Assessing and upgrading ventilation systems part of plans for an in-person fall
Student Experience
‘Thriving Educators’ cultivate caring campus community
As Western’s student affairs professionals learned how best to support students, they found support in each other.
A path for return to sport this fall
Sights are set on providing competition for the 2021-22 OUA season.
Safety first: Western mandates vaccinations for students in residence
The university is preparing for a full return to in-person classes this fall.
Inspiring Minds: Helping Western graduate students tell stories, hone skills
Master’s and doctoral students are invited to share their research in 150 words, with a chance to heighten the profile of their work
Building plans aim to beautify, modernize Western’s campus
Projects slated for 2021-2022 include a new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre and an Indigenous Learning Centre
Summer internship programs aim to help students and faculty
Up to 400 positions available, including 300 undergraduate research internships
Variants of concern, rising COVID cases prompt Western to take further action
Most classes and exams move online, students encouraged to leave residence.
Western implements additional measures to prevent spread of COVID-19
Increase in regional case counts reflected on campus
Western adopts report recommendations to improve accessibility
Establishing a student advisory committee and hiring an accessibility engagement coordinator are among immediate actions.
Western plans return to in-person classes this September
“We expect to return to face-to-face instruction, and more of the on-campus experiences we all love, this coming September,” said President Alan Shepard.
Western’s Lambton Hall to become a first-year residence in September
The conversion of upper-year student apartments to suite-style residences will help fulfill the university’s guarantee of residence space to first-year students who want it.
5G network opens new avenues for research and student support
The super-fast, smart network enables new research and can help students thrive at Western.
Competition augments local reality with environmentalism
A new competition for Western students is designed to create an augmented-reality version of London locales, with an environmental twist.
Pivots pay off for undergraduate applications
Personal connections key to Western’s recruitment strategy
Indigenous Learning Fund recipients named
Four projects funded for fostering Indigenous learning and community partnerships
The year that was … completely unpredictable
2020 at Western will forever be known as a watershed.
Year in review: Parr, partnerships, pace-setters
A raft of gifts and investments showed faith in the quality and support of Western and its people.
Year in review: The new language of COVID
“Because of COVID” became shorthand for the myriad ways we became experts in the art of the pivot.
Western supporting students following Saugeen-Maitland Hall COVID-19 outbreak
The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) has declared a COVID-19 outbreak in Saugeen-Maitland Hall residence, where there are currently eight confirmed positive cases.