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Western’s new Alice Munro Chair in Creativity wants to connect students with a key principle of making art: the simple pleasure of creating.Award-winning author and best-selling writer Sheila Heti knows a little something about harnessing…

The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of Saturday, August 12 and continue into the early hours of August 13, and conditions are shaping up for a stunning display, said Western meteor investigator Denis Vida. The new Moon,…

A PhD and a post-doctoral student at Western have been named among the recipients of the 2023 Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award. Conferred by the Council of Ontario Universities the award recognizes groundbreaking research on women’s…

In the blockbuster 1996 movie Twister, meteorologists successfully deployed small weather sensors into the heart of an active tornado to collect data and revolutionize severe weather safety.Previously the stuff of legend, a researcher…

Western will host the eighth annual Building Reconciliation Forum next week, bringing together experts and those eager to learn under the theme “Education for Reconciliation: Rebuilding stronger and with intentionality.” From oral…

A new workshop as part of Western’s Excellence in Leadership program is helping equip leaders with skills and perspectives to cultivate inclusion on their teams and across campus. A partnership between Western Human Resources and the…

An international team of scientists have used data collected by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to detect for the first time ever a molecule known as methyl cation (CH3+), located in the protoplanetary disc surrounding a young…

The moment a pitcher unleashes a fastball in the direction of Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette in a professional baseball game, the crowd at Rogers Centre hopes something special is about to happen. But while they can’t predict it,…

Western rose dramatically in this year’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, climbing to 114 overall out of nearly 1,500 institutions. It marks Western’s highest-ever position in the QS World University Rankings, released…

For Margaret Atsango, it’s a “dream come true.” The senior librarian of Africana collections and services at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has waited three years to visit Western to learn new skills from…