What better place to put learning about local government and urban politics into practice than in the heart of the city? Western News joined a group of political science students and local experts on a tour through downtown London, Ont. during a Friday aft …
Joints that can be reconstructed. New tissues or entire organs to replace those damaged in injury or disease. A transplant of healthy beta cells so a diabetic never needs an insulin injection again. It sounds a bit like science fiction, but these are among the...
Do you want to know what Western is up to in Brazil or Chile? How about Denmark, Kenya or Madagascar? With Western Worldwide, a new database tool that track’s Western’s international activity, you can check on student exchanges, research or another type of...
This summer, Western, in collaboration with Fanshawe College, will host the 35th annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), from June 21-24. Many Western faculty have been long-time members of STLHE, Canada’s pre-eminent...
André Alexis takes a philosophical walk with man’s best friend in ‘Fifteen Dogs,’ contemplating life, love and death through the eyes of a loyal companion.
Western Libraries, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) disciplines, the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity and Engineering’s plans for a new building are among of the areas that will be receiving support through 2016-17 Operating and Capital Budgets...
On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, actor Graham Abbey was on stage at the Stratford Festival, playing Prince Hal, the wayward son in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1. Hal’s father, King Henry, opens the play...
Western will host a campus memorial service for undergraduate Social Science student Jeffrey Costa, 22, who died April 7 in Richmond Hill, Ont. Costa served as a Soph in both Medway-Sydenham Hall and Social Science. The event will be held from 12:30-1:30 p.m....
The Internet has changed the way people consume movies and music, but it hasn’t changed the right of ownership of copyrighted materials. If you are illegally downloading content on the university campus, chances are Jeff Gardiner knows about it. Western’s Central...
Western’s first-ever Indigenous Strategic Plan seeks to remedy the under-representation of Indigenous Peoples as students, professors, staff and administrators in Canada’s postsecondary education system, according to university officials. “Universities play an...
The words of a grieving family resonated across campus this week as the university joined them in mourning the loss of a mother and her son. “As a mother and son, they had a strong and undeniable bond. They were at the core of a very loving family. Together we shared...
While many of her high school peers relaxed during March Break, 16-year-old Jessica Bennett was studying in a genetics lab half-way across the country. The Wolfville, N.S., resident was a Gene Researcher for a Week in Dr. Robert Hegele’s lab at Robarts Research...
Kinesiology professor Janice Forsyth is personally and professionally interested in lending her voice to challenge the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) discriminatory policies.
Joints that can be reconstructed. New tissues or entire organs to replace those damaged in injury or disease. A transplant of healthy beta cells so a diabetic never needs an insulin injection again. It sounds a bit like science fiction, but these are among the...
Do you want to know what Western is up to in Brazil or Chile? How about Denmark, Kenya or Madagascar? With Western Worldwide, a new database tool that track’s Western’s international activity, you can check on student exchanges, research or another type of...
This summer, Western, in collaboration with Fanshawe College, will host the 35th annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), from June 21-24. Many Western faculty have been long-time members of STLHE, Canada’s pre-eminent...
André Alexis takes a philosophical walk with man’s best friend in ‘Fifteen Dogs,’ contemplating life, love and death through the eyes of a loyal companion.
Western Libraries, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) disciplines, the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity and Engineering’s plans for a new building are among of the areas that will be receiving support through 2016-17 Operating and Capital Budgets...
On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, actor Graham Abbey was on stage at the Stratford Festival, playing Prince Hal, the wayward son in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1. Hal’s father, King Henry, opens the play...
Western will host a campus memorial service for undergraduate Social Science student Jeffrey Costa, 22, who died April 7 in Richmond Hill, Ont. Costa served as a Soph in both Medway-Sydenham Hall and Social Science. The event will be held from 12:30-1:30 p.m....
The Internet has changed the way people consume movies and music, but it hasn’t changed the right of ownership of copyrighted materials. If you are illegally downloading content on the university campus, chances are Jeff Gardiner knows about it. Western’s Central...
Western’s first-ever Indigenous Strategic Plan seeks to remedy the under-representation of Indigenous Peoples as students, professors, staff and administrators in Canada’s postsecondary education system, according to university officials. “Universities play an...
The words of a grieving family resonated across campus this week as the university joined them in mourning the loss of a mother and her son. “As a mother and son, they had a strong and undeniable bond. They were at the core of a very loving family. Together we shared...
While many of her high school peers relaxed during March Break, 16-year-old Jessica Bennett was studying in a genetics lab half-way across the country. The Wolfville, N.S., resident was a Gene Researcher for a Week in Dr. Robert Hegele’s lab at Robarts Research...
Kinesiology professor Janice Forsyth is personally and professionally interested in lending her voice to challenge the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) discriminatory policies.