It was a year marked by momentum at Western. Punctuated by standout research achievements, community and industry partnerships and global impact, the Western community demonstrated excellence throughout 2025. Students, staff, faculty and …
Western Libraries
Elephantine chant book dates to 1600
Newly acquired volume bears ‘fingerprints of 400 years’ of music history
El Salvador research project receives major grant
Western researcher leads collaborative project to document civil war memories.
‘Thriving Educators’ cultivate caring campus community
As Western’s student affairs professionals learned how best to support students, they found support in each other.
Scholarship@Western reaches 10 million downloads
The free-to-all electronic repository includes research in more than 1,100 disciplines
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
Alumnus John A. Schweitzer donates $4 million in art to Western
Montreal-based artist hopes to inspire others to give
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.”