by Jason Winders | Aug 26, 2014 |
More than a decade ago, Lueda Alia started forging friendships online, frequenting absolutepunk.net and engaging with its online community. Today, she’s turned her taste in music and the online community she found into a business all her own. Alia, a Western...
by Jason Winders | Aug 26, 2014 |
Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...
by Jason Winders | Aug 26, 2014 |
Don’t count summer out just yet. The Middlesex-London Health Unit has issued a heat alert for Tuesday as temperatures are expected in the 30s with a humidex value near 40 degrees. Precautions are urged for those members of the Western community working outside and...
by Jason Winders | Aug 26, 2014 |
Western Chemistry professor Joseph Gilroy and Robarts Research Institute postdoctoral scholar Andrea Di Sebastiano have been tapped as Western’s Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award winners for 2014. Gilroy looks to develop revolutionary chelating (i.e. metal binding)...
by Jason Winders | Aug 26, 2014 |
New findings from Western suggest characterizing anorexia as a ‘passion’ will yield immediate and practical results in terms of treatment and therapy. The study, led by Louis C. Charland of Western’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy, is novel in that philosophers have...