Search

Topics

Western News

Campus & Community

Board approves University budget

Board approves University budget

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...

Prologue to Hal’s journey

Prologue to Hal’s journey

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...

Campus memorial service set for Costa

Campus memorial service set for Costa

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....

ITS remains diligent as illegal downloads increase

ITS remains diligent as illegal downloads increase

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...

University seeks input into draft indigenous plan

University seeks input into draft indigenous plan

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...

University mourns loss of well-known student mentor

University mourns loss of well-known student mentor

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...

‘Geek thing’ serves as perfect outreach

‘Geek thing’ serves as perfect outreach

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...

Gender-verification called into question

Gender-verification called into question

Kinesiology professor Janice Forsyth is personally and professionally interested in lending her voice to challenge the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) discriminatory policies.

Looking to connect over creativity

Looking to connect over creativity

Victoria Wiebe is no stranger to putting pen to paper to turn her creative thoughts into works of poetry or young-adult fiction. Now, the published author and Psychology student will be helping other writers find their voice as the 2016-17 Student Writer-in-Residence....

Funeral services set for Social Science student

Funeral services set for Social Science student

Funeral arrangements have been set 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 family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and 6:30-8:30...

Green Awards paint a portrait of sustainability

Green Awards paint a portrait of sustainability

    Sophia Lloyd-Jones has returned to an old form of producing natural dyes using vegetables and nuts to produce organic sculptures that challenge what it means to make art in an environmentally sustainable way. The fourth-year Visual Arts student was among...

Board approves University budget

Board approves University budget

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...

Prologue to Hal’s journey

Prologue to Hal’s journey

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...

Campus memorial service set for Costa

Campus memorial service set for Costa

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....

ITS remains diligent as illegal downloads increase

ITS remains diligent as illegal downloads increase

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...

University seeks input into draft indigenous plan

University seeks input into draft indigenous plan

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...

University mourns loss of well-known student mentor

University mourns loss of well-known student mentor

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...

‘Geek thing’ serves as perfect outreach

‘Geek thing’ serves as perfect outreach

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...

Gender-verification called into question

Gender-verification called into question

Kinesiology professor Janice Forsyth is personally and professionally interested in lending her voice to challenge the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) discriminatory policies.

Looking to connect over creativity

Looking to connect over creativity

Victoria Wiebe is no stranger to putting pen to paper to turn her creative thoughts into works of poetry or young-adult fiction. Now, the published author and Psychology student will be helping other writers find their voice as the 2016-17 Student Writer-in-Residence....

Funeral services set for Social Science student

Funeral services set for Social Science student

Funeral arrangements have been set 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 family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. and 6:30-8:30...

Green Awards paint a portrait of sustainability

Green Awards paint a portrait of sustainability

    Sophia Lloyd-Jones has returned to an old form of producing natural dyes using vegetables and nuts to produce organic sculptures that challenge what it means to make art in an environmentally sustainable way. The fourth-year Visual Arts student was among...