A new program at Western aims to support first-year Indigenous students transition to life on campus and foster their connection to Indigenous culture and language. The Alumni Mentorship and Language Revitalization Program will be led by the Offic …
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Butler wins Community Energy Challenge
Thomas Butler, fourth-year green process engineering, recently won the FortisBC Community Energy Challenge, a competition held in conjunction with the International Student Energy Summit (ISES) in Vancouver.
Exhibit a demonstration of art creation and distortion
Jason Hallows’ recent work, Demonstration, exploring the relationship between an object’s production and its display opens at the McIntosh Gallery Friday, July 15.
Singers learn from the masters in Italy
About a dozen singers and four pianists from the Don Wright Faculty of Music have joined Theodore Baerg and Irena Welhasch Baerg at La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy this summer.
MedQUEST provides valuable teaching experience for medical students
The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry provides first- and second-year medical students with a unique opportunity to experience living, learning, and working within rural and regional communities in Southwestern Ontario.
Graduate student wins film prize
Western graduate student Dave Kemp (Visual Arts) was given top honours at the recent Mississauga Celebrate the Square short film call for his video Watched.
Grad student named competition finalist
Western graduate student (MFA) Kim Neudorf has been announced as a semi-finalist by the Canadian Art Foundation in the 2011 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Funding beyond year four?
Saad Anis faces a philosophical problem he may not be able to argue his way out of.
White asks grads to ‘share knowledge’
The secret to Mary Anne White’s success stems back to the friendships she forged and the lessons she learned 40 years ago when she started her academic career at The University of Western Ontario.
Newman calls on grads to seize ‘greatness’
Under the caps and gowns of today’s graduates stand the leaders of the most consequential generation in more than a century, says broadcast journalist Kevin Newman.
Doctors-to-be take the pulse of rural medicine
It is easy to be seduced by the glamour and resources of a metropolitan hospital or medical centre, but a rural community offers doctors a different kind of pace and practice.
Research uncovers the different sides of the ‘hood
When Chris Richardson completed his undergraduate degree in journalism, he had two choices: Beat them or join them?
Top grad students earn gold medals
Ken Valyear, who completed his PhD in Neuroscience in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Chris Bundock, who completed his PhD in the Department of English, were selected as the two Governor General’s Gold Medal recipients as graduate students with the highest academic standing.