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Mining governance scholar Sara Ghebremusse joins Faculty of Law

Mining governance scholar Sara Ghebremusse joins Faculty of Law

Sara Ghebremusse has been appointed the new Cassels Brock Chair in Mining Law and Finance in the Faculty of Law. Ghebremusse brings extensive experience in scholarly research and teaching in the areas of mining law and governance, law and development, t …

United Way giving translates into community healing

United Way giving translates into community healing

That message on a simple plaque – intentionally continuing its thought via a semi-colon – is the first thing visitors see when they enter Rebecca Machado’s office at Daya Counselling Centre in downtown London. The plaque was a gift from a client who, before counselling, had contemplated suicide.

Student finds inspiration sitting all around her

Student finds inspiration sitting all around her

Brenda Fuhrman went to nursing school in her 20s and law school in her 40s, so it just made sense to her that in her 60s she should chisel out yet another career – this time as an artist.

Competition to design resilient health systems

Competition to design resilient health systems

In its fourth year, The Health Care Challenge – a student competition run by the Health Studies Students’ Association (HSSA) – is gearing up to tackle the issue of resiliency in health-care systems. On Saturday, students from the Faculty of Health Sciences – in tandem...

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Karen Shelstad never thought she’d be in the gym six days a week, much less be part of a world-champion dragon boat racing team heading to Hungary and Italy this July for an international competition. She also never thought she’d have breast cancer. But it was that...

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Four months after a Western child-and-youth clinic opened as a safety valve for backlogs in mental health services, the centre is working through a waiting list as long as 10 weeks. The new interdisciplinary Child and Youth Development Clinic helps children work...

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Yimin Chen’s first experience with Internet trolls was in the early days of the worldwide web. Interested in “fairly nerdy and geeky stuff like comic books and video games” in chat rooms and forums, he found an online community where people shared interests, inside...

Attack ads become a double negative

Attack ads become a double negative

With a provincial election just months away, expect the gloves to come off and the rhetoric to ramp up. But negative campaigning – candidates trying to improve their odds with ads slamming their opponents – may not be the best way to win an Ontario election, according...

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

The federal government is currently conducting a five-year review of the Copyright Act. While there are several important policies that will be discussed, the most significant for the educational community is fair dealing. It is also likely to be the most contentious....

Help shape the future of Western’s great outdoors

Help shape the future of Western’s great outdoors

The public consultation period on Western’s Open Space Strategy is coming to a close this week and those heading up the project say they have received valuable feedback from the campus community and beyond.

Read. Watch. Listen. with Beth Greene

Read. Watch. Listen. with Beth Greene

Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits – what one book or newspaper/magazine article is grabbing your attention;...

United Way giving translates into community healing

United Way giving translates into community healing

That message on a simple plaque – intentionally continuing its thought via a semi-colon – is the first thing visitors see when they enter Rebecca Machado’s office at Daya Counselling Centre in downtown London. The plaque was a gift from a client who, before counselling, had contemplated suicide.

Student finds inspiration sitting all around her

Student finds inspiration sitting all around her

Brenda Fuhrman went to nursing school in her 20s and law school in her 40s, so it just made sense to her that in her 60s she should chisel out yet another career – this time as an artist.

Competition to design resilient health systems

Competition to design resilient health systems

In its fourth year, The Health Care Challenge – a student competition run by the Health Studies Students’ Association (HSSA) – is gearing up to tackle the issue of resiliency in health-care systems. On Saturday, students from the Faculty of Health Sciences – in tandem...

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Karen Shelstad never thought she’d be in the gym six days a week, much less be part of a world-champion dragon boat racing team heading to Hungary and Italy this July for an international competition. She also never thought she’d have breast cancer. But it was that...

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Four months after a Western child-and-youth clinic opened as a safety valve for backlogs in mental health services, the centre is working through a waiting list as long as 10 weeks. The new interdisciplinary Child and Youth Development Clinic helps children work...

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Yimin Chen’s first experience with Internet trolls was in the early days of the worldwide web. Interested in “fairly nerdy and geeky stuff like comic books and video games” in chat rooms and forums, he found an online community where people shared interests, inside...

Attack ads become a double negative

Attack ads become a double negative

With a provincial election just months away, expect the gloves to come off and the rhetoric to ramp up. But negative campaigning – candidates trying to improve their odds with ads slamming their opponents – may not be the best way to win an Ontario election, according...

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

The federal government is currently conducting a five-year review of the Copyright Act. While there are several important policies that will be discussed, the most significant for the educational community is fair dealing. It is also likely to be the most contentious....

Help shape the future of Western’s great outdoors

Help shape the future of Western’s great outdoors

The public consultation period on Western’s Open Space Strategy is coming to a close this week and those heading up the project say they have received valuable feedback from the campus community and beyond.

Read. Watch. Listen. with Beth Greene

Read. Watch. Listen. with Beth Greene

Read. Watch. Listen. introduces you the personal side of our faculty, staff and alumni. Participants are asked to answer three simple questions about their reading, viewing and listening habits – what one book or newspaper/magazine article is grabbing your attention;...