With an eye to helping children forced to flee the war in Ukraine, Western’s Claire Crooks was recently in the Czech Republic training social workers and psychologists in STRONG, a school-based mental health program. Since February, an estimated 130,0 …
All you have to do is count the number of degrees hanging up at Neil and Glenda Murray’s home and you’ll see Western is something of a tradition in the family. When Kimberly Murray, their youngest, graduated in June with a Bachelor of Education, she completed the...
Punishment and deterrence are often believed to be the most effective means of reducing youth crime and improving community safety, but Western psychologist Alan Leschied says the reality is much different. “What we’ve seen is low-risk offenders who are incarcerated...
The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has received more than $1 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada to become the National Knowledge Hub for supporting the health and wellbeing of victims of domestic...
Three years after spending time on the Purple and White roster together, current London Western Track and Field Club training partners Caroline Ehrhardt and Alicia Smith will represent Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Both compete in triple jump on July 21....
“What we accept as a given does not apply everywhere in the world,” Bonnie Patterson, president and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), told graduates at the Friday, June 12, morning session of Western’s 305th Convocation.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan. The quake unleashed a tsunami that slammed into the country, disabling infrastructure and destroying everything in its path. Just days later, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
Fifteen learners from a variety of educational institutions and agencies received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education earlier this month. Two Western students were among these award recipients. A third Western student received the SAGE...
I wish to broaden the philosophical landscape sketched by the authors in the Big Ideas special issue (Western News, May 7). Probably the most important thing to understand about philosophy is its remarkably unique character as a discipline because of its absence of...
The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) recently won a top honour in the fourth annual Avon Global Communications Awards, which recognize outstanding communications campaigns designed to help end violence against women....
Western’s Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children has been named among 20 global organizations chosen as finalists for the fourth annual Avon Communications Awards, which recognize outstanding communications campaigns that are...
The traditional focus of international service learning is often on the students themselves. But how do their host communities benefit, if at all, from these programs? “Focusing on the students is absolutely warranted,” Education professor Marianne Larsen said. “But...
More than 130 residential schools operated across Canada. More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children attended these schools with the last residential school closing its door in 1996. The intent of the residential school system was to educate,...
All you have to do is count the number of degrees hanging up at Neil and Glenda Murray’s home and you’ll see Western is something of a tradition in the family. When Kimberly Murray, their youngest, graduated in June with a Bachelor of Education, she completed the...
Punishment and deterrence are often believed to be the most effective means of reducing youth crime and improving community safety, but Western psychologist Alan Leschied says the reality is much different. “What we’ve seen is low-risk offenders who are incarcerated...
The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has received more than $1 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada to become the National Knowledge Hub for supporting the health and wellbeing of victims of domestic...
Three years after spending time on the Purple and White roster together, current London Western Track and Field Club training partners Caroline Ehrhardt and Alicia Smith will represent Canada at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. Both compete in triple jump on July 21....
“What we accept as a given does not apply everywhere in the world,” Bonnie Patterson, president and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), told graduates at the Friday, June 12, morning session of Western’s 305th Convocation.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan. The quake unleashed a tsunami that slammed into the country, disabling infrastructure and destroying everything in its path. Just days later, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
Fifteen learners from a variety of educational institutions and agencies received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education earlier this month. Two Western students were among these award recipients. A third Western student received the SAGE...
I wish to broaden the philosophical landscape sketched by the authors in the Big Ideas special issue (Western News, May 7). Probably the most important thing to understand about philosophy is its remarkably unique character as a discipline because of its absence of...
The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) recently won a top honour in the fourth annual Avon Global Communications Awards, which recognize outstanding communications campaigns designed to help end violence against women....
Western’s Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children has been named among 20 global organizations chosen as finalists for the fourth annual Avon Communications Awards, which recognize outstanding communications campaigns that are...
The traditional focus of international service learning is often on the students themselves. But how do their host communities benefit, if at all, from these programs? “Focusing on the students is absolutely warranted,” Education professor Marianne Larsen said. “But...
More than 130 residential schools operated across Canada. More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children attended these schools with the last residential school closing its door in 1996. The intent of the residential school system was to educate,...