A new study from the Netherlands has revealed breastfeeding infants may not have been standard practice among mothers in the 1800s, as common perception would suggest. Led by Western biological anthropologist Andrea L. Waters-Rist, the study found unusu …
The recent release of the Naylor Report marked an important landmark in the development of the Canadian research ‘ecosystem,’ and it is appropriate for Western to “applaud federal re-investment in scientific research.” (Seize the moment: Western applauds federal...
Eleven professors are receiving Western’s highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning in their students.
Robert the Bruce was a warrior-king, hero, champion of Scottish independence. And not a leper. For almost seven centuries, the Scots have endured taunts that Robert the Bruce had leprosy, a disease that until recently, held a stigma unlike any other. Now, thanks to...
What started as a grade school journal has now evolved into a larger effort by a Western Anthropology graduate student to help his community tell its stories in ways that are more creative. “I grew up with a passion for painting. By the time I was in Grade 12, it...
The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.
For Tania Granadillo, the silencing of one language is like losing a part of humanity’s heritage. Hence why this summer, the Anthropology professor and students in her Language Revitalization in Practice course are joining the effort to save one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aCWcA1WsQ As Andrew Nelson slices his way through half a millennium of history, he is unlocking secrets of Small Wonders. Led by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York and Rijksmuseum in...
You could call it a ‘non-field school.’ This spring, students in Anthropology 3396A - Site Management and Service are taking a different approach to standard archeology, learning how not to...
Talking about gender-based violence is hard. If you’re part of a Muslim community, it is markedly harder and a group of young women in London wants to change this. Nearly two years ago, the London Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration hired more...
Papua New Guinea is suffering a drought that may impact the Oceania country worse than a similar devastation in 1997, its worst drought on record. Located just south of the equator, about 160 kilometres north of Australia, almost 1.8 million Papua New Guinea people...
Four Western PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients, across all three Tri-Council Agencies, of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Franz Boas “had his hand in every pie in town.”
The recent release of the Naylor Report marked an important landmark in the development of the Canadian research ‘ecosystem,’ and it is appropriate for Western to “applaud federal re-investment in scientific research.” (Seize the moment: Western applauds federal...
Eleven professors are receiving Western’s highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning in their students.
Robert the Bruce was a warrior-king, hero, champion of Scottish independence. And not a leper. For almost seven centuries, the Scots have endured taunts that Robert the Bruce had leprosy, a disease that until recently, held a stigma unlike any other. Now, thanks to...
What started as a grade school journal has now evolved into a larger effort by a Western Anthropology graduate student to help his community tell its stories in ways that are more creative. “I grew up with a passion for painting. By the time I was in Grade 12, it...
The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.
For Tania Granadillo, the silencing of one language is like losing a part of humanity’s heritage. Hence why this summer, the Anthropology professor and students in her Language Revitalization in Practice course are joining the effort to save one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4aCWcA1WsQ As Andrew Nelson slices his way through half a millennium of history, he is unlocking secrets of Small Wonders. Led by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York and Rijksmuseum in...
You could call it a ‘non-field school.’ This spring, students in Anthropology 3396A - Site Management and Service are taking a different approach to standard archeology, learning how not to...
Talking about gender-based violence is hard. If you’re part of a Muslim community, it is markedly harder and a group of young women in London wants to change this. Nearly two years ago, the London Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration hired more...
Papua New Guinea is suffering a drought that may impact the Oceania country worse than a similar devastation in 1997, its worst drought on record. Located just south of the equator, about 160 kilometres north of Australia, almost 1.8 million Papua New Guinea people...
Four Western PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients, across all three Tri-Council Agencies, of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Franz Boas “had his hand in every pie in town.”