The Sean Kingston performance at the Orientation Week concert, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 7, has been cancelled after Western learned that there is a civil court case in the United States in which Kingston is alleged to have been involved in the sexual …
Month: August 2013
Initiative centres on concussions discussion
“The bottom line is concussions suck.”
Researchers: Unresponsive patient communicates after 12 years of ‘silence’
Western researchers have furthered their game-changing neuroimaging techniques in communicating with patients believed to be in a vegetative state by connecting with an individual that has proved otherwise unresponsive for the past 12 years.
Funding helps Engineering professor CREATE opportunities
MONTREAL, Quebec — Western Engineering professor Xianbin Wang, a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications, has been named among 15 initiatives receiving a portion of $24 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) initiative.
Fulbright winner headed to Vanderbilt University
James Crimmins is looking forward to a new prospect – calling Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., home for the next academic year.
Conference eyes coldblooded connections to climate change
What do the wildly fluctuating temperatures we experience today do to insects? How do pesticides affect hibernation? And how do crickets, whose song reminds so many of summer days and autumn nights, shut their metabolism down in the winter?
Technology teamup targets liver cancer
Western has teamed up with the Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization (CIMTEC) and Claron Technology Inc. in developing hardware and original software modules in the treatment of liver cancer in developing countries.
Western, Hebei to partner on biomedical imaging
A former postdoctoral fellow at Western is helping spearhead a new biomedical imaging program at Hebei University, China, thanks to a long-term relationship with Western researchers.
Centre focuses research on The Games we play
By any measure, interest in the Olympic Games has never been greater. The world’s largest sporting spectacle has a broader global reach today than ever before, and viewership of the Games continues to climb.
Clinical education bring ‘real world’ into the classroom
Joanne McDonald spends her days being cared for by students at Western’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing. They check her vital signs, administer her medication, bathe and feed her, and even change her mastectomy dressings.
NES documentary looks to collect games, memories
Video games have come a long way since Nintendo first dominated the market in the 1980s. Three decades later, Rob McCallum has plans to go a long way to document the Nintendo saga, all the while hunting for its classic games.
Alumna’s hard work, continued education and passion help save lives
From London, Ontario to London, England, Jannah Wigle has transitioned a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from Western to a position with U.K.-based Options Consultancy Services, a maternal and newborn health program in six African countries, including Malawi.
Initiative centres on concussions discussion
“The bottom line is concussions suck.”
Researchers: Unresponsive patient communicates after 12 years of ‘silence’
Western researchers have furthered their game-changing neuroimaging techniques in communicating with patients believed to be in a vegetative state by connecting with an individual that has proved otherwise unresponsive for the past 12 years.
Funding helps Engineering professor CREATE opportunities
MONTREAL, Quebec — Western Engineering professor Xianbin Wang, a Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications, has been named among 15 initiatives receiving a portion of $24 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) initiative.
Fulbright winner headed to Vanderbilt University
James Crimmins is looking forward to a new prospect – calling Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., home for the next academic year.
Conference eyes coldblooded connections to climate change
What do the wildly fluctuating temperatures we experience today do to insects? How do pesticides affect hibernation? And how do crickets, whose song reminds so many of summer days and autumn nights, shut their metabolism down in the winter?
Technology teamup targets liver cancer
Western has teamed up with the Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization (CIMTEC) and Claron Technology Inc. in developing hardware and original software modules in the treatment of liver cancer in developing countries.
Western, Hebei to partner on biomedical imaging
A former postdoctoral fellow at Western is helping spearhead a new biomedical imaging program at Hebei University, China, thanks to a long-term relationship with Western researchers.
Centre focuses research on The Games we play
By any measure, interest in the Olympic Games has never been greater. The world’s largest sporting spectacle has a broader global reach today than ever before, and viewership of the Games continues to climb.
Clinical education bring ‘real world’ into the classroom
Joanne McDonald spends her days being cared for by students at Western’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing. They check her vital signs, administer her medication, bathe and feed her, and even change her mastectomy dressings.
NES documentary looks to collect games, memories
Video games have come a long way since Nintendo first dominated the market in the 1980s. Three decades later, Rob McCallum has plans to go a long way to document the Nintendo saga, all the while hunting for its classic games.
Alumna’s hard work, continued education and passion help save lives
From London, Ontario to London, England, Jannah Wigle has transitioned a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from Western to a position with U.K.-based Options Consultancy Services, a maternal and newborn health program in six African countries, including Malawi.