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Microcredentials offer professional ‘up-skilling’  

Microcredentials offer professional ‘up-skilling’  

Western is at the forefront of a fast-growing movement to offer microcredentials: short-course nuggets that provide learners with enhanced professional qualifications and skills. With a $650,000 funding from the province, Western will develop three suit …

Nursing thesis tops September downloads

Nursing thesis tops September downloads

According to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Western’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository had 38,534 full-text downloads and 162 new submissions posted in September. The five most popular theses were: Barriers to Education in Homeless...

Student scratches out an idea for app

Student scratches out an idea for app

Tired of buying scratch lottery tickets, only to come up empty handed? Chris Lange is confident his latest app will give you the “best bang for your buck” next time you get lotto fever. The fourth-year Engineering student sees no need to waste money on lottery scratch...

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly...

New chair to redefine university’s role in entrepreneurship

New chair to redefine university’s role in entrepreneurship

When opportunity came knocking on Darren Meister’s door, he knew it came with a perfect-fit venture. “When the chair position came up, it was the perfect job. Being able to marry my engineering and business backgrounds isn’t something you get to do very often. I’m a...

Generation next: Congram named 2014 Schulich Leader

Generation next: Congram named 2014 Schulich Leader

The kids at Camp Kintail in Goderich simply know him by his nickname Aragorn, the fictional Ranger from the North in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings triology. But at Western this fall, Ben Congram entered the Faculty of Engineering under a different title –...

Awards fuel research abroad for six undergraduates

Awards fuel research abroad for six undergraduates

This summer, six Western undergraduate students travelled to China to perform research at local universities as part of the Mitacs Globalink Research Award program. The program offers Canadian students the opportunity to hone their research skills by collaborating...

New book celebrates Western Engineering’s history, traditions

New book celebrates Western Engineering’s history, traditions

  It’s a story 60 years in the making. And Peter Castle, BESc’61, PhD’69, has had a front-row seat for most of it. So, when it came to finding an author to pen the history of Western’s Faculty of Engineering, the choice was obvious. “Literally, everybody in the...

Margaritis named Canadian Academy of Engineering fellow

Margaritis named Canadian Academy of Engineering fellow

Western Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor Argyrios Margaritis, along with 48 other distinguished engineers, were recently named fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). The honour was announced at the academy’s 2014 Annual General Meeting and...

Donohue wins national 3-Minute Thesis competition

Donohue wins national 3-Minute Thesis competition

Western Biochemical Engineering student Joseph Donohue has won the top prize at Canada’s National 3-Minute Thesis competition (3MT), a research communication competition where graduate students have three minutes or less to present their research and its impact to a...

Hunt: Help passive lives make great contributions to world

Hunt: Help passive lives make great contributions to world

As you enter your career, do not forget to cast your eyes toward helping others, University College London professor emeritus Lord Julian Hunt told graduates at the Friday, June 13, afternoon session of Western’s 303rd Convocation. “Although you are young and fit...

Nursing thesis tops September downloads

Nursing thesis tops September downloads

According to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Western’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository had 38,534 full-text downloads and 162 new submissions posted in September. The five most popular theses were: Barriers to Education in Homeless...

Student scratches out an idea for app

Student scratches out an idea for app

Tired of buying scratch lottery tickets, only to come up empty handed? Chris Lange is confident his latest app will give you the “best bang for your buck” next time you get lotto fever. The fourth-year Engineering student sees no need to waste money on lottery scratch...

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage

When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly...

New chair to redefine university’s role in entrepreneurship

New chair to redefine university’s role in entrepreneurship

When opportunity came knocking on Darren Meister’s door, he knew it came with a perfect-fit venture. “When the chair position came up, it was the perfect job. Being able to marry my engineering and business backgrounds isn’t something you get to do very often. I’m a...

Generation next: Congram named 2014 Schulich Leader

Generation next: Congram named 2014 Schulich Leader

The kids at Camp Kintail in Goderich simply know him by his nickname Aragorn, the fictional Ranger from the North in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings triology. But at Western this fall, Ben Congram entered the Faculty of Engineering under a different title –...

Awards fuel research abroad for six undergraduates

Awards fuel research abroad for six undergraduates

This summer, six Western undergraduate students travelled to China to perform research at local universities as part of the Mitacs Globalink Research Award program. The program offers Canadian students the opportunity to hone their research skills by collaborating...

New book celebrates Western Engineering’s history, traditions

New book celebrates Western Engineering’s history, traditions

  It’s a story 60 years in the making. And Peter Castle, BESc’61, PhD’69, has had a front-row seat for most of it. So, when it came to finding an author to pen the history of Western’s Faculty of Engineering, the choice was obvious. “Literally, everybody in the...

Margaritis named Canadian Academy of Engineering fellow

Margaritis named Canadian Academy of Engineering fellow

Western Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor Argyrios Margaritis, along with 48 other distinguished engineers, were recently named fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). The honour was announced at the academy’s 2014 Annual General Meeting and...

Donohue wins national 3-Minute Thesis competition

Donohue wins national 3-Minute Thesis competition

Western Biochemical Engineering student Joseph Donohue has won the top prize at Canada’s National 3-Minute Thesis competition (3MT), a research communication competition where graduate students have three minutes or less to present their research and its impact to a...

Hunt: Help passive lives make great contributions to world

Hunt: Help passive lives make great contributions to world

As you enter your career, do not forget to cast your eyes toward helping others, University College London professor emeritus Lord Julian Hunt told graduates at the Friday, June 13, afternoon session of Western’s 303rd Convocation. “Although you are young and fit...