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Expert insight: How to see feedback as a gift

Expert insight: How to see feedback as a gift

Imagine you’re awaiting important feedback. For professionals, this could be a performance appraisal from your boss. For students, it could be written comments and a grade on an important paper. For many people, this waiting period involves dread, anx …

Prévost-Manuel named CBC Donaldson Scholar

Prévost-Manuel named CBC Donaldson Scholar

Master’s in Journalism & Communication Jade Prévost-Manuel is one of eight journalism students across Canada selected receive the Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship. The 23-year-old will begin a four-month placement in Toronto this May.

Asper Fellow eyes nuance, context in knee-jerk world

Asper Fellow eyes nuance, context in knee-jerk world

Social media has its place in the debate. But when audiences seek answers to larger questions – Where are we? How did we get here? – veteran Canadian journalist Hannah Sung argues that podcasts offer a unique way of elevating the conversation above the noise.

Migrants speak in many ways through project

Migrants speak in many ways through project

The Reverie Project is a multi-channel exhibition that shares video portraits of 20 people in a migrant community in Geneva, Switzerland ­– a city that is also home of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the international treaty that defines who a refugee is and sets out the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum.

McClelland, Kopacz named to Mayor’s List

McClelland, Kopacz named to Mayor’s List

This year’s annual Mayor of London Honours List boasted some ‘purple pride’ as alumni Arthur McClelland and Alex Kopacz were honoured by London Mayor Ed Holder.

Remember 30: The École Polytechnique Massacre

Remember 30: The École Polytechnique Massacre

It stands among the darkest days in Canadian history. On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history. Twelve engineering students. One nursing student. One university...

Remember 30: Power of the medium

Remember 30: Power of the medium

I’ve been a feminist for a long time, but to see something like that, to see someone take such a violent response to the fact women were having the audacity to study what this man thought was a male-oriented pursuit, like engineering, was completely shocking to me.

UWOFA honours students at scholarship event

UWOFA honours students at scholarship event

The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties at an event Wednesday afternoon in The Great Hall.

Alumnae named among Canada’s Most Powerful

Alumnae named among Canada’s Most Powerful

Eleven Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2019 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.

‘Silence’ playing on a loop

‘Silence’ playing on a loop

You’ll stop and wonder if that is exactly what Paul and Art meant by ‘Silence’ when Information and Media Studies professor Nadine Wathen takes her turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

Music Hall celebrates Smoke for lifetime in song

Music Hall celebrates Smoke for lifetime in song

Mary Lou Smoke was surprised enough to learn she was being inducted into the Forest City London Music Hall of Fame. But she never could have imagined the text she received on her way to accept her Lifetime Achievement Award.