In the bleak days heading into winter, there’s still some colour in the Western community garden thanks to students in an interdisciplinary visual arts class. Where plants have died down, signs have popped up, quoting text from a reading assigned in A …
Arts and Humanities
Newsmakers: The Defender
Patrick Mahon Patrick Mahon, an accomplished artist and Visual Arts professor, named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada earlier this fall, is wrapping up the calendar year preparing to take the helm of Western’s School for Advanced Studies in the...
Newsmakers: The Bridge
Juan Luis Suarez Juan Luis Suárez knows when it comes to the arts, humanities and social sciences, universities are standing at an impasse. And it will take scholars from these fields to move towards progress, he said. Named Associate Vice-President (Research) in...
Newsmakers: The Showman
Michael Rubinoff Only four Canadian musicals in history have seen the light of day on Broadway. In 2017, producer Michael Rubinoff’s Come From Away – a heart-warming tale of kindness and generosity in the face of tragedy – made it to No. 5. Rubinoff, BA’98, LLB’01,...
On digital pills, humans and beasts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved the first digital pill for human use, an antipsychotic drug paired with a sensor that will tell whether, and when, a patient has taken the prescribed medication. The mix of drug and digital device works so the...
Mahon takes SASAH from class, to world, and back
Patrick Mahon is ready to switch gears. An accomplished artist and Visual Arts professor, named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada earlier this fall, Mahon is wrapping up the calendar year preparing to take the helm of Western’s School for Advanced...
Western student named Rhodes Scholar
Levi Hord, a fourth-year Sexuality Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Arts & Humanities (SASAH) and Scholar’s Electives student, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship.
Artist, class making town-gown connection
For the past three years, Penn Kemp has enjoyed working with Western students in what she sees as a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship cultivated by a course offered in English and Writing Studies. “It’s the interconnectivity between town and gown – I just...
Plaques celebrate rich history of research
Western is showcasing some of its top research moments through the creation of digitally linked historical plaques across campus. The first two distinctive markers were installed this week.
‘Sasha? What’s that?’ Defining the undefinable
By your fourth year in SASAH, you’ve rehearsed a certain response to the question, ‘What is your degree?’ The conversation usually goes something like this: “Hey, what program are you in?” “I’m doing a double major in (insert major) and SASAH.” “Sasha? What’s that?”...
Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...
Gift adds Bard’s Fourth Folio to collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFFxXOm5zI Even in elementary school, Robert Luton loved Shakespeare. The storytelling, the drama, the beauty of the language – it all kept him in rapt attention during performances at the Stratford Festival Theatre. English teachers...
Course looks to capture a ‘Strange Animal’
Next time you cross the bridge on University Drive, Tom Cull hopes you’ll look below and look around. Take in your surroundings – the river, the trees, even the beaver you might see, crossing the bridge at dawn as you head to your morning class. This is at the heart...
Newsmakers: The Defender
Patrick Mahon Patrick Mahon, an accomplished artist and Visual Arts professor, named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada earlier this fall, is wrapping up the calendar year preparing to take the helm of Western’s School for Advanced Studies in the...
Newsmakers: The Bridge
Juan Luis Suarez Juan Luis Suárez knows when it comes to the arts, humanities and social sciences, universities are standing at an impasse. And it will take scholars from these fields to move towards progress, he said. Named Associate Vice-President (Research) in...
Newsmakers: The Showman
Michael Rubinoff Only four Canadian musicals in history have seen the light of day on Broadway. In 2017, producer Michael Rubinoff’s Come From Away – a heart-warming tale of kindness and generosity in the face of tragedy – made it to No. 5. Rubinoff, BA’98, LLB’01,...
On digital pills, humans and beasts
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved the first digital pill for human use, an antipsychotic drug paired with a sensor that will tell whether, and when, a patient has taken the prescribed medication. The mix of drug and digital device works so the...
Mahon takes SASAH from class, to world, and back
Patrick Mahon is ready to switch gears. An accomplished artist and Visual Arts professor, named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada earlier this fall, Mahon is wrapping up the calendar year preparing to take the helm of Western’s School for Advanced...
Western student named Rhodes Scholar
Levi Hord, a fourth-year Sexuality Studies, School for Advanced Studies in Arts & Humanities (SASAH) and Scholar’s Electives student, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes Scholarship.
Artist, class making town-gown connection
For the past three years, Penn Kemp has enjoyed working with Western students in what she sees as a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship cultivated by a course offered in English and Writing Studies. “It’s the interconnectivity between town and gown – I just...
Plaques celebrate rich history of research
Western is showcasing some of its top research moments through the creation of digitally linked historical plaques across campus. The first two distinctive markers were installed this week.
‘Sasha? What’s that?’ Defining the undefinable
By your fourth year in SASAH, you’ve rehearsed a certain response to the question, ‘What is your degree?’ The conversation usually goes something like this: “Hey, what program are you in?” “I’m doing a double major in (insert major) and SASAH.” “Sasha? What’s that?”...
Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields
Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...
Gift adds Bard’s Fourth Folio to collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFFxXOm5zI Even in elementary school, Robert Luton loved Shakespeare. The storytelling, the drama, the beauty of the language – it all kept him in rapt attention during performances at the Stratford Festival Theatre. English teachers...
Course looks to capture a ‘Strange Animal’
Next time you cross the bridge on University Drive, Tom Cull hopes you’ll look below and look around. Take in your surroundings – the river, the trees, even the beaver you might see, crossing the bridge at dawn as you head to your morning class. This is at the heart...