Think of it like reverse engineering. Not a machine, or a computer software program – but the human brain. If you study Parkinson’s disease, you only see Parkinson’s disease, says Angela Roberts, assistant professor in the School of Communicatio …
Campus & Community
Bringing ‘an important story’ to the page
The Survivor had a story. The Professor helped him find his voice. And now, the fruits of a years-long collaboration between the two will be released this month.
Survey: Campus ready to clear air
Western could go cold turkey when it comes to smoking on campus, with recent survey results showing a majority of the university’s students, staff and faculty in favour of ‘butting out’ when it comes to the much maligned tobacco habit. “What precipitated us to look at...
Letter: Why we’re voting ‘Yes’
This Friday, for the third time in three months, an amendment to the Policy on Evaluation of Academic Performance will come to university Senate; and we will be voting ‘Yes.’ For those unfamiliar, the proposed policy change will mandate that all undergraduate students...
Letter: Faculty members call for withdraw of UN appointment review
We undersigned Western faculty members are pleased to learn that one of our colleagues, the highly respected Western Law professor S. Michael Lynk, has recently been appointed by the United Nations to the role of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine and the...
Switch ideas turn on WISE judges
Putting their ideas in place would flip the switch on a more environmentally friendly campus. A pair of independent pitches to transition Western’s campus from traditional light switches to motion sensors earned top honours at Western’s Ideas for Sustainability and...
Program inspires staffer’s push to ‘go beyond’
How do you promote gender equity and workplace equality in a tribal community in southeastern Africa, particularly when the view of women is so dissimilar from your own? That was the monumental task facing Michele Parkin earlier this year as she spent a month in a...
Spacious gift ‘stirs sources of creativity’
Cutting-edge technology. Areas for collaborating. Expanding creativity. This is the vision for the Cohen Exploration Lab and Cohen Commons, an exciting new...
A ruling on inclusion and accommodation
Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, delivered the 2016 Pensa Lecture March 31 in Western Law, Room 38. McLachlin spoke on Canadian Constitutionalism and the Ethic of Inclusion and Accommodation. McLachlin was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of...
Zimmerman solo exhibition opens
Six Pair of Pairs: Photos from 2011 to 2015, the debut photo exhibition of Walter Zimmerman, MLS’71, Librarian Emeritus, Western Libraries, runs through April 30 in the Spencer Gallery of The D.B. Weldon Library. Zimmerman has been taking photos seriously since 1964....
Comment sought on campus police
A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will arrive on April 24 to examine all aspects of Campus Community Police Services (CCPS) policy and procedures, management, operation and support services....
Western honours its Mustangs at annual gala
The 2015-16 Athletic Awards Gala celebrated the careers and accomplishments of the university’s top student-athletes on and off the field Tuesday night at the London Convention Centre.
University signs onto Paris Pledge
Western is joining a global community of universities, businesses, cities and other groups in signing the Paris Pledge for Action, committing to doing its part to limit the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius. The ambitious target was set at the...
Bringing ‘an important story’ to the page
The Survivor had a story. The Professor helped him find his voice. And now, the fruits of a years-long collaboration between the two will be released this month.
Survey: Campus ready to clear air
Western could go cold turkey when it comes to smoking on campus, with recent survey results showing a majority of the university’s students, staff and faculty in favour of ‘butting out’ when it comes to the much maligned tobacco habit. “What precipitated us to look at...
Letter: Why we’re voting ‘Yes’
This Friday, for the third time in three months, an amendment to the Policy on Evaluation of Academic Performance will come to university Senate; and we will be voting ‘Yes.’ For those unfamiliar, the proposed policy change will mandate that all undergraduate students...
Letter: Faculty members call for withdraw of UN appointment review
We undersigned Western faculty members are pleased to learn that one of our colleagues, the highly respected Western Law professor S. Michael Lynk, has recently been appointed by the United Nations to the role of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine and the...
Switch ideas turn on WISE judges
Putting their ideas in place would flip the switch on a more environmentally friendly campus. A pair of independent pitches to transition Western’s campus from traditional light switches to motion sensors earned top honours at Western’s Ideas for Sustainability and...
Program inspires staffer’s push to ‘go beyond’
How do you promote gender equity and workplace equality in a tribal community in southeastern Africa, particularly when the view of women is so dissimilar from your own? That was the monumental task facing Michele Parkin earlier this year as she spent a month in a...
Spacious gift ‘stirs sources of creativity’
Cutting-edge technology. Areas for collaborating. Expanding creativity. This is the vision for the Cohen Exploration Lab and Cohen Commons, an exciting new...
A ruling on inclusion and accommodation
Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, delivered the 2016 Pensa Lecture March 31 in Western Law, Room 38. McLachlin spoke on Canadian Constitutionalism and the Ethic of Inclusion and Accommodation. McLachlin was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of...
Zimmerman solo exhibition opens
Six Pair of Pairs: Photos from 2011 to 2015, the debut photo exhibition of Walter Zimmerman, MLS’71, Librarian Emeritus, Western Libraries, runs through April 30 in the Spencer Gallery of The D.B. Weldon Library. Zimmerman has been taking photos seriously since 1964....
Comment sought on campus police
A team of assessors from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will arrive on April 24 to examine all aspects of Campus Community Police Services (CCPS) policy and procedures, management, operation and support services....
Western honours its Mustangs at annual gala
The 2015-16 Athletic Awards Gala celebrated the careers and accomplishments of the university’s top student-athletes on and off the field Tuesday night at the London Convention Centre.
University signs onto Paris Pledge
Western is joining a global community of universities, businesses, cities and other groups in signing the Paris Pledge for Action, committing to doing its part to limit the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius. The ambitious target was set at the...