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Answering Summit’s call to global action

Answering Summit’s call to global action

Currently, there is a lack of awareness on how to impact the world around us. However, we all have the potential to be aware of our impact. As Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed Yunus told the One Young World Summit, “We all have creative force within us.” It is easy...

Project turns Focus to mental health

Project turns Focus to mental health

One Western student’s passion for photography is now helping some of the country’s most vulnerable kids capture a crystal-clear snapshot of their own mental health. Gabrielle Foss, a National Scholar pursuing a dual degree in Health Science and Business at Western, is...

Researchers: Time to rebuild trust in decision-making

Researchers: Time to rebuild trust in decision-making

Hundreds upon hundreds of professors, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from across the country, including dozens at Western, are calling on the federal government to reassess its regulatory decision-making processes concerning environmental assessments. They...

Board takes ‘important step,’ OKs Indigenous plan

Board takes ‘important step,’ OKs Indigenous plan

Today, Candace Brunette is thinking of her great-grandmother who lived on a trap line. She is thinking of her grandmother who didn’t have the right to vote in Canada. She is thinking of her mother who had a Grade 10 education. And, as she looks back on challenges she...

Year in photos: Frank Neufeld

Year in photos: Frank Neufeld

As planning began for the special Shakespeare 400 issue in April, my mind started swarming with images of skulls, swords, Elizabethan Era attire and dramatic lighting. Knowing I was going to be shooting some of Western’s top scholars, I tried to replace this...

Year in photos: Paul Mayne

Year in photos: Paul Mayne

Everything seemed to be going the Mustangs’ way the afternoon of Nov. 12. The sun was shining; the fans were loud; Mustangs running back Alex Taylor had just scored his third rushing touchdown of the day to give the team a 33-19 lead heading into the fourth quarter....

Year in photos: Adela Talbot

Year in photos: Adela Talbot

I sat down with Louise Pitre, BMus’79, DMus’06, in October – a week before she took the stage with Emm Gryner and Brendan Wall to perform in Joni Mitchell: River, a theatrical concert at the Grand Theatre in London. When we were introduced, my eyes immediately...

Gold Medal provides ‘inspiration’ for future discoveries

Gold Medal provides ‘inspiration’ for future discoveries

Some of the world’s biggest problems can be solved by the smallest of solutions. At least that’s what first-year Integrated Sciences student Devanshi Shukla proved when she bioengineered a simple bacterium to detect and alert to the presence of invisible fungal...

Taylor Library celebrates a quarter century

Taylor Library celebrates a quarter century

On Monday, the Allyn and Betty Taylor Library celebrated its 25th anniversary. Over the past five years, collaboration among faculty, students, donors and librarians has resulted in new updates to the library, located in the Natural Science Building, that are more...

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Laurence De Looze knows it might sound macabre. In his experience, however, it’s been nothing but a life-affirming enterprise. Asking first-year university students to delve into a gravestone project, one that entails in-depth archival research into lives of the dead,...

King’s summit bridges political gender gaps

King’s summit bridges political gender gaps

In order for women to become a more representative part of the political system, we need to change the way we think about politics and gender. But until that happens, women will remain on the fringes of power, according to one King’s University College professor....

Results a call for renewed focus on gender

Results a call for renewed focus on gender

Don’t look for a silver bullet in Hillary Clinton’s surprising loss to Donald Trump in the U.S. Presidential election. One does not exist, stressed Political Science professor Cristine de Clercy. However, any analysis of her loss that does not include gender would be...

Answering Summit’s call to global action

Answering Summit’s call to global action

Currently, there is a lack of awareness on how to impact the world around us. However, we all have the potential to be aware of our impact. As Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed Yunus told the One Young World Summit, “We all have creative force within us.” It is easy...

Project turns Focus to mental health

Project turns Focus to mental health

One Western student’s passion for photography is now helping some of the country’s most vulnerable kids capture a crystal-clear snapshot of their own mental health. Gabrielle Foss, a National Scholar pursuing a dual degree in Health Science and Business at Western, is...

Researchers: Time to rebuild trust in decision-making

Researchers: Time to rebuild trust in decision-making

Hundreds upon hundreds of professors, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from across the country, including dozens at Western, are calling on the federal government to reassess its regulatory decision-making processes concerning environmental assessments. They...

Board takes ‘important step,’ OKs Indigenous plan

Board takes ‘important step,’ OKs Indigenous plan

Today, Candace Brunette is thinking of her great-grandmother who lived on a trap line. She is thinking of her grandmother who didn’t have the right to vote in Canada. She is thinking of her mother who had a Grade 10 education. And, as she looks back on challenges she...

Year in photos: Frank Neufeld

Year in photos: Frank Neufeld

As planning began for the special Shakespeare 400 issue in April, my mind started swarming with images of skulls, swords, Elizabethan Era attire and dramatic lighting. Knowing I was going to be shooting some of Western’s top scholars, I tried to replace this...

Year in photos: Paul Mayne

Year in photos: Paul Mayne

Everything seemed to be going the Mustangs’ way the afternoon of Nov. 12. The sun was shining; the fans were loud; Mustangs running back Alex Taylor had just scored his third rushing touchdown of the day to give the team a 33-19 lead heading into the fourth quarter....

Year in photos: Adela Talbot

Year in photos: Adela Talbot

I sat down with Louise Pitre, BMus’79, DMus’06, in October – a week before she took the stage with Emm Gryner and Brendan Wall to perform in Joni Mitchell: River, a theatrical concert at the Grand Theatre in London. When we were introduced, my eyes immediately...

Gold Medal provides ‘inspiration’ for future discoveries

Gold Medal provides ‘inspiration’ for future discoveries

Some of the world’s biggest problems can be solved by the smallest of solutions. At least that’s what first-year Integrated Sciences student Devanshi Shukla proved when she bioengineered a simple bacterium to detect and alert to the presence of invisible fungal...

Taylor Library celebrates a quarter century

Taylor Library celebrates a quarter century

On Monday, the Allyn and Betty Taylor Library celebrated its 25th anniversary. Over the past five years, collaboration among faculty, students, donors and librarians has resulted in new updates to the library, located in the Natural Science Building, that are more...

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Laurence De Looze knows it might sound macabre. In his experience, however, it’s been nothing but a life-affirming enterprise. Asking first-year university students to delve into a gravestone project, one that entails in-depth archival research into lives of the dead,...

King’s summit bridges political gender gaps

King’s summit bridges political gender gaps

In order for women to become a more representative part of the political system, we need to change the way we think about politics and gender. But until that happens, women will remain on the fringes of power, according to one King’s University College professor....

Results a call for renewed focus on gender

Results a call for renewed focus on gender

Don’t look for a silver bullet in Hillary Clinton’s surprising loss to Donald Trump in the U.S. Presidential election. One does not exist, stressed Political Science professor Cristine de Clercy. However, any analysis of her loss that does not include gender would be...