Chloe Beaudoin, HBA’20, remembers watching the first season of CBC’s Dragons’ Den back in 2006. Soon, the show became a favourite family pastime. Beaudoin dreamed of appearing on Dragons’ Den, pitching pretend ideas to her family long before she sta …
It didn’t take Sarah Saska long to realize academia was not for her. Currently in her last year of a Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD at Western, Saska knew her future wasn’t inside the Ivory Tower from the start. While she didn’t know where she was heading...
As Chantal Rapport looks out of her office window, the Distillery District in Toronto looks back at her. “Everything I have worked hard for has paid off,” she said. Rapport is not an average 23 year old. A 2014 graduate of Ivey Business School, she is now an analyst...
Western alumnae Mallorie Brodie, who holds a certificate in Entrepreneurship from Ivey Business School, and Lauren Lake, BESc’13, were named Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 at the 2015 Canadian Startup Awards. The pair are co-founders Bridgit, a cloud-based mobile and...
How will we remember 2015? Probably through one or more of these faces. Join us in this spotlight, in brief words and striking images, of some of our favourites from the last year.
One tweet from One Direction member Louis Tomlinson during the Paris attacks summarily proves the true impact of celebrity and the existence of the global connectivity.
JOIN THE CELEBRATION: The university community celebrates “all things international” at the annual Western International Week, Nov. 16-20. Visit internationalweek.uwo.ca/ for details. * * * The world’s agenda has been set. In September, the United Nations, in...
Imagine playing Super Mario Bros. or Super Monkey Ball, but instead of following the action on a screen, you are part of the action, immersed in the landscape. If you liked the above mentioned platform games, you’ll love MushroomBallVR. But first, the new virtual...
https://youtu.be/rAo2HIk9WxQ It was only a two-door hardtop. But to Jack Cowin, BA’64, LLD’00, it was a rocket ship to another world. Born in Windsor, Ont., Cowin remembers those family trips from his youth well. Mom and dad, two kids, grandma and grandpa, all piled...
Looking to tout its undergraduate research intensity, professor mentorship and the value of a liberal arts education, Huron University College is rolling out a major ad campaign showing the niche that is ‘the Huron experience.” Huron Principal Stephen McClatchie said...
It was only a two-door hardtop. But to Jack Cowin, Western’s 22nd Chancellor, it was a rocket ship to another world.
Western’s commitment to economic engagement earned an unprecedented honour today, as the institution was named among the Class of 2015 Innovation & Economic Prosperity Universities by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) in Washington, D.C....
“Your generation has a responsibility to respect the land; my generation has a responsibility to help you,” David Cornhill, founding member of AltaGas, who has served as its chairman and CEO since its inception in 1994, told graduates at the Tuesday, June 16, morning session of Western’s 305th Convocation.