With Western’s new creative arts and production program (CAP) officially underway, the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) is welcoming a new faculty member who will begin teaching in the program next term. Nataleah Hunter-Young complete …
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 seven years ago. Western News asked three students...
Melanie Stone wants you to see through the eyes of disabled working mothers – women navigating employment on top of the challenges that stem from being differently abled. “There are real barriers, and they’re put in place, sometimes through well-meaning policy,” said...
Gary Barwin and Emma Donoghue, both former Western Writers-in Residence, were among six authors named to the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist, announced last week. A third title named to the list was published by Windsor, Ont.-based Biblioasis, founded...
For Danae Campos-Melo and Cristian Droppelmann, philosophy is an integral part of working in a science lab. “I consider the philosophy of science to be the soul of science,” Droppelmann said. “It gives us the intellectual deepness that we need as scientists.”...
Women are a minority in the energy sector everywhere in the world – and Canada is no exception. Concerns about climate change and fossil fuel insecurity have ensured significant interest in Canada in the technologies and financing for transitioning to clean energy,...
The Western Award of Excellence has welcomed six more individuals and one team to Western’s highest level of recognition for staff members.
An unprecedented federal research funding push will position Western to radically transform humankind’s understanding of brain disorders. On Tuesday, Western’s BrainsCAN: Brain Health For Life initiative received a $66-million investment from the Canada First Research...
Eight Western professors have been named among the nation’s top scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), including six newly named Fellows and two New Scholars. James Grier, Paul Potter, Gregor Reid, David Shoesmith, Xueliang...
The stories describe important moments in our country’s history – yet few talk about them, even fewer ask. That is about to change thanks to Jennifer Shaw Lander.
It was the call heard ’round the world; it just wasn’t the call he wanted to make. But his mistake in front of millions has served as a reminder of how much the world loves Elliotte Friedman.
As a teenager, Michael Iannozzi was warned away from being a poet. “That’s a hard route to take I was told. So I went around it a different way,” said the Linguistics masters student.
The way Tom Cull sees it, London is on the verge of a Renaissance – an overdue makeover led by local artists taking the torch to forge a new image of the Forest City.
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 seven years ago. Western News asked three students...
Melanie Stone wants you to see through the eyes of disabled working mothers – women navigating employment on top of the challenges that stem from being differently abled. “There are real barriers, and they’re put in place, sometimes through well-meaning policy,” said...
Gary Barwin and Emma Donoghue, both former Western Writers-in Residence, were among six authors named to the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist, announced last week. A third title named to the list was published by Windsor, Ont.-based Biblioasis, founded...
For Danae Campos-Melo and Cristian Droppelmann, philosophy is an integral part of working in a science lab. “I consider the philosophy of science to be the soul of science,” Droppelmann said. “It gives us the intellectual deepness that we need as scientists.”...
Women are a minority in the energy sector everywhere in the world – and Canada is no exception. Concerns about climate change and fossil fuel insecurity have ensured significant interest in Canada in the technologies and financing for transitioning to clean energy,...
The Western Award of Excellence has welcomed six more individuals and one team to Western’s highest level of recognition for staff members.
An unprecedented federal research funding push will position Western to radically transform humankind’s understanding of brain disorders. On Tuesday, Western’s BrainsCAN: Brain Health For Life initiative received a $66-million investment from the Canada First Research...
Eight Western professors have been named among the nation’s top scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), including six newly named Fellows and two New Scholars. James Grier, Paul Potter, Gregor Reid, David Shoesmith, Xueliang...
The stories describe important moments in our country’s history – yet few talk about them, even fewer ask. That is about to change thanks to Jennifer Shaw Lander.
It was the call heard ’round the world; it just wasn’t the call he wanted to make. But his mistake in front of millions has served as a reminder of how much the world loves Elliotte Friedman.
As a teenager, Michael Iannozzi was warned away from being a poet. “That’s a hard route to take I was told. So I went around it a different way,” said the Linguistics masters student.
The way Tom Cull sees it, London is on the verge of a Renaissance – an overdue makeover led by local artists taking the torch to forge a new image of the Forest City.