A community engagement project by a group of Western graduate students has become, in the course of three years, an organic discovery of the human stories at the heart of a London, Ont. neighbourhood. In 2021, the Vision SoHo Alliance, a partnership a …
“Every morning I wake up feels like a punch in the stomach,” Olena Stiazhkina said during an interview on Oct. 15, 2015 in Kyiv. “I keep thinking, how can this be happening?" It was hard to believe the attractive, well-put-together woman sitting across from me had...
Western students bridged the gap between town and gown during an immersive experience outside of the University Gates in London’s arts and cultural community recently. The School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH) and the Public Humanities at...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
Concerns about environmental sustainability and fossil fuel insecurity have convinced many countries to transition to solar, hydro, bioenergy, wind and other renewables. Since producing and distributing renewables is more labour-intensive than producing and...
I read the article on the Canada Research Chair appointments in the recent alumni newsletter (“Six researchers named among nation’s elite,” Western News). I would like to congratulate the recipients on their success, but am compelled to express my concern over the...
Education professor Kathryn Hibbert recently travelled to Japan to work in collaboration with hospitals, governments and physician educators to ensure lessons learned at Fukushima find a way into future classrooms.
What started as a class assignment has turned into a call for a car-free campus to address what students describe as ‘a toxic mix’ of pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Federal Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Bob Hamilton spoke to students, staff and faculty earlier this week at the Physics and Astronomy Building. Hamilton, who received his Honours BA and Master’s degrees in Economics from Western, discussed how his department...
University Drive Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, March 19, for load testing. The sidewalk will remain open to pedestrians during this time. The bridge has been closed to larger-scale, articulated (60-foot) London Transit...
Starting Friday, London Transit Commission (LTC) buses will provide commuters in and around the university campus with more options to get to their destination. As a result of those changes, Western has also altered the route of its free temporary shuttle service....
Danxu Ma, a Music Education master’s student, has hit a high note in the London Chinese community as the founder of the London Chinese Intergenerational Choir. Ma came to Western from Beijing, China, in 2014 and experienced feelings of anxiety over the cultural...
When I first heard that Barbie was coming out with three new body types (petite, tall and curvy, in addition to the original doll’s proportions), I was torn.
“Every morning I wake up feels like a punch in the stomach,” Olena Stiazhkina said during an interview on Oct. 15, 2015 in Kyiv. “I keep thinking, how can this be happening?" It was hard to believe the attractive, well-put-together woman sitting across from me had...
Western students bridged the gap between town and gown during an immersive experience outside of the University Gates in London’s arts and cultural community recently. The School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH) and the Public Humanities at...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
Concerns about environmental sustainability and fossil fuel insecurity have convinced many countries to transition to solar, hydro, bioenergy, wind and other renewables. Since producing and distributing renewables is more labour-intensive than producing and...
I read the article on the Canada Research Chair appointments in the recent alumni newsletter (“Six researchers named among nation’s elite,” Western News). I would like to congratulate the recipients on their success, but am compelled to express my concern over the...
Education professor Kathryn Hibbert recently travelled to Japan to work in collaboration with hospitals, governments and physician educators to ensure lessons learned at Fukushima find a way into future classrooms.
What started as a class assignment has turned into a call for a car-free campus to address what students describe as ‘a toxic mix’ of pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Federal Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Bob Hamilton spoke to students, staff and faculty earlier this week at the Physics and Astronomy Building. Hamilton, who received his Honours BA and Master’s degrees in Economics from Western, discussed how his department...
University Drive Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic from 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, March 19, for load testing. The sidewalk will remain open to pedestrians during this time. The bridge has been closed to larger-scale, articulated (60-foot) London Transit...
Starting Friday, London Transit Commission (LTC) buses will provide commuters in and around the university campus with more options to get to their destination. As a result of those changes, Western has also altered the route of its free temporary shuttle service....
Danxu Ma, a Music Education master’s student, has hit a high note in the London Chinese community as the founder of the London Chinese Intergenerational Choir. Ma came to Western from Beijing, China, in 2014 and experienced feelings of anxiety over the cultural...
When I first heard that Barbie was coming out with three new body types (petite, tall and curvy, in addition to the original doll’s proportions), I was torn.