Alumni News

October 5, 2020

Lukomskyj has created a career for himself by taking international companies to the next level, and his current role as General Manager for Lyft, British Columbia, is no exception.

October 5, 2020

The bursary is supported by Sunil Gurmukh, counsel at the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and an Adjunct Research Professor at Western Law.

October 1, 2020

One unexpected advantage of this year’s Homecoming is that virtual events aren’t limited by geography: alumni living out of country, or others who might not have been able to travel to London, can still participate and connect with old friends.

September 15, 2020

Catherine Zeisner is a social media influencer. She has over 200,000 followers, 3.3. million likes and millions of comments and direct messages on TikTok. And everything is about education.

September 11, 2020

Their first steps as a company were a giant leap for an industry looking for a better solution. Now, as thousands of races have halted around the world, Race Roster continues to help the sport and its organizers stride into an uncertain future.

August 24, 2020

Western Engineering alumna Réjeanne Aimey, BESc’03, is thriving as she faces the unique challenges that come with these unprecedented times.

August 20, 2020

Influential human rights lawyer Sunil Gurmukh, LLB'08, will be partnering with Western Law to conduct the Hidden Racial Profiling Project.

August 4, 2020

Drew Murray, BA’97, MBA’06, can credit his storied career partly to technology’s triumph over the curse of cursive.

July 20, 2020

Students, faculty and staff can wear their purple pride as they don masks made by TakeCare Supply, a company started by Kevin Vuong, BMOS’11, and Larry Lau, BA’09, MBA’18.

June 28, 2020

Heidi Jacobs, MLIS’06, was awarded this year’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for her debut novel ‘Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear.’

June 25, 2020

Connor Renton, BA’19, and his siblings created Touché, a company selling no-touch tools used to limit contact with contaminated or shared surfaces.

June 19, 2020

The class of 2020 will forever have a special place in our hearts and in our history. Welcome to the alumni family!

June 16, 2020

Heather Joy Ross, LLB'84, was recently awarded the Law Society Medal for Outstanding Service.

June 15, 2020

Former Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz, MA’79, PhD’82, has been appointed Chair of the Advisory Council of the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management.

June 9, 2020

Kyle Dawson, BSc’20 (Kinesiology), has been drafted by the San Diego Seals of the National Lacrosse League.

June 4, 2020

John Drew, BEd’07, BA’02, and Kendra Coulter, BA’02, recently created Animal Neighbours, a website designed to teach kids about the animal world around them.

June 3, 2020

Meet Tyler Forkes, the new Executive Director of Alumni Relations, and your new Alumni Association president Mark Brown, MBA'95.

May 13, 2020

The Western community is mourning the death of medical education pioneer Dr. Douglas Bocking, MD’43, a former Dean of Medicine, who died May 9. He was 99.

May 11, 2020

Monica Rivero, BMSc’16, MSc’18, could not turn a blind eye to the red flags hanging from windows and doors in the poorest parts of her native Colombia.

May 9, 2020

Alumnus Stephen Brunt, BA’81, MA’82, author of Searching for Bobby Orr, reflects on one of the most iconic photographs in sports.

May 6, 2020

More than 2,000 Western community members from around the world have registered for Master the Entrepreneur Skillset, a six-week virtual masterclass taught by Ash Singh, HBA’04.

May 5, 2020

Blake VanBerlo, BESc’17, and his colleagues are developing a machine learning model that classifies chest X-rays of severe cases of COVID-19.

May 1, 2020

Tiff Macklem, MA’84, PhD’89, has been named Governor of the Bank of Canada, succeeding fellow alumnus Stephen Poloz, MA’79, PhD’82.

April 28, 2020

Brent Shea, BA’80 (King’s), Honors Certificate’03 (King’s), MPA’09, and his wife Becky, BA’79 (King’s), met while on campus. His three sons are also proud Mustangs.

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.

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.

April 16, 2020

Lirim Hajrullahu, BA'13, MA'15, recently inked a three-year deal with the Los Angeles Rams.

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.

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.

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.