by Adela Talbot | Jan 25, 2018 |
Senators chose five representatives from more than a dozen candidates this week to represent the governing body on the universitywide Presidential Search Committee, tasked with finding a successor to President Amit Chakma. Senate members cast electronic votes in order...
by Adela Talbot | Jan 18, 2018 |
The global community has enjoyed Scholarship@Western research papers to the tune of five million downloads – a remarkable achievement for the university’s institutional electronic repository. “Five million downloads is pretty significant, especially in a decade. Its...
by Adela Talbot | Jan 18, 2018 |
Vanessa Ambtman-Smith knows the grim statistics: Indigenous women are more likely to be victims of violence than any other group in Canada. This is something she hopes to address as the first Indigenous person to sit on London’s Police Services Board. “I am an...
by Paul Mayne | Jan 18, 2018 |
A little more time on the treadmill may be just what the doctor ordered for Canada’s astronauts battling microgravity’s effects on circulation, according to one Western researcher. Kevin Shoemaker, Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences, said his...
by Paul Mayne | Jan 18, 2018 |
“My life is saliva,” said Dentistry and Biochemistry professor Walter Siqueira, one of the first and only dental clinician-scientists in Canada conducting salivary proteome research. Don’t believe him? His license plate reads SALIVA 1. Busy creating new salivary...