Western engineering students traded lecture halls for laboratories halfway across the world, immersing themselves in cutting-edge research and a new culture for three months this summer. Fourth-year biochemical engineering student Alyssa Forbes and chemic …
Microbiology and Immunology professor Gregor Reid wants to revolutionize the way Western Heads East delivers its life-saving yogurt to the people who need it most. Since 2004, Western Heads East has been a grassroots Western-based program focusing on health and...
Over the last four years, there has been a lot of talk on Western’s campus about internationalization. As I wrote in a previous edition of Western News, international scholarship and partnerships have always been important to our community. Indeed, one only needs to...
Western students are being asked to answer the challenge yet again. Sponsored by Western International, the second annual World’s Challenge Challenge brings together teams of three students to choose a problem that the world is facing, and present and innovative...
A new year brings new looks, as Western ushers in a fresh academic term with numerous changes – both completed and ongoing – across its campus. Topping the list, Western officials are encouraging commuters to turn off their ‘autopilots’ as a major change to how...
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Next week, the Great Hall at Western will be transformed into an East African market and art sale showcasing local talent as well as Tanzanian and Kenyan crafters.
For Western Heads East, an upcoming 10th anniversary celebration is the fruit of a lamentation that mobilized the campus community to action.
Stephanie Hayne Beatty has many tales of transformation she could share. At least a thousand, in fact.
Award-winning researcher Julie McMullin has been appointed to a five-year term as Western’s first-ever vice-provost, international, commencing June 1.
Western professor Dr. Gregor Reid and his Lawson Health Research Institute team have been named Grand Challenges Explorations winners, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The researchers, one of only three Canadian recipients, are the first London, Ont.-based team ever to receive the award.
It was with great pleasure I learned a few weeks ago Henri Boyi received the Western Humanitarian Award. I nominated Henri for the award last semester during my short stint as acting chair of the Department of French Studies, and unlike the many small and not-so-small duties one has to do in that role, I felt this was one that really meant something, especially if it was going to be successful.
Marianne Larsen admits she gets ‘that feeling’ when she knows something is right. And it was ‘that feeling’ which stirred the emotions in the Faculty of Education professor to make a make a $1.06 million donation to Western Heads East.