It was no ordinary Saturday recently for more than 90 Western Law students who lent their time and talent – in light of the recent travel bans imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on seven majority-Muslim countries – to take part in a research marathon to assist the...
There is a need for supervised injection sites, and research has shown that to be the case in some of Canada’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. But there is also a need in London, according to a recent study that took a close look at...
Three women, with ties to Western, joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump Monday in a roundtable discussion on the importance of women business leaders to economic prosperity. Carol Stephenson, a member of General Motors...
A single game of chess can last longer than a final exam. And making just one move can take far longer than answering the toughest of questions. Once, during a chess tournament, Matthew Blake took 45 minutes to strategize and settle on a move. The game lasted more...
The questions came in “fast and furious” for Samantha Brennan. When the Western Philosophy professor set out to host an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit last month, she was amused by the range and the amount of questions, and how fast they came in. In an...
Two members of the Western community are among eight honourees named by The YMCA of Western Ontario as 2017 Women of Excellence. Dr. Marina Salvadori, a faculty member in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is a provincial, national and international...
When it comes to addressing mental-health issues in developing countries and marginalized communities, the solution needs to reflect the multi-faceted nature of the problem, according to one Western researcher. Asking students for input is one way Dr. Arlene...
In November 2011, Glen Canning’s daughter, Rehtaeh, was sexually assaulted by four males at a house party near Halifax. The assault was photographed and shared on social media. Rehtaeh was subsequently harassed and bullied for months. In 2013, suffering from...
Four years have passed since Western welcomed the first round of 25 undergraduate students to its School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH), a unique-to-Canada program that offers interdisciplinary study options, new language skills, experiential...
Western researcher Madalena Kozachuk is bringing 200-year-old ghosts back to life. The Western PhD student and a team of interdisciplinary researchers have together developed a novel and non-invasive way to recover ‘vanished’ images from the earliest historical...
Calling the Ontario government’s answer to the growing concern of painkiller addiction and overdose problems a “knee-jerk move,” one Western researcher said it’s likely to create more problems than the provincial solution hopes to solve. As of Jan. 31, the province...
Joy Spear Chief-Morris admits she can sometimes be a bit stubborn. And single minded. But those traits have served the elite athlete, and member of the Mustangs Track and Field team, well – in life and in sport. The fifth-year History and First Nations Studies student...
Elizabeth Gillies’ development of degradable plastic polymers could soon benefit everything from fertilizer used by farmers to cancer drugs administered by physicians.
There is a need for supervised injection sites, and research has shown that to be the case in some of Canada’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. But there is also a need in London, according to a recent study that took a close look at...
Three women, with ties to Western, joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump Monday in a roundtable discussion on the importance of women business leaders to economic prosperity. Carol Stephenson, a member of General Motors...
A single game of chess can last longer than a final exam. And making just one move can take far longer than answering the toughest of questions. Once, during a chess tournament, Matthew Blake took 45 minutes to strategize and settle on a move. The game lasted more...
The questions came in “fast and furious” for Samantha Brennan. When the Western Philosophy professor set out to host an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit last month, she was amused by the range and the amount of questions, and how fast they came in. In an...
Two members of the Western community are among eight honourees named by The YMCA of Western Ontario as 2017 Women of Excellence. Dr. Marina Salvadori, a faculty member in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is a provincial, national and international...
When it comes to addressing mental-health issues in developing countries and marginalized communities, the solution needs to reflect the multi-faceted nature of the problem, according to one Western researcher. Asking students for input is one way Dr. Arlene...
In November 2011, Glen Canning’s daughter, Rehtaeh, was sexually assaulted by four males at a house party near Halifax. The assault was photographed and shared on social media. Rehtaeh was subsequently harassed and bullied for months. In 2013, suffering from...
Four years have passed since Western welcomed the first round of 25 undergraduate students to its School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH), a unique-to-Canada program that offers interdisciplinary study options, new language skills, experiential...
Western researcher Madalena Kozachuk is bringing 200-year-old ghosts back to life. The Western PhD student and a team of interdisciplinary researchers have together developed a novel and non-invasive way to recover ‘vanished’ images from the earliest historical...
Calling the Ontario government’s answer to the growing concern of painkiller addiction and overdose problems a “knee-jerk move,” one Western researcher said it’s likely to create more problems than the provincial solution hopes to solve. As of Jan. 31, the province...
Joy Spear Chief-Morris admits she can sometimes be a bit stubborn. And single minded. But those traits have served the elite athlete, and member of the Mustangs Track and Field team, well – in life and in sport. The fifth-year History and First Nations Studies student...
Elizabeth Gillies’ development of degradable plastic polymers could soon benefit everything from fertilizer used by farmers to cancer drugs administered by physicians.