As Ontario plots its economic recovery from COVID-19 it will need all the innovation in data modelling that it can get — and Western’s Roy Allen has just earned major recognition as a leader in that field. Allen was awarded the 2020 Polanyi Prize in Ec …
OTTAWA – Western Economics professor James MacGee has been awarded the 2013 Governor’s Award by Bank of Canada.
While some folks may look at university/college dropouts as simply lazy slackers, a Western study boils the bailout down to simple ability.
The London Rocket, a new student-run start-up originally set to operate a low-cost bus service to students travelling from Western to the Greater Toronto Area during the winter exam period, has been forced to shut down due to a legal dispute initiated by Greyhound Canada.
Western students Beth Compton, Wilson Higashino, Sviataslau Kohut, Ed Krynak, Qian Liu, Felipe Rodrigues and Omneya El Sharnouby have been named recipients of the 2012 Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS).
Does the Euro zone have a future? A panel of Western economists organized by the Economic Policy Research Institute recently examined that question.
Richard Ivey School of Business Dean Carol Stephenson, along with five Western alumnae, have been named among Canada’s most influential women, according to Women of Influence Magazine in the Canadian publication’s 2nd annual Top 25 Women of Influence list, released in its Winter 2012 issue.
Western Economics professor John Whalley will joined his fellow 2012 Canada Council Killam Prize Winners at the first Killam Prize Symposium held 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20 at Rideau Hall.
Richard Ivey School of Business Dean Carol Stephenson, along with five Western alumnae, have been named among Canada’s most influential women, according to Women of Influence Magazine.
Going from high school jock to university government, Andrew Forgione has experienced it all.
Western Economics professors emeriti David Laidler and Michael Parkin have accepted the prestigious title of Fellow of the Canadian Economics Association at the Past Presidents’ Dinner of the association in Calgary on June 7.
Led by Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic), a 22-person delegation from Western University travels to China for the next 10 days on what many consider the university’s most ambitious internationalization trip yet. While a number of events are planned for across the country, success, all agree, rests in the number and quality of relationships built.
According to new research from the CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity at Western, productivity and wage losses during recessions are directly linked to the ease in which displaced workers can find new employment where their skills are best utilized.