Yesterday, while Alice Munro was being presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature, Western University in London, Ontario, announced it will honour the author with a new chair for its faculty of arts and humanities.

According to a press release, the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity will enable Western, which has committed $1.5 million to match donations, to “recruit a creative writer, teacher, and scholar who will advance the university’s tradition of excellence in developing the talents of students and future writers.” The appointed chair will serve as a “mentor and a model to faculty, staff, and students,” and “attract international authors as speakers and future writers-in-residence.”

From 1949 to 1951 while attending Western, Munro published three stories in its undergraduate English magazine, Folio. In 1976, she received an honorary degree from the university.