News Archive
Building research park momentum in Sarnia
January 30, 2018
Katherine Albion, PhD’08 (Engineering), is the new Executive Director of the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park.
Read the full articleEngineering entrepreneurial success
January 30, 2018
Anthony Vysniauskas, BESc’74, MESc’76, talks with students in the Faculty of Engineering during a recent visit to campus.
Read the full articleGates funding fuels alumnus’ vaccine work
January 16, 2018
In October 2017, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $29.4 million to PnuVax to continue its work on a revolutionary low-cost pneumonia vaccine. Donald Gerson, BSC’68 (Chemistry), co-founded the company, and today serves as its President and CEO.
Read the full articleFacing dementia with strength and resilience
January 15, 2018
Anthony Carapinha, BSW’17, was fully intent on working with London’s homeless population for his fourth-year practicum. But when he heard about a placement offered at the Alzheimer Society London and Middlesex, something clicked, and he recognized it as a unique learning opportunity.
Read the full articleGrad finds success with vegan cheese company
January 15, 2018
While a love for animals prompted Margaret Coons, BA’12 (Huron University College), to become a vegetarian, it was a family passion for entrepreneurship that led her to found the artisanal cheese company Nuts for Cheese.
Read the full articleWestern's 'Newsmakers of the Year'
December 20, 2017
Eleven alumni are included in Western News 8th annual Newsmakers of the Year list.
Read the full articleAlumni answer the kindness call
December 19, 2017
For the second year in a row, alumni from around the world wrote notes of encouragement to students living in their old residence rooms during the stressful holiday exam season.
Read the full articleIvey alumni changing the (hockey) game
December 18, 2017
Armed with an Ivey business degree, these alumni are changing hockey for the better.
Read the full articleAlumnae top Most Powerful Women list
December 18, 2017
Thirteen Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2017 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.
Read the full articleAlumnus' book explores Halifax Explosion
December 6, 2017
Ken Cuthbertson, MA’75 (Journalism), has returned to the stories of his youth in his newest book, The Halifax Explosion: Canada’s Worst Disaster.
Read the full articleWestern celebrates national championships
December 1, 2017
The Mustangs ended a 23-year Vanier Cup drought with an exclamation mark, knocking off the defending champion and No. 1 nationally ranked Laval Rouge et Or 39-17 in the Canadian university football championship game November 25.
Read the full articleFinding self, community in new venture
November 28, 2017
Music alumna Carolyn Holdsworth, BMus’01, MMus’03, took her talent for the arts in a new direction and created Me & C, a London-based shirt company that features images of iconic locations throughout the city.
Read the full articleAlumnus named Chair of Western's Board
November 28, 2017
A Board member for seven years, alumnus Paul Jenkins, BA'71 (Economics) was recently named Chair of Western's Board of Governors.
Read the full articleBacking raises Voices among elite firms
November 20, 2017
Co-founded by Stephanie Ciccarelli, BMusA’06, Voices.com is the largest global online marketplace for audio and voiceover products.
Read the full articleKarakatsanis earns top engineering honour
November 20, 2017
Western Engineering alumna Catherine Karakatsanis, BESc ’83, MESc ’91, recently received the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) Gold Medal, recognizing her profound influence on the profession
Read the full articleArtist, class making town-and-gown connections
November 20, 2017
Penn Kemp, BA’66, CertEd’68, the first Poet Laureate of London and former Writer-in-Residence at Western, has worked with students enrolled in the Department of English and Writing Studies’ Community Engaged Learning (CEL) course, Canadian Literature, Creativity and the Local, for the past three years. The students have helped her curate and promote her work and have even partnered with her in writing and composing poetry.
Read the full articleAlumna fiddles while career burns bright
November 18, 2017
Don Wright Faculty of Music alumna Celina Di Cecca said her time at Western gave her the skills and the fortitude to pursue music full time. Her fiddling talents have the 32-year-old highly sought after as a live and studio performer. The Great Canadian Fiddle Show returns to Aeolian Hall next March.
Read the full articleRed Bull Air Racer reaches new heights
November 3, 2017
Pete McLeod, BA’07 (Economics), recently became the first Canadian to claim an overall podium in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, taking third place at the season finale in October at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Read the full articleSights set on 2020 Summer Olympics
October 26, 2017
Joy Spear Chief-Morris, BA’17 (History, First Nations Studies), recently won the 2017 Tom Longboat Award, an honour that recognizes First Nations athletes for outstanding contributions to sport in Canada.
Read the full article'Once' star finds magic at Western
October 24, 2017
Don Wright Faculty of Music alumnus Jeff Hamacher, BMus’93, said Western “planted the seeds of understanding” in allowing his career to flourish as a classical musician and actor. He appears in the Grand Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical Once, which runs through Nov. 5.
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