What better place to put learning about local government and urban politics into practice than in the heart of the city? Western News joined a group of political science students and local experts on a tour through downtown London, Ont. during a Friday aft …
Just before Christmas 20 years ago, a modest number of London businesses gathered 36,000 pounds of food for the London Food Bank. Last year a greatly expanded group of corporations and institutions,...
A new course examining film festivals has debuted to rave reviews worthy of an interdisciplinary blockbuster.
Barbara Belbeck was looking to take a singing course when she came across an ad in Western’s Continuing Education brochure announcing the start of the New Horizons Band.
It’s not re-labelled on official campus maps – not yet, anyhow – but the pedestrian-priority stretch of Kent Drive that fronts University College has transformed to Kent Walk in everything but name.
Walrus Talks Storytelling, an event partnership between the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Western Alumni and the Arts and Humanities Students’ Council, features seven speakers for seven minutes exploring narratives that help us connect and understand our world.
More than 400 London and area high schoolers learned Thursday that history is rarely black and white – and sometimes it’s better understood in shades and tints and sepia tones.
Western community members Candace Brunette-Debassige and Jerry White were named among seven honourees earning Atlohsa Peace Awards for their contributions in the spirit of truth and reconciliation.
Western student Zachary Smith spent more than four months thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, raising funds for Youth Assisting Youth, a non-profit that matches mentors with at-risk youth.
London Words Festival takes place Nov. 1-3 at Museum London. It highlights the best of the region’s creativity and literary excellence and features storytellers in prose, poetry, song, new media, playwriting, screenwriting and graphic novels.
Walt Whitman was everything to everyone – and so much of him still lives on at Western.
You can’t get much closer to the pulse of a nation’s democratic heart than was experienced by an invested group of Political Science students during the run-up to the federal election.
Alarmed by both the prevalence of e-cigarettes and the serious illness and deaths attributed to vaping, area teens aligned with a Western research lab are lobbying all levels of government to crack down on the popular product.