A thriving campus needs thriving educators. And, as several Western student-affairs professionals recently discovered, thriving educators need each other. Throughout an academic year rife with change and challenge due to the pandemic, they gathered onli …
Social Science
Job-seeker evolving beyond the resume
Nevermind trying to spruce up that cover letter to get a potential employer’s attention. Just do what Dennis Mazajlo is doing.
Funeral services set for student
The Western community is mourning the death of John Petros Stathopoulos, a Faculty of Social Science student, who died Tuesday, Feb. 28.
UPDATE – Celebration of life set for student
The life of Carson Edwin Shipp will be celebrated on Monday, Feb. 27 in Toronto. During the time of the celebration, Western will lower the flag on University College in the Social Science student’s honour. While the Shipp family appreciates the support of the Western community, the celebration event is intended for family and invited guests only.
Helping students cast a long ‘shadow’ on job market
Although some students rely on ‘best guesses’ concerning choices of study at university, research indicates many select academics based on interests and skill sets. Interest, however, is related to experience and exposure.
Western helping numbers add up
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Newsmakers 2011
How will we remember 2011? Probably through these faces.
The Western News’ 2011 Newsmakers section celebrates the best of research, academia and volunteer spirit that we have to offer on this campus. The following spotlight, in brief words and striking images, the accomplishments of some of our favourites from the last year.
Campus Digest, Dec. 8
Western News deadlines for 2012 Today’s Western News edition represents the semester’s final. We’ll return on Thursday, Jan. 5. Coming events and advertising deadline for that edition, the first of 2012, is noon Thursday, Dec. 15. UWOFA announces scholarship winners...
‘Almost Einstein’: One professor’s journey from prodigy to philosophy
John Bell has been described as ‘potentially one step below Einstein.’
Parr nabs Edelstein Prize, latest honour for ‘Sensing Changes’
Joy Parr’s timely and prescient perspective on how humans make sense of the world in the face of rapid change has garnered her the Edelstein Prize, awarded to the top scholarly book on the history of technology published over the last three years.
Making clean air a matter of child’s play
Janet Loebach and Sarah McCans hope clean air around one schoolyard will be child’s play.
Opening the mind: Western research expands access, lowers cost to revolutionary treatment
By using more portable and affordable means, Damian Cruse, a postdoctoral fellow at Western’s Brain and Mind Institute, plans to bring his research to the bedside. And for those locked in a vegetative state, it could mean an opportunity to once again communicate with family and friends.
Immigration defines Canada, not just its politics
At the height of the recent provincial election, the nation’s economic struggles were at the forefront of debate. When an ‘Us vs. Them’ mentality began to rear its head, one student couldn’t help but notice its impact on Canada’s longstanding multicultural identity.
Job-seeker evolving beyond the resume
Nevermind trying to spruce up that cover letter to get a potential employer’s attention. Just do what Dennis Mazajlo is doing.
Funeral services set for student
The Western community is mourning the death of John Petros Stathopoulos, a Faculty of Social Science student, who died Tuesday, Feb. 28.
UPDATE – Celebration of life set for student
The life of Carson Edwin Shipp will be celebrated on Monday, Feb. 27 in Toronto. During the time of the celebration, Western will lower the flag on University College in the Social Science student’s honour. While the Shipp family appreciates the support of the Western community, the celebration event is intended for family and invited guests only.
Helping students cast a long ‘shadow’ on job market
Although some students rely on ‘best guesses’ concerning choices of study at university, research indicates many select academics based on interests and skill sets. Interest, however, is related to experience and exposure.
Western helping numbers add up
To Ivan Fellegi, the numbers simply don’t work out. And if anyone knows numbers, it’s Ivan Fellegi.
Newsmakers 2011
How will we remember 2011? Probably through these faces.
The Western News’ 2011 Newsmakers section celebrates the best of research, academia and volunteer spirit that we have to offer on this campus. The following spotlight, in brief words and striking images, the accomplishments of some of our favourites from the last year.
Campus Digest, Dec. 8
Western News deadlines for 2012 Today’s Western News edition represents the semester’s final. We’ll return on Thursday, Jan. 5. Coming events and advertising deadline for that edition, the first of 2012, is noon Thursday, Dec. 15. UWOFA announces scholarship winners...
‘Almost Einstein’: One professor’s journey from prodigy to philosophy
John Bell has been described as ‘potentially one step below Einstein.’
Parr nabs Edelstein Prize, latest honour for ‘Sensing Changes’
Joy Parr’s timely and prescient perspective on how humans make sense of the world in the face of rapid change has garnered her the Edelstein Prize, awarded to the top scholarly book on the history of technology published over the last three years.
Making clean air a matter of child’s play
Janet Loebach and Sarah McCans hope clean air around one schoolyard will be child’s play.
Opening the mind: Western research expands access, lowers cost to revolutionary treatment
By using more portable and affordable means, Damian Cruse, a postdoctoral fellow at Western’s Brain and Mind Institute, plans to bring his research to the bedside. And for those locked in a vegetative state, it could mean an opportunity to once again communicate with family and friends.
Immigration defines Canada, not just its politics
At the height of the recent provincial election, the nation’s economic struggles were at the forefront of debate. When an ‘Us vs. Them’ mentality began to rear its head, one student couldn’t help but notice its impact on Canada’s longstanding multicultural identity.