The potential for a “win-win” situation was just too great to let pass. When Chris Alleyne, associate vice-president, housing and ancillary services, and Jodi Freeman, senior advisor, stopped by the Western hospitality recruitment fair last summer, …
Campus & Community
UN focus on superbugs right on target for researcher
The problem is just getting worse. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, viruses and microbes are responsible for nearly 700,000 deaths each year. Staph infections. C. difficile outbreaks in hospitals. Tuberculosis. Malaria. Sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis...
ITS drawing attention to campus cyber-security
There is no simple way to detect or identify them. They cannot be seen or heard, leave no physical evidence behind and hide their tracks through a complex web of compromised computers. When it comes to computer hackers, Jeff Gardiner, Western’s Central Information...
Winders: Hard to pass up taking a shot at ignorance
I get it. We want to denounce ignorance in the strongest language possible. And this world offers plenty to denounce. Long before a photograph of four UWBros beneath a bedsheet reading ‘Western Lives Matter’ started making the rounds on social media, frustration was...
Prajapati: How I fell apart and almost dropped out
Western bodes many of my best and memorable experiences. It began in Delaware Hall where I became ingrained in the Residence Life program. It led me to become a Rez Soph and then a Residence Staff member. I eventually found myself at Communications & Public...
In Memoriam: Colleague pays tribute to Jim Collard
Editor’s Note: Western News publishes submitted In Memoriam pieces on members of the Western community. For information, or to submit and article, contact Jason Winders, Western News editor, at jason.winders@uwo.ca. On Sept. 23, the world lost an amazing man, and...
Western mourning death of Social Science student
The Western community is mourning the death of Jennifer Lynn McKinnon, 20, a third-year Social Science student from Sarnia, Ont., who died Wednesday, Oct. 5, at her London residence. Family and friends will be received at Smith Family Funeral Home, 1576 London Line,...
Fireball lights up the sky, screen for researchers
Western researchers have released footage of a basketball-sized fireball widely seen by observers throughout southern Ontario early Friday morning, Oct. 7.
Fairmount backs Wellness Centre with gift
Western students now have a safe, central and supportive space to access health-and-wellness resources thanks to a $1-million donation from the...
Robinson: Hey, Facebook, #DontBanMyBody
Seven years ago, I started my first Tumblr blog. I was a hobby photographer and wanted a place to share my work and follow the work of others. I started out with lifestyle and portraiture, gravitating towards artistic nudity over time. I was captivated by the human...
Brawn: Lessons from lecture fresh as headlines
Fresh from attending the Electoral Reform Town Hall at King’s University College where the influence of the media on the electoral process was one of the focuses in the break-out group in which I participated, imagine how pleased I was to see an example of an aspect...
Raycraft: Journalism needs to return to substance
I read something interesting recently. Well, I shouldn’t say that. I clicked on something that promised to be wildly interesting – and important, and useful – but it didn’t really deliver. I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, and an article from The Atlantic...
Program to connect around Indigenous cultures
The upcoming Winter School in Indigenous Cultural Competency is not about telling people ‘this is how it’s going to be.’ Rather, it will be about building new and lasting relationships.
UN focus on superbugs right on target for researcher
The problem is just getting worse. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, viruses and microbes are responsible for nearly 700,000 deaths each year. Staph infections. C. difficile outbreaks in hospitals. Tuberculosis. Malaria. Sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis...
ITS drawing attention to campus cyber-security
There is no simple way to detect or identify them. They cannot be seen or heard, leave no physical evidence behind and hide their tracks through a complex web of compromised computers. When it comes to computer hackers, Jeff Gardiner, Western’s Central Information...
Winders: Hard to pass up taking a shot at ignorance
I get it. We want to denounce ignorance in the strongest language possible. And this world offers plenty to denounce. Long before a photograph of four UWBros beneath a bedsheet reading ‘Western Lives Matter’ started making the rounds on social media, frustration was...
Prajapati: How I fell apart and almost dropped out
Western bodes many of my best and memorable experiences. It began in Delaware Hall where I became ingrained in the Residence Life program. It led me to become a Rez Soph and then a Residence Staff member. I eventually found myself at Communications & Public...
In Memoriam: Colleague pays tribute to Jim Collard
Editor’s Note: Western News publishes submitted In Memoriam pieces on members of the Western community. For information, or to submit and article, contact Jason Winders, Western News editor, at jason.winders@uwo.ca. On Sept. 23, the world lost an amazing man, and...
Western mourning death of Social Science student
The Western community is mourning the death of Jennifer Lynn McKinnon, 20, a third-year Social Science student from Sarnia, Ont., who died Wednesday, Oct. 5, at her London residence. Family and friends will be received at Smith Family Funeral Home, 1576 London Line,...
Fireball lights up the sky, screen for researchers
Western researchers have released footage of a basketball-sized fireball widely seen by observers throughout southern Ontario early Friday morning, Oct. 7.
Fairmount backs Wellness Centre with gift
Western students now have a safe, central and supportive space to access health-and-wellness resources thanks to a $1-million donation from the...
Robinson: Hey, Facebook, #DontBanMyBody
Seven years ago, I started my first Tumblr blog. I was a hobby photographer and wanted a place to share my work and follow the work of others. I started out with lifestyle and portraiture, gravitating towards artistic nudity over time. I was captivated by the human...
Brawn: Lessons from lecture fresh as headlines
Fresh from attending the Electoral Reform Town Hall at King’s University College where the influence of the media on the electoral process was one of the focuses in the break-out group in which I participated, imagine how pleased I was to see an example of an aspect...
Raycraft: Journalism needs to return to substance
I read something interesting recently. Well, I shouldn’t say that. I clicked on something that promised to be wildly interesting – and important, and useful – but it didn’t really deliver. I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, and an article from The Atlantic...
Program to connect around Indigenous cultures
The upcoming Winter School in Indigenous Cultural Competency is not about telling people ‘this is how it’s going to be.’ Rather, it will be about building new and lasting relationships.