Seven Western faculty members are being honoured as part of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) class of 2022. Kim Baines, Aaron Fenster, William Fisher and Adrian Owen were recently announced as RSC Fellows and Arghya Paul as Western’s newest member …
Engineering
Race team places second of 100 cars in Kentucky
Western’s Baja SAE race team is preparing for its next competition in California next May, as they celebrate and learn from a second-place finish at a race in Kentucky.
World-changing research fueled by new CRCs
Western’s new Canada Research Chairs will have global impact on earthquake preparedness, psychology and neuro-imaging.
Chakma building wins ‘green’ award
Western’s newest facility – the Amit Chakma Engineering Building – has won a provincial award of excellence for new green buildings.
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.
Alumni tapped for Governor General honours
For more than 125 years, the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medals have recognized the outstanding scholastic achievements of students in Canada. The prestigious medal is based solely on academic criteria. Three Western graduates are among recipients of the honour...
Expert: E-voting no way to run a democracy
Take it from an engineer. You don’t want technology to fulfill a need other than the need you’re building that technology for – especially if democracy is at stake.
Vanier celebrates nation’s finest graduate students
Five Western PhD candidates have been named among 167 nationwide recipients of the 2018-19 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships – two from the natural sciences and engineering competition, two from the health sciences competition, and one from the social sciences and humanities competition.
Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence
Demonstrating dedication from residence halls to administrative offices, from alumni engagement to student counseling, presented here are winners of the 2018 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.
Alumnus serves up financial recipes in new book
Gordon Stein, BESc.’84, is bubbling over with financial recipes that will serve you up a whole new financial future. Just don’t ask for his help with understanding ‘Wuthering Heights.’
Harlen, Xu named among 2018 Schulich Leaders
Tony Xu and Ryan Harlen, two of the nation’s highest achieving secondary students, will begin their undergraduate studies at Western this fall as recipients of prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships.
Kopp, Cheng named Acting Deans
Two Western faculties recently named interim leadership as the university begins the process of searching for new deans to lead its two largest professional faculties.
Grant to CREATE new opportunities for students
Led by Engineering professor Jeffrey Wood, an advanced polymer composite materials and technologies team will CREATE more opportunities for the next generation of engineers thanks to $1.65-million NSERC grant.
Race team places second of 100 cars in Kentucky
Western’s Baja SAE race team is preparing for its next competition in California next May, as they celebrate and learn from a second-place finish at a race in Kentucky.
World-changing research fueled by new CRCs
Western’s new Canada Research Chairs will have global impact on earthquake preparedness, psychology and neuro-imaging.
Chakma building wins ‘green’ award
Western’s newest facility – the Amit Chakma Engineering Building – has won a provincial award of excellence for new green buildings.
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.
Alumni tapped for Governor General honours
For more than 125 years, the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medals have recognized the outstanding scholastic achievements of students in Canada. The prestigious medal is based solely on academic criteria. Three Western graduates are among recipients of the honour...
Expert: E-voting no way to run a democracy
Take it from an engineer. You don’t want technology to fulfill a need other than the need you’re building that technology for – especially if democracy is at stake.
Vanier celebrates nation’s finest graduate students
Five Western PhD candidates have been named among 167 nationwide recipients of the 2018-19 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships – two from the natural sciences and engineering competition, two from the health sciences competition, and one from the social sciences and humanities competition.
Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence
Demonstrating dedication from residence halls to administrative offices, from alumni engagement to student counseling, presented here are winners of the 2018 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.
Alumnus serves up financial recipes in new book
Gordon Stein, BESc.’84, is bubbling over with financial recipes that will serve you up a whole new financial future. Just don’t ask for his help with understanding ‘Wuthering Heights.’
Harlen, Xu named among 2018 Schulich Leaders
Tony Xu and Ryan Harlen, two of the nation’s highest achieving secondary students, will begin their undergraduate studies at Western this fall as recipients of prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships.
Kopp, Cheng named Acting Deans
Two Western faculties recently named interim leadership as the university begins the process of searching for new deans to lead its two largest professional faculties.
Grant to CREATE new opportunities for students
Led by Engineering professor Jeffrey Wood, an advanced polymer composite materials and technologies team will CREATE more opportunities for the next generation of engineers thanks to $1.65-million NSERC grant.