Jack Borins, an HBA/Law ’25 candidate, is used to getting questioning looks when he mentions he did a summer internship with a little-known tech startup in Israel. But he wouldn’t have it any other way. “I think it’s important to get outside of …
Student Life
SGPS crosses over The Wire
The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies recently launched a new blog called The Wire to replaces a previous e-newsletter to better serve 5,000-plus grad students, postdocs, faculty and staff with a more nimble and functional medium.
Textbooks for Change continues push to fill library shelves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClZcG5KOnbw Textbooks for Change, a not-for-profit co-founded by Ivey Business School grad Chris Janssen, recently launched a One Million Textbooks to Africa campaign on Indiegogo, in order to fund a trip to Ethiopia and Kenya to...
Listen up! Program offers sound advice to kids on hearing
In an effort to educate local children about the importance of protecting their hearing, Clinical Audiology masters student Steven Jones visited the Grade 4 class at St. John Catholic French Immersion School on Monday. Sound Sense is a free program designed and...
Gazette to end daily run, embrace its digital destiny
Canada’s only daily student newspaper – The Gazette – is soon to be a daily no more. Come September, after 24 years of Tuesday-Friday daily print publication, the 109-year-old publication will shift to printing two issues each week. But this doesn’t mean The Gazette...
Engineering students to benefit from Siemens grant
Western Engineering students will now use the same technology in their classrooms that businesses around the world employ to design some of today’s most sophisticated products thanks to an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software. The new academic partnership...
ITS prepares for Office 365 rollout for undergrads
Moving day will come early this semester for thousands of Western undergraduates – only there’s no need to pack up their personal belongings. This weekend, Western begins the process of moving undergraduate students from the current university email system to...
Student-run law journal tackles controversial issues
The Western Journal of Legal Studies recently released a pair of special issues spotlighting two of the hottest topics in law today – workers’ rights and state encroachment into personal lives. “I’m proud of our authors and editors for putting together two honest,...
Four named among elite future entrepreneurs
From a direct lending platform to connecting businesses to retirees, four Western students are part of a group of just 38 students from across Canada chosen to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level.
Grad student brings words to life for others
Growing up, Harpreet Singh Chahal supported his parents, who emigrated from India, when they faced the challenges and barriers of reading, writing and speaking English. Today, he has turned his efforts toward younger learners in the community. A current Epidemiology...
Campus community eyes its future via Master Plan
Your opportunity to shape the future of this campus has arrived. Western’s Campus Master Planning Committee is seeking your input on the university’s draft Campus Master Plan 2015.
Enlightened Education
Risks in capturing the real stories of conflict
When he worked for the Associated Press (AP), as a journalist at the outlet’s New Delhi bureau in India, Saumava Mitra got a call for a story – there was a riot underway. Riots in India generally mean one thing, explained the Media Studies PhD student at Western. It’s...
SGPS crosses over The Wire
The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies recently launched a new blog called The Wire to replaces a previous e-newsletter to better serve 5,000-plus grad students, postdocs, faculty and staff with a more nimble and functional medium.
Textbooks for Change continues push to fill library shelves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClZcG5KOnbw Textbooks for Change, a not-for-profit co-founded by Ivey Business School grad Chris Janssen, recently launched a One Million Textbooks to Africa campaign on Indiegogo, in order to fund a trip to Ethiopia and Kenya to...
Listen up! Program offers sound advice to kids on hearing
In an effort to educate local children about the importance of protecting their hearing, Clinical Audiology masters student Steven Jones visited the Grade 4 class at St. John Catholic French Immersion School on Monday. Sound Sense is a free program designed and...
Gazette to end daily run, embrace its digital destiny
Canada’s only daily student newspaper – The Gazette – is soon to be a daily no more. Come September, after 24 years of Tuesday-Friday daily print publication, the 109-year-old publication will shift to printing two issues each week. But this doesn’t mean The Gazette...
Engineering students to benefit from Siemens grant
Western Engineering students will now use the same technology in their classrooms that businesses around the world employ to design some of today’s most sophisticated products thanks to an in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software. The new academic partnership...
ITS prepares for Office 365 rollout for undergrads
Moving day will come early this semester for thousands of Western undergraduates – only there’s no need to pack up their personal belongings. This weekend, Western begins the process of moving undergraduate students from the current university email system to...
Student-run law journal tackles controversial issues
The Western Journal of Legal Studies recently released a pair of special issues spotlighting two of the hottest topics in law today – workers’ rights and state encroachment into personal lives. “I’m proud of our authors and editors for putting together two honest,...
Four named among elite future entrepreneurs
From a direct lending platform to connecting businesses to retirees, four Western students are part of a group of just 38 students from across Canada chosen to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level.
Grad student brings words to life for others
Growing up, Harpreet Singh Chahal supported his parents, who emigrated from India, when they faced the challenges and barriers of reading, writing and speaking English. Today, he has turned his efforts toward younger learners in the community. A current Epidemiology...
Campus community eyes its future via Master Plan
Your opportunity to shape the future of this campus has arrived. Western’s Campus Master Planning Committee is seeking your input on the university’s draft Campus Master Plan 2015.
Enlightened Education
Risks in capturing the real stories of conflict
When he worked for the Associated Press (AP), as a journalist at the outlet’s New Delhi bureau in India, Saumava Mitra got a call for a story – there was a riot underway. Riots in India generally mean one thing, explained the Media Studies PhD student at Western. It’s...