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Recognition, then responsibility

Western scholars elected to the Royal Society of Canada carry research into a wider public conversation.

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Recognition is a marker, but it also creates a larger audience for the work that follows. The Western scholars named to the Royal Society of Canada bring their fields into a national community of inquiry.

For an alumni digest, the point is not prestige alone. It is the way serious work becomes part of the public record and a shared institutional memory.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
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