The former London educators Joanne Lombardi and Deb Parr-Nash have since left the classroom, donned aprons, and now spend their days transforming attitudes and encouraging small acts of kind-heartedness with their cookies.
Entrepreneurship
Western brings yogurt enterprise to London
It has been 15 years since Western Heads East first introduced a social enterprise around its probiotic yogurt in Africa. Now, they are looking to replicate that success closer to home.
Western helps fine tune music lessons biz
If you have a musical destination in mind, but you need the perfect teacher to get you where you want to go, Zach Havens wants to be the matchmaker. That’s the idea behind Miistro, the former Western student’s latest business venture that looks to ‘unlock your inner Mozart.’
Ivey grad’s wheelchair start-up gets Londoners rolling
Megan MacKay had no desire to wait until after graduation to make her mark.
Grad offers a ‘Clew’ to future success
Udara Jayawardena, BSc’19 (Bioinformatics), gets straight to the point when you ask him what he does: “I write code, design things, and dabble in genomics.”
Rowing inspires recent grad’s business idea
After spending much of the past year testing innovative ways to keep her hair in check during workouts on the water, Nicole Baranowski is forgoing the casual-chic look during Convocation.
BURST funds offer boost to medical startups
A pair of fledgling London-based medical startups are prepared to further test the viability of their ideas in the marketplace, all in an effort to improve patient outcomes across the country, following their graduation from the Western Medical Innovation Fellowship.
Teams offer ideas a helping hand to market
The Proteus Innovation Competition features teams from across Southwestern Ontario and challenges them to take three emerging technologies and plan their commercialization.
Companies picking up speed at Western Accelerator
A second cohort of entrepreneurial souls learning how to embrace calculated risk in an effort to create meaningful, sustainable value in the world have been chosen to participate in the Western Accelerator.
Innovation Ambassadors are shifting the culture
In a milestone for the university, every faculty at Western now has at least one Innovation Ambassador whose job it is to help share and cultivate all these ideas and values.
Fast E.coli test keeps bad food off shelves
A new rapid testing kit developed by researchers at Western University is revolutionizing food safety testing by producing results within hours, not days.
New Propel director casts entrepreneurship vision
Deniz Edwards, the new head of the Propel Centre, is here to take Western’s entrepreneurship experience to the next level.
Study: ‘Loyalty points’ can fuel physical activity
Relatively small financial incentives – as little as pennies a day – and goal-setting can increase physical activity, according to a Western-led study published today in the journal JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
Alumnus putting big ideas into small batches
In Beamsville, Ont., halfway along the highway between Hamilton and Niagara-on-the-Lake, you can spot a light blue and white barn tucked away on a side road.
Celebrated innovation aids patients in swallowing
If ever you needed to visualize the convergence of research, clinical experience and commercialization, take a close look at the Abilex device and its inventor.
Morse tapped to lead campus entrepreneurship efforts
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.
Moonlite brings bright idea to night-night
A night-time ritual that began as a shadow-puppet theatre between a mother and daughter has transformed into a medley of storybook favourites playing out on ceilings across North America.
Engineering student bats in entrepreneurship game
Third-year Western Engineering student Mitchell Godkin is hoping to hit a homerun with his latest entrepreneurial endeavour, the Leadbury Bat Co.
Western partners on Toronto base for entrepreneurs
It’s the “home away from home” Western entrepreneurs need to compete across Canada. Last week, Western, along with partner institutions the University of Toronto and McMaster University, launched ONRamp, a collaboration and co-working space on the Toronto campus...
Program helps retrain brain, refocus life
Adam Rice knew precisely why he wanted to return to school, nearly a decade after his undergraduate years at Huron University College. “I wanted to retrain my brain. I thought there was no better way to do that than by being in school and using my head.” Rice, 32, is...