Balancing a passion for anything on four wheels with his vision of attending law school, Nour Habliza continues to drive full speed ahead toward his future. As an undergraduate at Western, Habliza refused to let the pandemic get in his way: he found a n …
A racquetball. A condom. A plastic cup. To Dr. Nicholas Power, these random objects may help urostomy patients find a better quality of life. And now, thanks to a new Western innovation fellowship program, his idea may soon be reality.
What happens when the brightest high school students from across Canada come together in the spirit of science, innovation and entrepreneurship? You get new and inventive advancements and solutions for a wide variety complex issues, thanks to SHAD, which empowers...
At any given time, conversations can range from the next big entrepreneur, a collaboration on an arts project, a potential business startup or even a community initiative around mental health. And that’s exactly what former Western student Harpreet Zingh, and Harman...
Western professors John Leonard (Arts & Humanities) and Jesse Zhu (Engineering) have been awarded the 2016 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research.
This summer, Western, in collaboration with Fanshawe College, will host the 35th annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), from June 21-24. Many Western faculty have been long-time members of STLHE, Canada’s pre-eminent...
Western Libraries, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) disciplines, the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity and Engineering’s plans for a new building are among of the areas that will be receiving support through 2016-17 Operating and Capital Budgets...
Western will be spending $732.4 million in 2016-17 on infrastructure and utilities, scholarships and research initiatives, and creating a pedestrian-friendly and safe campus, among other initiatives. At the April 8 meeting, Western Senate voted in favour of advising...
Gareth Everard came to Western with thoughts of running track and becoming a dentist. He is doing neither one these days. He is, however, in the midst of cultivating his startup company, Rockwell Razors, whose current Kickstarter campaign sits at more than $198,000 as...
Sometimes, as a team of Western students can attest, it takes a new set of eyes on a problem to find a solution for the ears. The five-person team, including four Western students and an alumnus, created a winning commercialization plan for OtoTrain, a 3D digital...
Western isn’t playing around when it comes to game design as the university was named today among the top destinations in the world to study – and launch a career in – the popular discipline, according to The Princeton Review’s seventh annual rankings of the best...
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...
A racquetball. A condom. A plastic cup. To Dr. Nicholas Power, these random objects may help urostomy patients find a better quality of life. And now, thanks to a new Western innovation fellowship program, his idea may soon be reality.
What happens when the brightest high school students from across Canada come together in the spirit of science, innovation and entrepreneurship? You get new and inventive advancements and solutions for a wide variety complex issues, thanks to SHAD, which empowers...
At any given time, conversations can range from the next big entrepreneur, a collaboration on an arts project, a potential business startup or even a community initiative around mental health. And that’s exactly what former Western student Harpreet Zingh, and Harman...
Western professors John Leonard (Arts & Humanities) and Jesse Zhu (Engineering) have been awarded the 2016 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research.
This summer, Western, in collaboration with Fanshawe College, will host the 35th annual conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), from June 21-24. Many Western faculty have been long-time members of STLHE, Canada’s pre-eminent...
Western Libraries, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) disciplines, the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity and Engineering’s plans for a new building are among of the areas that will be receiving support through 2016-17 Operating and Capital Budgets...
Western will be spending $732.4 million in 2016-17 on infrastructure and utilities, scholarships and research initiatives, and creating a pedestrian-friendly and safe campus, among other initiatives. At the April 8 meeting, Western Senate voted in favour of advising...
Gareth Everard came to Western with thoughts of running track and becoming a dentist. He is doing neither one these days. He is, however, in the midst of cultivating his startup company, Rockwell Razors, whose current Kickstarter campaign sits at more than $198,000 as...
Sometimes, as a team of Western students can attest, it takes a new set of eyes on a problem to find a solution for the ears. The five-person team, including four Western students and an alumnus, created a winning commercialization plan for OtoTrain, a 3D digital...
Western isn’t playing around when it comes to game design as the university was named today among the top destinations in the world to study – and launch a career in – the popular discipline, according to The Princeton Review’s seventh annual rankings of the best...
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...