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Month: August 2013

Change to O-Week concert

Change to O-Week concert

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  …

Funding helps Engineering professor CREATE opportunities

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.

Conference eyes coldblooded connections to climate change

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

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.

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.

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.

Funding helps Engineering professor CREATE opportunities

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.

Conference eyes coldblooded connections to climate change

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

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.

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.

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.