Western University has been made aware of a number of images, symbols and slogans that were shared by Western community members through social media over the past weekend. Specifically images of a banner with the slogan ‘Western Lives Matter’ has produced outrage and...
Western University’s popular complimentary lecture series, Classes Without Quizzes, returns for a new season on October 6, as political science professor and co-director of Western’s Leadership and Democracy Lab Peter Ferguson presents, “The Crazy American Election:...
With countless hours dedicated each week to class time, course work, online gaming and binge watching videos on Netflix and YouTube, most university students spend a lot of time sitting. While that doesn't sound overly harmful, extended periods of time sitting is...
Western students now have a central, safe, supportive environment to access even more health and wellness resources thanks to a donation of $1 million from the Fairmount Foundation. Western University’s Wellness Education Centre (WEC), which opened earlier this year...
The Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC) has received $300,000 from the Ontario Government to support sexual violence and harassment training projects for campus frontline workers. CREVAWC, located at Western’s Faculty of...
Science Literacy Week highlights Canada's outstanding scientists and science communicators from coast-to-coast. The goals are to showcase the excellence and diversity of Canadian science and to show how exciting science is. As part of the national festivities, Western...
Western University today announced the appointment of Jim Weese to the role of Special Advisor to the Provost with interim responsibility for Sport and Recreation Services (SRS), effective January 1, 2017. In this capacity, Weese will oversee a review of SRS that will...
Strengthening parents' ability to communicate with their autistic children has not only greatly benefited a number of Ontario families but it's also landed a Western University student a major international prize. Mary Wang, a fourth-year Medical Sciences student, was...
With the much-debated assisted-dying bill C-14 now law, Western University is inviting community members to attend a lecture and panel discussion which will address the ethical, legal and health care outcomes of the new law. The two-part event will begin with a...
Warming forces have caused millennia of dryness in California's prehistory, and greenhouses gases could do the same. Clues from prehistoric arid periods in California show that today's increasing greenhouse gas levels could lock the state into drought for centuries,...
Thérèse Quigley, one of the most respected and decorated athletic leaders in all of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), announced her retirement today as Western University's Director of Sports and Recreation Services effective December 31, 2016. "Western has been...
Actor, writer, science advocate, and director are just a few of Alan Alda’s many job titles. On November 10, 2016 he will join scientists, researchers and community members for the 2016 Leaders in Innovation Dinner hosted by Western University’s Robarts Research...
