Western researchers are expanding successful education programs to help vulnerable young people build strong relationships and prevent violence. The Healthy Relationships program developed by Western’s Centre for School Mental Health (CSMH) of the …
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Survey calls us to ‘do better’ for students
Education PhD candidate Jenny Kassen sees a recent TVDSB student survey as the latest opportunity for school boards to “do better” by all students, particularly those who identify as transgender or outside of the gender binary.
Funding backs healthy relationships program
High-risk youth from across Canada will soon receive much-needed support around healthy relationships as researchers simultaneously gain a better...
Plaques honour research, advocacy legacy
The past continues to be on display across campus as the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children (CREVAWC) and Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel were unveiled this week as the latest heritage plaques celebrating significant research-related moments in the university’s history.
Coping with student stress and distress
Western News has drawn in three leading experts for a conversation about what’s going on and why universities spend a growing share of time and budgets on student mental wellness.
Program creates a new life in a new home
At first, everything was fine. At 11, Mariana Garcia emigrated from Mexico to Canada. She welcomed the chance to make a life in a new country. “ But soon, the realities of her situation took hold. No one at her school spoke Spanish, leaving Mariana isolated. By the final years of high school, she was quite vulnerable.
Program provides ‘right supports’ for success
At first glance, Jason Paiero seems like he was always on track to thrive at Western.
Remembering the Montreal 14
Students, faculty and staff gathered solemnly at different places on campus Thursday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Report shows tragic patterns in domestic homicides
A new report examining five years of domestic homicides in Canada is a painful reminder of the social, criminal and public-health toll experienced by women, children and men every day.
Fischer: ‘Make this planet a better place’
An applied mathematician and computer scientist whose family fled to Canada in the 1920s after the Russian revolution, Charlotte Froese Fischer knows the importance of education and its ability to open up new worlds – especially for women.
Program eases stress for families with epilepsy
A community-based treatment program is hoping it will soon help children, and their parents, deal better with the non-medical issues surrounding epilepsy.
Western elite among Royal Society Fellows
Four Western scholars, and one alumna, have been named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Election to the academies of the RSC is the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences.
Words always mattered to global prizewinner
Lorelei Lingard’s love for language started early in her childhood, when she and her mother, who was a high school English teacher, would play Scrabble at the kitchen table.