For Tumi Olaoye, it’s all about community: the campus community she found at Western, and the global community she hopes to have an impact on some day. Born in Nigeria, Olaoye came to Canada with her family when she was 11. Now in her fourth year of a …
I recently had a life-altering experience – one I am lucky to have survived to tell the tale. It happened a few months ago while I was in the final preparations for a science conference in Singapore. My bags were packed and waiting patiently by the front door for the...
Five more professors can add their name to Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching list, co-presented by the University Students’ Council, The Bank of Nova Scotia and the university’s Alumni Association. Honoured as the best in the classroom this year...
Two professors are the latest recipients of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) awards, joining a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers. Honoured this year are John Leonard, English and Writing Studies, Arts &...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
Four Western research projects recently shared in nearly $2 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants, the funding body announced last week. The goal of the grants is to increase research and training...
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new Western-led study demonstrates that fear of these top predators has a cascading effect down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems....
Coming to Western from Germany, Sweden, the United States and across Canada, these new Canada Research Chairs are developing HIV vaccines, improving hearing and movement, learning how and why people migrate and immigrate, and exploring the foundations of physics.
You would think a professor holding a plant seed, telling his students it could kill them, might turn one off from career in botany. Not so for Western alumna Jennifer McDonald. As an undergrad at McMaster University, McDonald was on the path to her goal of becoming a...
Western Biology professor emeritus Brock Fenton has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to animal behaviour, evolution and animal communication. Fenton is considered one of the...
Four Western PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients, across all three Tri-Council Agencies, of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Researchers from The Africa Institute at Western are currently on the ground half a world away to establish a formal foothold for a new program that will help students “bring hope to the world.” “More and more students are wanting something different – an opportunity...
I recently had a life-altering experience – one I am lucky to have survived to tell the tale. It happened a few months ago while I was in the final preparations for a science conference in Singapore. My bags were packed and waiting patiently by the front door for the...
Five more professors can add their name to Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching list, co-presented by the University Students’ Council, The Bank of Nova Scotia and the university’s Alumni Association. Honoured as the best in the classroom this year...
Two professors are the latest recipients of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) awards, joining a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers. Honoured this year are John Leonard, English and Writing Studies, Arts &...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
Four Western research projects recently shared in nearly $2 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants, the funding body announced last week. The goal of the grants is to increase research and training...
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new Western-led study demonstrates that fear of these top predators has a cascading effect down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems....
Coming to Western from Germany, Sweden, the United States and across Canada, these new Canada Research Chairs are developing HIV vaccines, improving hearing and movement, learning how and why people migrate and immigrate, and exploring the foundations of physics.
You would think a professor holding a plant seed, telling his students it could kill them, might turn one off from career in botany. Not so for Western alumna Jennifer McDonald. As an undergrad at McMaster University, McDonald was on the path to her goal of becoming a...
Western Biology professor emeritus Brock Fenton has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to animal behaviour, evolution and animal communication. Fenton is considered one of the...
Four Western PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients, across all three Tri-Council Agencies, of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Researchers from The Africa Institute at Western are currently on the ground half a world away to establish a formal foothold for a new program that will help students “bring hope to the world.” “More and more students are wanting something different – an opportunity...