Byline: Jason Winders

Western News • 5th September 2020

Nobel Prize celebrates canon of Western alumna

When the call came, Alice Munro, LLD’76, was nowhere to be found.

Western News special section • 5th September 2020

Frankenstein 200

Frankenstein and his monster - two centuries later

Western News special section • 5th September 2020

Into the future

40 things you need to know about the next 40 years

Western News • 9th May 2020

‘Magic’ photograph still inspires after 50 years

It is an iconic image, outshining by far an unremarkable game that capped a forgettable series. Known by many names – The Leap, The Flying Goal, The Flying Orr or, simply, The Goal – Ray Lussier’s photograph of Bobby Orr flying through the air after...

Western News • 1st May 2020

New Schulich dean finds lessons in crisis

In today’s pandemic, Dr. John Yoo sees important lessons for tomorrow.

Western News • 6th April 2020

Student artwork joins tribute to front lines

She starts with the eyes. For her, the eyes not only anchor the features of the face, but communicate the emotions resting within the subject. From there, she builds out. But she starts with the eyes – always – for one simple reason. “The eyes,”...

Western News • 10th February 2020

Scholar pens memoir of lifelong bond with 'Ulysses'

His longest relationship has not been with his wife. Or a friend. Or even a cat. It has been with a single book.

Western News • 15th January 2020

Sajedeh Saraeian: Woman of 'a thousand hopes'

She will forever be the one we didn’t get to meet.

Western News • 5th December 2019

Remember 30: The École Polytechnique Massacre

It stands among the darkest days in Canadian history. On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s history. All women. All by a man whose manifesto said he...

Western News • 11th November 2019

Alumna’s memoir explores race, city and self

A novel would have offered anonymity through embellishment. A play would have muddied things in actor interpretation. But with a memoir, Eternity Martis’ life is out there for all to see.

Western News • 3rd October 2019

TMT sparks discussion on research, Indigenous rights

Western officials offered support for research that would be conducted at the advanced Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the Island of Hawaii, while simultaneously stressing the need for an open dialogue between local...

Western News • 3rd October 2019

TMT sparks discussion on research, Indigenous rights

Western officials offered support for research that would be conducted at the advanced Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the Island of Hawaii, while simultaneously stressing the need for an open dialogue between local...

Western News • 15th April 2019

‘Punching prof’ to crown Canadian champions

One Western professor is looking to restore the prestige of Canadian boxing titles via a new independent ranking system he hopes will cut through the often chaotic world of boxing and help re-establish the place of the sweet science in the...

Western News • 18th March 2019

Western shines in star-studded Junos opener

The biggest stage in Canadian music was tinted purple Sunday night as Western alumni and students kicked off the 2019 Juno Awards with a surprise “once-in-a-lifetime performance.”

Western News • 28th September 2018

Patches signals revolution in reconstructive surgery

Revolutionary implants produced by a Western-based medical device company will soon change the face of reconstructive surgeries for more than just the family pet. Human patients may see the benefits of this technology as soon as early next year.

Western News • 5th December 2017

Halifax Explosion still resonates a century later

With roots running deep into Nova Scotia, the veteran journalist spent countless summers as a boy on the coast visiting his mother’s side of the family. He was fascinated by their tales of ‘The Explosion’ that took place on Dec. 6, 1917.

Western News • 21st September 2017

Coyote: Mainstream is waking up to the fight

For more than two decades, Ivan Coyote has been using the power of personal narrative to work toward a better world. The award-winning author and seasoned stage performer often grapples with the complex and intensely personal issues of gender...

Western News • 17th November 2016

Wings of my father: A son finds peace half a world away

Duncan Hunter has fw memories of his father beyond a pile of old photographs and the stories his late mother left him. A mechanic in Westlock, Alta., a small town north of Edmonton, Ralph Hunter headed to war when his son was 3 years old. He...

Western News • 20th October 2016

Book a tribute to heft as scholar, weight of friendship

It sat in his “boxes and boxes of stuff,” strewn among the stacks of papers that meant so much to him in life, yet it was still bound for the bin soon after his diagnoses with a debilitating illness. But thanks to the efforts of his friends and...

Western News • 29th September 2016

Making an historic connection with her subjects

Her secret is in the eyes. For Linda Kooluris Dobbs, there is no other way in. “I start with the face, with the eyes, so I can immediately connect with the spirit of the person. I have to do it that way,” said the Toronto-based portrait artist. “Once...