United Way goal draws near
Western’s 2013 United Way campaign has reached the 90 per cent mark, with students, staff, faculty and retirees raising $705,886 of the $780,000 goal.
Psychology team’s paper named among year’s best
A paper authored by Western Psychology professors Lisa Archibald, Janis Cardy, Marc Joanisse and Daniel Ansari was named among the Top 100 most talked-about academic papers of the year, according to The Altmetric 2013 Top 100.
Western-authored paper named to ‘Best of’ list
A paper authored by Lisa Archibald and Janis Cardy, both Communication Sciences and Disorders professors at Western, and Marc Joanisse and Daniel Ansari, both Psychology professors at Western, was named among the Top 100 most talked-about academic papers of the year, according to The Altmetric 2013 Top 100.
Research: Exercise may snuff out pregnancy smoking cravings
New research from Western shows pregnant women wishing to quit smoking should exercise; just 15-20 minutes of walking is enough to stave off most tobacco cravings.
ORF announces backing for six projects
Six London-based research teams – five based at Western, one at the Lawson Health Research Institute – will share more than $7.4 million from the Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure (ORF-RI) program to further their discoveries. London North Centre MPP Deb Matthews announced the grants this morning at Robarts Research Institute.