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Western Law prof completes acclaimed novel trilogy

Western Law prof completes acclaimed novel trilogy

Socrates, Einstein, Freud and approximately 200 Napoleons walk into an existential problem. Is there life before death? Thus begins the endgame of the critically acclaimed Beforelife satirical trilogy. For its author, however, writing will continue past th …

UWOFA prez brings unique perspective to role

UWOFA prez brings unique perspective to role

The day Ann Bigelow felt the discrepancy was the day she got involved with The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA). “I worked as an accountant for many years before coming to Western. Here, I work with a group of accountants and we teach (in the...

Partnership offer a new reality about the past

Partnership offer a new reality about the past

If you’ve already visited the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, chances are you walked through its Indigenous village reconstruction in northwest London. You’ve probably seen the reconstructed longhouse, too. But you haven’t seen it like this. Visit the museum now and...

Police: Weekends avoid major issues

Police: Weekends avoid major issues

Reunion and Homecoming weekends avoided any major incidents, with the exception of large-crowd issues associated to the Broughdale Avenue area for Reunion Weekend, according to a report issued by London Police Service Wednesday. “We want to take this opportunity to...

Rewarding work leading to success

Rewarding work leading to success

When Julaine Hall took over the Research Development Consultant (Awards & Distinctions) position three years ago, she was jokingly told if she got one Royal Society of Canada Fellowship award, she could keep her job. She helped nab six. “No one was nominating each...

de Boer: Is this generation ‘soft’?

de Boer: Is this generation ‘soft’?

I recently had Thanksgiving dinner with some of my extended family. A range of generations was represented at the table. My boyfriend and I were the youngest in attendance, as we’re both in our twenties. My cousin and his wife are in their late-thirties and my aunt...

Winders: Get a machete – Senate deep in weeds

Winders: Get a machete – Senate deep in weeds

Someone had to say something at some point, right? Senate has been in an odd place since the events of last year. It is working through its transparency issues – still somewhat clumsily, not yet in lockstep. And that is OK. It is never easy to see the bureaucratic...

How Seaborn, Western answered duty’s call

How Seaborn, Western answered duty’s call

In the final few days of October 1916, Dr. Edwin Seaborn spent a day in London, shopping with friends and running into acquaintances. He attended a dinner party with colleagues. He also studied the medical equipment at a nearby hospital. The week, however, was an...

Preserving a tradition for generations to come

Preserving a tradition for generations to come

Western students are being taught the ancient Indigenous art of mukluk-making in the hopes of preserving this tradition for generations to come, thanks to The Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot School, a non-profit, Indigenous artisan-run program led by former Olympian...

Western looks to set a new record for United Way

Western looks to set a new record for United Way

Western is counting on students, staff, faculty, alumni and retirees in helping the university meet its lofty goal of $750,000 for this year’s United Way of London & Middlesex campaign. Last year, the university raised $717,858, the largest single donation United...

Etherington: Remembering those who shaped the university

Etherington: Remembering those who shaped the university

It was interesting to see the published lists of Western Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors and Board of Governors Chairs in Western News (“Making an historic connection with her subjects,” Sept. 29), and notice the gap between 1914 and 1927 when there is no record of a...

Campus notification regarding suspicious male

Campus notification regarding suspicious male

Western’s Campus Community Police Service (CCPS) is continuing to investigate occurrences involving a suspicious male on the Western campus in the past 24 hours. This male, identified as a non-student, has been removed and banned from returning to campus. It was...

UWOFA prez brings unique perspective to role

UWOFA prez brings unique perspective to role

The day Ann Bigelow felt the discrepancy was the day she got involved with The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA). “I worked as an accountant for many years before coming to Western. Here, I work with a group of accountants and we teach (in the...

Partnership offer a new reality about the past

Partnership offer a new reality about the past

If you’ve already visited the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, chances are you walked through its Indigenous village reconstruction in northwest London. You’ve probably seen the reconstructed longhouse, too. But you haven’t seen it like this. Visit the museum now and...

Police: Weekends avoid major issues

Police: Weekends avoid major issues

Reunion and Homecoming weekends avoided any major incidents, with the exception of large-crowd issues associated to the Broughdale Avenue area for Reunion Weekend, according to a report issued by London Police Service Wednesday. “We want to take this opportunity to...

Rewarding work leading to success

Rewarding work leading to success

When Julaine Hall took over the Research Development Consultant (Awards & Distinctions) position three years ago, she was jokingly told if she got one Royal Society of Canada Fellowship award, she could keep her job. She helped nab six. “No one was nominating each...

de Boer: Is this generation ‘soft’?

de Boer: Is this generation ‘soft’?

I recently had Thanksgiving dinner with some of my extended family. A range of generations was represented at the table. My boyfriend and I were the youngest in attendance, as we’re both in our twenties. My cousin and his wife are in their late-thirties and my aunt...

Winders: Get a machete – Senate deep in weeds

Winders: Get a machete – Senate deep in weeds

Someone had to say something at some point, right? Senate has been in an odd place since the events of last year. It is working through its transparency issues – still somewhat clumsily, not yet in lockstep. And that is OK. It is never easy to see the bureaucratic...

How Seaborn, Western answered duty’s call

How Seaborn, Western answered duty’s call

In the final few days of October 1916, Dr. Edwin Seaborn spent a day in London, shopping with friends and running into acquaintances. He attended a dinner party with colleagues. He also studied the medical equipment at a nearby hospital. The week, however, was an...

Preserving a tradition for generations to come

Preserving a tradition for generations to come

Western students are being taught the ancient Indigenous art of mukluk-making in the hopes of preserving this tradition for generations to come, thanks to The Manitobah Mukluks Storyboot School, a non-profit, Indigenous artisan-run program led by former Olympian...

Western looks to set a new record for United Way

Western looks to set a new record for United Way

Western is counting on students, staff, faculty, alumni and retirees in helping the university meet its lofty goal of $750,000 for this year’s United Way of London & Middlesex campaign. Last year, the university raised $717,858, the largest single donation United...

Etherington: Remembering those who shaped the university

Etherington: Remembering those who shaped the university

It was interesting to see the published lists of Western Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors and Board of Governors Chairs in Western News (“Making an historic connection with her subjects,” Sept. 29), and notice the gap between 1914 and 1927 when there is no record of a...

Campus notification regarding suspicious male

Campus notification regarding suspicious male

Western’s Campus Community Police Service (CCPS) is continuing to investigate occurrences involving a suspicious male on the Western campus in the past 24 hours. This male, identified as a non-student, has been removed and banned from returning to campus. It was...