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Bringing his energy to campus

Bringing his energy to campus

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 closed to vehicles Saturday

University Drive Bridge closed to vehicles Saturday

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...

LTC buses, Western shuttle fine-tune routes

LTC buses, Western shuttle fine-tune routes

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....

Choir uses music to bridge culture, memory

Choir uses music to bridge culture, memory

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...

Western Reads kicks off newest season

Western Reads kicks off newest season

Western Reads returns with four stories of Greek gods, death-row prisoners, teenage hostages and reflections on race in America. The book club series kicks off this spring with Canadian author and former Western Writer-In-Residence André Alexis’s Fifteen Dogs. The...

Campus celebrates Indigenous culture

Campus celebrates Indigenous culture

Western continues to host its second annual Indigenous Awareness Week, March 7-13, in celebration of local Indigenous culture, art and scholarship. Led by Western’s Indigenous Services, part of Western’s Student Experience portfolio, the weeklong event celebrates the...

University Drive Bridge work to begin this week

University Drive Bridge work to begin this week

University officials estimate necessary repairs to and testing of University Drive Bridge will be concluded in three weeks, ending a reconfiguration of three LTC routes as a result of weight restrictions imposed March 4.

Student batsman taking on the world’s best

Student batsman taking on the world’s best

Like many young Canadians growing up in the heart of sports-minded Toronto, Amish Taploo dreamed of playing for Team Canada. Only not the one that skates on ice. “It’s always hard explaining to people what cricket is, so I try not to get into it too much – unless you...

Rogan: Premature, irresponsible to make changes

Rogan: Premature, irresponsible to make changes

I am responding to the commentary by Professors Hill and Suarez, which centered on the implications of applying CRISPR/Cas9 technology to modify the human genome (“Looking for a curator of the human species,” Western News, Feb. 25). First of all, it needs to be...

Howey: Explore greenhouse treasures

Howey: Explore greenhouse treasures

On Friday, Feb. 19, two groups from the University of Western Ontario Staff Association (UWOSA) were given a tour of the Western Greenhouses by Vicky Lightfoot, Facilities Manager in the Biology Department. They were shown both the lower greenhouses, where all the...

Bringing his energy to campus

Bringing his energy to campus

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 closed to vehicles Saturday

University Drive Bridge closed to vehicles Saturday

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...

LTC buses, Western shuttle fine-tune routes

LTC buses, Western shuttle fine-tune routes

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....

Choir uses music to bridge culture, memory

Choir uses music to bridge culture, memory

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...

Western Reads kicks off newest season

Western Reads kicks off newest season

Western Reads returns with four stories of Greek gods, death-row prisoners, teenage hostages and reflections on race in America. The book club series kicks off this spring with Canadian author and former Western Writer-In-Residence André Alexis’s Fifteen Dogs. The...

Campus celebrates Indigenous culture

Campus celebrates Indigenous culture

Western continues to host its second annual Indigenous Awareness Week, March 7-13, in celebration of local Indigenous culture, art and scholarship. Led by Western’s Indigenous Services, part of Western’s Student Experience portfolio, the weeklong event celebrates the...

University Drive Bridge work to begin this week

University Drive Bridge work to begin this week

University officials estimate necessary repairs to and testing of University Drive Bridge will be concluded in three weeks, ending a reconfiguration of three LTC routes as a result of weight restrictions imposed March 4.

Student batsman taking on the world’s best

Student batsman taking on the world’s best

Like many young Canadians growing up in the heart of sports-minded Toronto, Amish Taploo dreamed of playing for Team Canada. Only not the one that skates on ice. “It’s always hard explaining to people what cricket is, so I try not to get into it too much – unless you...

Rogan: Premature, irresponsible to make changes

Rogan: Premature, irresponsible to make changes

I am responding to the commentary by Professors Hill and Suarez, which centered on the implications of applying CRISPR/Cas9 technology to modify the human genome (“Looking for a curator of the human species,” Western News, Feb. 25). First of all, it needs to be...

Howey: Explore greenhouse treasures

Howey: Explore greenhouse treasures

On Friday, Feb. 19, two groups from the University of Western Ontario Staff Association (UWOSA) were given a tour of the Western Greenhouses by Vicky Lightfoot, Facilities Manager in the Biology Department. They were shown both the lower greenhouses, where all the...