A new mental wellness initiative, driven and designed by students, kicks off next week. The Western Wellness Hub, available to all students, is launching with two six-session courses. The content complements professional support offered through wellness …
The Business Cares Food Drive is about Londoners making a difference with, and for, fellow Londoners. Western’s partnered program, Western Cares, starts Monday.
As a kid, she used to hide the fact her lunchbag, and her belly, were empty. Now Jasmine Ball shares how the United Way is bringing hope to London’s hidden poor – and how you can help.
You can’t miss them. With their vibrant colours, painted abstract shapes and flowering inspiration, Steven Wolfe said it’s probably harder not try and tickle the ivories a bit.
Super Bowl champion and current Detroit Lions tight end Luke Willson ‘jump...
Their message is simple – All are welcome in the Forest City. Under a program of that same name, a desire to amplify that message has brought together a number of local groups and organizations – including the International Student Centre, Equity and Human Rights...
Life was far from easy for Lisa Pierce. And then, she broke her back. She was 32 and in an abusive relationship, raising three children while working as a heavy-equipment operator. After breaking her back in a workplace accident, the medication she was prescribed...
For Michelle Hamilton, public history wields a special kind of power. It preserves the past, informs the present and has the potential to influence the future. This is the driving force behind her latest project.
Pirates and punk rock. Gruesome assassinations and weird operations. More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.
Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...
A pilot project aimed at keeping families at risk of homelessness off of the streets is showing promising results thanks to diversion efforts that appear to be an effective measure at combatting the issue long-term, according to one Western researcher.
Today, Western News celebrates a handful of the hundreds of programs, organizations and people who lend their talents to the wider community – Outside the Gates, if you will. Please enjoy this brief window into what this university, and its people, add to the London...
With some of the city’s most intriguing works of art – and the fascinating opportunity to see their creation in real time – London’s SATELLiTE Project has become a space for artists of all ages to create what’s inspiring them. The result of a multi-way partnership...