Western’s 2022-23 writer-in-residence is January Rogers, a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River who aims to be an incubator of great ideas. Rogers works in page poetry, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded p …
Left to right, French professor Sebastien Ruffo, Chemistry professor Felix Lee, English and Writing Studies professor Larry Garber, French professor Mario Longtin and Chemistry professor Mark Workentin were honoured for their classroom excellence Monday night during...
Health Literacy in Canada: A Primer for Students By Lorie Donelle, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz and Rukhsana Ahmed Health literacy should not be underestimated with regards to its importance to sustaining and improving the overall health of a population. In fact, the authors...
Western French Studies professor Henri Boyi and Medicine/Microbiology & Immunology professor Lakshman Gunaratnam, along with alumnus Navjeet ‘Bob’ Dhillon, have been named finalist for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award for 2015. The annual event, given out...
Three Western students nabbed top honours in the 2014 Modern Languages and Literatures Photo Contest for snapshots of their varied international experiences. Last fall, students were asked to contribute one photograph of their experience abroad for an online photo...
Western’s latest honorees of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) join a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers.
The Walrus Talks Creativity brought nine of Canada’s most creative minds, including five Western alumni, to share thought-provoking ideas exploring...
For Emma Donoghue, it comes down to building, and then flexing, creative muscles. Among the panelists in the upcoming The Walrus Talks Creativity event, Donoghue believes, above all, enthusiasm precedes the creative process. “It’s funny. I would say creativity, in...
Sonia Halpern’s poems have been compared to those of Dorothy Parker. She likes that comparison. And who wouldn’t? If you pick up a copy of Halpern’s new poetry collection, a revised edition of The Life and Times of Transition Girl, you’ll see why. There’s a similarity...
Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges Edited by Carolyn McLeod and Francoise Baylis With the advent of new reproductive technologies, and the wider acceptance of same-sex families, has also come with an array of new options – and ethical considerations – in...
As executive director of the Walrus Foundation and co-publisher of The Walrus magazine, Shelley Ambrose, BA’83 (English), brings Walrus Talks to Western with The Walrus Talks Creativity event on March 12, in part to promote The Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.
It was a sort of happenstance for Elizabeth Greene. She was working on a project about the role of women in the ancient Roman army when she saw them, hiding in plain sight. Greene wasn’t looking for them, but there they were – women, depicted in at least four scenes...
French Studies professor Servanne Woodward takes her act out of the classroom and onto the stage as she is set to direct two upcoming plays in the London community. De Mal en Pis (From Bad to Worse), written by Mariel Ouellette Mauvia, is an improvisational comedy in...
Left to right, French professor Sebastien Ruffo, Chemistry professor Felix Lee, English and Writing Studies professor Larry Garber, French professor Mario Longtin and Chemistry professor Mark Workentin were honoured for their classroom excellence Monday night during...
Health Literacy in Canada: A Primer for Students By Lorie Donelle, Laurie Hoffman-Goetz and Rukhsana Ahmed Health literacy should not be underestimated with regards to its importance to sustaining and improving the overall health of a population. In fact, the authors...
Western French Studies professor Henri Boyi and Medicine/Microbiology & Immunology professor Lakshman Gunaratnam, along with alumnus Navjeet ‘Bob’ Dhillon, have been named finalist for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award for 2015. The annual event, given out...
Three Western students nabbed top honours in the 2014 Modern Languages and Literatures Photo Contest for snapshots of their varied international experiences. Last fall, students were asked to contribute one photograph of their experience abroad for an online photo...
Western’s latest honorees of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) join a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers.
The Walrus Talks Creativity brought nine of Canada’s most creative minds, including five Western alumni, to share thought-provoking ideas exploring...
For Emma Donoghue, it comes down to building, and then flexing, creative muscles. Among the panelists in the upcoming The Walrus Talks Creativity event, Donoghue believes, above all, enthusiasm precedes the creative process. “It’s funny. I would say creativity, in...
Sonia Halpern’s poems have been compared to those of Dorothy Parker. She likes that comparison. And who wouldn’t? If you pick up a copy of Halpern’s new poetry collection, a revised edition of The Life and Times of Transition Girl, you’ll see why. There’s a similarity...
Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges Edited by Carolyn McLeod and Francoise Baylis With the advent of new reproductive technologies, and the wider acceptance of same-sex families, has also come with an array of new options – and ethical considerations – in...
As executive director of the Walrus Foundation and co-publisher of The Walrus magazine, Shelley Ambrose, BA’83 (English), brings Walrus Talks to Western with The Walrus Talks Creativity event on March 12, in part to promote The Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.
It was a sort of happenstance for Elizabeth Greene. She was working on a project about the role of women in the ancient Roman army when she saw them, hiding in plain sight. Greene wasn’t looking for them, but there they were – women, depicted in at least four scenes...
French Studies professor Servanne Woodward takes her act out of the classroom and onto the stage as she is set to direct two upcoming plays in the London community. De Mal en Pis (From Bad to Worse), written by Mariel Ouellette Mauvia, is an improvisational comedy in...