September 24, 2009

Thousands of Western students will have the opportunity to develop
leadership skills and make a difference in the London and wider
communities thanks to a $2-million donation from the RBC
Foundation.

A $2-million donation from the RBC Foundation could provide
thousands of students a year with a chance to experience enhanced
learning while responding to community needs through service.

New Western students from around the world are asking all kinds of
questions about life on campus.

All 147 first-year medical students from the Schulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry fanned out across southwestern Ontario
this week to experience first-hand all that rural and regional
medicine has to offer.

Starting Monday, 147 first-year medical students from the Schulich
School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western
Ontario will fan out across southwestern Ontario to experience
first-hand all that rural/regional medicine has to offer.

Dr. Sugantha Ganapathy from Department of Anesthesia &
Perioperative Medicine, and long-time Schulich School of Medicine
& Dentistry volunteers and supporters Joan Francolini and Jean
Wright have been honoured with 2009 Women of Excellence Awards by
The YMCA of Western Ontario.

While women's shelters play a vital role in our communities, there is little detailed evidence about how their interventions and services affect the women and children who use them.   An Ontario Research Development Committee, which includes Western staff and faculty,...

Scratch tickets are not just for the lottery, they could play a
part in the future of university testing.

MedOutreach is holding a raffle to support its annual mission to
help improve access to primary health care and prevention
initiatives in Tanzania.

Students, remember the rush of adrenaline as you took part in your
very first university lecture at Western? Relive those feelings as
you take part in one of your last.

King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario
dedicated its new Broughdale Hall today – formerly the Hebrew Day
School – in an interfaith celebration that included London’s Jewish
community, staff and students of the London Community Hebrew Day
School and representatives of the Centre for Catholic-Jewish
Learning at King’s.

Chemistry, French Studies, Biology, English and Women’s
Studies and Feminist are diverse disciplines with at least one
thing in common – faculty have been lauded for their teaching
brilliance with excellence in teaching awards.

The University of Western Ontario Alumni Association is launching a
new initiative to celebrate the historic roots of the university.

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities took on new leadership last fall
when former University of Guelph professor Donna Pennee became
dean. Pennee, a first-generation university graduate, started her
academic career in the sciences, but quickly found the degree
requirements in the arts challenged her in a new and exciting way.

When some Western graduate students in the clinical psychology
program were looking for ways to spread the word of psychological
issues to the London community, acknowledgement for their plan from
the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) was not a part of their
motivation.

The next book club event in the London Reads series continues
tonight (Jan. 14) with University of Western Ontario President Paul
Davenport and London Public Library Community Outreach &
Program Services co-ordinator Delilah Deane Cummings.