Many people do an MBA in pursuit of career opportunities, a stronger professional network, or personal development. For Mariya Tsybulnyk, it’s a gateway to a new life. Tsybulnyk has found a home in Ivey’s MBA program after an unsettling year of tempora …
New residence construction continues
Construction of Western’s new, 1,000-bed student residence is underway with Southside Construction working toward the building’s 2013 completion. Roughly 600 beds at the new residence on the southwest side of campus will be available to incoming students for September 2013.
A potential first and only preventative HIV vaccine, developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario, has received approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to start human clinical trials this month south of the border.
Marianne Larsen admits she gets ‘that feeling’ when she knows something is right. And it was ‘that feeling’ which stirred the emotions in the Faculty of Education professor to make a make a $1.06 million donation to Western Heads East.
Following through on a fall election promise, the provincial government starts rolling out a tuition grant this month for undergraduate students, meant to cover roughly 30 per cent of a student’s academic costs each year.
Mohammed Afana is putting The University of Western Ontario on the map. Literally.
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).
The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.
I’m wondering, did you check this story before you put it on your website (“Essex named to climate change post,” Dec. 8)?
Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.
I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).
It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.