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Western welcomes its largest first-year class ever
Western rolls out the purple carpet this weekend for its largest, and among its most diverse, first-year classes in the school’s history. An incoming class of 5,314 full-time, first-year students arrives on Western’s campus this weekend. The majority of the students...
Turning the page for opportunity
The last year of classes was a busy one for Ivey Business School graduate Chris Janssen. In addition to the pressures and schedules of his academic and personal lives, Janssen sat on a committee that needed to come up with a new idea to raise money for the Terry Fox...
Product mixes innovation and perseverance
Bobby Besant is someone who likes to mix it up. The recent Ivey School of Business graduate may have received the cold shoulder from a professor during his fourth-year New Venture Business project, but his idea has since made its way to the shelves of your local LCBO...
Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive
Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...
Success is in the bag for Dental student
It’s all about the handbag for Sarah Shell. The third-year Dental student’s love for fashion has seen her designer handbags on the arms of such stars as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, among others. While her love for fashion and designing...
Student idea brings comforts of home to campus
Getting ready for your first year of university can be stressful. But a group of Western students are hoping to lessen that burden a bit with their entrepreneurial venture. Northern Rush creates all-in-one packages for postsecondary residence life – combining bedding,...
Giving the Max effort to his idea
Tim Brady’s big idea came after he noticed a gap in the market for endurance athletes like himself. The 22-year-old, going into his second year of the HBA program at Ivey Business School, played football for the Mustangs when he first came to Western and quickly clued...
Making sound connections toward success
More than a decade ago, Lueda Alia started forging friendships online, frequenting absolutepunk.net and engaging with its online community. Today, she’s turned her taste in music and the online community she found into a business all her own. Alia, a Western...
Offering up faster, deeper feedback
Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...
Western takes North American gaming title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdB_Re00efw It was an all-Canada affair as Western downed the University of Toronto, 4-2, in the Collegiate StarLeague (CSL) finals at the Major League Gaming (MLG) competition in Anaheim, Calif., last month. These CSL finals marked the...
Donohue wins national 3-Minute Thesis competition
Western Biochemical Engineering student Joseph Donohue has won the top prize at Canada’s National 3-Minute Thesis competition (3MT), a research communication competition where graduate students have three minutes or less to present their research and its impact to a...
Double-docs set new standards
They have chased dragons and pirate ships, become resilient from years of tough love and have grown as a result of the nurturing lab and clinical environments – Drs. Matthew Cecchini, Harry Marshall, Pencilla Lang and Shirine Usmani are the newest graduates of the...
Western welcomes its largest first-year class ever
Western rolls out the purple carpet this weekend for its largest, and among its most diverse, first-year classes in the school’s history. An incoming class of 5,314 full-time, first-year students arrives on Western’s campus this weekend. The majority of the students...
Turning the page for opportunity
The last year of classes was a busy one for Ivey Business School graduate Chris Janssen. In addition to the pressures and schedules of his academic and personal lives, Janssen sat on a committee that needed to come up with a new idea to raise money for the Terry Fox...
Product mixes innovation and perseverance
Bobby Besant is someone who likes to mix it up. The recent Ivey School of Business graduate may have received the cold shoulder from a professor during his fourth-year New Venture Business project, but his idea has since made its way to the shelves of your local LCBO...
Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive
Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...
Success is in the bag for Dental student
It’s all about the handbag for Sarah Shell. The third-year Dental student’s love for fashion has seen her designer handbags on the arms of such stars as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, among others. While her love for fashion and designing...
Student idea brings comforts of home to campus
Getting ready for your first year of university can be stressful. But a group of Western students are hoping to lessen that burden a bit with their entrepreneurial venture. Northern Rush creates all-in-one packages for postsecondary residence life – combining bedding,...
Giving the Max effort to his idea
Tim Brady’s big idea came after he noticed a gap in the market for endurance athletes like himself. The 22-year-old, going into his second year of the HBA program at Ivey Business School, played football for the Mustangs when he first came to Western and quickly clued...
Making sound connections toward success
More than a decade ago, Lueda Alia started forging friendships online, frequenting absolutepunk.net and engaging with its online community. Today, she’s turned her taste in music and the online community she found into a business all her own. Alia, a Western...
Offering up faster, deeper feedback
Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...
Western takes North American gaming title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdB_Re00efw It was an all-Canada affair as Western downed the University of Toronto, 4-2, in the Collegiate StarLeague (CSL) finals at the Major League Gaming (MLG) competition in Anaheim, Calif., last month. These CSL finals marked the...
Donohue wins national 3-Minute Thesis competition
Western Biochemical Engineering student Joseph Donohue has won the top prize at Canada’s National 3-Minute Thesis competition (3MT), a research communication competition where graduate students have three minutes or less to present their research and its impact to a...
Double-docs set new standards
They have chased dragons and pirate ships, become resilient from years of tough love and have grown as a result of the nurturing lab and clinical environments – Drs. Matthew Cecchini, Harry Marshall, Pencilla Lang and Shirine Usmani are the newest graduates of the...