For someone who’s swung a badminton racket since she was nine years old, stepping off the ultra-competitive sports circuit to focus on academic studies is a difficult prospect. But Jacqueline Cheung didn’t want to sacrifice her learning. So …
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Western welcomes over 5,100 new students
The University of Western Ontario welcomes more than 5,100 new students to campus this weekend as the province prepares itself for the largest cohort of students ever to arrive at Ontario’s 21 universities for the first day of classes.
COU site targets first-year students
The Council of Ontario Universities has launched a new website to provide first-year students with resources to help them navigate university.
Schulich welcomes 171 first-year medical students
The medical school at The University of Western Ontario celebrates its 130th anniversary this year and welcomes the class of 2015 with the traditional White Coat Ceremony on Wednesday, Aug. 31.
Making the LEAP to a new culture
I’m just going to chill tonight and crash on the couch. Don’t be ditching any of your classes. Can I borrow a loonie from you. These sort of phrases sounds familiar to most first-year students.
Schulich medical students donate to RHAC
Morgan describes Open Closet, a social support group at Regional HIV/AIDS Connection (RHAC), as her second home.
FIMS student prepares for international internship
For Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) student Laura George, travelling internationally has always been a favourite activity. But travelling across the world alone will be a first.
Incoming students get early lesson
Summer will soon be drawing to a close, and that means life as a university student is just around the corner for thousands of soon-to-be Mustangs.
Six named as Vanier honorees
Western students Ahmed Hamada, Katie Kryski, Donald Lafreniere, Matthew Quinn, Fabrice Szabo and Jodie Whelan have been named recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, the country’s most prestigious scholarships for doctoral students.
Students join Junior Team Canada
Leenat Jilani, a political science student at Brescia University College, and Connor Lyons, a second-year political science student at Western, are two of 21 youth nationwide selected to be a Canadian Ambassador on Global Vision’s Junior Team Canada.
Music student charts own success
Genevieve Fisher’s bio reads like someone well beyond her 19 years. Entering second year at The University of Western Ontario’s Don Wright Faculty of Music, she released her first recording, made last fall at OmniSound Studios in Nashville, to great success.
Butler wins Community Energy Challenge
Thomas Butler, fourth-year green process engineering, recently won the FortisBC Community Energy Challenge, a competition held in conjunction with the International Student Energy Summit (ISES) in Vancouver.
Exhibit a demonstration of art creation and distortion
Jason Hallows’ recent work, Demonstration, exploring the relationship between an object’s production and its display opens at the McIntosh Gallery Friday, July 15.