The Western Mustangs are the athletic teams that represent Western University in London,Ontario,Canada. The school's athletic program supports 46 varsity teams. Their mascot is a Mustang named J.W. and the school colours are purple and white. The university's varsity teams compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference and the national U Sports organization. Western University offers 21 varsity sports for men and 19 for women which compete in the OUA conference. The university also offers cheerleading,women's ringette,women's softball,table tennis and ultimate frisbee,which compete outside the OUA conference,in sport-specific conferences and divisions.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humanities and social sciences. It is one of three major federal granting agencies that together are referred to as the "Tri-Council" or "Tri-Agency.
A truth commission,also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission,is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government,in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are,under various names,occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest,civil war,or dictatorship marked by human rights abuses. In both their truth-seeking and reconciling functions,truth commissions have political implications:they "constantly make choices when they define such basic objectives as truth,reconciliation,justice,memory,reparation,and recognition,and decide how these objectives should be met and whose needs should be served".
Roger Charles Jackson,is a Canadian academic and Olympic gold medallist rower. He won the only gold medal for Canada at the 1964 Summer Olympics,in the coxless pair with George Hungerford. The same year they were awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy. Jackson also competed at the 1968 Olympics and finished eleventh in the single sculls event. At the 1972 Olympics he was a crew member of the Canadian boat which finished twelfth in the coxed fours competition.
King's University College is an affiliated university college of the University of Western Ontario located in London,Ontario,Canada. It is a Roman Catholic,co-educational,liberal arts college. Originally named Christ the King College,the school was founded to provide the all-male seminary with education in the liberal arts. The school was founded in 1954 and first began holding classes in 1955. King's is the largest affiliated college of the University of Western Ontario and enrolls 3,500 students.
Samantha J. Brennan is a British-born philosopher and scholar of women's studies who is currently dean of the College of Arts and faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. She was previously a professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western University,Canada. She remains a member of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy and the graduate faculty of the Departments of Political Science and of Philosophy. Brennan was Department Chair of Philosophy at Western from 2002 to 2007,and 2008–2011. She is a past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association (2017–18).
Janet F. Werker is a researcher in the field of developmental psychology. She researches the foundations of monolingual and bilingual infant language acquisition in infants at the University of British Columbia's Infant Studies Centre. Her research has pioneered what are now accepted baselines in the field,showing that language learning begins in early infancy and is shaped by experience across the first year of life.
Janice Forsyth is a Canadian associate professor of Sociology and the director of the Indigenous Studies program at Western University in London,Ontario. A former varsity athlete Forsyth was awarded the Tom Longboat Regional Award for Ontario in 2002.
Maxine Kamari Clarke is a Canadian-American scholar with family roots in Jamaica. As of 2020,she is a distinguished professor at the Centre for Criminology &Sociolegal Studies and the Centre for Diaspora &Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2021,she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Kathryn Louise Brush is a Canadian art historian. She is Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of Western Ontario,and was the first professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Joy SpearChief-Morris is an indigenous Canadian hurdler from Lethbridge,Alberta. She is a multiple Ontario University Athletics and U Sports track champion and has competed for the Canadian U23 National Team. A Blackfoot from Alberta's Blood Tribe,SpearChief-Morris was the (female) recipient of the 2017 Tom Longboat Awards,awarded annually by the Aboriginal Sport Circle to the most outstanding male and female indigenous athletes in Canada. Her mother is Kainai First Nation and her father is an African-American from Los Angeles.
Pratima "Tima" Bansal is a Canadian economist and management professor. She is a professor of strategy at the Ivey Business School and director of Ivey's Centre on Building Sustainable Value. She is the founder and executive director of the Network for Business Sustainability,a vehicle aimed at sharing academic research on business sustainability with managers. In April 2020,she was appointed to chair the expert panel on the circular economy by the Council of Canadian Academies.
Elizabeth Warren Dunn is a Canadian social psychologist and a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In 2015,Dunn was elected a member of the College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists within the Royal Society of Canada.
Erika A. Chamberlain is a Canadian legal scholar. In 2017,Chamberlain was appointed to a five-year term as Dean of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law as a replacement for Iain Scott. Her research focuses on the field of impaired driving law and alcohol-related civil liability.
Lisa Marie Saksida is a Canadian neuroscientist. She is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario's Schulich School of Medicine &Dentistry. Since 2000,Saksida has worked on the development of a touchscreen-based cognitive assessment system specifically for mouse models.
Jessica Adrienne Grahn is an American music neuroscientist. She is the director of the Human Cognitive and Sensorimotor Core of the University of Western Ontario's Brain and Mind Institute. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Grahn was named to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars,Artists and Scientists.
Jeremy Nichol McNeil is an English-Canadian biologist and zoologist. In 2004,he was named the Helen Battle Professor of Chemical Ecology in the Biology Department at the University of Western Ontario,having previously worked at Laval University.
Carol Pearl Herbert is a Canadian family physician and researcher. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine,Order of Canada,and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Ravi Shankar Menon is a Canadian-American biophysicist. He is a former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the University of Western Ontario and director of the Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping at the Robarts Research Institute.
Cody Groat is a Canadian scholar and historian,who focuses on the federal commemoration of Indigenous history from 1919 to present. He is a Kanyen'kehaka citizen and band member of Six Nations of the Grand River.
