A new Western study shows that university students who were regularly vaping wanted to cut back after learning about the threat the habit could pose to their health. PhD candidate Babac Salmani and Faculty of Health Sciences professor Harry Prapavessis …
Non-dairy alternatives for the creation of a life-sustaining probiotic yogurt may offer a new affordable option to African communities that have come to depend on the product, all thanks to the work of a group of seven student researchers.
Two Western scholars and one professor emerita – Joy MacDermid of Physical Therapy, Ravi Menon of Medical Biophysics, and Ann Chambers of Oncology, Medical Biophysics and Pathology – have been named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
Gillian Mandich is relentlessly upbeat. It’s not that she has led a carefree, stress-free life. It’s just that Mandich works hard at happiness, having trained herself to treat it as a necessary state of life, not a fleeting state of mind.
Author Lisa Bowes, BA’88 (Physical Education), recently released ‘Lucy Tries Basketball,’ the fifth book in her Lucy Tries Sports series which encourages children to get active and participate in sports and recreation.
Homeless individuals in rural areas are offered few options when it comes to assistance in their communities, frequently forcing them into urban centres in search of help. Stopping that flow, however, may create better outcomes for all involved, according to recent Western study.
A Western-led analysis of 11 years of car/bicycle crash data in London points to one clear conclusion about the most important variable in whether a cyclist is seriously injured or not –motorist speed.
For a pair of Western alumni, starting a conversation about mental health is something to sing about. Thalia Ranjbar, BA’19 (Kinesiology), and Jake Schindler, BMus’18, BSc’19 (Computer Science), hope to shine a light on mental health with the staging of Where Do We...
Her work has already provided new insights into brain injuries suffered by young female athletes. Now, thanks to one of the province’s most competitive scholarships, Alexandra Harriss looks to head off those injuries sooner, perhaps even changing how the most popular sport on the planet is played and coached.
From helping a comedy king find a friend, to road-tripping across America with Mr. Wednesday riding shotgun, you don’t have to battle Heaven and Hell to find something to enjoy when Digital Media Designer Allyson Steward takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
From exploring behaviour change strategies to dishing out Mango Tango, Joel Kang is now a scoop above the rest.
If you never anticipated wanting a poster of a U.S. Supreme Court justice for your office, then prepare yourself as Nursing professor Abe Oudshoorn takes his turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Earlier this year, the Ecuadorian government named Lisbeth Pino, MPH’18, among its ‘Women Who Build Ecuador,’ a designation the country reserved for pioneers who “leave their stories in time, which cause breezes that will become new winds of hope and equality.”
Non-dairy alternatives for the creation of a life-sustaining probiotic yogurt may offer a new affordable option to African communities that have come to depend on the product, all thanks to the work of a group of seven student researchers.
Two Western scholars and one professor emerita – Joy MacDermid of Physical Therapy, Ravi Menon of Medical Biophysics, and Ann Chambers of Oncology, Medical Biophysics and Pathology – have been named among the new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
Gillian Mandich is relentlessly upbeat. It’s not that she has led a carefree, stress-free life. It’s just that Mandich works hard at happiness, having trained herself to treat it as a necessary state of life, not a fleeting state of mind.
Author Lisa Bowes, BA’88 (Physical Education), recently released ‘Lucy Tries Basketball,’ the fifth book in her Lucy Tries Sports series which encourages children to get active and participate in sports and recreation.
Homeless individuals in rural areas are offered few options when it comes to assistance in their communities, frequently forcing them into urban centres in search of help. Stopping that flow, however, may create better outcomes for all involved, according to recent Western study.
A Western-led analysis of 11 years of car/bicycle crash data in London points to one clear conclusion about the most important variable in whether a cyclist is seriously injured or not –motorist speed.
For a pair of Western alumni, starting a conversation about mental health is something to sing about. Thalia Ranjbar, BA’19 (Kinesiology), and Jake Schindler, BMus’18, BSc’19 (Computer Science), hope to shine a light on mental health with the staging of Where Do We...
Her work has already provided new insights into brain injuries suffered by young female athletes. Now, thanks to one of the province’s most competitive scholarships, Alexandra Harriss looks to head off those injuries sooner, perhaps even changing how the most popular sport on the planet is played and coached.
From helping a comedy king find a friend, to road-tripping across America with Mr. Wednesday riding shotgun, you don’t have to battle Heaven and Hell to find something to enjoy when Digital Media Designer Allyson Steward takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
From exploring behaviour change strategies to dishing out Mango Tango, Joel Kang is now a scoop above the rest.
If you never anticipated wanting a poster of a U.S. Supreme Court justice for your office, then prepare yourself as Nursing professor Abe Oudshoorn takes his turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Earlier this year, the Ecuadorian government named Lisbeth Pino, MPH’18, among its ‘Women Who Build Ecuador,’ a designation the country reserved for pioneers who “leave their stories in time, which cause breezes that will become new winds of hope and equality.”