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Year: 2013

Gorton puts Crisis in perspective for Beattie Lecture

Geoff Beattie, LLB’84, chairman of Relay Ventures and former CEO of The Woodbridge Company Limited, established the Beattie Family Lecture Series in Business Law in 2008. Past speakers in the series include Nobel Prize-winning economists Robert Shiller a …

Grant fuels ‘gold-plated’ idea on cancer

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers led by scientists in London and Toronto is developing a simple tool that could one day make it easier to choose the best available cancer treatments for individual patients and improve their chances for survival.

Western celebrates World Water Day

Western celebrates World Water Day

In celebration of World Water Day 2013 and the International Year of Water Cooperation, Western and EnviroWestern are hosting a special interdisciplinary event on Friday, March 22, featuring researchers from the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Arts & Humanities.

Four undergrads tapped for planetary prize

Four undergrads tapped for planetary prize

Four Western Geology/Planetary Science undergraduate students were selected to participate in the NASA Undergraduate Planetary Science Research Conference, which will be held Sunday in Houston, Texas, prior to the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

OBI funding to target neurodegeneration

When Ruth McFeat heard the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) was investing $15 million to support research on neurodegeneration, the progressive loss of the structure and/or function of neurons, she couldn’t have been more thrilled.

Grant fuels ‘gold-plated’ idea on cancer

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers led by scientists in London and Toronto is developing a simple tool that could one day make it easier to choose the best available cancer treatments for individual patients and improve their chances for survival.

Western celebrates World Water Day

Western celebrates World Water Day

In celebration of World Water Day 2013 and the International Year of Water Cooperation, Western and EnviroWestern are hosting a special interdisciplinary event on Friday, March 22, featuring researchers from the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Arts & Humanities.

Four undergrads tapped for planetary prize

Four undergrads tapped for planetary prize

Four Western Geology/Planetary Science undergraduate students were selected to participate in the NASA Undergraduate Planetary Science Research Conference, which will be held Sunday in Houston, Texas, prior to the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

OBI funding to target neurodegeneration

When Ruth McFeat heard the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) was investing $15 million to support research on neurodegeneration, the progressive loss of the structure and/or function of neurons, she couldn’t have been more thrilled.