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Police continue campus wreck investigation
London Police Service (LPS) continues to investigate a fatal car crash from early Sunday morning on the Western campus. A car travelling along Perth Drive, near the Chemistry Building, left the road and struck a tree some time after 3 a.m. Sunday. LPS confirmed Jan...
Turning ‘gunk’ into a liquid gold
Finding a way to improve the efficiency of how heavy oil is upgraded is a challenge Western Engineering professor Cedric Briens is excited to take on as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Syncrude/ExxonMobil Industrial Research...
Western empowers student to let star power shine
When Mina Gerges was a kid living in Abu Dhabi, he would sneak into his mom’s closet to try on her shoes and dresses. At the time, it was something he hid from everyone. “I felt different, and I was worried – terrified – other kids would find out and make fun of me,”...
Winders: Settling for hashtag activism abroad obscures need to fix problems at home
I get we live in a hashtag world. So, when religious zealots attacked the Paris offices of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, last week, killing 12, I knew what to expect. Seemingly moments after the attack, the outpouring of virtual support, especially from the...
Indigenous social network eyes economic opportunity
Shyra Barberstock has created a social network that is all business. Barberstock, a fourth-year First Nations Studies and Health/Environmental Geography student, and her husband, Rye Barberstock, recently launched the Okwaho Network, a social-networking site dedicated...
Physical Geography Lab to aid student research
Whether viewing organisms through microscopes, or sifting through sediment at the bottom of the Thames River, Western Geography students now have a new space outfitted with the latest tools to get the answers they need. On Friday, the Department of Geography unveiled...
McAlister: Surgeons working to solve riddle of dealing with Ebola
Editor’s note: The following editorial, ‘Surgery in patients with Ebola virus disease,’ originally appeared in the Canadian Journal of Surgery (Issue 57, pages 264-5) and is reprinted here with permission of the author and publisher. It has been edited for space. To...
Texting study pushes students to get up, get moving
You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology masters student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior. “We don’t seem to do things any more. We...
Website opens dialogue on outsider experience
You might spot Gloria Zhu on campus one of these days. The Media and Public Interest student might ask you, ‘Have you ever felt like a fish out of water?’ She hopes you’ll say yes.
Mayor stresses local connections for university, students
Just a month into his City Hall office, London Mayor Matt Brown sees positive town-and-gown relations as driving the city’s evolution from a traditional manufacturing centre into its still undefined future. Western News reporter Adela Talbot sat down with the mayor to...
Education initiative to unify mental-health help for kids
Starting in February, the Faculty of Education will begin Phase One of the Single Ceiling initiative, a project designed to put all child-focused mental-health systems under one roof, making it easier for area children to get the help they require. Organizers hope the...
Premier gets Western visit off and running
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, second from right, visited Western earlier this week as part of a tour of universities in the province. Wynne kick-started her Tuesday morning with 20 laps around the Thompson Arena track alongside London Mayor Matt Brown, third from...