At the back of Ingersoll Rural Cemetery sits a grassy field about the size of a soccer pitch. On first glance, it is unremarkable; dappled in sunlight through the towering adjacent trees and filled with the sound of a train hammering by on the nearby track …
Today’s graduates are fortunate to live in Canada where opportunity is endless, where they can, and must, reach for higher mountains every day.
Following an investigation by Campus Community Police Service, Western found no breach of the Student Code of Conduct occurred regarding the four students photographed beneath a banner reading ‘Western Lives Matter’ in a widely circulated photograph from Reunion...
One of the leading voices in approaching homelessness as a solvable problem in London, and increasingly in Canada, Abe Oudshoorn has been named the 2016 Western Humanitarian Award winner.
Since graduate school, Eva Turley has been interested in how and why cells move in our bodies. This curiosity led to her discovering, characterizing and cloning RHAMM, a protein that regulates cell movement and stem cell differentiation, during the early 1980s. Fast...
Joshua Lambier wants you to see for yourself that words – whether spoken, written or performed with music – are not exclusive to those who write them.
The day Ann Bigelow felt the discrepancy was the day she got involved with The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA). “I worked as an accountant for many years before coming to Western. Here, I work with a group of accountants and we teach (in the...
If you’ve already visited the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, chances are you walked through its Indigenous village reconstruction in northwest London. You’ve probably seen the reconstructed longhouse, too. But you haven’t seen it like this. Visit the museum now and...
Reunion and Homecoming weekends avoided any major incidents, with the exception of large-crowd issues associated to the Broughdale Avenue area for Reunion Weekend, according to a report issued by London Police Service Wednesday. “We want to take this opportunity to...
When Julaine Hall took over the Research Development Consultant (Awards & Distinctions) position three years ago, she was jokingly told if she got one Royal Society of Canada Fellowship award, she could keep her job. She helped nab six. “No one was nominating each...
I recently had Thanksgiving dinner with some of my extended family. A range of generations was represented at the table. My boyfriend and I were the youngest in attendance, as we’re both in our twenties. My cousin and his wife are in their late-thirties and my aunt...
Someone had to say something at some point, right? Senate has been in an odd place since the events of last year. It is working through its transparency issues – still somewhat clumsily, not yet in lockstep. And that is OK. It is never easy to see the bureaucratic...
In the final few days of October 1916, Dr. Edwin Seaborn spent a day in London, shopping with friends and running into acquaintances. He attended a dinner party with colleagues. He also studied the medical equipment at a nearby hospital. The week, however, was an...