By Jennifer O’Brien, Special to Western Communications Except for the edge of her tortoise-shell glasses, you can’t see much of Tricia Johnson’s face during her first video for her online art class. You’re looking over her shoulder, watching he …
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Leith awarded Botswana’s Presidential Order
Professor emeritus Clark Leith was awarded Botswana’s Presidential Order of Meritorious Service on Sept. 30. The award was given out during the country’s Independence Day celebrations and recognizes Leith’s years of service with the Ministry of Finance and Development...
McBean heads International Council for Science
Western Geography professor Gordon McBean assumed the role of president of the International Council for Science at the conclusion of the organization’s General Assembly last month. McBean is only the second Canadian to take up this office. In his inaugural address,...
Elite student kept in tune with industry
While growing up in the Netherlands, Koen Tholhuijsen spent countless hours in his father’s workshop. “As an electrician, he had a lot of tools hanging around. As a kid, I was extremely good at breaking stuff,” said the 25-year old. “I would always try and fix things...
Advanced lessons in basic training
The dusty and sweaty trails of the Canadian Forces Base Borden, just north of Barrie, Ont., might just be the last place you’d expect to find business students. But for one week this past summer, close to 40 Ivey Business School students where put through their paces...
Student uses elite program to reclaim past
While discovering her own story, Shyra Barberstock has helped others reclaim theirs. Last month, the fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student returned from the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at the Coady...
Western students top international academic competition
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, have been named among the international winners of The Undergraduate Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing top undergraduate work. Through the competition, student work in 25...
Exoplanet hunter brings search to Western
Sara Seager will keep searching, because she has no other choice. “The belief there is ‘something else,’ something else beyond the tedium of our daily lives, whether people express that through religion, belief in UFOs or the desire to find intelligent life in the...
One class finds meaning half a world away
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started five years ago. Western News asked three students...
Geography PhD candidate named among Storytellers finalists
Marylynn Steckley doesn’t want this to turn into American Idol. Her research, she stresses, is a collective effort – larger than any one competition’s winner. “My work is really just a small contribution to the work many Haitian activists and social movements are...
Young: Referendum over; issues still linger for Scotland
The mood, it would seem, changed overnight in Scotland. “People were talking about the referendum everywhere – they would encounter each other at bus stops and strike up conversations. They’d meet in a pub and immediately start talking, mostly in a very circumspect...
Western addressing copyright in shifting national landscape
When Western, along with the University of Toronto, severed ties with Access Copyright, a not-for-profit organization representing copyright owners, the move to overhaul the university’s copyright policy on its own was decried by some and cheered by others, although...
Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage
When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...
Leith awarded Botswana’s Presidential Order
Professor emeritus Clark Leith was awarded Botswana’s Presidential Order of Meritorious Service on Sept. 30. The award was given out during the country’s Independence Day celebrations and recognizes Leith’s years of service with the Ministry of Finance and Development...
McBean heads International Council for Science
Western Geography professor Gordon McBean assumed the role of president of the International Council for Science at the conclusion of the organization’s General Assembly last month. McBean is only the second Canadian to take up this office. In his inaugural address,...
Elite student kept in tune with industry
While growing up in the Netherlands, Koen Tholhuijsen spent countless hours in his father’s workshop. “As an electrician, he had a lot of tools hanging around. As a kid, I was extremely good at breaking stuff,” said the 25-year old. “I would always try and fix things...
Advanced lessons in basic training
The dusty and sweaty trails of the Canadian Forces Base Borden, just north of Barrie, Ont., might just be the last place you’d expect to find business students. But for one week this past summer, close to 40 Ivey Business School students where put through their paces...
Student uses elite program to reclaim past
While discovering her own story, Shyra Barberstock has helped others reclaim theirs. Last month, the fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student returned from the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at the Coady...
Western students top international academic competition
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, have been named among the international winners of The Undergraduate Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing top undergraduate work. Through the competition, student work in 25...
Exoplanet hunter brings search to Western
Sara Seager will keep searching, because she has no other choice. “The belief there is ‘something else,’ something else beyond the tedium of our daily lives, whether people express that through religion, belief in UFOs or the desire to find intelligent life in the...
One class finds meaning half a world away
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started five years ago. Western News asked three students...
Geography PhD candidate named among Storytellers finalists
Marylynn Steckley doesn’t want this to turn into American Idol. Her research, she stresses, is a collective effort – larger than any one competition’s winner. “My work is really just a small contribution to the work many Haitian activists and social movements are...
Young: Referendum over; issues still linger for Scotland
The mood, it would seem, changed overnight in Scotland. “People were talking about the referendum everywhere – they would encounter each other at bus stops and strike up conversations. They’d meet in a pub and immediately start talking, mostly in a very circumspect...
Western addressing copyright in shifting national landscape
When Western, along with the University of Toronto, severed ties with Access Copyright, a not-for-profit organization representing copyright owners, the move to overhaul the university’s copyright policy on its own was decried by some and cheered by others, although...
Western student making a splash on sport’s biggest stage
When Gamal Assaad doesn’t have his head buried in his Mechanical Engineering books, you’re likely to find the second-year student in the pool. A rookie swimmer last year, Assaad quickly made a name for himself as a Mustang, capturing three Top 8 finishes at the CIS...