Western researchers look to take metastatic melanoma survival rates from a gloomy 5 per cent five years after diagnosis to almost 100 per cent, by simply looking where others haven’t. “We decided to do something weird. We focused on the things nobody knew anything...
Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Jin Jiang was recently awarded the 2015 Harold A. Smith Outstanding Contribution Award, presented by the Canadian Nuclear Association and Canadian Nuclear Society, for his contributions in instrumentation and control for...
Western’s Hospitality Services made a commitment two years ago that the university would be a Fair Trade Campus by September 2015. Mission accomplished. Although it meant changing the coffee being served in 15 different locations, including all residence dining areas,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIIPHNK8lNY A team of researchers from Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) and Western Engineering recently won the Best Innovation Prize at the Surgical Robot Challenge held during the 2015 Hamlyn Symposium...
A team of Western and Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) researchers have received the 2014 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Medical Devices, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for their paper, A Dual-Arm 7-DOF...
Karen Campbell has been appointed to a four-year term as Vice-Provost (Academic Planning, Policy & Faculty), starting July 1, 2016. She will begin Sept. 1 as Special Advisor to the Provost and Vice-Provost-Elect, working closely with Alan Weedon during the final year of his term.
Carlee White, a Western PhD candidate, always wanted a career that would help make a positive impact on people’s lives. Her research on early embryo development and genomic imprinting has brought her one step closer to her goal of giving people a second chance at...
A post-antibiotic era might sound like the recipe for a successful sci-fi blockbuster, but it’s not. It’s what Omar El-Halfawy, PhD, focuses on every day
Amanda Ali doesn’t mince words when it comes to her work within the Faculty of Health Sciences. “The goal is to reduce the burden of osteoarthritis.”
Ask Cliff Davidson, a Sociology PhD candidate, about any of his thousands of photographs and he will tell you how each came to be. Just don’t call him an artist.
The Western Conference on Science Education opened with a bit of ‘craft time’ as attendees jumped into a...
For 35 third- and fourth-year DAN Management and Organizational Studies students, it was an unforgettable experience. Last month, they spent two weeks in Hong Kong completing the required Strategy course, and getting an insider’s view of a new business culture with...
Researchers from The Africa Institute at Western are currently on the ground half a world away to establish a formal foothold for a new program that will help students “bring hope to the world.” “More and more students are wanting something different – an opportunity...
Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Jin Jiang was recently awarded the 2015 Harold A. Smith Outstanding Contribution Award, presented by the Canadian Nuclear Association and Canadian Nuclear Society, for his contributions in instrumentation and control for...
Western’s Hospitality Services made a commitment two years ago that the university would be a Fair Trade Campus by September 2015. Mission accomplished. Although it meant changing the coffee being served in 15 different locations, including all residence dining areas,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIIPHNK8lNY A team of researchers from Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) and Western Engineering recently won the Best Innovation Prize at the Surgical Robot Challenge held during the 2015 Hamlyn Symposium...
A team of Western and Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) researchers have received the 2014 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Medical Devices, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for their paper, A Dual-Arm 7-DOF...
Karen Campbell has been appointed to a four-year term as Vice-Provost (Academic Planning, Policy & Faculty), starting July 1, 2016. She will begin Sept. 1 as Special Advisor to the Provost and Vice-Provost-Elect, working closely with Alan Weedon during the final year of his term.
Carlee White, a Western PhD candidate, always wanted a career that would help make a positive impact on people’s lives. Her research on early embryo development and genomic imprinting has brought her one step closer to her goal of giving people a second chance at...
A post-antibiotic era might sound like the recipe for a successful sci-fi blockbuster, but it’s not. It’s what Omar El-Halfawy, PhD, focuses on every day
Amanda Ali doesn’t mince words when it comes to her work within the Faculty of Health Sciences. “The goal is to reduce the burden of osteoarthritis.”
Ask Cliff Davidson, a Sociology PhD candidate, about any of his thousands of photographs and he will tell you how each came to be. Just don’t call him an artist.
The Western Conference on Science Education opened with a bit of ‘craft time’ as attendees jumped into a...
For 35 third- and fourth-year DAN Management and Organizational Studies students, it was an unforgettable experience. Last month, they spent two weeks in Hong Kong completing the required Strategy course, and getting an insider’s view of a new business culture with...
Researchers from The Africa Institute at Western are currently on the ground half a world away to establish a formal foothold for a new program that will help students “bring hope to the world.” “More and more students are wanting something different – an opportunity...