With the start of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, a Western Mustangs tradition is also afoot. Representing Team Canada, Kristen Bujnowski, BA’15, BESc’15, and Sara Villani, BA’19, are the second and third varsity track and field alumni to become Ol …
Engineering
Researchers with heads in ‘The Cloud’ land Samsung prize
A Western research team has won the university’s first-ever Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award, an academic research collaboration platform, held annually with a call for proposals open to the world’s leading universities.
Getting on a roll
Sharon Flaherty knows what a drag – or a pull – the first month of school can be.
Funding helps Engineering professor CREATE opportunities
MONTREAL, Quebec — Western Engineering professor Xianbin Wang, a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications, has been named among 15 initiatives receiving a portion of $24 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) initiative.
Generation next: Jung, VanBerlo named 2013 Schulich Leaders
Flora Jung of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in Waterloo and Blake VanBerlo of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London have been named the two Western-bound recipients of the 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship, a program that supports undergraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Thompson family gift brings Ivey, Engineering together for students
John Thompson knows a good idea only goes so far. Now, the former Western chancellor hopes to provide Western Engineering students with the skills they need to turn that good idea into a great success story.
Thompson family gift delivers ‘unique engineering education’
Western Engineering and Ivey Business School will now offer engineering students an education like no other in Canada, thanks to a $3-million gift from John M. and Melinda Thompson.
Western, city bridge project takes top Connections prize
Western Engineering students Rob Volcko, Thomas Zolis, Emily Keyes, Marco Furano and Arthur Gonzales placed first overall in the university category of the Connections Competition at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery Conference in Toronto this week.
Engineering team among IDeA student competition finalists
Western Engineering students Shuang Song, Joseph Santarelli and Nicole Kucirek know their idea could be considered all wet. But it just might be a winner.
Displaying all the right moves
“You can’t practice something until you get it right. You practice it until you can’t get it wrong.”
Zhu, Perinpanayagam named among best biomedical papers
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor Jesse Zhu and Dentistry professor Hiran Perinpanayagam have been recognized by Biomedical Materials as having one of the best papers published within the last two years.
Engineering students look to Reduce Barriers
A team of Western Engineering students has eyes on a smoother road for those with accessibility barriers.
Engineering project opens eyes to patient communication
Thanks to a group of Western students, a significant healthcare deficiency could soon be solved – all with a blink of an eye.
Researchers with heads in ‘The Cloud’ land Samsung prize
A Western research team has won the university’s first-ever Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award, an academic research collaboration platform, held annually with a call for proposals open to the world’s leading universities.
Getting on a roll
Sharon Flaherty knows what a drag – or a pull – the first month of school can be.
Funding helps Engineering professor CREATE opportunities
MONTREAL, Quebec — Western Engineering professor Xianbin Wang, a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications, has been named among 15 initiatives receiving a portion of $24 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) initiative.
Generation next: Jung, VanBerlo named 2013 Schulich Leaders
Flora Jung of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in Waterloo and Blake VanBerlo of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London have been named the two Western-bound recipients of the 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship, a program that supports undergraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Thompson family gift brings Ivey, Engineering together for students
John Thompson knows a good idea only goes so far. Now, the former Western chancellor hopes to provide Western Engineering students with the skills they need to turn that good idea into a great success story.
Thompson family gift delivers ‘unique engineering education’
Western Engineering and Ivey Business School will now offer engineering students an education like no other in Canada, thanks to a $3-million gift from John M. and Melinda Thompson.
Western, city bridge project takes top Connections prize
Western Engineering students Rob Volcko, Thomas Zolis, Emily Keyes, Marco Furano and Arthur Gonzales placed first overall in the university category of the Connections Competition at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery Conference in Toronto this week.
Engineering team among IDeA student competition finalists
Western Engineering students Shuang Song, Joseph Santarelli and Nicole Kucirek know their idea could be considered all wet. But it just might be a winner.
Displaying all the right moves
“You can’t practice something until you get it right. You practice it until you can’t get it wrong.”
Zhu, Perinpanayagam named among best biomedical papers
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering professor Jesse Zhu and Dentistry professor Hiran Perinpanayagam have been recognized by Biomedical Materials as having one of the best papers published within the last two years.
Engineering students look to Reduce Barriers
A team of Western Engineering students has eyes on a smoother road for those with accessibility barriers.
Engineering project opens eyes to patient communication
Thanks to a group of Western students, a significant healthcare deficiency could soon be solved – all with a blink of an eye.