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Ivey students help transform business education in Africa

Ivey students help transform business education in Africa

Launched in 2012 through the Ubuntu Management Education Initiative, Ivey Business School’s Africa Service Learning (ASL) study trip is an elective course that sends HBA students to schools throughout Africa to demonstrate case teaching and develop n …

New role to strengthen technology, teaching

New role to strengthen technology, teaching

Technology has always played a prominent role in Gavan Watson’s world. He remembers his first laptop in 1996, and being immediately drawn to what he could accomplish with the tool. As a PhD student at York University, he created an online learning management tool for...

Student channels ‘healed pain’ into hope for others

Student channels ‘healed pain’ into hope for others

Molly Schoo suffered in silence for almost a decade, only discussing her personal pain with her parents, siblings, medical professionals and a handful of teachers. Even her closest friends barely knew she was battling an eating disorder and depression, despite...

Libraries find million ways to educate the world

Libraries find million ways to educate the world

Western Libraries hit a big milestone at the beginning of the New Year, with the one-millionth download from the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) hub of the Scholarship@Western repository. The ETD was designed to provide a free, open-access way for people...

Student services rolled under one website

Student services rolled under one website

In response to the request from students for easier access to services, all student services are now available by accessing one website, the Office of the Registrar announced. As of today, the services previously accessed from the Student Services website,...

Students ‘get cooking’ in residence culinary competition

Students ‘get cooking’ in residence culinary competition

Sponsored by Hospitality Services, the first annual CHOPT Western-Student Culinary Competition invites students with a passion for food to prove who is tops in the Mustang kitchen. Starting this week, each residence will host its own competition with three students...

Western Job Fair opens doors to students

Western Job Fair opens doors to students

Hosted by the Student Success Centre, Western students are invited to attended Western’s annual Job Fair from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, in the Western Student Recreation Centre, 4th floor gym. Nearly 60 organizations and more than 1,500 students are expected...

Western teams advance in Hult Prize competition

Western teams advance in Hult Prize competition

Two teams of Western students have advanced to the regional finals of the sixth annual Hult Prize Challenge, putting the eight students in line for the competition’s $1-million prize, the organization announced today. Sponsored by the Hult Prize Foundation, the...

Western empowers student to let star power shine

Western empowers student to let star power shine

When Mina Gerges was a kid living in Abu Dhabi, he would sneak into his mom’s closet to try on her shoes and dresses. At the time, it was something he hid from everyone. “I felt different, and I was worried – terrified – other kids would find out and make fun of me,”...

Indigenous social network eyes economic opportunity

Indigenous social network eyes economic opportunity

Shyra Barberstock has created a social network that is all business. Barberstock, a fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student, and her husband, Rye Barberstock, recently launched the Okwaho Network, a social-networking site dedicated...

Physical Geography Lab to aid student research

Physical Geography Lab to aid student research

Whether viewing organisms through microscopes, or sifting through sediment at the bottom of the Thames River, Western Geography students now have a new space outfitted with the latest tools to get the answers they need. On Friday, the Department of Geography unveiled...

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...

Website opens dialogue on outsider experience

Website opens dialogue on outsider experience

You might spot Gloria Zhu on campus one of these days. The Media and Public Interest student might ask you, ‘Have you ever felt like a fish out of water?’ She hopes you’ll say yes.

New role to strengthen technology, teaching

New role to strengthen technology, teaching

Technology has always played a prominent role in Gavan Watson’s world. He remembers his first laptop in 1996, and being immediately drawn to what he could accomplish with the tool. As a PhD student at York University, he created an online learning management tool for...

Student channels ‘healed pain’ into hope for others

Student channels ‘healed pain’ into hope for others

Molly Schoo suffered in silence for almost a decade, only discussing her personal pain with her parents, siblings, medical professionals and a handful of teachers. Even her closest friends barely knew she was battling an eating disorder and depression, despite...

Libraries find million ways to educate the world

Libraries find million ways to educate the world

Western Libraries hit a big milestone at the beginning of the New Year, with the one-millionth download from the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) hub of the Scholarship@Western repository. The ETD was designed to provide a free, open-access way for people...

Student services rolled under one website

Student services rolled under one website

In response to the request from students for easier access to services, all student services are now available by accessing one website, the Office of the Registrar announced. As of today, the services previously accessed from the Student Services website,...

Students ‘get cooking’ in residence culinary competition

Students ‘get cooking’ in residence culinary competition

Sponsored by Hospitality Services, the first annual CHOPT Western-Student Culinary Competition invites students with a passion for food to prove who is tops in the Mustang kitchen. Starting this week, each residence will host its own competition with three students...

Western Job Fair opens doors to students

Western Job Fair opens doors to students

Hosted by the Student Success Centre, Western students are invited to attended Western’s annual Job Fair from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, in the Western Student Recreation Centre, 4th floor gym. Nearly 60 organizations and more than 1,500 students are expected...

Western teams advance in Hult Prize competition

Western teams advance in Hult Prize competition

Two teams of Western students have advanced to the regional finals of the sixth annual Hult Prize Challenge, putting the eight students in line for the competition’s $1-million prize, the organization announced today. Sponsored by the Hult Prize Foundation, the...

Western empowers student to let star power shine

Western empowers student to let star power shine

When Mina Gerges was a kid living in Abu Dhabi, he would sneak into his mom’s closet to try on her shoes and dresses. At the time, it was something he hid from everyone. “I felt different, and I was worried – terrified – other kids would find out and make fun of me,”...

Indigenous social network eyes economic opportunity

Indigenous social network eyes economic opportunity

Shyra Barberstock has created a social network that is all business. Barberstock, a fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student, and her husband, Rye Barberstock, recently launched the Okwaho Network, a social-networking site dedicated...

Physical Geography Lab to aid student research

Physical Geography Lab to aid student research

Whether viewing organisms through microscopes, or sifting through sediment at the bottom of the Thames River, Western Geography students now have a new space outfitted with the latest tools to get the answers they need. On Friday, the Department of Geography unveiled...

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving

You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...

Website opens dialogue on outsider experience

Website opens dialogue on outsider experience

You might spot Gloria Zhu on campus one of these days. The Media and Public Interest student might ask you, ‘Have you ever felt like a fish out of water?’ She hopes you’ll say yes.