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As part of Spring Convocation, the academic achievements of all members of the King’s community, both students and faculty, were celebrated.

The Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards Gala celebrated this year’s recipients of the Hugh Mellon Excellence in Research Award, the Renée Soulodre-La France Excellence in Research Award (Early Career), and the King’s Research Excellence Scholar Grants.

King’s is celebrating Canada Career Month by highlighting the range of curricular and co-curricular programs and services available to assist our students to transition to impactful and meaningful careers.

Dr. Antonio Calcagno, Professor of Philosophy, joins prestigious body of distinguished scholars in Canada.

Two King’s students have their papers recognized with Highly Commended status at the 2022 Global Undergraduate Awards.

Dr. Ian Rae used his expertise to present on John Davis Barnett, founder of the Arts Library at Western University, as part of the fourth Shakespearean Theatre Conference.

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Cull, Creative Writing professor in King's English Program, who has been awarded Western University's 2022 Arts and Humanities Teaching Excellence Award (Part-Time).

The Communications and Media Relations department searched through the News archives to highlight some of the top news items from the past year.

Dr. John Grant will be honoured for Full-Time Faculty and Dr. Nigel Joseph will be honoured for Part-Time Faculty for King's Awards of Excellence in Teaching in 2021.

For the first time, two King’s organizations, King’s Political Science Students’ Association and King’s University College Students’ Council, collaborated with the Western Black Students’ Association to host a virtual event highlighting the lived experiences of BIPOC students in Canada.

King’s alumna Emma Wood, ’20 was named as a Regional Award winner, three others named Highly Commended in the 2020 Global Undergraduate Awards.

The Western News reports on actor Sir Patrick Stewart reading sonnets from the Folger Shakespeare Library on Twitter and referencing editors Barbara A. Mowat and Dr. Paul Werstine, Professor of Literature at King's.

The London Free Press has profiled Coming Up Roses, featuring Justine Jongepier, first-year Bachelor of Arts student at King's and Western student Noelle Carey who will perform tonight (April 2, 2020) as part of the London Arts Council’s London Arts Live Online.

An eight-person panel will discuss the importance of book collections and sharing those collections during “Inventory and Invention” in the Joanne and Peter Kenny Theatre on March 9, 2020.

Dr. Ian Rae spoke at Western’s Weldon Library on January 17, 2020, about how the book collection donated to Western University by J.D. Barnett continues to have impact on studies.

Dr. Brian Patton, Associate Professor, Department of English, French, and Writing, presented the Christopher Perrin Beatty Lecture in Recognition of King's Outstanding Teaching Faculty on November 25, 2019.

King’s alumni have been named on two prestigious lists.

Prof. Ian Rae presented as part of the “Text/Sound/Performance: Making in Canadian Space” conference held at University College Dublin and the National Library of Ireland.

Dr. Thomas Tieku, Dr. Krista Lysack and Dr. Tracy Smith-Carrier have won research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

King’s students and faculty take part in 4^th annual Wordsfest.

King’s faculty and students participated in The River Talks: A Gathering at Deshkan Ziibi, an event to discuss our relationship with, and future of, Deshkan Ziibi / the Thames River.

King’s congratulates Domonic McDonald and Wyatt Merkley,’17, for being named as Regional Winners in the prestigious 2018 Undergraduate Awards based in Ireland.

Angela McInness is one recipient of the 2018 Joan Donaldson CBC News Scholarship. She graduated from King's in 2015 with a BA Major in English, Minor in World Religions & Cultures.

Melanie Matthews, BSW ‘17, was named a regional winner for the US and Canada region. She presented her paper on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 in Ireland.

Students in the Foundations in Western Thought and Civilization program and King’s Scholars visited Stratford on Sunday, September 23.

The work of three recent graduates, Melanie Matthews, Sam Boer and Aleksander Franiczek receive honours at the prestigious Undergraduate Awards.

King’s students enrolled in Foundations in the Western Thought and Civilization program participated in an extracurricular architectural tour of downtown London.

Nigel Finch is a King's English Student Representative and a fourth year English Major.

Jennifer Robson, author of Somewhere in France, After the War is Over, and Moonlight Over Paris credits King’s History professor Paul Webb and English professor Lorraine DiCicco for guiding her on the path to being a best-seller author.

King's mourns the passing of second year English Literature student, Shannon Laverty.

King’s celebrates the academic accomplishments of ten graduating students who have been honoured the SSHRC award, OGS awards.

Join us for a unique night of music and literature entitled Shakespeare + Cello on Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m. in the Vitali Lounge.

Dr. Paul Werstine, Professor of Literature at King’s, was chosen as the first Hugh Mellon Excellence in Research Award recipient.

King's Professor of English Dr. Paul Werstine is co-General Editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare series.

King's English Professor receives prestigious award on December 9, 2014.