Karen Bertrand has been appointed Western’s new Vice-President (University Advancement) effective Aug. 1. Reporting to the President and Vice-Chancellor, Bertrand will oversee the portfolio dedicated to engaging and building long-term relationships wi …
Even though it graced a stage only twice, a little-known 1970s operatic story of racial divide in the U.S. South had one more command performance left, thanks to Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Emily Ansari. Her article, 'Vindication, Cleansing, Catharsis,...
Trust me, these moments don’t come around often. I have covered 50-plus elections, hundreds of campaigns and maybe thousands of races, and what I saw transpire in London Monday night was among the strangest of the lot. Some pundits have called it a ‘generational...
Saher Fazilat wants you to walk the proverbial mile – in her heavy work boots. A civil engineer working hands-on in construction, she occupies the kind of post few women have seen. And she’ll be the first to tell you – her career, spanning more than a decade and a...
The results of Monday’s municipal election are good news on all fronts for London, according to Western Political Science professor Andrew Sancton, who specializes in municipal politics. They are also great for Western. While former councillor Matt Brown will switch...
Football player Yannick Harou and rugby player Breanne Nicholas have been named the Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week for the period ending on Oct. 26. Harou, a third-year King’s College student from Gatineau, Que., helped the Mustangs secure third place in the...
Canada needs today’s graduates, their ideas and their contributions, to protect the country’s cultural mosaic, Irving Abella, eminent historian and president of the Academy of the Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada, told graduates at the Thursday...
Let’s talk about futility. A seed of an idea, a nugget of suspected truth, in a researcher’s mind somehow manages to navigate the narrow birth canal of funding agencies, university priorities and general bureaucracies, only to necessitate hundreds upon hundreds of...
Western launched its 2014 campuswide fundraising campaign for United Way of London and Middlesex, dubbed Project 100%, with hopes of doubling the number of community members who take part in this year’s efforts. As part of the launch festivities Tuesday, Western...
Western President Amit Chakma stressed this coming year is about translating aspirations into actionable items during his annual presidential priorities address, presented last week to university Senate. “This year, my overarching priority is to ensure appropriate...
At first glance, it looks more like something you might rest your feet on rather than read. But at more than 3-inches thick, and a good 20-inches high and 12-inches wide, the Decretalium libri V. Gregorii Papae cum ordinaria glossa Berhardt is one of the gems of...
John Eberhard never wanted to leave. Even though Western once let him go. He grew up on Western’s campus, playing on the grounds as a boy. Although the son of a University of Toronto graduate, Eberhard, BA’66, LLB’69, said his father never pushed him to the...
The tapestry of London’s loosely knit creative communities is about to get tighter, thanks to Words, a new literary and creative arts festival. Set to take place this weekend in the Forest City, the festival aims to use the written and spoken word as a hub for...