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    We deliver 'The Western Experience,' an excellent learning experience that engages the best and brightest people challenging them to meet ever-higher standards in the classroom and beyond. We inform every dimension of a student – intellectual, social, cultural as well as physical. From our home in London, Ont., Canada, outward across every continent, Western prepares future leaders to succeed. In 1916, the current campus was purchased from the Kingsmill family, and in 1923 the university was renamed The University of Western Ontario.
    Since that first class graduated in 1883, the university has become a vibrant center of learning. Through 12 faculties and three affiliated university colleges, Western today offers its 36,000-plus students more than 400 specializations, majors, and minors. It was at Western where Sir Frederick Banting rose from a restless sleep in 1920 and wrote out 25 words that led to his discovery of insulin. It was at Western where Canada's first French Immersion program was established at Trois-Pistoles, Québec, in 1932 – a program that continues today. It was at Western where researchers led by Ivan Smith developed the world's first 'cobalt bomb' to treat cancer in 1951, increasing the cure rate for cervical cancer to 75 percent from 25 percent.
    Founded in 1878, Western today ranks among Canada's top-10 research universities and is recognized for delivering an academic experience second to none. Our dynamic campus community is characterized by an expanding array of opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth and a reputation for attracting and developing leaders—faculty, students, staff, and alumni—who make a difference at the local, national and global levels. I invite you to explore my website—and those sites of my senior administrative team—to familiarize yourself with all we do and aspire to achieve at Western.
    From the initial aspirations of Bishop Hellmuth to the internationally known research of top scholars today, these leaders of vision, courage, and imagination have always looked to the future in shaping Western University. In 1916, the current campus was purchased from the Kingsmill family, and in 1923 the university was renamed The University of Western Ontario. Since that first class graduated in 1883, the university has become a vibrant center of learning. Through 12 faculties and three affiliated university colleges, Western today offers its 36,000-plus students more than 400 specializations, majors, and minors. It was at Western where Sir Frederick Banting rose from a restless sleep in 1920 and wrote out 25 words that led to his discovery of insulin. It was at Western where Canada's first French Immersion program was established at Trois-Pistoles, Québec, in 1932 – a program that continues today. It was at Western where researchers led by Ivan Smith developed the world's first 'cobalt bomb' to treat cancer in 1951, increasing the cure rate for cervical cancer to 75 percent from 25 percent. Moreover, while our excellence roots itself in history, Western continues to eye the next-generation discoveries.
    Western, a leader in wind engineering since 1965, testing such structures as the World Trade Center, Sears Tower, and Jakarta Tower, will continue its dominance with the opening of the WindEEE Dome research facility. Western, a leader in business education since its founding, has continued to lead at home and abroad thanks to the construction of a state-of-the-art Richard Ivey School of Business in 2012 and the opening of North America's first business school campus in Hong Kong in 1998. Western, a medical advancement leader since its founding, has continued to push innovation most recently when an HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang received approval by the United States Food and Drug Administration to start human clinical trials, a first of its kind, in 2012.

    Western University
    Founding year: 1878
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 30522
    Leadership: Amit Chakma (President)
    Number of staff: 1381
    Type: Universities

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    Address: 1151 Richmond Street, North London, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada



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