Golden-crowned kinglet. Jack-in-the-pulpit. Eastern harvestman. Those bird, plant and spider species – plus more than 1,200 other forms of wildlife, some of them rare or at-risk – were found on Western’s campus over the last year during a biodiv …
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Feds roll out student loan repayment plan
As students continue to work through their first semester studies, one local MP assured them that they can rest a little easier knowing new investments in Canada Student Grants by the Liberal government are making postsecondary education more accessible and...
Homecoming returns to single weekend, Oct. 20-22
Western’s Homecoming celebrations are returning to the university’s long-held tradition of one weekend of festivities in 2017, university officials announced this week. A date for the celebration has already been set for the weekend of Oct. 20-22. While this is a...
Wings of my father: A son finds peace half a world away
Duncan Hunter has few memories of his father beyond photographs and stories from his late mother.
Laurier stuns Western to win 109th Yates Cup
The Laurier Golden Hawks scored 24 points in the final eight minutes to win the Yates Cup over the Western Mustangs 43-40 Saturday. It was the biggest fourth quarter comeback in Yates Cup history.
Letter: Financial accessibility is not trivial
We’d like to begin by thanking you for acknowledging the rise of student participation at Senate (Winders: Get a machete - Senate deep in weeds, Oct. 27). For too long, student voices had been an afterthought instead of being an integral and appreciated voice in the...
Honouring a quarter century of service
Western honoured its long-serving, part-time employees at recent celebrations for faculty and staff who have been working at the university for 25 years or more. While spending a quarter of a century at a single institution might seem like an anomaly today, these...
IEEE recognizes Castle with Kaufmann Award
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Emeritus Peter Castle has been awarded the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Kaufmann Award “for development of applied electrostatic devices and processes in industry, agriculture, and...
Suzuki set to bring ‘Vision’ to Alumni Hall
David Suzuki, Canadian environmental activist and science broadcaster, confronts the challenges of the unfolding 21st century in his lecture, Experience a New Vision, at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Alumni Hall. Organized by the Science Students’ Council and the University...
Recording success provides ‘escape’
The music is not going to stop for Aboudi Lahib any time soon.
Connecting carvings to soldiers, sacrifice
The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.
Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...
Fellowship pushes boundaries of medical technologies
The Western Medical Innovation Fellowship was the best thing that could have happened to John Matheson. “Medical residency was always the goal, but this program is going to be invaluable for my future as a clinician,” he said. “You don’t get the opportunity to stop...
Feds roll out student loan repayment plan
As students continue to work through their first semester studies, one local MP assured them that they can rest a little easier knowing new investments in Canada Student Grants by the Liberal government are making postsecondary education more accessible and...
Homecoming returns to single weekend, Oct. 20-22
Western’s Homecoming celebrations are returning to the university’s long-held tradition of one weekend of festivities in 2017, university officials announced this week. A date for the celebration has already been set for the weekend of Oct. 20-22. While this is a...
Wings of my father: A son finds peace half a world away
Duncan Hunter has few memories of his father beyond photographs and stories from his late mother.
Laurier stuns Western to win 109th Yates Cup
The Laurier Golden Hawks scored 24 points in the final eight minutes to win the Yates Cup over the Western Mustangs 43-40 Saturday. It was the biggest fourth quarter comeback in Yates Cup history.
Letter: Financial accessibility is not trivial
We’d like to begin by thanking you for acknowledging the rise of student participation at Senate (Winders: Get a machete - Senate deep in weeds, Oct. 27). For too long, student voices had been an afterthought instead of being an integral and appreciated voice in the...
Honouring a quarter century of service
Western honoured its long-serving, part-time employees at recent celebrations for faculty and staff who have been working at the university for 25 years or more. While spending a quarter of a century at a single institution might seem like an anomaly today, these...
IEEE recognizes Castle with Kaufmann Award
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Emeritus Peter Castle has been awarded the 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Kaufmann Award “for development of applied electrostatic devices and processes in industry, agriculture, and...
Suzuki set to bring ‘Vision’ to Alumni Hall
David Suzuki, Canadian environmental activist and science broadcaster, confronts the challenges of the unfolding 21st century in his lecture, Experience a New Vision, at 7 p.m. Nov. 17 in Alumni Hall. Organized by the Science Students’ Council and the University...
Recording success provides ‘escape’
The music is not going to stop for Aboudi Lahib any time soon.
Connecting carvings to soldiers, sacrifice
The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.
Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...
Fellowship pushes boundaries of medical technologies
The Western Medical Innovation Fellowship was the best thing that could have happened to John Matheson. “Medical residency was always the goal, but this program is going to be invaluable for my future as a clinician,” he said. “You don’t get the opportunity to stop...