In Canada, intimate partner violence (IPV) is an epidemic. Approximately 44 per cent of women who have been in an intimate relationship – or about 6.2 million women aged 15 and older – have reported experiencing some form of psychological, physical or …
Often, it is chance that dictates your career’s path and graduates should be ready to embrace a multitude of unseen opportunities, said Chantal Hebert, national affairs reporter and political columnist for The Toronto Star.
NEW YORK — Western lecturer Mark A. Rayner’s satirical novel, ‘The Fridgularity,’ was the winner of the first annual IndieReader Discovery Award (IRDA) in the humour category.
Media Theory and Production student Jake Kislinsky won a Broadcast Educators Association of Canada award for his documentary, Western Charmed by English Prof, in the Best Audio Feature/Documentary category.
The Western community is mourning the death of Chinyere (Chi-Chi) Okonkwoh, a Faculty of Information and Media Studies student, who died Sunday, March 10 at her home in Nigeria after a lengthy illness.
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) awarded 36 scholarships to students from 11 Western faculties. The awards, funded by the UWOFA membership, were handed out at an event on Wednesday, Dec. 5 in the Great Hall, Somerville House.
Here’s a little secret: I mostly judge a book by its cover – despite what I’ve been taught in school. More specifically, I judge the font used on the cover. So trust me when I say that even if a book adorned with Comic Sans is a real page-turner, I just won’t be able to take it seriously.
It was far from your typical end-of-term essay assignment.
The meaning of ‘being’ has completely shifted in a digital world.
A key motivation for my work is a mixed sense of euphoria and deep concern. I am constantly adopting new technologies and testing various applications on the web. As I continue to dive into the digital realm, I developed a feeling of excitement, excitement to be part of a time of unprecedented technological transformation — the era of digital tools.
To truly realize the value of publicly funded research, a key priority of the coming years and decades will be to mobilize knowledge derived from scholarship for the public good.
I have to laugh silently (who laughs out loud in this crammed world of ours without bringing the lifebots?) when I look back to what my grandparents (too bad their brains exploded during the first Implant Wars — they were 35 years young, all five of them) called the ‘media cycle.’
You’ve been called in for a second interview for that job you really want.