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Western to bestow honorary degrees on 14 outstanding leaders

Western to bestow honorary degrees on 14 outstanding leaders

Western is conferring honorary degrees on 14 eminent individuals during spring convocation, celebrating and honouring their contributions across a wide range of endeavours. Convocation ceremonies, taking place at Alumni Hall throughout June, feature ad …

Mosaic X-rays reveal Peruvian mummy mysteries

Mosaic X-rays reveal Peruvian mummy mysteries

Western researchers, including two undergraduate students, have become pivotal players in developing a mobile X-ray protocol that could transform how mummies are examined in the field.

Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display

Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display

The slave life of the boy who renamed himself Jermain Wesley Loguen was filled with deprivation and abuse. His escape to Canada was equally harrowing. His hopes for finding a new life here – in what he’d believed would be freedom’s promised land – were thwarted by a society determined to keep him from success.

Study explores LGBTQ lives in small communities

Study explores LGBTQ lives in small communities

For Dayna Prest, her research is a homecoming. The Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD candidate is exploring the experiences of LGBTQ individuals in Stratford, St. Marys and Perth County in an effort to better understand their relationship with these small communities – ones stereotypically seen as heterosexual, white and conservative – and how they shaped personal identity.

Study: Exercise boosts memory like caffeine 

Study: Exercise boosts memory like caffeine 

Brisk walks – even as short as 20 minutes – can provide your working memory just as much pep as that morning cup of coffee. In fact, that same recent study showed, that exercise may also reduce the negative effects of caffeine withdrawal like headaches, fatigue and crankiness.     

Policing partnership puts big data on patrol

Policing partnership puts big data on patrol

Law enforcement agencies across the country could have a new partner in creating safer communities thanks to a Western-led partnership introducing academic research and big data into policing.

میلاد نهاوندی: جای خالی که با گذشت هر روز بیشتر احساس می شود

میلاد نهاوندی: جای خالی که با گذشت هر روز بیشتر احساس می شود

وقتی که میلاد نهاوندی برای اولین بار در سال 2016 با استاد مهندس شیمی و بیو شیمیایی  چالرز زو در مورد دانشجو شدنش در دانشگاه وسترن ارتباط برقرار کرد، زو مطمئن نبود که آیا میلاد با او صادق است یا نه. نهاوندی عملا خیلی بهتر از انچه که انتظار میرفت بود در حدی که باعث میشد فرد به این همه توانایی او مشکوک بشه.

Mosaic X-rays reveal Peruvian mummy mysteries

Mosaic X-rays reveal Peruvian mummy mysteries

Western researchers, including two undergraduate students, have become pivotal players in developing a mobile X-ray protocol that could transform how mummies are examined in the field.

Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display

Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display

The slave life of the boy who renamed himself Jermain Wesley Loguen was filled with deprivation and abuse. His escape to Canada was equally harrowing. His hopes for finding a new life here – in what he’d believed would be freedom’s promised land – were thwarted by a society determined to keep him from success.

Study explores LGBTQ lives in small communities

Study explores LGBTQ lives in small communities

For Dayna Prest, her research is a homecoming. The Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD candidate is exploring the experiences of LGBTQ individuals in Stratford, St. Marys and Perth County in an effort to better understand their relationship with these small communities – ones stereotypically seen as heterosexual, white and conservative – and how they shaped personal identity.

Study: Exercise boosts memory like caffeine 

Study: Exercise boosts memory like caffeine 

Brisk walks – even as short as 20 minutes – can provide your working memory just as much pep as that morning cup of coffee. In fact, that same recent study showed, that exercise may also reduce the negative effects of caffeine withdrawal like headaches, fatigue and crankiness.     

Policing partnership puts big data on patrol

Policing partnership puts big data on patrol

Law enforcement agencies across the country could have a new partner in creating safer communities thanks to a Western-led partnership introducing academic research and big data into policing.

میلاد نهاوندی: جای خالی که با گذشت هر روز بیشتر احساس می شود

میلاد نهاوندی: جای خالی که با گذشت هر روز بیشتر احساس می شود

وقتی که میلاد نهاوندی برای اولین بار در سال 2016 با استاد مهندس شیمی و بیو شیمیایی  چالرز زو در مورد دانشجو شدنش در دانشگاه وسترن ارتباط برقرار کرد، زو مطمئن نبود که آیا میلاد با او صادق است یا نه. نهاوندی عملا خیلی بهتر از انچه که انتظار میرفت بود در حدی که باعث میشد فرد به این همه توانایی او مشکوک بشه.