For her latest adventure, Sam Maggs, BA’10, is proving as ‘Unstoppable’ as the character she is about to pen, when the bestselling alumna releases a YA novel featuring Wasp, one of Marvel’s smallest superheroes in terms of size but certainly not in stature.
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November 19, 2019

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Alumna puts sting back in classic Marvel character

For her latest adventure, Sam Maggs, BA’10, is proving as ‘Unstoppable’ as the character she is about to pen, when the bestselling alumna releases a YA novel featuring Wasp, one of Marvel’s smallest superheroes in terms of size but certainly not in stature.

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Western News

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Robson offers a royal review of writer’s life

What do you get the Royal Couple who has everything? Absolutely nothing. They are fine. But in honour of the big day, we offer you 50 insights into a writer’s life and writing from Western’s own literary royalty, Jennifer Robson, BA’92.

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Research extends life of rechargeable batteries

Western-led research may ‘charge up’ consumers by addressing their frequent complaint that rechargeable batteries gradually hold less charge over time.

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Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study

Don’t be sad, but your pursuit of happiness will be fruitless if you are looking for a single, universal key to it. People find happiness in many ways.

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Class encourages student ‘travel’ across London

As a travel journalist and writing instructor, I wanted to create an assignment that encouraged students to break through the Western Bubble - a travel guidebook of London, Ont.

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Working at Western

Student Questionnaire on Courses and Teaching

Course Feedback Period is Now Open

Each term, students have the opportunity to provide feedback on their courses. For most courses this term, the course feedback period runs from November 18 to December 6.

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Facilities Management

Facilities crews ready to dig in after first snow

Winter and snow can evoke polarizing emotions in people. No one knows this better than Bryan Wakefield, Director of Operations Facilities Management and the Landscape Services Team. Although, only a few months into the job and entering his first winter at Western, Wakefield is aware of the challenges ahead.

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Senate Update

Senate questions Library collections plan

Western Libraries faced questions from a handful of Senators having difficulty with the way the university plans to turn the page on old ways of housing its collection in favour of a long-planned renovation to library physical space.

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English & Writing Studies

Write Now! Presents: Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead is a poet and novelist whose work has been nominated/shortlisted for the LAMBDA Literary Awards, The Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Governor General’s Award, and the Amazon First Novel Award.

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Social Highlights

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#ThankYou to all the students, faculty, staff and alumni who put on their purple and helped share their home away from home with the next generation of Mustangs this past weekend.

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The world is celebrating entrepreneurship and so is #WesternU! Kicking off #GEW2019 is the Startup Showcase 2019. Join us for an afternoon of insightful conversations with Western #entrepreneurs.

Commentary

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Daley: Data demands drive our disruption

We’re at the dawn of a global disruption in higher education. Arizona State University (ASU) has been lauded in some quarters for making significant changes to how they do business. But even ASU remains rooted in the same blueprint for the contemporary American research university that Johns Hopkins University created nearly five generations ago as a bold reaction to the demands of the industrializing society of the 19th century.

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Only one ‘Let Down’ in these picks

Experience a bit of seasonal storytelling, and at least one major ‘Let Down,’ when Occupational Therapy professor Carri Hand takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

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