Exercise can play a role in improving your mental health but no effect on cognition
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Author and lawyer joins Western as 2024-25 writer-in-residence
Saeed Teebi hopes to build connections, community
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‘Planting seeds’: Western, community partner collaborate to cultivate Indigenous food sovereignty
‘It’s not just about feeding people, but also reconnecting them with their ancestral knowledge and practices’
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Western celebrates opening of Ronald D. Schmeichel Building for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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Western-led study shows playing video games may improve cognitive performance
Exercise can play a role in improving your mental health but no effect on cognition
Expert insight: How engineering can support inclusion in sport
Western students help minor hockey organization with design thinking to build tailored solutions
Author and lawyer joins Western as 2024-25 writer-in-residence
Saeed Teebi hopes to build connections, community
‘Planting seeds’: Western, community partner collaborate to cultivate Indigenous food sovereignty
‘It’s not just about feeding people, but also reconnecting them with their ancestral knowledge and practices’
Western engineering students build bridge for rural Eswatini community
Footbridge over the Phongolane River eliminates dangerous crossing, connects locals to essential services during rainy season
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“Finding community in writing and in life is really encouraging”
Into the Mystic: Western researcher explores virtual reality for mental health therapy
Prof Paul Frewen explores brain-computer interface technology to reduce stress and anxiety
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Western professor Gordon “Oz” Osinski brought astronauts from the Canadian Space Agency and NASA to Kamestastin, also called Mistastin, in northern Labrador for planetary science and lunar geology training. It’s the perfect learning site because the crater and its rock formations – formed by the heat and impact of an asteroid 36 million years ago – mimic the conditions on the surface of the moon.
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Sustainability
Western continues to promote sustainable practices and research while preserving the significant ecological diversity of its campus.
Ziploc, chip bag, protein bar wrapper? There’s a recycling box for that
Master’s student in biology expands snack wrapper recycling across Western’s campus