A multidisciplinary team at Western has received $400,000 from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop educational programming that aims to excite youth about space exploration and inspire them to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and …
Each year, the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) awards scholarships to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties at the university. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the university community. Winners were honoured at an event Monday in the Dr. David S. Chu International Student Centre, Western Student Services Building.
The third annual Postdoctoral Research Forum, Thursday, Nov. 28, in the Great Hall, was created by the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, to foster scientific interaction, interdepartmental collaboration and garner greater exposure and recognition for the postdoctoral scholars’ invaluable work.
Today’s graduates must embrace the unknown and the lessons it will bring, said journalist Adrienne Arsenault.
Morgan Nordstrom is a brave man. How many other 19-year-olds do you know shave with a 200-year-old straight razor?
Western defines excellence in many ways, but recognizes it with one award – the Western Award of Excellence.
Eight Western graduate students have been named recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering and/or health sciences.
What do the wildly fluctuating temperatures we experience today do to insects? How do pesticides affect hibernation? And how do crickets, whose song reminds so many of summer days and autumn nights, shut their metabolism down in the winter?
Flora Jung of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in Waterloo and Blake VanBerlo of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London have been named the two Western-bound recipients of the 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship, a program that supports undergraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Graduates must remember there are more things left to learn and that often “searching is better than finding,” said Arto Salomaa, one of the world’s most influential computer scientists and a key figure in formal language and automata theory.
The pursuit of one’s passions, with the help of good mentorship, will shape legacies of graduates today, said Peeyush Lala, professor emeritus and past chair of Western’s Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
Graduates must not be preoccupied with ‘priorities of the moment’ while ignoring the consequences of inaction tomorrow, said Robert Janes, museums and important social institutions advocate.
Jennifer Irwin, Faculty of Health Sciences, M. J. Kidnie, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Anita Woods, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Mitsume Fukui, not pictured, Arts & Humanities, were named as recipients of the University Students’ Council (USC) Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the 22nd annual USC Award Ceremony. This ceremony celebrates the achievements of top students and faculty.
Each year, the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) awards scholarships to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties at the university. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the university community. Winners were honoured at an event Monday in the Dr. David S. Chu International Student Centre, Western Student Services Building.
The third annual Postdoctoral Research Forum, Thursday, Nov. 28, in the Great Hall, was created by the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, to foster scientific interaction, interdepartmental collaboration and garner greater exposure and recognition for the postdoctoral scholars’ invaluable work.
Today’s graduates must embrace the unknown and the lessons it will bring, said journalist Adrienne Arsenault.
Morgan Nordstrom is a brave man. How many other 19-year-olds do you know shave with a 200-year-old straight razor?
Western defines excellence in many ways, but recognizes it with one award – the Western Award of Excellence.
Eight Western graduate students have been named recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering and/or health sciences.
What do the wildly fluctuating temperatures we experience today do to insects? How do pesticides affect hibernation? And how do crickets, whose song reminds so many of summer days and autumn nights, shut their metabolism down in the winter?
Flora Jung of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School in Waterloo and Blake VanBerlo of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London have been named the two Western-bound recipients of the 2013 Schulich Leader Scholarship, a program that supports undergraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Graduates must remember there are more things left to learn and that often “searching is better than finding,” said Arto Salomaa, one of the world’s most influential computer scientists and a key figure in formal language and automata theory.
The pursuit of one’s passions, with the help of good mentorship, will shape legacies of graduates today, said Peeyush Lala, professor emeritus and past chair of Western’s Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
Graduates must not be preoccupied with ‘priorities of the moment’ while ignoring the consequences of inaction tomorrow, said Robert Janes, museums and important social institutions advocate.
Jennifer Irwin, Faculty of Health Sciences, M. J. Kidnie, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Anita Woods, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Mitsume Fukui, not pictured, Arts & Humanities, were named as recipients of the University Students’ Council (USC) Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the 22nd annual USC Award Ceremony. This ceremony celebrates the achievements of top students and faculty.