Victoria Quance is breaking barriers as a woman in the male-dominated field of math. But she’s more interested in driving change than hanging around in the spotlight. Quance is already using her math skills to better her community and contribute to …
A thousand years ago, I wrote a play titled Dead White Writer on the Floor. In it, six familiar native stereotypes – all created by non-Native writers – wander across the stage pondering the point of their creation. Perhaps many of these settler writers merely wanted...
“HEY JOE!” Another case of cultural shoplifting? “Hey Joe, that’s not yours! Put it back where it belongs.” Oh, he’s not going to cry, is he? What’s changed? It’s been more than a quarter century since I was last dragged into the cultural appropriation conversation....
The Canadian government’s independent review of federal funding for fundamental science is in. And the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) applauds its bold call for major reinvestments. The report by the Advisory Panel on Federal Support for...
Peter McClelland’s career as a Mustangs rower still makes waves in his life. “Does rowing teach grit and determination or do people with grit and determination choose rowing? Maybe a little bit of both,” said McClelland, BA’07, MA’09. “But grit and determination are...
University Senators wrestled with what’s in a name before approving the rebranding of the Department of Management and Organizational Studies to the DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, at their regular meeting last Friday. If approved by the Board...
Police deemed no threat from a device discovered in the University Community Centre (UCC) earlier this afternoon. Both the UCC and Western Student Services Building (WSSB) are being re-occupying currently.
Christine Stapleton, Director of Athletics at the University of Calgary, has been named Western’s new Director of Sport and Recreation Services, Western Mustangs officials announced today.
Western University and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announced a partnership earlier this week that will see LAC working closely with researchers and students from the Faculty of Media and Information Studies as well as Western Libraries, one of the largest research library systems in Canada.
For Daniel MacIvor, the creative process doesn’t germinate from an idea. His process is gradual and instinctual and, if he heeds to the feeling, the idea will come – eventually.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Western last week to share news from her recently released provincial budget, which included $6 million in additional funding, over the next three...
Shortly after her arrival as a tenured professor in the late 1990s, Marjorie Ratcliffe took up the cause to unionize Western’s faculty. It was at that time the late Allan Heinicke, a Math professor and former Chair and President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), told her she was making a big mistake.
8:45 a.m. Fifteen minutes until go time. More than 1,100 exams and score sheets are neatly stacked and patiently waiting in 10 different classrooms to be distributed by an army of proctors. Large swarms of second-year genetics students anxiously migrate to their...
A thousand years ago, I wrote a play titled Dead White Writer on the Floor. In it, six familiar native stereotypes – all created by non-Native writers – wander across the stage pondering the point of their creation. Perhaps many of these settler writers merely wanted...
“HEY JOE!” Another case of cultural shoplifting? “Hey Joe, that’s not yours! Put it back where it belongs.” Oh, he’s not going to cry, is he? What’s changed? It’s been more than a quarter century since I was last dragged into the cultural appropriation conversation....
The Canadian government’s independent review of federal funding for fundamental science is in. And the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) applauds its bold call for major reinvestments. The report by the Advisory Panel on Federal Support for...
Peter McClelland’s career as a Mustangs rower still makes waves in his life. “Does rowing teach grit and determination or do people with grit and determination choose rowing? Maybe a little bit of both,” said McClelland, BA’07, MA’09. “But grit and determination are...
University Senators wrestled with what’s in a name before approving the rebranding of the Department of Management and Organizational Studies to the DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, at their regular meeting last Friday. If approved by the Board...
Police deemed no threat from a device discovered in the University Community Centre (UCC) earlier this afternoon. Both the UCC and Western Student Services Building (WSSB) are being re-occupying currently.
Christine Stapleton, Director of Athletics at the University of Calgary, has been named Western’s new Director of Sport and Recreation Services, Western Mustangs officials announced today.
Western University and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announced a partnership earlier this week that will see LAC working closely with researchers and students from the Faculty of Media and Information Studies as well as Western Libraries, one of the largest research library systems in Canada.
For Daniel MacIvor, the creative process doesn’t germinate from an idea. His process is gradual and instinctual and, if he heeds to the feeling, the idea will come – eventually.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Western last week to share news from her recently released provincial budget, which included $6 million in additional funding, over the next three...
Shortly after her arrival as a tenured professor in the late 1990s, Marjorie Ratcliffe took up the cause to unionize Western’s faculty. It was at that time the late Allan Heinicke, a Math professor and former Chair and President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA), told her she was making a big mistake.
8:45 a.m. Fifteen minutes until go time. More than 1,100 exams and score sheets are neatly stacked and patiently waiting in 10 different classrooms to be distributed by an army of proctors. Large swarms of second-year genetics students anxiously migrate to their...