When Vanessa Ambtman-Smith first arrived at Western, she recalls feeling “the gloom and doom of the statistics around Indigenous Peoples having the poorest health of any population in Canada.” She credits professor and Canada Research Chair Chantell …
Geography and Environment
Climate change action course earns national award
The program, recognized for its ‘collaborative innovation’, will be free to the public this fall
Western announces 2022-23 teaching award recipients
Awardees recognized for ‘outstanding contributions’ to academic development of students
Entrepreneurial spirit activated: Companies nurtured at Western ‘provide value to the world’
Students and grads starting businesses receive free support and resources from Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, Powered by Ivey
Taking to the skies: The novel approach reshaping how real estate economics is understood
How Western researchers used remote sensing to better understand our cities
Gordon McBean honoured by world’s largest scientific society for work on climate change
American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes renowned professor and climatologist for international leadership, communicating climate change
For new geography professor, working with local communities ‘is a dream’
Cortney Golkar-Dakin has researched energy impact assessment on Indigenous communities
Noted Indigenous scholar inducted into the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Chantelle Richmond integrates Indigenous ways of knowing into research
Millions at risk as drylands degrade, finds study
Climate change, population pressures hit earth’s largest biome
Study underscores need for food literacy, national school food program
Western’s HEAL survey shows kids with higher food knowledge likely to eat more fruit, vegetables
Fulbright student award recipient furthers ‘instapoet’ research at Duke
Tanja Grubnic one of five Western community members selected to Canada-U.S. exchange program, including visiting Killam fellow from Hawaii
Western expert says flooding in Pakistan is ‘a disaster not seen before’
Professor emeritus Slobodan Simonovic answers questions on the flooding in Pakistan and the impact of climate change
Western 1st in Canada, 3rd in world in global impact, sustainability rankings
Times Higher Education grades universities’ efforts to match UN Sustainable Development Goals
Climate change action course earns national award
The program, recognized for its ‘collaborative innovation’, will be free to the public this fall
Western announces 2022-23 teaching award recipients
Awardees recognized for ‘outstanding contributions’ to academic development of students
Entrepreneurial spirit activated: Companies nurtured at Western ‘provide value to the world’
Students and grads starting businesses receive free support and resources from Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship, Powered by Ivey
Taking to the skies: The novel approach reshaping how real estate economics is understood
How Western researchers used remote sensing to better understand our cities
Gordon McBean honoured by world’s largest scientific society for work on climate change
American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes renowned professor and climatologist for international leadership, communicating climate change
For new geography professor, working with local communities ‘is a dream’
Cortney Golkar-Dakin has researched energy impact assessment on Indigenous communities
Noted Indigenous scholar inducted into the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Chantelle Richmond integrates Indigenous ways of knowing into research
Millions at risk as drylands degrade, finds study
Climate change, population pressures hit earth’s largest biome
Study underscores need for food literacy, national school food program
Western’s HEAL survey shows kids with higher food knowledge likely to eat more fruit, vegetables
Fulbright student award recipient furthers ‘instapoet’ research at Duke
Tanja Grubnic one of five Western community members selected to Canada-U.S. exchange program, including visiting Killam fellow from Hawaii
Western expert says flooding in Pakistan is ‘a disaster not seen before’
Professor emeritus Slobodan Simonovic answers questions on the flooding in Pakistan and the impact of climate change
Western 1st in Canada, 3rd in world in global impact, sustainability rankings
Times Higher Education grades universities’ efforts to match UN Sustainable Development Goals