Even though competitions on campus have been quiet this summer, that doesn’t mean our Mustangs student-athletes haven’t been busy over the last couple months. A number of Mustangs have been representing Canada at international championships and marquee …
Debra Hawthorne’s transcript reflects a postsecondary experience more than three decades in the making. And when she takes the final few steps of that journey at Convocation next week, the Western staffer will stand as a testament to passion and determination. “It was...
Maia Somers may have felt a bit out of her league. But the second-year Geography student held her own against her discipline’s elite at the recent Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Chicago. It’s an uncommon occurrence for undergraduates to present at the...
You already have the 90-inch big screen HDTV, complete with surround sound, to watch your favourite episode of Top Chef Canada. Now, if only you could smell the final results of the Elimination Challenge, your sensory entertainment experience would be complete. Or so...
At 17, he arrived as a stranger in a strange country with his entire life crammed into a single piece of luggage. He didn’t know a soul, speak the language and would not see his parents in his native Albania for five years. “I left a child and went home a grown man,”...
A fourth-year Psychology project for four King’s University College students made such waves in the community, it recently earned the 2015 Champion of Mental Health Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association. PEARS (Psychological Education, Awareness and...
Sofia Herrarte doesn’t want to leave. When she first came to London four years ago, she felt the city was small. Closed off. Less of a metropolis than expected. But when she came to campus, Herrarte’s opinion changed. “I was happy – it was bigger now and there was a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtIGkB9R32Y The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) wants to see an end to the ‘Bachelorette Degree.’ Or rather, the group wants to draw attention to the gender pay gap in Ontario affecting female university graduates. “It’s...
Michelle Hamilton was looking for a way to commemorate the centennial of the First World War. What she and her students found was an intimate portrait of a prominent local family. After sifting through and transcribing thousands of pages – from nearly 500 letters –...
Western Science student Tony Ma has been named one of 30 young Canadian leaders to represent Canada on a Junior Team Canada trade mission to the Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu from Aug. 1-15. The mission looks to create meaningful partnerships...
HONG KONG - Simon Cua challenged graduates to look beyond a black-and-white world and see a landscape that features a full spectrum of colours. "Ivey is very...
Due to campus road work, parts of Huron Drive and Philip Aziz Avenue will be closed through June 30. Convocation attendees are encouraged to enter University grounds by the Richmond Street Gates and proceed to the Medway Parking Lot (behind the Elgin Hall residence).
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Spring 2015 edition of Reflections, The Teaching Support Centre newsletter. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. When you think about the most important learning experiences of your life, where did they take...
Debra Hawthorne’s transcript reflects a postsecondary experience more than three decades in the making. And when she takes the final few steps of that journey at Convocation next week, the Western staffer will stand as a testament to passion and determination. “It was...
Maia Somers may have felt a bit out of her league. But the second-year Geography student held her own against her discipline’s elite at the recent Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Chicago. It’s an uncommon occurrence for undergraduates to present at the...
You already have the 90-inch big screen HDTV, complete with surround sound, to watch your favourite episode of Top Chef Canada. Now, if only you could smell the final results of the Elimination Challenge, your sensory entertainment experience would be complete. Or so...
At 17, he arrived as a stranger in a strange country with his entire life crammed into a single piece of luggage. He didn’t know a soul, speak the language and would not see his parents in his native Albania for five years. “I left a child and went home a grown man,”...
A fourth-year Psychology project for four King’s University College students made such waves in the community, it recently earned the 2015 Champion of Mental Health Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association. PEARS (Psychological Education, Awareness and...
Sofia Herrarte doesn’t want to leave. When she first came to London four years ago, she felt the city was small. Closed off. Less of a metropolis than expected. But when she came to campus, Herrarte’s opinion changed. “I was happy – it was bigger now and there was a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtIGkB9R32Y The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) wants to see an end to the ‘Bachelorette Degree.’ Or rather, the group wants to draw attention to the gender pay gap in Ontario affecting female university graduates. “It’s...
Michelle Hamilton was looking for a way to commemorate the centennial of the First World War. What she and her students found was an intimate portrait of a prominent local family. After sifting through and transcribing thousands of pages – from nearly 500 letters –...
Western Science student Tony Ma has been named one of 30 young Canadian leaders to represent Canada on a Junior Team Canada trade mission to the Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu from Aug. 1-15. The mission looks to create meaningful partnerships...
HONG KONG - Simon Cua challenged graduates to look beyond a black-and-white world and see a landscape that features a full spectrum of colours. "Ivey is very...
Due to campus road work, parts of Huron Drive and Philip Aziz Avenue will be closed through June 30. Convocation attendees are encouraged to enter University grounds by the Richmond Street Gates and proceed to the Medway Parking Lot (behind the Elgin Hall residence).
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Spring 2015 edition of Reflections, The Teaching Support Centre newsletter. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. When you think about the most important learning experiences of your life, where did they take...