A new app making thousands of historical photos – captured from the skies – accessible to the public with just a few clicks will offer a unique glimpse into southwestern Ontario’s past. Watch as Highway 401 radically develops the south end of Lo …
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Summer internship programs aim to help students and faculty
Up to 400 positions available, including 300 undergraduate research internships
Digital mapping uncovers hidden histories
Researchers at the Huron Community History Centre and Western Libraries are uncovering hidden histories of area communities with a digital mapping project that shares places and the past.
Western experts talk tornadoes: predicting, mapping, protecting people and property
Tornado and extreme weather experts Greg Kopp and Dave Sills took part in a webcast on May 21, 2020 to discuss the upcoming tornado season and how to best detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada.
Archives preserving local pandemic memories
Western Libraries is gathering up memories and moments of the local community in a new project, ‘COVID-19 in London, Ontario: Capturing the local experience.’
‘Loyalist’ project teams up to map history
Travel back in time and across an ocean with the Loyalist Migrations mapping project, a joint research venture showcasing the power of geographic information systems (GIS) to communicate humanity’s “vastly complex history.”
Read. Watch. Listen. with Liz Sutherland
Take your mind off work, school, life and all the messy stuff in between when GIS Technical Specialist Liz Sutherland takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Photo collection offers bird’s-eye view of past
Most of the time, it is easy to forget that London didn’t always look the way it does now. Now, an online app spanning the past 100 years of aerial photography in London is helping us remember.
Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display
The slave life of the boy who renamed himself Jermain Wesley Loguen was filled with deprivation and abuse. His escape to Canada was equally harrowing. His hopes for finding a new life here – in what he’d believed would be freedom’s promised land – were thwarted by a society determined to keep him from success.
Exhibit revives memories of family, music and war
They were two of Austria’s brightest lights, the toast of Europe’s classical musical scene. But as war thrummed its ominous beat through Europe, neither their achievements nor their acclaim – nor even their very humanity – were enough to prevail against Nazi Germany’s plans to remove Jews from the planet.
Getting schooled on knowledge exchange
Western faculty, postdocs and other researchers are heading to class next week to better understand how they can get their ideas “out into the world” and into the hands of those who need it most.
Off-site book storage on temporary hold
The move of some materials at The D.B. Weldon Library to a storage and retrieval facility is on hold, following concerns from faculty members, President Alan Shepard told members of the Board of Governors Thursday.
Western leads celebration of Whitman legacy
Walt Whitman was everything to everyone – and so much of him still lives on at Western.
Summer internship programs aim to help students and faculty
Up to 400 positions available, including 300 undergraduate research internships
Digital mapping uncovers hidden histories
Researchers at the Huron Community History Centre and Western Libraries are uncovering hidden histories of area communities with a digital mapping project that shares places and the past.
Western experts talk tornadoes: predicting, mapping, protecting people and property
Tornado and extreme weather experts Greg Kopp and Dave Sills took part in a webcast on May 21, 2020 to discuss the upcoming tornado season and how to best detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada.
Archives preserving local pandemic memories
Western Libraries is gathering up memories and moments of the local community in a new project, ‘COVID-19 in London, Ontario: Capturing the local experience.’
‘Loyalist’ project teams up to map history
Travel back in time and across an ocean with the Loyalist Migrations mapping project, a joint research venture showcasing the power of geographic information systems (GIS) to communicate humanity’s “vastly complex history.”
Read. Watch. Listen. with Liz Sutherland
Take your mind off work, school, life and all the messy stuff in between when GIS Technical Specialist Liz Sutherland takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Photo collection offers bird’s-eye view of past
Most of the time, it is easy to forget that London didn’t always look the way it does now. Now, an online app spanning the past 100 years of aerial photography in London is helping us remember.
Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display
The slave life of the boy who renamed himself Jermain Wesley Loguen was filled with deprivation and abuse. His escape to Canada was equally harrowing. His hopes for finding a new life here – in what he’d believed would be freedom’s promised land – were thwarted by a society determined to keep him from success.
Exhibit revives memories of family, music and war
They were two of Austria’s brightest lights, the toast of Europe’s classical musical scene. But as war thrummed its ominous beat through Europe, neither their achievements nor their acclaim – nor even their very humanity – were enough to prevail against Nazi Germany’s plans to remove Jews from the planet.
Getting schooled on knowledge exchange
Western faculty, postdocs and other researchers are heading to class next week to better understand how they can get their ideas “out into the world” and into the hands of those who need it most.
Off-site book storage on temporary hold
The move of some materials at The D.B. Weldon Library to a storage and retrieval facility is on hold, following concerns from faculty members, President Alan Shepard told members of the Board of Governors Thursday.
Western leads celebration of Whitman legacy
Walt Whitman was everything to everyone – and so much of him still lives on at Western.