A star in his own right, Toronto International Film Festival's artistic director Cameron Bailey, BA'87, first fell in love with film at Western.
Rob Carpenter, BSc’94, MSc’96, PhD’04, and Craig Finnigan, BA’92, BSc’98, MSc’00, lead Kaminak Gold - to the Klondike.
Kevin Abrams, BA'94, has worked in the front office of the NFL’s New York Giants since 1999, the last 11 years as assistant GM.
A documentary by Eliaichi Kimaro, BA'95, sheds new light on common perceptions of culture.
Capt Conor Murphy, BMOS’07, flies the PM's Airbus on missions around the world, and carried Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, on their trip to Canada.
Christy Bressette, BA’95 (Brescia), BEd’96, PhD’08, Coordinator of Aboriginal Education at The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada.
Laurel Broten, JD'93, Ontario's Minister of Education and Minister Responsible for Women's Issues
Bonnie Patterson, BA'75, MLS'79, President & CEO, Council of Ontario Universities
Paul Taillefer, BEd'77, President, Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF)
Dr. Ingrid (Raits) Jurevics, nee Alutis, was born in Riga, Latvia on May 10, 1927, and died peacefully at her home in Chicago on March 29, 2012.
You can't go back. But if you could, what would you say to your younger self?
Too many Canadians have died from lung cancer as a result of being addicted to smoking.
Hopefully as one of many, I am appalled with Mr. Beeston and the smoking cigar on the spring cover.
I believe the University should offer courses in all faculties on “career thinking outside the box”, to seize on a cliché.
I have fond memories of sitting at the top of UC Hill in the fall and rolling apples from one of the trees down the hill toward Delaware women’s residence.
I wish to acknowledge receipt of two copies of the Spring 2012 issue of the Western Alumni Gazette.
My comic strip never looks that good in newsprint!
Detroit architect Frederick Spier is credited with the first concept of campus and the idea of a bridge over the Thames River.
The Advisory Panel on Canada’s International Education Strategy, led by Western President Amit Chakma, delivered its report to the Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, on Aug. 14.
Newalta Corp. donation will support Western’s research and development efforts to discover technologies to protect the environment and create value from perceived wastes generated by industrial sectors such as oil and gas, re fining, pulp and paper, mining and manufacturing.
John Capone, BSc’78, has been named Western’s new vice-president (research) and Julie McMullin, BA’87, MA’91, has been named the University’s first ever vice-provost, international.
Western Law students will be better prepared to play a role in one of Canada’s most vital economic engines, thanks to a $1.525-million gift from Stephen Dattels, LLB’72, in the area of mining law and finance.
Fourteen distinguished individuals received honorary degrees at Western’s 299th Convocation in June.
Western's Music Library is home to the Gustav Mahler-Alfred Rosé Collection, which includes a Rodin bust of Mahler, an Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his time.
The Genteel's Irene Kim, LLB'06, takes us on a tour of the world's new hot spots for haute couture, including Sao Paulo, Stockholm and Shanghai.
We continue to challenge alumni to be our ambassadors, by encouraging young students to consider Western as their school of choice.
I’ve been warning for a few years now, in Maclean’s and in this space, that Canadian universities would soon face a once-in-a-generation challenge to their legitimacy and utility.
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