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 …
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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
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
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
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
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.
Campus and community mourn, celebrate students
About 500 mourners gathered Wednesday in a memorial service at Western’s Alumni Hall in a tearful tribute to four graduate students who lost their lives on Flight PS752.
Ghazal Nourian: Absence of ‘a great presence’
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Hadis Hayatdavoudi: ‘Like losing a family member’
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Sajedeh Saraeian: Woman of ‘a thousand hopes’
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Milad Nahavandi: A loss felt with each passing day
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
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.
ساجده سرائیان: زنی با هزاران آرزو
ساجده برای همیشه فردی خواهد بود که ما نتوانستیم او را ملاقت کنیم.
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
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
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
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
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.
Campus and community mourn, celebrate students
About 500 mourners gathered Wednesday in a memorial service at Western’s Alumni Hall in a tearful tribute to four graduate students who lost their lives on Flight PS752.
Ghazal Nourian: Absence of ‘a great presence’
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Hadis Hayatdavoudi: ‘Like losing a family member’
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Sajedeh Saraeian: Woman of ‘a thousand hopes’
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
Milad Nahavandi: A loss felt with each passing day
Western remembers the lives of four graduate students – Hadis Hayatdavoudi, Milad Nahavandi, Ghazal Nourian and Sajedeh Saraeian – who died aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752.
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.
ساجده سرائیان: زنی با هزاران آرزو
ساجده برای همیشه فردی خواهد بود که ما نتوانستیم او را ملاقت کنیم.