By Jennifer O’Brien, Special to Western News Nicole Campbell can empathize with students feeling the weight of personal and academic stress involved in remote learning. And because the professor of physiology and pharmacology has been there – and c …
Month: August 2020
Driven to succeed, Xie eager to start at Western
Christy Xie designed a driving simulator en route to Western as a Schulich Leader Scholarship winner.
Schulich Leader finds formula for science success
Charlotte Motuzas – who aims to be an astrophysicist – is one of six Schulich Leader Scholarship winners starting at Western in the fall.
‘Smart walker’ helps prevent falls
Wagner Souza, has combined experience with neuroscience to create ‘smart’ medical devices, including a fall-prevention walker.
Advocate pushes for child-welfare change
PhD candidate Jane Kovarikova has formed a group lobbying for child-welfare policy changes.
Sparrows’ storm stress a harbinger of climate-change impact
Sparrows show increased stress when exposed to more numerous and more severe winter storms, says a Western study that tested the songbirds’ resilience to the effects of climate change.
Read. Watch. Listen. with Dayana Kibilds
Slide a pie into the oven and kick back with a good murder mystery as Dayana Kibilds takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Nicole Kaniki and Bertha Garcia named special advisors on anti-racism
Dr. Nicole Kaniki and Dr. Bertha Garcia will help Western lay the foundation for a sustained strategy to combat racism on campus.
Youth vaping problem nets research dollars
Vaping among teenaged Canadians has doubled in the past two years – a troubling trend that three Western researchers will examine in depth with new funding from the CIHR.
Experiential Learning grants brew innovative courses
Four active-learning projects will be developed, with and for students, in the début year of the Experiential Learning Innovation Scholars Program.
Ancient beavers cut trees for food first, not to build dams
By studying the wood-cutting behaviour of ancient beavers that once roamed the Canadian high Arctic, an international team of scientists has discovered that tree predation – feeding on trees and harvesting wood – evolved in these now-extinct rodents long before dam-building.
Debut novel combines tech, comic worlds
Drew Murray, can credit his storied career partly to technology’s triumph over the curse of cursive. Now Murray, BA’97, MBA’06, is celebrating his debut novel, Broken Genius.
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars’ surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice -not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought – a new Western-led study shows.
Driven to succeed, Xie eager to start at Western
Christy Xie designed a driving simulator en route to Western as a Schulich Leader Scholarship winner.
Schulich Leader finds formula for science success
Charlotte Motuzas – who aims to be an astrophysicist – is one of six Schulich Leader Scholarship winners starting at Western in the fall.
‘Smart walker’ helps prevent falls
Wagner Souza, has combined experience with neuroscience to create ‘smart’ medical devices, including a fall-prevention walker.
Advocate pushes for child-welfare change
PhD candidate Jane Kovarikova has formed a group lobbying for child-welfare policy changes.
Sparrows’ storm stress a harbinger of climate-change impact
Sparrows show increased stress when exposed to more numerous and more severe winter storms, says a Western study that tested the songbirds’ resilience to the effects of climate change.
Read. Watch. Listen. with Dayana Kibilds
Slide a pie into the oven and kick back with a good murder mystery as Dayana Kibilds takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
Nicole Kaniki and Bertha Garcia named special advisors on anti-racism
Dr. Nicole Kaniki and Dr. Bertha Garcia will help Western lay the foundation for a sustained strategy to combat racism on campus.
Youth vaping problem nets research dollars
Vaping among teenaged Canadians has doubled in the past two years – a troubling trend that three Western researchers will examine in depth with new funding from the CIHR.
Experiential Learning grants brew innovative courses
Four active-learning projects will be developed, with and for students, in the début year of the Experiential Learning Innovation Scholars Program.
Ancient beavers cut trees for food first, not to build dams
By studying the wood-cutting behaviour of ancient beavers that once roamed the Canadian high Arctic, an international team of scientists has discovered that tree predation – feeding on trees and harvesting wood – evolved in these now-extinct rodents long before dam-building.
Debut novel combines tech, comic worlds
Drew Murray, can credit his storied career partly to technology’s triumph over the curse of cursive. Now Murray, BA’97, MBA’06, is celebrating his debut novel, Broken Genius.
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars’ surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice -not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought – a new Western-led study shows.