Netri Kalra looks out her office window over the raw beauty of Great Slave Lake in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories – approximately 400 kilometres from the Arctic Circle. Netri Kalra in her office in Gr …
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Balm drops a bomb on hockey hands
The wrinkling of his friends’ noses sparked the idea for Dan Black. After a hockey game about a year ago, he was “hanging out with a few buddies” when they asked him, ‘What’s that smell?’ It was his hands.
Governor General taps trio for top PhD honours
His colleagues at Western call him a “true Renaissance man,” but bring this up in conversation, and Pierangelo Gobbo will try to politely laugh it off. He’s a talented artist. A musician. A highly ranked judoka. But Gobbo is also an accomplished academic, most...
Student turns personal challenge into global advocacy
As a 15-year-old new to Canada, Gunjan Mhapankar frequently faced those “why am I here” moments. It was not that her new home in Vancouver was foreign to her. She simply missed the social support of her former home. However, instead of surrendering to that feeling,...
Class offers a new outlook on the world
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started seven years ago. Western News asked three students...
Vanier scholar eyes work, motherhood and disability
Melanie Stone wants you to see through the eyes of disabled working mothers – women navigating employment on top of the challenges that stem from being differently abled. “There are real barriers, and they’re put in place, sometimes through well-meaning policy,” said...
Fairmount backs Wellness Centre with gift
Western students now have a safe, central and supportive space to access health-and-wellness resources thanks to a $1-million donation from the...
‘Brain for science’ makes ‘History’
Stephen Ingram may have taken piano lessons since he was 5 years old, but he was never really “into music” until high school. Even still, the fourth-year Music student contemplated switching to Science in his second year at university, perhaps a nod to his parents,...
Officer-turned-researcher explores police culture
It’s not enough to diversify police forces, stresses one Western researcher. The culture within the forces themselves must change if working conditions are to improve for officers – particularly for women and visible minority officers. “I’m not anti-police; I’m...
Making plans to mark the occasion
You’re going to see a lot of red and white mixed in with purple next year as the university prepares to help Canada celebrate its sesquicentennial.
Walk preserves memory of student
A few hundred students, staff and faculty, led by the Health Studies Students’ Association, took part in a memorial walk last week to remember Western student Andrea Christidis, a first-year Health Studies student killed last year on campus by a drunk driver. The...
Western issues statement on racist signage in community
Western University has been made aware of a number of images, symbols and slogans that were shared by Western community members through social media over the past weekend.
Fairmount backs Wellness Centre with $1-million gift
Western students now have a central, safe, supportive environment to access even more health and wellness resources thanks to a $1-million donation from the Fairmount Foundation.