Tag: Western University
Acceptance letters should set tone for safe campus at Western: committee
A group formed to tackle sexual violence and boost student safety on Western University’s campus has issued four early recommendations ahead of its final report expected this spring.
Western researchers study how students develop math anxiety
Researchers at Western University have learned anxiety about mathematics may not simply be a within-individual phenomenon as often thought.
In Western University residences, anti-sexual violence training nears 50%
About half of Western University students living in residence have finished training modules to help them better understand and prevent sexual violence, school officials say. About 4,500 of Western’s 5,400 students in residence have finished the first part of the training that is completed online. Two thousand of those have participated in the second part, […]
Rally organizer urges Londoners to show support for health-care workers
A Western University nursing professor is calling on Londoners to come out Saturday and show their appreciation for the city’s health-care workers. “We want to bring together an event where we can show our love for the hard-working health-care workers in our community,” Abe Oudshoorn said. Oudshoorn invites everyone to bring signs expressing support for […]
All hail! Western University tornado trackers eye more extreme weather
Tornado researchers at Western University are branching out into another extreme weather phenomenon, tracking the impact of hailstorms in Canada.
Craig Needles Podcast Episode 23: Dr. Prachi Srivastava
At the end of the first week back in the classroom for Ontario students, Craig is joined by Western University education professor and advisor to the Ontario Science Table, Dr. Prachi Srivastava to talk about the return to in-person learning.
Western University’s new wellness centre boosts mental health supports
A new medical centre at Western University will help address mental health issues that have soared among students during the pandemic.
University’s plan to convert apartment to first-year residence stuns tenants
Students at one of Western University’s residences say they have been left in limbo after the school’s decision to turn their building into a home for first-year students only. Starting this summer, Western will begin converting Bayfield Hall into a residence for new students. It will begin with renovations of a third of the building’s […]
COVID figures prominently in Western student issues taken to ombudsman
The number of students who turned to Western University’s ombudsman – an official who investigates complaints and concerns from Western students, faculty and staff – rose slightly last year, in part due to COVID-19, a new report says.
Western phasing in return to class
Most students at Western University will return to in-person learning at the end of January, but it will be another month before the same can be said of first-year students.