Chantelle Richmond’s research and teaching is guided by three R’s: respect, relationships and reciprocity. Richmond recently reflected on these principles, rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, as a panelist at the 2021 annual public meeting of the …
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 .
Four Western PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients, across all three Tri-Council Agencies, of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Franz Boas “had his hand in every pie in town.”
Allie Sherwin was barely a toddler when her mom, Susan, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Nearly two decades later, her mom is dealing with primary progressive MS – meaning there are no relapses or remissions on the horizon, only a steady progression of the...
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.
Western professor Victoria Esses stressed that our nature is to help. “People want to do something, but they need a solution,” said the Director of Western’s Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations. “Sometimes, if you’re bombarded with information and,...
Presenting the winners of the 2015 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.
It’s a double homecoming, of sorts, for new Social Science Dean Bob Andersen. He is returning to the Forest City, where he was born and raised. Actually, he never left, as he has commuted to his last job as Distinguished Professor of Social Science and chair of the...
Follow @norm on Twitter and you’ll find out he’s a defender of Toronto; Drake’s self-proclaimed guardian angel; Mrs. Kelly’s favourite son; and not related to American R&B singer R. Kelly. He also really wants to know why some of you keep calling him ‘dad.’...
Sociology PhD student Natahnee Nuay Winder considers her next opportunity a chance to continue the work started by a renowned Native American educator more than 75 years ago.
Study explored to what extent parental well-being around the transition to parenthood can help to explain why so many couples end up having only one child, when the modal number of desired children is two.
Sociology professor emeritus Roderic Beaujot recently received the 2015 Lifetime Contribution Award, presented by the Canadian Population Society. The Lifetime Contribution Award recognizes “a Canadian scholar every two years who has shown outstanding commitment to...