Western is conferring honorary degrees on 14 eminent individuals during spring convocation, celebrating and honouring their contributions across a wide range of endeavours. Convocation ceremonies, taking place at Alumni Hall throughout June, feature ad …
A door slamming. Construction outside your window. The hum of an overhead light fixture. Our brain is constantly inundated with an overabundance of sensory information, requiring it to sort out unwanted sounds in order to focus on the task at hand. While the sounds...
It is full-speed ahead for four companies, and their young entrepreneurial leaders, thanks to their time in the Western Accelerator. Open to Western students, faculty and recent alumni, the Western Accelerator provides an intense, rapid and immersive education for...
Amanda Moehring was born to answer the call. “I’ve always been of the mindset that if you see something that needs to be done, something that needs to happen, you just do it,” said the Western Biology professor. When an email began to circulate among science...
By 2020, the fourth Industrial Revolution will transform the way we work, live and interact. Many jobs that involve predictable and routine-based tasks will be replaced by robots and machines. As a result, workers will need to embrace new skills in order to prepare...
Retiring Sociology professor Jerry White has made a few “mistakes” in his life – from being kicked out of his undergraduate engineering program two months in, to almost getting arrested in the Soviet Union in 1974. Yet, despite the errors of his ways, he has embraced...
Scientific progress is not a given – it must be fought for, defended and encouraged. And that is exactly what many at Western, and across the Forest City, plan to do Saturday. The March for Science – a global movement to defend the role of scientific research in...
A new blueprint for scientific research – said to be the most comprehensive in four decades – offers Canada a renewed opportunity to be a world-changer in the sciences, according to Western administrators and scholars. Commissioned last year by Minister of Science...
Nearly 3,000 Canadian women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year. Often undetected, until it progresses to late stages, the disease is the fifth most common – and the most serious – cancer in women. Symptoms of ovarian cancer generally appear after it has...
The inaugural FIMULAW Research Day last month, which brought together graduate students from the faculties of Music, Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and Law, was a resounding success. Through three panel presentations, lightning talks and poster presentations,...
Having breakfast taken care of made for a good start to Ellen McGran’s day. “I thought it was such a good idea. A really good idea. Out of nowhere, somebody’s bought you breakfast – it’s such a nice feeling,” said the third-year MIT student, who had the opportunity to...
It’s a bit like overhearing a typical conversation university students might have anywhere on campus. You’ll hear stories and opinions on the latest bands, the hottest shows to binge watch and more. But these conversations are between strangers – Western students and...
One hundred and three airports. Fourteen countries. Thirty-eight thousand kilometres. In the span of just over a month.
A door slamming. Construction outside your window. The hum of an overhead light fixture. Our brain is constantly inundated with an overabundance of sensory information, requiring it to sort out unwanted sounds in order to focus on the task at hand. While the sounds...
It is full-speed ahead for four companies, and their young entrepreneurial leaders, thanks to their time in the Western Accelerator. Open to Western students, faculty and recent alumni, the Western Accelerator provides an intense, rapid and immersive education for...
Amanda Moehring was born to answer the call. “I’ve always been of the mindset that if you see something that needs to be done, something that needs to happen, you just do it,” said the Western Biology professor. When an email began to circulate among science...
By 2020, the fourth Industrial Revolution will transform the way we work, live and interact. Many jobs that involve predictable and routine-based tasks will be replaced by robots and machines. As a result, workers will need to embrace new skills in order to prepare...
Retiring Sociology professor Jerry White has made a few “mistakes” in his life – from being kicked out of his undergraduate engineering program two months in, to almost getting arrested in the Soviet Union in 1974. Yet, despite the errors of his ways, he has embraced...
Scientific progress is not a given – it must be fought for, defended and encouraged. And that is exactly what many at Western, and across the Forest City, plan to do Saturday. The March for Science – a global movement to defend the role of scientific research in...
A new blueprint for scientific research – said to be the most comprehensive in four decades – offers Canada a renewed opportunity to be a world-changer in the sciences, according to Western administrators and scholars. Commissioned last year by Minister of Science...
Nearly 3,000 Canadian women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year. Often undetected, until it progresses to late stages, the disease is the fifth most common – and the most serious – cancer in women. Symptoms of ovarian cancer generally appear after it has...
The inaugural FIMULAW Research Day last month, which brought together graduate students from the faculties of Music, Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and Law, was a resounding success. Through three panel presentations, lightning talks and poster presentations,...
Having breakfast taken care of made for a good start to Ellen McGran’s day. “I thought it was such a good idea. A really good idea. Out of nowhere, somebody’s bought you breakfast – it’s such a nice feeling,” said the third-year MIT student, who had the opportunity to...
It’s a bit like overhearing a typical conversation university students might have anywhere on campus. You’ll hear stories and opinions on the latest bands, the hottest shows to binge watch and more. But these conversations are between strangers – Western students and...
One hundred and three airports. Fourteen countries. Thirty-eight thousand kilometres. In the span of just over a month.