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Western Education receives funding for cannabis education

Western Education receives funding for cannabis education

Western University’s Faculty of Education has received $99,000 from the Public Health Agency of Canada to work with stakeholders on identifying and scaling up effective school-based interventions that are aimed at promoting positive youth development and preventing...

Immigrant and refugee youth turn to Western Music to cross borders

Immigrant and refugee youth turn to Western Music to cross borders

Six months ago, some of them had never picked up a musical instrument. Now, a multicultural, seven-member music ensemble composed of immigrant and refugee youth will perform a concert as part of this year’s London Fringe Festival. Led by Gabriela Ocadiz Velazquez, a...

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

OTTAWA, ON, May 16, 2018 – Western University has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will...

Western’s Vladimir Hachinski wins 2018 Killam Prize

Western’s Vladimir Hachinski wins 2018 Killam Prize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvxHDXD4Tnw Western University’s Vladimir Hachinski – past president of the World Federation of Neurology and a world-renowned stroke expert – is a 2018 Killam Prize winner for health sciences. The Canada Council for the Arts announced...

Andrew Hrymak named Western’s next Provost

Andrew Hrymak named Western’s next Provost

One of Western University's longest-serving deans has been tapped to lead the academic and budgetary affairs of the institution into the future. Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak was named Provost & Vice-President (Academic) for the term August 1, 2018 to...

TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Wharncliffe Road closed on Saturday, April 28th

TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Wharncliffe Road closed on Saturday, April 28th

Western University students, faculty and staff are being advised of a construction project that will be disrupting normal traffic flow on Saturday, April 28th from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wharncliffe Road, north of Oxford Street, will be closed for the day as the temporary...