News Archive
Weekend Wrap-up 2016
November 17, 2016
What a Reunion Weekend and Homecoming Saturday! Alumni, students and friends brought their purple pride to campus for the campus events.
Read the full articleHomecoming "Win Your Tuition" Winners
November 16, 2016
Homecoming "Win Your Tuition" Winners
Read the full articleQuigley: Believe in the power of sport
November 15, 2016
Quigley: Believe in the power of sport
Read the full articlePaul Soles, BA'53, stars in new CBC web series
November 3, 2016
Alum stars in CBC's My 90-Year-Old Roommate
Read the full articleTop Tweets and Instagram Posts from Fall 2016 Convocation
October 28, 2016
Top tweets and instagram posts from Fall 2016 Convocation
Read the full articleAlumni named to Top 20 Under 40 list
October 28, 2016
Alumni on Top 20 Under 40 list
Read the full articleMarketing Magazine names Western alumni to 30 Under 30 list
October 26, 2016
Marketing magazine names Western alumni to 30 Under 30 list
Read the full article96-year-old alumna still riding horses
October 21, 2016
Alumna Dinnie Greenway, BA’42, loves riding horses, and she's not letting a her age stop her. Recently, Greenway was profiled in a CBC News story.
Read the full articleAlumna rides challenging ‘River’ in production
October 19, 2016
Alumna Louise Pitre performs Joni Mitchell songs in River.
Read the full article2016 Alumni Award of Merit recipients
September 21, 2016
2016 Alumni Award of Merit recipients
Read the full articleYoung alumnus goes ‘West’ to find the world
August 19, 2016
Western alumnus John Yun, MMus ’12, recently landed a performance and associate conductor role in the international tour of West Side Story. This 40-plus-week tour will play major opera houses and theaters across Europe and Asia.
Read the full articleAlumna 'Pressed' into changing news delivery
August 11, 2016
Jacqueline Leung, who graduated from the Media, Information & Technoculture program in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies in 2007, founded Pressed News, a newsletter that delivers the day’s Top 5 news stories to its subscribers in a colloquial, accessible language.
Read the full articleDebut novel no longer a 'secret' for alumna
August 8, 2016
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s debut novel, Firsts, released in January, has been described by reviewers as “brave,” “gutsy” and “powerful.”
Read the full articleDan Shulman lending his voice to a generation
August 8, 2016
Dan Shulman prepares to announce a recent Blue Jays game in the Rogers Centre press box. Shulman, BSc’89 (Actuarial Sciences), is an ESPN play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball and NCAA Men’s College Basketball. Since 2011, he has been the voice of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball. Shulman has now added Sportsnet to his to-do list, calling 30 Blue Jays each of the next two seasons.
Read the full articleUnlocking the appeal of the escape room
August 8, 2016
Shawn Nagy, BA’14 (Psychology), and Emily Lyons, owners of Escape Canada on York Street, are working with Ivey Business School professor Ann Frost to use the facility for executive team building.
Read the full articleBest in show
June 27, 2016
Decades ago, Meen, MD’63, visited New York City to deliver a lecture for a canine education program. A Toronto-based psychiatrist, he was president of the Canadian Kennel Club at the time. His counterpart at the American Kennel Club, among the world’s most prestigious registries of purebred dogs, greeted Meen and wasted no words in introducing him to the class.
Read the full articleLeave your butterflies behind
June 27, 2016
As a young Bay Street executive, Sonja Salmon traveled the world, living her life out of suitcases. Really, really ugly suitcases.
Read the full articleJanet Bannister, HBA'92, continues to see opportunities after Kijiji success
June 27, 2016
Bannister, HBA’92, founded Kijiji Canada, which has become the largest and most visited classified site in the country. She later led Kijiji Global, which included businesses in Europe, the United States and Asia. Her success with the company was unparalleled and, at the height of it, she walked away.
Read the full articleTaking the leap
June 27, 2016
It’s now or never. That’s what a little voice inside his head said to Jason Soloway, BA’95, MA’99, approaching his 40th birthday. It’s now or never to move on from being a vice-president at New York’s Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and to dive headfirst into running restaurants, something Soloway wanted to accomplish before it was too late.
Read the full articleBuilding the perfect beast
June 27, 2016
Alex Paterson never wanted to control the beast; he simply wanted to keep it fed. And as a member of the Liberal Party’s digital campaign team during the 2015 Federal Election, he saw firsthand what that would take.
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