High school educator Lisa Anne Floyd recognized for advocacy in computer science learning for youth
Teaching
Leadership institute receives $3.5-million investment
New funding to build on leader character development programs
New summer program to help women pursue fund management career
Ivey’s Women in Asset Management course open to second-year undergrad students
Ivey students embark on Indigenous learning
New program provides first-years lesson on history, cultures
New data science program to develop workplace-ready skillset
Interdisciplinary program helps Western students meet rising demand for data scientists
Students to swim with basking sharks
Augmented reality brings deep-dive immersive learning to ocean ecosystems
Bringing open-source, sustainable tech to the fore
Interview with new John M. Thompson chair in information technology and innovation
From Cholera to COVID: New course melds past with present
Studying outbreaks of previous centuries, students gain context around uncertainty and change
Virtual life lessons
Ivey students gain more than business knowledge from African learning course
Western law prof to probe basketball abuse allegations
Richard McLaren also leading corruption investigation at international boxing body
Western professor makes history in new global role
Jun Li elected Comparative and International Education Society VP, president designate
Moving toward decolonizing the curriculum
New academic-development modules to support Western instructors in decolonizing their curriculum
Tutoring helps Western families and teacher candidates thrive
Novel program benefits 150 teacher candidates and more than 300 children
Western trio honoured with Distinguished University Professorships
Kim Baines, Glenn Bauman, and Deborah Laliberte-Rudman are being recognized for sustained excellence in scholarship
Western celebrates top teaching talent
Outstanding faculty members and a team of course designers are being honoured for excellence
Professor Wade Wright new author of ‘go-to’ law treatise
Law scholar Wade Wright is assuming authorship of Peter Hogg’s Constitutional Law of Canada, the leading work of its kind.
Project mines new frontiers in outer-space law
Science is outpacing policies for responsible resource extraction in space.
In Memoriam: Dr. Wesley Dunn, founding dean of Dentistry
Western University is mourning the passing of Dr. Wesley John Dunn, founding dean of Dentistry and a pillar of organized dentistry in Canada.
Donna Kotsopoulos to become new dean of Western’s Faculty of Education
Donna Kotsopoulos will begin her role as dean of the Faculty of Education in January 2021.
Nick Harney to become new dean of Western’s Faculty of Social Science
Nicholas (Nick) Harney will begin a five-year term as Faculty of Social Science dean in August 2021.