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Study finds keys to music in exercise

Study finds keys to music in exercise

Music can be that key to getting people moving – and selecting the proper style of music for people to move to can lead to a more beneficial and fulfilling workout, according to a recent Western study.

Purple dye banned because of cancer risk

Purple dye banned because of cancer risk

Engineering students will still be purple and proud during O-Week – but their celebrations won’t include a popular body dye after Western recently banned the use of the product linked to cancer by Health Canada.

Famed French author finds new life online

Famed French author finds new life online

Geneviève de Viveiros never expected 21st-Century tools to lend such important insights into a 19th-Century mind. Then again, who knew a popular video website that gave the world Justin Bieber, Gangnam Style and Grumpy Cat could also augment our understanding into French novelist Émile Zola?

New surface keeps athletes on track

New surface keeps athletes on track

It still has that new track smell. More than 20 years since its last rehab, the well-worn track surface in the Thompson Recreation and Athletic Centre has a fresh – and purple – new look.

Alumna trumpets women’s health and rights

Alumna trumpets women’s health and rights

Stefania Wisofschi, newly selected for the Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s International Youth Fellowship Program, remembers that pivotal experience that illuminated her future career path.

Grad student explores roots on and off the ice

Grad student explores roots on and off the ice

Kalley Armstrong might justifiably boast about her pedigree – be it about her stellar hockey career with one of North America’s top college teams or as granddaughter of a Hockey Hall of Fame player. But even if hockey is in her DNA, boasting is not.

Education Library circles into Indigenous centre

One of the most remarkable spaces on campus will take on new importance as Western creates a new Indigenous learning and gathering space, as outlined in its Indigenous Strategic Plan.

Student doc highlights Indigenous soldier’s legacy

Student doc highlights Indigenous soldier’s legacy

His name is only one line on the large University College plaque honouring soldiers from Middlesex County who died in the First World War. Bottom right. In the middle. Below the label, reading ‘Indian Reserves.’ Logan, Arnold, Pte.

Western mourns loss of Medical student

Western mourns loss of Medical student

The Western community is mourning the death of Feng (David) Xu, 26, a Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry student, who died Monday, June 24, in Toronto, after a battle with cance.

Show highlights plastic waste among ‘Fossils’

Show highlights plastic waste among ‘Fossils’

Future Fossils was a series of events and projects in London, Toronto and New York, including exhibitions, a workshop, and a graduate summer school, that brought together a group of people working on museums, contemporary art, the Anthropocene, and climate change.