American design guru Michael Bierut put it best, "Logos on their own, particularly new ones, don’t mean that much in and of themselves."
Western is embarking on an ambitious fundraising campaign to enrich the Western Experience.
As president of the Free Africa Foundation, George Ayittey, MA'70, has dedicated his life to the argument that Africa is poor because she is not free.
Lindsay Gladding has seen the worst of the world. Much of it with her son at her side.
Fitness expert Harley Pasternak, BA'97, counts stars like Lady Gaga and Robert Downey Jr. as clients. And now he has a new ABC TV show.
In March 2010, Kelly (Pettit) Rowcliffe, BA'93, was told she had breast cancer. Just six weeks later, her husband, Dave Rowcliffe, LLB'91, was diagnosed with esophogeal cancer.
Film critic James Rocchi, BA'92, despised Transformers 2. But what might surprise you is he also thinks Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood is overrated as a director.
Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, a new book by wellness coach Margaret Moore, BSc'78, MBA'83, looks at creating psychic order.
Agent Ian Pulver, BA'87, has helped put millions of dollars into the pockets of NHL players and he credits his education at Western for some of his success.
On September 28, 2011, Western lost one of its most esteemed alumni, a woman whose dedication and vision helped generations of students.
I can’t throw it away. I see it hanging every day, graying and fraying, taking up prime real estate at the front of my closet. Not shoved in a bottom drawer. Not crumpled up in a box in the attic. I haven’t worn it in 20 years, and likely never will again.
I read with great interest the Fall 2011 issue of the Alumni Gazette and the "All in the Family" articles on Western's multi-generation graduates.
I really want to thank you for the splendid issue of the Alumni Gazette, Fall 2011. It gave me pleasure to see how my old alma mater is doing.
As one who shared a house on Broughdale Avenue with Vandana Shiva and a small group of (mostly) graduate philosophy students during her first year at Western, I took great pleasure in reading Jason Winders' fine profile.
How wonderful to find out that Vandana Shiva is an Alumni of UWO! I have followed her for years, seeing her speak first at my place of work, SUNY Fredonia, and then at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania.
Some of the protests and demonstrations at Western over the past century may seem rather frivolous. But to the participants, all of them were meaningful.
A potential first and only preventative HIV vaccine, developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at Western, gets the green light to proceed to human trials.
Adrian Owen, CERC in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging at Western and one of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, shared his research findings with the Dalai Lama in São Paulo, Brazil in September.
Western has partnered with Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization – the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology – to create the new Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research @ Western.
Researchers at Western have discovered a practical and cost-effective method for assessing whether some patients who appear to be vegetative, may actually be conscious, but simply unable to respond.
A $1.5-million donation from Ray and Margaret Elliott will be matched by Western to form the $3-million endowed Ray and Margaret Elliott Chair in Surgical Innovation.
Studying images compiled by NASA, an astronomer Western has proved the existence of the first Trojan asteroid found to share Earth’s orbit.
For the 10th year in a row, Western received top marks in the category “Most Satisfied Students” in The Globe and Mail’s annual Canadian University Report.
Canadian businessman and philanthropist Joseph L. Rotman, BA’57, LLD’09 has been named Western’s 21th chancellor.
One of the world’s first and most useful chemotherapy drugs was discovered at Western.
With more than 15,000 followers on Twitter (@TOFoodie), Andrea Chiu, BA’03 (MIT) can’t point to a precise ‘a-ha’ moment when she became a foodie.
Alumnae in Canada and Africa have been named women of influence.
I know you have your favourites. I certainly have mine. Alumni remember countless logos and symbols from our days on campus. For many, those memories won’t necessarily reflect the university’s ‘official’ brand, but something far more meaningful to our time on campus.
I’ve been fascinated lately by an odd turn in the writing of the New York Times columnist David Brooks, and especially by a column he published on Oct. 27.
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