The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortona d’Ampezzo in northern Italy feature eight new medal events and one new official sport: ski mountaineering, or “skimo.” It’s an endurance sport in which athletes ascend mountains on skis fitted wit …
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Students take on challenge to ‘Change the World’
Nineteen Western students recently participated in a global, experiential learning program where they developed solutions for real-world sustainability problems.
Expert insights: The Lou Marsh Trophy builds on a racist legacy, tainting the award’s meaning
The sports journalist ‘spent his career energizing racist sports journalism.’
Competition augments local reality with environmentalism
A new competition for Western students is designed to create an augmented-reality version of London locales, with an environmental twist.
Walking patterns could predict type of cognitive decline
Researchers’ assessments of gait variability identified Alzheimer’s disease with 70-per-cent accuracy.
New research team to address sustainability in West Africa
Scholars from West Africa and Western University will study how to nurture sustainable livelihoods in Ghana, Benin, Liberia, Senegal and Nigeria.
Expert insights: ‘Relationship glasses’ colour our view of our partners
Our beliefs about our romantic partner colour our perceptions of who they are.
Alumni chapter offers benefits beyond comfortable network
Western connections ease transition to new city, ‘bringing the familiar to the unfamiliar.’
Letter: Faculty members call for withdraw of UN appointment review
We undersigned Western faculty members are pleased to learn that one of our colleagues, the highly respected Western Law professor S. Michael Lynk, has recently been appointed by the United Nations to the role of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine and the...
Music Issue: Realizing her dream in face of reality
The setting sun on the villa was her stage, seating was in the backyard, and there were rugged mountains in the background of the Tuscan landscape. Kelsey Vicary was ready to step out on the stage in the role of Countess Almaviva last year in Le Nozze di Figaro.