Sepsis. A Canadian soldier wounded at Vimy Ridge. Historical women in varsity sports. Those topics and more – meticulously researched using the library and archival resources at Western – earned undergraduate students Nicole Bussey, Victoria Chechul …
Students, consider the Western Smartphone Film Festival (WSFF), coming in January, your chance to take more than a selfie.
Today’s graduates have great potential to realize a collective responsibility and leave a legacy of hope for future Canadians, said Rebecca Jamieson, President and CEO of Six Nations Polytechnic.
Nobody ever expected a former wrestler, defensive tackle and door-to-door tree and shrub salesman to be installed one day as a university chancellor. But Jack Cowin, BA’64, LLD’00, accomplished just that a half century after his own Convocation .
There was a bit of a delayed reaction when Betty Wang won an RBC Students Leading Change Scholarship this past summer.
Four Western professors and a King’s University College professor have been named among the 48 new members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
A leading critic of Bill C-51 brings his arguments to Western as the keynote of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Rogers Chair Lecture Series. University of Ottawa Law professor Craig Forcese’s lecture, Bill C-51 and Knock-on Effects on Surveillance...
Editor’s note: It hasn’t been a good year for public stupidity. In May, a Hydro One employee was fired for on-air harassment of a television reporter following a professional soccer game. Soon afterward, a TC Transcontinental employee was suspended after heckling a...
Canadian women have proven throughout this country’s history that real change, even revolutionary change, isn’t as simple as clicking a button, said Judy Erola, former politician and broadcaster.
Mark Rayner is hilarious. But channeling that personal humour – apparent to many in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) professor’s classroom – onto the page requires more skill than many may realize. Western News book reviewer Kane Faucher recently...
Western researchers will be at the forefront of preventing, detecting and combating family violence and child abuse as part of a 10-year, $100-million investment by the federal government. PreVAiL – Preventing Violence Across the Lifespan Research Network – will serve...
Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges Edited by Carolyn McLeod and Francoise Baylis With the advent of new reproductive technologies, and the wider acceptance of same-sex families, has also come with an array of new options – and ethical considerations – in...
When he worked for the Associated Press (AP), as a journalist at the outlet’s New Delhi bureau in India, Saumava Mitra got a call for a story – there was a riot underway. Riots in India generally mean one thing, explained the Media Studies PhD student at Western. It’s...