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The University of Western Ontario – UWO London was founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth of the Anglican Diocese of Huron as "The Western University of London Ontario." It incorporated Huron University College, which had been founded in 1863.The first four faculties were Arts, Divinity, Law and Medicine, and there were originally only 15 students when classes began in 1881. The first of these students graduated in 1883. The University of Western Ontario – UWO London was eventually made non-denominational in 1908. In 1916, the current site of the University was purchased from the Kingsmill family, and in 1923 the Western University of London was renamed the University of Western Ontario. The first two buildings constructed at the new site were the Arts Building (now University College) and the Natural Science Building (now the Physics and Astronomy Building). These were built in a neo-Gothic or "Collegiate Gothic" style, and classes on the present site of the school began in 1924.
The University College tower, one of the most distinctive features of the The University of Western Ontario – UWO London was named the Middlesex Memorial Tower in honour of the men from Middlesex County who had fought in World War I (all 40 male students at Western in 1914 had enlisted). Western later became affiliated with St. Peter's College seminary of London, Ontario in 1939, and it eventually became King's College, an arts faculty. Other notable buildings on campus include Thames Hall (built in 1949), the Stevenson-Lawson Building (built in 1959), Middlesex College (with its clock tower, another distinctive feature of the university, built in 1960), Talbot College (built in 1966), Alumni Hall (built in 1967), London Health Sciences Centre University Hospital, the John P. Robarts Research Institute, the Lawson Health Research Institute, the D.B. Weldon Library, the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory, the University Community Centre, the Social Science Centre, and T.D. Waterhouse Stadium (built in 2001). The campus is also home to the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory, built in 1940 as one of the first observatories at a Canadian university, and named after the grandfather of actor Hume Cronyn. The McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery was built in 1942, and is now the oldest university art gallery in Canada. The University of Western Ontario – UWO London (known as Western) is a public research university located in London, Ontario.
The University of Western Ontario – UWO London has three affiliated colleges: Brescia University College (Roman Catholic; the only university-level women's college in Canada), established in 1919 by the Ursuline Sisters. The Brescia University College: Dept. of Human Ecology has an accredited dietetic program. The University of Western Ontario – UWO London is accredited by the Dietitians of Canada and the university's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians. List of universities with accredited dietetic programs. Huron University College (Anglican; established in 1863 as an Anglican theological school, includes the Anglican seminary). King's University College (Roman Catholic; includes St. Peter's seminary) affiliated with Western in 1939. The University of Western Ontario – UWO London also has a well-developed part-time and continuing education faculty which includes a French-English Summer School at Trois-Pistoles, Quebec.
The University of Western Ontario – UWO London has affiliations with Huron University College, Brescia University College, and King's University College (University of Western Ontario). There are approximately 25,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students at Western. King's University College has about 3,100 students (2003/2004), Huron University College about 1,000, and Brescia University College about 500. There are additional campus apartments and townhouses available for upper-year students. The University of Western Ontario – UWO London Community Centre is home to many student-run clubs and media outlets, including The Gazette, Western's daily student newspaper, tvWestern.ca, the campus television station, and 94.9 CHRW-FM, legally known as Radio Western. The campus also houses the popular student lounge with pub section, the Spoke, as well as the Wave, a restaurant/dance club. School spirit runs high at Western, as social events are well attended. Orientation (Frosh) Week and Homecoming are especially popular. Western's O-Week is a $600,000 program, and the largest of its kind in Canada and University Students' Council representatives have led several seminars at other universities to share their experiences in running a successful orientation week program.
The library system at The University of Western Ontario – UWO London has seven major service locations with more than 9 million items in print, microform and electronic formats. There are many special collections, such as those in the areas of Canadiana, Art History, Sport History, Music and Law. Western's libraries include: Western Archives, C.B. "Bud" Johnston Library(Business), Education Library, John and Dotsa Bitove Family Law Library, Music Library, Allyn and Betty Taylor Library, The D. B. Weldon Library, Pride Library. In addition to the above locations materials from the Affiliated University College Libraries are available to Western faculty, students and staff: Brescia University College Library, King's University College Library, Huron University College Library, St. Peter's Seminary Library. TThe University of Western Ontario – UWO London campus is also the home of art and performance facilities, and the McIntosh Gallery, the second oldest university art gallery in Canada.The permanent collection of the McIntosh includes over 3000 works in various media dating primarily from the early 19th century to the present, including works by the Group of Seven.
The University of Western Ontario – UWO London offers more than 200 different programs through its 12 faculties and schools and three affiliated colleges:Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Engineering, The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Information and Media Studies (MIT, MPI, MTP), Western Law School, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Don Wright Faculty of Music, Richard Ivey School of Business, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Social Science, Management and Organizational Studies.
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