News Archive
Toy giant lends hand – and Banz – in COVID-19 fight
April 27, 2020
Global toys and games giant Spin Master – founded and led by three Western alumni – has diverted some of its efforts and materials into assembling protective face shields for health-care workers.
Read the full articleAlumna sends message from the front lines
April 27, 2020
Dr. Whitney Dillon, BSc’08, is a family physician in Virgil, Ont. and is currently working on the front lines at her local COVID-19 assessment centres.
Read the full articleFormer Mustang kicker signs with NFL’s Rams
April 16, 2020
Lirim Hajrullahu, BA'13, MA'15, recently inked a three-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams.
Read the full articleAlumni idea moves mitten plant to facemasks
March 31, 2020
Kevin Vuong, BMOS’11, and Larry Lau, BA’09, MBA’18, have launched TakeCare Supply, producing and selling facemasks to essential, non-health-care workers.
Read the full articleAlumnus bottling help, hand sanitizer for fight
March 26, 2020
Geoff Dillon, BSc’10, and his team have transitioned Dillon’s Small Batch Distillers from producing vodka and gin to hand sanitizer for front-line workers in the battle against COVID-19.
Read the full articleBook takes Earth-bound look at Moon landing
March 16, 2020
Written by Tanya Harrison, PhD’16, and Danny Bednar, PhD’19, For all Humankind tells the story of the Apollo 11 Moon landing through the eyes of eight ‘regular’ observers from around the globe.
Read the full articleLaw brings mother, daughter closer together
March 12, 2020
Karen and Angie Bellehumeur not only share the same faculty, but the mother and daughter now find themselves sharing the same class.
Read the full articleWestern community among Order of Ontario honourees
March 2, 2020
Western professor Aaron Fenster and alumnus Dr. Zane Cohen, BA’65, stand among 21 new appointments to the Order of Ontario, Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell recently announced.
Read the full articleAlumna follows her own beat off Bay Street
February 24, 2020
Award-winning singer-songwriter Amanda Martinez, BSc’94, recently released her latest album, Libre, a love song to “my African roots; the joy of collaboration with other singers and musicians; and the utter joy of singing freely.”
Read the full articleOutreach at heart of new Indigenous Leader role
February 14, 2020
Danielle Alcock, MA’14, PhD’19, has been appointed as the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry’s Indigenous Leader in Residence.
Read the full articleDeacon brings education, sport passions to Senate
February 13, 2020
Senator Marty Deacon, MA’82, BEd’84, remains passionate about the physical and mental well-being of all Canadians and believes that sport, the arts and education can build better communities.
Read the full articleAlumnus touts ‘roller coaster’ at velodrome
January 29, 2020
For six years, Craig Saari, BA’01, BEd’02, has been president, coach, manager, troubleshooter and mobilizer at the Forest City Velodrome.
Read the full articleAlumna explores life’s journey in ‘Falling’
January 21, 2020
Dorothy Ellen Palmer’s, BA’82, recently published ‘Falling For Myself: A Memoir’ that documents her life as an educator, author, disability activist and child of adoption.
Read the full articleAlumnus leads infrastructure projects for Indigenous communities
January 20, 2020
Cory Jones, P.Eng., BESc’97, has spent his entire career working with Indigenous communities to implement water treatment and distribution systems.
Read the full articleAlumnus puts business into context for Canadians
January 9, 2020
BNN Bloomberg journalist Jon Erlichman, BA’99, is one of the top Biz Twitter follows in the country thanks to a unique style of highlighting winners and losers, near-misses and might-have-beens – all in 280 characters or fewer.
Read the full articleAlumni named among Order of Canada recipients
January 6, 2020
Six Western alumni are among 120 newly named appointments to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours.
Read the full articleWestern mourns passing of Richard M. Ivey
December 31, 2019
Richard M. Ivey, HBA’47, LLD’79, the renowned philanthropist and education advocate who helped elevate Western and its business school to international prominence, died Saturday, Dec. 28.
Read the full articleLiao named among 2021 Schwarzman Scholars
December 9, 2019
Cynthia Liao, HBA’14, was recently named a Schwarzman Scholar, one of 145 young leaders to receive this distinguished scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Read the full articleNew Chair eager to ‘lead the charge to greatness’
December 9, 2019
Alumnus Rick Konrad, BSc’75, begins his two-year term as Chair of Western’s Board of Governors on Jan. 1, 2020.
Read the full articleAlumna speaks to impact of STEM role models
December 9, 2019
A software engineer at Snap Inc., Laura Smith, BESc/HBA’14, credits her professors with inspiring her avid pursuit of software engineering
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