What if there was a place to ease anxiety over climate change, build knowledge and community and get healthier, all at the same time? Turns out, it already exists at Western: the community garden. New research led by two fourth-year health scie …
Campus & Community
He: Should you do an undergraduate internship?
Taking a year away from university studies is a big decision. Some see it as a refreshing reprieve from academia and an excellent opportunity to gain experience. Others argue it is an unnecessary delay from school and graduation. My sentiments once fell into the...
Sponsored employee finds home in United Way role
She has planted gardens, painted lines in parking lots and swept out horse barns – all in the name of helping United Way of London & Middlesex. Now, Grace Kelly is trying something new.
Winders: When informed silent, ill-informed get stage
It drove some people absolutely mad. Newspaper endorsements. Something about an editor (more precisely an editorial board) taking a stand in favour of a candidate set off some readers – usually those whose candidate was shunned. Never mind every other day the...
Study: Visible minorities missing from landscape
London falls short when it comes to visible minorities holding senior leadership positions in the non-profit and municipal public sectors, according to a new study led by Western researchers Stelian Medianu and Victoria Esses. The study was initiated by Pillar...
Alumna rides challenging ‘River’ in production
On paper, it was not her style. But that is exactly why Louise Pitre accepted the gig. “Joni Mitchell is the last thing I though I would be singing on stage. I know her famous songs, but I never owned any of her albums. I thought, ‘Oh my god. It’s just not my thing.’...
Centre furthers innovation mission of the city
From the tiniest medical devices to monstrous armoured vehicles, the launch of the Canadian Centre for Product Validation (CCPV) this past month is proof positive London is a hub for groundbreaking and innovative technology, said Ben Cecil, CCPV’s Chief Business...
Alb nominated as NACS President-Elect
Steve Alb, Director of Western Retail Services, has been nominated as the next President-elect/Secretary of the National Association of College Stores (NACS) Board. Alb, who joined The Book Store at Western as Director in 2001, has been an active volunteer in the...
Class offers a new outlook on the world
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started seven years ago. Western News asked three students...
Human figures begging you to take a ‘Stand’
Take a stroll by the McIntosh Gallery one of these days. Perhaps you’ve already walked by and wondered about the six sculptures standing – quite literally, akimbo – to its side. The six figures are part of an interactive outdoor sculpture installation, Last Stand. The...
UN focus on superbugs right on target for researcher
The problem is just getting worse. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, viruses and microbes are responsible for nearly 700,000 deaths each year. Staph infections. C. difficile outbreaks in hospitals. Tuberculosis. Malaria. Sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis...
ITS drawing attention to campus cyber-security
There is no simple way to detect or identify them. They cannot be seen or heard, leave no physical evidence behind and hide their tracks through a complex web of compromised computers. When it comes to computer hackers, Jeff Gardiner, Western’s Central Information...
Winders: Hard to pass up taking a shot at ignorance
I get it. We want to denounce ignorance in the strongest language possible. And this world offers plenty to denounce. Long before a photograph of four UWBros beneath a bedsheet reading ‘Western Lives Matter’ started making the rounds on social media, frustration was...