Search

Topics

Western News

Research

Survey eyes costs of partner violence in workplace

Survey eyes costs of partner violence in workplace

Starting Nov. 25, Western community members will be able to participate in a university-led academic survey, ‘Intimate partner violence and its financial costs,’ that hopes to determine the extent to which intimate-partner violence impacts survivors, perpetrators and witnesses at the university workplace.

Researchers recognized for high citations

Researchers recognized for high citations

Four Western professors have been lauded for their multiple highly cited research papers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list from the Web of Science Group, released this week.

Western, RBC team up on data analytics, AI

Western, RBC team up on data analytics, AI

The next generation of leaders will be better armed against unprecedented technical transformation thanks to a new partnership between Western and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) that will establish a program focused on the ethical and social aspects of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), university officials announced today.

Case implicates vaping compounds in lung injury

Case implicates vaping compounds in lung injury

For the first time in Canada, researchers have connected a life-threatening lung injury to e-cigarettes, a discovery that should change the conversation around the popular products.

Physical activity needs to be in play at childcare

Physical activity needs to be in play at childcare

Given the increasingly busy schedules of today’s families, parents often rely on ECEs in childcare centres to supply children with their daily physical activity. But are they prepared for the challenge?

Reichelt: What science says about the brain and sugar

Reichelt: What science says about the brain and sugar

As a neuroscientist my research centres on how modern day ‘obesogenic,’ or obesity-promoting, diets change the brain. I want to understand how what we eat alters our behaviour and whether brain changes can be mitigated by other lifestyle factors.

Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study

Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study

There may be no single key to personal happiness, but it doesn’t hurt to be healthy, wealthy and like where you live. While those findings may make some people happy, others find happiness in different ways – and that is still something to smile about, according to researchers.

Opioid solutions found beyond the headlines

Opioid solutions found beyond the headlines

Every day, headlines offer another example of how the opioid epidemic is devastating communities and lives. But given the role popular media plays in shaping public perceptions, where is this non-stop coverage taking us?

Crites Battié earns lifetime honour for research

Crites Battié earns lifetime honour for research

Michele Crites Battié has always been quite comfortable working behind the scenes – even as the spotlight recently turned to the Physical Therapy professor when she was presented with the 2019 ORS PSRS (Orthopaedic Research Society / Philadelphia Spine Research Society) Lifetime Research Achievement Award.

Shark salvation found in crossing confirmation

Shark salvation found in crossing confirmation

Confirmation of a trans-Atlantic crossing by a highly endangered marine animal signals the need for “an international mindset” when seeking ways to conserve the basking shark – named among the world’s ‘weirdest’ animals by National Geographic.

Survey eyes costs of partner violence in workplace

Survey eyes costs of partner violence in workplace

Starting Nov. 25, Western community members will be able to participate in a university-led academic survey, ‘Intimate partner violence and its financial costs,’ that hopes to determine the extent to which intimate-partner violence impacts survivors, perpetrators and witnesses at the university workplace.

Researchers recognized for high citations

Researchers recognized for high citations

Four Western professors have been lauded for their multiple highly cited research papers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2019 list from the Web of Science Group, released this week.

Western, RBC team up on data analytics, AI

Western, RBC team up on data analytics, AI

The next generation of leaders will be better armed against unprecedented technical transformation thanks to a new partnership between Western and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) that will establish a program focused on the ethical and social aspects of data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), university officials announced today.

Case implicates vaping compounds in lung injury

Case implicates vaping compounds in lung injury

For the first time in Canada, researchers have connected a life-threatening lung injury to e-cigarettes, a discovery that should change the conversation around the popular products.

Physical activity needs to be in play at childcare

Physical activity needs to be in play at childcare

Given the increasingly busy schedules of today’s families, parents often rely on ECEs in childcare centres to supply children with their daily physical activity. But are they prepared for the challenge?

Reichelt: What science says about the brain and sugar

Reichelt: What science says about the brain and sugar

As a neuroscientist my research centres on how modern day ‘obesogenic,’ or obesity-promoting, diets change the brain. I want to understand how what we eat alters our behaviour and whether brain changes can be mitigated by other lifestyle factors.

Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study

Pursuit of happiness proves elusive for study

There may be no single key to personal happiness, but it doesn’t hurt to be healthy, wealthy and like where you live. While those findings may make some people happy, others find happiness in different ways – and that is still something to smile about, according to researchers.

Opioid solutions found beyond the headlines

Opioid solutions found beyond the headlines

Every day, headlines offer another example of how the opioid epidemic is devastating communities and lives. But given the role popular media plays in shaping public perceptions, where is this non-stop coverage taking us?

Crites Battié earns lifetime honour for research

Crites Battié earns lifetime honour for research

Michele Crites Battié has always been quite comfortable working behind the scenes – even as the spotlight recently turned to the Physical Therapy professor when she was presented with the 2019 ORS PSRS (Orthopaedic Research Society / Philadelphia Spine Research Society) Lifetime Research Achievement Award.

Shark salvation found in crossing confirmation

Shark salvation found in crossing confirmation

Confirmation of a trans-Atlantic crossing by a highly endangered marine animal signals the need for “an international mindset” when seeking ways to conserve the basking shark – named among the world’s ‘weirdest’ animals by National Geographic.