This summer, student interns at Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) had the opportunity to gain a variety of experiences in studying and analyzing tornadoes from across the country. NTP hired 10 interns this summer, including two high school …
Western students are being asked to answer the challenge yet again. Sponsored by Western International, the second annual World’s Challenge Challenge brings together teams of three students to choose a problem that the world is facing, and present and innovative...
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 five years ago. Western News asked three students...
Hard to believe Amilya Ladak is just getting started. Already known as a tireless volunteer and community activist in her hometown of North Vancouver, B.C., the 18-year-old first-year Western student takes her initial steps onto the national stage today when she is...
Tired of buying scratch lottery tickets, only to come up empty handed? Chris Lange is confident his latest app will give you the “best bang for your buck” next time you get lotto fever. The fourth-year Engineering student sees no need to waste money on lottery scratch...
When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...
At 4 years of age, Steven Slowka dictated his first story to his mom, but his attempts to write stories and books ever since have floundered. “They never came full circle,” said Slowka, this year’s Student Writer in Residence, of his recent writing efforts. Then, he...
Hey, students, you might want to listen up. Created by students, for students, Your London Calling is here to help you settle into a comfortable, informed and involved postsecondary experience in the Forest City. The website and its contents represent a partnership...
A program initially designed to aid first-year Health Sciences students may ease stress levels for students across all faculties as the program makes its campuswide debut this fall. Western 1010 is a universitywide pilot program designed to give all first-year...
“It is hard to pass over your children, to trust that someone else will take care of them the way you would,” one mother in the campus community wrote in a thank-you note to staff at Western’s YMCA Child Care. “I trust the care my daughters are getting. I know they’re...
Coming to a theatre near you: A new, brighter screen, better sightlines, plans to show events such as the Super Bowl and the Oscars and more alternative films. They’re all part of the $52,500 renovation and marketing plan for Western Film, which shows mostly...
While some details have yet to be hammered out, one thing’s for sure – the entrepreneurial climate on Western’s campus is going to look a lot different going forward. With new funding from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, the university has revamped and, this...
The kids at Camp Kintail in Goderich simply know him by his nickname Aragorn, the fictional Ranger from the North in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings triology. But at Western this fall, Ben Congram entered the Faculty of Engineering under a different title –...
Western students are being asked to answer the challenge yet again. Sponsored by Western International, the second annual World’s Challenge Challenge brings together teams of three students to choose a problem that the world is facing, and present and innovative...
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 five years ago. Western News asked three students...
Hard to believe Amilya Ladak is just getting started. Already known as a tireless volunteer and community activist in her hometown of North Vancouver, B.C., the 18-year-old first-year Western student takes her initial steps onto the national stage today when she is...
Tired of buying scratch lottery tickets, only to come up empty handed? Chris Lange is confident his latest app will give you the “best bang for your buck” next time you get lotto fever. The fourth-year Engineering student sees no need to waste money on lottery scratch...
When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...
At 4 years of age, Steven Slowka dictated his first story to his mom, but his attempts to write stories and books ever since have floundered. “They never came full circle,” said Slowka, this year’s Student Writer in Residence, of his recent writing efforts. Then, he...
Hey, students, you might want to listen up. Created by students, for students, Your London Calling is here to help you settle into a comfortable, informed and involved postsecondary experience in the Forest City. The website and its contents represent a partnership...
A program initially designed to aid first-year Health Sciences students may ease stress levels for students across all faculties as the program makes its campuswide debut this fall. Western 1010 is a universitywide pilot program designed to give all first-year...
“It is hard to pass over your children, to trust that someone else will take care of them the way you would,” one mother in the campus community wrote in a thank-you note to staff at Western’s YMCA Child Care. “I trust the care my daughters are getting. I know they’re...
Coming to a theatre near you: A new, brighter screen, better sightlines, plans to show events such as the Super Bowl and the Oscars and more alternative films. They’re all part of the $52,500 renovation and marketing plan for Western Film, which shows mostly...
While some details have yet to be hammered out, one thing’s for sure – the entrepreneurial climate on Western’s campus is going to look a lot different going forward. With new funding from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, the university has revamped and, this...
The kids at Camp Kintail in Goderich simply know him by his nickname Aragorn, the fictional Ranger from the North in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings triology. But at Western this fall, Ben Congram entered the Faculty of Engineering under a different title –...