The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry has a long association with Canada’s military forces dating back more than 100 years, a relationship that includes training new generations of medical doctors, patient care for those wounded or injured by s …
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Campus smoking changes further clear the air
Western community members will be able to breathe a bit easier thanks to a recent expansion of the university’s smoke-free zones. However, don’t look for a totally smoke-free campus any time soon. This week, Western expanded its smoke-free zones, known as Clear Air...
Wang named among UA Global Winners
Bachelor of Medical Sciences student Mary Wang was named one of 25 Global Winners in the Undergraduate Awards (UA) annual competition, program officials announced today. She earned a Gold Medal for her paper, Does developmental social pragmatic intervention for...
Helping kids turn page on mental-health challenges
For Kristin Legault-Donkers, a Psychology student at King’s University College, it will be worth it if just one child reads and relates to Zack and Zoey.
Project lends hand to saving a voice
For Tania Granadillo, the silencing of one language is like losing a part of humanity’s heritage. Hence why this summer, the Anthropology professor and students in her Language Revitalization in Practice course are joining the effort to save one.
Undergraduate Awards names shortlist
On Monday, The Undergraduate Awards (UA) recognized 33 papers by 29 Western students as Highly Commended Entrants. The students were selected from an entrant pool of more than 5,000 submissions from undergraduates studying at more than 250 universities across 39...
Students take to streets for Ivey Impact Day
Annual Ivey Impact Day offers a number of opportunities for students to directly impact their local community in a positive way.
Student’s research pauses to listen to region
As a teenager, Michael Iannozzi was warned away from being a poet. “That’s a hard route to take I was told. So I went around it a different way,” said the Linguistics masters student.
McBean off to National Music Festival
Violist Katie McBean is heading to Edmonton next month to compete at the National Music Festival, hosted annually by the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals (FCMF). McBean, a fourth-year BMus (Music Education) student in Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Sharon...
Schulich Leader Scholarships awarded to future Western students
This fall, four high-achieving students will begin their undergraduate degrees at Western as recipients of the Schulich Leader Scholarships, a prestigious award given to 50 select students pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) at...
‘Junk’ discovery unlocks future possibilities
Amelia Carver now checks her email’s junk folder regularly as that is where the Cawthra Park Secondary School student found out she was a Schulich Leader and the recipient of an $80,000 scholarship to attend Western Engineering this fall.
Award to stoke imagination of young research mind
Sandra Sabongui loves the elegance of biology and chemistry. And now, after earning a $60,000 Schulich Leader Scholarship, the Grade 12 Toronto Montessori School (TMS) student will study the disciplines she says have the “potential to improve the lives of billions and...
Scholarship reveals options she did not know existed
Linda Guo cannot wait to get back to the classroom after the last three months of her high school career were interrupted by the Alberta wildfires.
Campus smoking changes further clear the air
Western community members will be able to breathe a bit easier thanks to a recent expansion of the university’s smoke-free zones. However, don’t look for a totally smoke-free campus any time soon. This week, Western expanded its smoke-free zones, known as Clear Air...
Wang named among UA Global Winners
Bachelor of Medical Sciences student Mary Wang was named one of 25 Global Winners in the Undergraduate Awards (UA) annual competition, program officials announced today. She earned a Gold Medal for her paper, Does developmental social pragmatic intervention for...
Helping kids turn page on mental-health challenges
For Kristin Legault-Donkers, a Psychology student at King’s University College, it will be worth it if just one child reads and relates to Zack and Zoey.
Project lends hand to saving a voice
For Tania Granadillo, the silencing of one language is like losing a part of humanity’s heritage. Hence why this summer, the Anthropology professor and students in her Language Revitalization in Practice course are joining the effort to save one.
Undergraduate Awards names shortlist
On Monday, The Undergraduate Awards (UA) recognized 33 papers by 29 Western students as Highly Commended Entrants. The students were selected from an entrant pool of more than 5,000 submissions from undergraduates studying at more than 250 universities across 39...
Students take to streets for Ivey Impact Day
Annual Ivey Impact Day offers a number of opportunities for students to directly impact their local community in a positive way.
Student’s research pauses to listen to region
As a teenager, Michael Iannozzi was warned away from being a poet. “That’s a hard route to take I was told. So I went around it a different way,” said the Linguistics masters student.
McBean off to National Music Festival
Violist Katie McBean is heading to Edmonton next month to compete at the National Music Festival, hosted annually by the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals (FCMF). McBean, a fourth-year BMus (Music Education) student in Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Sharon...
Schulich Leader Scholarships awarded to future Western students
This fall, four high-achieving students will begin their undergraduate degrees at Western as recipients of the Schulich Leader Scholarships, a prestigious award given to 50 select students pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) at...
‘Junk’ discovery unlocks future possibilities
Amelia Carver now checks her email’s junk folder regularly as that is where the Cawthra Park Secondary School student found out she was a Schulich Leader and the recipient of an $80,000 scholarship to attend Western Engineering this fall.
Award to stoke imagination of young research mind
Sandra Sabongui loves the elegance of biology and chemistry. And now, after earning a $60,000 Schulich Leader Scholarship, the Grade 12 Toronto Montessori School (TMS) student will study the disciplines she says have the “potential to improve the lives of billions and...
Scholarship reveals options she did not know existed
Linda Guo cannot wait to get back to the classroom after the last three months of her high school career were interrupted by the Alberta wildfires.