![]() June 6, 2025 ![]() (Artwork source: Raj Grainger) The latest Western Alumni Magazine offers an in-depth look at an experience that touches us all – the process of aging. Also inside: an eye-opening Q&A on women’s health and menopause, a conversation with Ivey dean Julian Birkinshaw, MBA’91, PhD’95, about expanding the school's global reach and an inspiring story from athlete-turned-coach Caroline Ehrhardt, BHSc’15. ![]() University College (Photo source: Steven Anderson/Western Communications) Western climbed to 185th overall and sixth nationally in the 2025 Center for World University Rankings, maintaining its first place in Canada for alumni employability for the fifth year in a row. Also covered by: Academica’s Top Ten ![]() Bogumil Karas (Photo source: Megan Morris/Schulich Communications) Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Bogumil Karas is developing synthetic chloroplasts to create hardier, more nutritious crops. Backed by $1.5 million from the U.K.’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency, his team is testing the technology in potatoes at the Biotron Experimental Climate Change Research Centre, aiming to rewrite entire plant genomes. ![]() Hayley Wickenheiser (Photo source: Rachel Lincoln) More than 1,100 employees gathered at the annual Staff and Leader Learning Day to invest in professional development and hear a keynote speech from four-time Olympic gold medalist and doctor Hayley Wickenheiser. ![]() ![]() Coming UpJune and July (various times) June 11 (noon to 12:30 p.m.) June 12 (11 a.m. to noon) June 12 (11:30 a.m.) ![]() Working at WesternUniversity College (Photo source: Western Communications) Biindigen's Indigenous History Month Challenge Anti-Oppression Certificate Program ![]() Video of the WeekResearchers Chris Guglielmo and Beth MacDougall-Shackleton from Western's Centre for Animals on the Move are using cutting-edge technology to track the habits of migratory birds. Their work provides real-time data on weather patterns, ecosystem health and biodiversity loss—revealing critical insights into climate change. Watch the video to join President Alan Shepard as he goes behind the research to learn how Western scientists are helping protect the ecosystems we depend on, today. ![]() Western in the NewsIn addition to the news above, your colleagues have been featured in the following media outlets. Greg Kopp, Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory founding director and ImpactWX Chair in Severe Storms Engineering. (Photo source: Western Engineering) CBC Quirks & Quarks CBC Fresh Air University Affairs ![]() |