable
2020 at Western will forever be known as a watershed.
Year in review: Western research addresses One Big Problem
Every faculty at Western brought some new research insight to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Year in review: Faster-than-fast research capability
We are speed. Western became the first Canadian university with a 5G research network.
Year in review: Addressing and redressing racism, colonialism
Western shone an unblinking spotlight on the scourge of racism and the shadows of colonialism.
Year in review: A community mourns four Iranian students
The graduate students’ Western home became a focal point for a community remembering their lives and grieving their loss.
Year in review: Parr, partnerships, pace-setters
A raft of gifts and investments showed faith in the quality and support of Western and its people.
Year in review: Western sustainability, version 2.020
Western’s renewed and renewable commitment to sustainability is far more than a (phosphate-free) laundry list of activities.
Year in review: Western Space looking for life in all the right places
In its first full year, Western Space explored, discovered, dreamed – and became recognized as one of the leading authorities for all things terrestrial and extra-.
Year in review: The new language of COVID
“Because of COVID” became shorthand for the myriad ways we became experts in the art of the pivot.
Year in review: Let me count the ways
Turns out, relationship success has little to do with your personal awesomeness, and even less to do with fairy-tale love potions and Puccini arias.
Year in review: The birds and the bees (and other beasts)
This was a year of quirky critter news in international headlines, from ancient beavers to murder hornets.
Gender, age, education can predict use of pandemic precautions
Men, non-immigrants, younger adults and people living in rural areas are the Canadians most likely to resist COVID-19 safety measures, according to a Western analysis.
New Education scholarships for Indigenous grad students and people living with disabilities
Western is clearing a pathway for people who have historically faced social and economic barriers, with a new scholarship program for graduate students who are Indigenous or living with disabilities.
Western alumna Andrea Benoit wins business-book award
An alumna’s book detailing one of Canada’s great, previously untold business philanthropy stories has won a major award book.
Western Law professor Rande Kostal wins international honour for legal-history book
Law professor Rande Kostal has been awarded a prestigious international honour for authoring a book that sheds new light on the limits of America’s ability to impose democracy on defeated countries.
Buddies and stepped-up rewards add exercise incentive
It can take just pennies a day to motivate people to exercise more, and they will step up their efforts when teamed with a buddy to collect joint rewards, a Western University study shows.