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Special coverage: Spring Convocation 2023

Special coverage: Spring Convocation 2023

Friends and families will gather at Western June 12 to 23 to celebrate the graduating Class of 2023. Convocation ceremonies will take place at Alumni Hall, where more than 8,000 students will receive their degrees, diplomas and certificates. As graduate …

Engineering class seizes golden opportunity

Engineering class seizes golden opportunity

Members of Western Engineering Class of 1967 saw a golden opportunity to celebrate their 50th class reunion. For the past five years, the class has worked together to increase the value of the endowment fund that supports the Canadian Centennial ’67 Class Award....

Western rises to the fitness ‘Challenge’

Western rises to the fitness ‘Challenge’

When it comes to ‘stepping’ up its game, Western took that challenge in stride by putting in more than 1.2-billion steps to grab top spot in Canada for the annual Global Challenge. Each year, for 100 days, hundreds of thousands of employees from around the world...

Western issues info on Fanshawe strike impact

Western issues info on Fanshawe strike impact

Western issued the following information today regarding the potential impact on Western-Fanshawe Collaborative and Combined Programs during a potential faculty strike at Fanshawe College: The union representing full time and partial load faculty at Fanshawe College...

Entrepreneur inspires girls to pursue education

Entrepreneur inspires girls to pursue education

Roberta Lindal, BA’14, credits an early mentor for sparking her idea to create clothing that inspires girls to pursue their education, and help others who face incredible obstacles in their learning.

LPS, EMS release Broughdale street party numbers

LPS, EMS release Broughdale street party numbers

Western officials expressed “disappointment” with those involved in a student-organized street party that attracted more than 11,000 people to a residential street over the weekend, as local law enforcement and emergency services officials released numbers that painted a chaotic scene of the event.

The Walrus ready to get Western talking

The Walrus ready to get Western talking

Sponsored by Western Alumni and the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Walrus Talks Belonging will bring together the Western community on Oct. 17 at the London Music Hall, for eight speakers who explore what it really means to belong.

China invite opens faculty eyes to possibilities

China invite opens faculty eyes to possibilities

For the Western world, Homer’s Odysseus is a hero. The legendary mythical king of Ithaca is admired for his cunning intelligence; his slaying of 108 misbehaving suitors who attempt to court Penelope on his long journey home is widely considered a heroic feat. But as...

Relationships at heart of award-winning approach

Relationships at heart of award-winning approach

Dr. Michael Lee-Poy, MD’03, doesn’t hesitate in lauding Western and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry as the motivation behind his early success as a family physician. “I think back to when I first applied for medical school and how Western appealed to...

Caregiver support, training at heart of initiative

Caregiver support, training at heart of initiative

Marie Savundranayagam wants to dispel the notion that ‘person-centered care’ is merely a patient-focused approach. In health-care settings, she stressed, both the patient and their caregiver must figure into the equation. And it’s this patient-caregiver relationship...

Legal landscape on concussion may be shifting

Legal landscape on concussion may be shifting

It seems as though almost weekly, we receive newly published information or reported decisions that appear to confirm how very little we know about the true impact of head injuries within a sport context. Amateur and professional athletes who have suffered a...

Hero student honoured for life-saving actions

Hero student honoured for life-saving actions

Looking back on that dark, chilly, snow-covered evening in February, Timothy Wiechers only has one regret. “Thinking about it now, I probably should have brought my coat and gloves with me,” joked the Geography graduate student. Wiechers was recently honoured by the...

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Demonstrating dedication from dining halls to administrative offices, here are the winners of the 2017 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.

Engineering class seizes golden opportunity

Engineering class seizes golden opportunity

Members of Western Engineering Class of 1967 saw a golden opportunity to celebrate their 50th class reunion. For the past five years, the class has worked together to increase the value of the endowment fund that supports the Canadian Centennial ’67 Class Award....

Western rises to the fitness ‘Challenge’

Western rises to the fitness ‘Challenge’

When it comes to ‘stepping’ up its game, Western took that challenge in stride by putting in more than 1.2-billion steps to grab top spot in Canada for the annual Global Challenge. Each year, for 100 days, hundreds of thousands of employees from around the world...

Western issues info on Fanshawe strike impact

Western issues info on Fanshawe strike impact

Western issued the following information today regarding the potential impact on Western-Fanshawe Collaborative and Combined Programs during a potential faculty strike at Fanshawe College: The union representing full time and partial load faculty at Fanshawe College...

Entrepreneur inspires girls to pursue education

Entrepreneur inspires girls to pursue education

Roberta Lindal, BA’14, credits an early mentor for sparking her idea to create clothing that inspires girls to pursue their education, and help others who face incredible obstacles in their learning.

LPS, EMS release Broughdale street party numbers

LPS, EMS release Broughdale street party numbers

Western officials expressed “disappointment” with those involved in a student-organized street party that attracted more than 11,000 people to a residential street over the weekend, as local law enforcement and emergency services officials released numbers that painted a chaotic scene of the event.

The Walrus ready to get Western talking

The Walrus ready to get Western talking

Sponsored by Western Alumni and the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Walrus Talks Belonging will bring together the Western community on Oct. 17 at the London Music Hall, for eight speakers who explore what it really means to belong.

China invite opens faculty eyes to possibilities

China invite opens faculty eyes to possibilities

For the Western world, Homer’s Odysseus is a hero. The legendary mythical king of Ithaca is admired for his cunning intelligence; his slaying of 108 misbehaving suitors who attempt to court Penelope on his long journey home is widely considered a heroic feat. But as...

Relationships at heart of award-winning approach

Relationships at heart of award-winning approach

Dr. Michael Lee-Poy, MD’03, doesn’t hesitate in lauding Western and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry as the motivation behind his early success as a family physician. “I think back to when I first applied for medical school and how Western appealed to...

Caregiver support, training at heart of initiative

Caregiver support, training at heart of initiative

Marie Savundranayagam wants to dispel the notion that ‘person-centered care’ is merely a patient-focused approach. In health-care settings, she stressed, both the patient and their caregiver must figure into the equation. And it’s this patient-caregiver relationship...

Legal landscape on concussion may be shifting

Legal landscape on concussion may be shifting

It seems as though almost weekly, we receive newly published information or reported decisions that appear to confirm how very little we know about the true impact of head injuries within a sport context. Amateur and professional athletes who have suffered a...

Hero student honoured for life-saving actions

Hero student honoured for life-saving actions

Looking back on that dark, chilly, snow-covered evening in February, Timothy Wiechers only has one regret. “Thinking about it now, I probably should have brought my coat and gloves with me,” joked the Geography graduate student. Wiechers was recently honoured by the...

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Demonstrating dedication from dining halls to administrative offices, here are the winners of the 2017 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.