Cultivating more sustainable food systems requires a wider grassroots approach and innovation that shifts people’s mindsets from being merely passive consumers to dynamic growers. This is a key message that organizers of an upcoming symposium on build …
SmartAPPetite, a new smartphone app developed by Western researchers and their partners, provides southwestern Ontarians with the motivation and information to buy local, eat smart and get healthy.
Microbiology and Immunology professor Gregor Reid wants to revolutionize the way Western Heads East delivers its life-saving yogurt to the people who need it most. Since 2004, Western Heads East has been a grassroots Western-based program focusing on health and...
For Tammy Defoe, life is all about fitness and wellness. As a certified personal trainer, and Brescia University College student, she looks to share her healthy lifestyle and improve the lives of others with a new self-published calendar. Defoe said lifestyle-related...
Christine Peet was determined to walk away victorious. She first tackled Take the Lead, a public-speaking contest for high school students at Brescia University College, in 2009. Her speech, deemed too long, eliminated her after the first round. Peet, originally from...
One summer at her cottage, Emma Hunt powered through 20 books. That’s how much she loves to read. But it wasn’t until recently the first-year Foods and Nutrition student at Brescia University College discovered she enjoyed writing, perhaps just as much.
Canada needs today’s graduates, their ideas and their contributions, to protect the country’s cultural mosaic, Irving Abella, eminent historian and president of the Academy of the Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada, told graduates at the Thursday...
Organizers of the bi-annual meeting of the International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE) want people to know that the study of home economics is alive and well. In fact, 200 people are congregating at Brescia University College until July 24 to discuss the health...
The Western community is mourning the loss of Joan Francolini, 80, Brescia University College chancellor, who died Sunday, June 22, following an extended illness. Tributes have been flowing in since the news became public. “In my life, I have rarely encountered such a...
The Western community is mourning the loss of Joan Francolini, 80, Brescia University College chancellor, who died Sunday, June 22, following an extended illness.
Gender parity is not a women’s issue – it is an economic issue that impacts Canada’s competitiveness and prosperity, businesswoman Stacey Allaster, BA’85, MBA’00, told graduates at the Monday, June 16, afternoon session of Western’s 303rd Convocation. “Our country is...
Growing up in Nigeria, Abijah Nwakanma never had to look far for inspiration.
Joan Francolini, left, Brescia University College chancellor, shares a laugh with Lucyanne Davison, executive assistant to Brescia’s Principal Colleen Hanycz, at last week’s official opening and blessing of Brescia’s new residence, Clare Hall, as well as its new, state-of-the-art eatery, The Mercato.