Western alum Hisham Hafez, PhD’10, MBA’19, is taking his innovative ‘waste-to-energy’ process from the lab to market as the senior director in charge of renewable natural gas projects at Greenfield Global, a producer of high purity alcohols, solven …
Entrepreneurship
Student network facilitates ‘dream team’ developments
Justin Tang and Alex Zarifoglu met in residence when they first arrived at Western. Today, the young business partners hope their friendship will represent only their first successful ‘start-up’ as they look to grow the Founders Network, a student-led campus community...
Joyce Foundation donates $5 million to ignite students’ potential
A $5-million donation to Western from The Joyce Foundation will offer students facing adversity hope for a promising future. The gift will provide financial and educational support to students who may not otherwise have envisioned attending university. A portion of...
Seed of an idea sprouts Pod for young entrepreneurs
Almost overnight, and totally unexpectedly, four Western students have turned a project meant to streamline the 40-hour volunteer requirement for high school students into a successful enterprise. Pod is an online organization tool for clubs, causes and teams, created...
Winders: Election results are a matter possibilities, not politics or policy, for students
Trust me, these moments don’t come around often. I have covered 50-plus elections, hundreds of campaigns and maybe thousands of races, and what I saw transpire in London Monday night was among the strangest of the lot. Some pundits have called it a ‘generational...
D’Aquino: Door to opportunity is as wide as it gets
Despite its challenges, our world is one of unparalleled promise and opportunity, Thomas D’Aquino, lawyer, entrepreneur and educator, told graduates at the Friday morning session of Western’s 304th Convocation. D’Aquino spoke to graduates from the Faculty of Health...
Advanced lessons in basic training
The dusty and sweaty trails of the Canadian Forces Base Borden, just north of Barrie, Ont., might just be the last place you’d expect to find business students. But for one week this past summer, close to 40 Ivey Business School students where put through their paces...
Student uses elite program to reclaim past
While discovering her own story, Shyra Barberstock has helped others reclaim theirs. Last month, the fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student returned from the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at the Coady...
Western grads marry fashion and social responsibility
Three common passions brought this trio together. Western graduates Sonja Fernandes, Samantha Laliberte and Bianca Lopes met during their studies through the campus business incubator, immediately forging a connection. This spring, they launched Ezzy Lynn, a business...
Helfand: USC turning an eye toward entrepreneurship
The focus on the Student Entrepreneurship Centre at Western that spun off from BizInc is a great way to provide some profile to an amazing student service. (Centre to facilitate student entrepreneurship, Western News, Sept. 5) Turning BizInc, from its start as a...
New site aids grad students in leap into work
Often too busy at work in labs, lecture halls and libraries to plot their career paths, graduate students now have a unique set of online training resources to help them make the leap into the work world and to succeed in any career. Recognizing the unique experiences...
Centre to facilitate student entrepreneurship
While some details have yet to be hammered out, one thing’s for sure – the entrepreneurial climate on Western’s campus is going to look a lot different going forward. With new funding from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, the university has revamped and, this...
Western appoints Meister to Thompson Chair
Ivey Business School professor Darren Meister has been appointed the inaugural holder of the John M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership and Innovation for a five-year term, which started July 1. The Information Systems and General Management (Entrepreneurship)...
Student network facilitates ‘dream team’ developments
Justin Tang and Alex Zarifoglu met in residence when they first arrived at Western. Today, the young business partners hope their friendship will represent only their first successful ‘start-up’ as they look to grow the Founders Network, a student-led campus community...
Joyce Foundation donates $5 million to ignite students’ potential
A $5-million donation to Western from The Joyce Foundation will offer students facing adversity hope for a promising future. The gift will provide financial and educational support to students who may not otherwise have envisioned attending university. A portion of...
Seed of an idea sprouts Pod for young entrepreneurs
Almost overnight, and totally unexpectedly, four Western students have turned a project meant to streamline the 40-hour volunteer requirement for high school students into a successful enterprise. Pod is an online organization tool for clubs, causes and teams, created...
Winders: Election results are a matter possibilities, not politics or policy, for students
Trust me, these moments don’t come around often. I have covered 50-plus elections, hundreds of campaigns and maybe thousands of races, and what I saw transpire in London Monday night was among the strangest of the lot. Some pundits have called it a ‘generational...
D’Aquino: Door to opportunity is as wide as it gets
Despite its challenges, our world is one of unparalleled promise and opportunity, Thomas D’Aquino, lawyer, entrepreneur and educator, told graduates at the Friday morning session of Western’s 304th Convocation. D’Aquino spoke to graduates from the Faculty of Health...
Advanced lessons in basic training
The dusty and sweaty trails of the Canadian Forces Base Borden, just north of Barrie, Ont., might just be the last place you’d expect to find business students. But for one week this past summer, close to 40 Ivey Business School students where put through their paces...
Student uses elite program to reclaim past
While discovering her own story, Shyra Barberstock has helped others reclaim theirs. Last month, the fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student returned from the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at the Coady...
Western grads marry fashion and social responsibility
Three common passions brought this trio together. Western graduates Sonja Fernandes, Samantha Laliberte and Bianca Lopes met during their studies through the campus business incubator, immediately forging a connection. This spring, they launched Ezzy Lynn, a business...
Helfand: USC turning an eye toward entrepreneurship
The focus on the Student Entrepreneurship Centre at Western that spun off from BizInc is a great way to provide some profile to an amazing student service. (Centre to facilitate student entrepreneurship, Western News, Sept. 5) Turning BizInc, from its start as a...
New site aids grad students in leap into work
Often too busy at work in labs, lecture halls and libraries to plot their career paths, graduate students now have a unique set of online training resources to help them make the leap into the work world and to succeed in any career. Recognizing the unique experiences...
Centre to facilitate student entrepreneurship
While some details have yet to be hammered out, one thing’s for sure – the entrepreneurial climate on Western’s campus is going to look a lot different going forward. With new funding from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, the university has revamped and, this...
Western appoints Meister to Thompson Chair
Ivey Business School professor Darren Meister has been appointed the inaugural holder of the John M. Thompson Chair in Engineering Leadership and Innovation for a five-year term, which started July 1. The Information Systems and General Management (Entrepreneurship)...