How do you help young people improve their financial literacy? That’s the problem Amber Carroll, BHSc’24, and three fellow students set out to solve during the intensive 10-week RBC Design Thinking Program at Western. Their answer was to use gamificatio …
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...
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)...
Five new programs launched by the province to foster entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for Ontario’s youth shouldn’t be viewed as tools to help students find a job, said Western President Amit Chakma.
Credit Deland Jessop’s wife for helping brew up an idea that, by the year’s end, could rake in $1 million. The idea? Coffee that puts you to sleep.
Senate discussion may have centred on the 2014-15 budget last week, however, all eyes were on the challenges of the following four years.
A solution to non-communicable diseases in the world’s poorest areas may come from the halls of the Ivey Business School.
Chris Janssen has big plans for the New Year, the biggest of which is growing a social enterprise he recently started here in London.
Western students Cynthia Liao and Shenglong Gao hope to put into action their passions, as part of The Next 36, Canada’s most selective program for young entrepreneurs.
Ten Western alumnae have been named to Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 list, presented by the National Post and the Women’s Executive Network (WXN). The theme for this year’s Top 100 Awards was What Glass Ceiling? The newspaper wrote of the honoured Western community members, in part:
Among a class of 83 new members from around the world, the Western alumna, BHSc’13, stands as the 22nd Rhodes Scholar in the university’s history.
Among a class of 83 new members from around the world, the Western alumna, BHSc’13, stands as the 22nd Rhodes Scholar in the university’s history.
Allison Moyer is not one to mince words.