For Margaret Atsango, it’s a “dream come true.” The senior librarian of Africana collections and services at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has waited three years to visit Western to learn new skills from fellow librar …
A recently released Western co-authored study is providing an eye-opening look into how physical pain and discomfort have become a way of life for many firefighters across the country. According to the study, the longer a firefighter’s career the greater the chances...
Haojie Mao is working to understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) through collaborations with Western neuroscientists and neurobiologists. And those researchers are looking to crack the brain-injury code with help from Mao, a world-class engineer. “When we’re wanting a...
Alex Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), who had never seen a bobsleigh until the age of 23, is a Team Canada Olympian waiting his turn on the international stage in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Student mental health must be stitched into the fabric of Western, says a new draft strategic plan that recommends both expanding academic and social supports and consolidating health-and-wellness care.
Nothing lights up the night – or sparks the interest of researchers – quite like a meteor sighting. At 7:23 p.m. Wednesday, a network of Western-operated cameras captured a fireball jetting across southern Ontario. Analysis of the video data suggests that fragments of...
A crew of feisty buccaneers have invaded the Paul...
Political Science professor Radoslav Dimitrov is playing an important role in reworking how the European Union is communicating its climate policies. A global environmental politics and climate diplomacy expert, Dimitrov was recently invited to become a member of the...
If you were teaching three lab-intensive Engineering courses this term, and if you were also director of the Mechatronic Systems Engineering program at Western, you’d likely want to find some time to wind down and relax a bit. Or, you could go from Engineering to...
After Katherine Albion became Director of Commercialization at Western’s Sarnia-Lambton Research Park in 2012, tenancy ballooned to include more than 30 companies working in advanced manufacturing, water treatment, ethanol production and other clean-tech initiatives....
The murder stories Michael Arntfield’s students are unearthing aren’t something you’d ordinarily see on the evening news. That’s an injustice his Cold Case Society and Study Group is working to redress. “In the United States, non-white (murder) victims have an 8-10...
From the tobacco fields of a small town in southern Ontario, to the oil fields of Alberta and Texas, the journey for Anthony Vysniauskas, BESc’74, MESc’76, began with an idea that had nothing to do with business. “Initially, we were dreaming up ideas for a successful...
A patient with an irregular heartbeat often requires multiple hospital visits and procedures, called catheter ablation treatments, to restore the heart to good health. One Western Biomedical Engineering PhD student, however, is using robotics to change that to a...
A recently released Western co-authored study is providing an eye-opening look into how physical pain and discomfort have become a way of life for many firefighters across the country. According to the study, the longer a firefighter’s career the greater the chances...
Haojie Mao is working to understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) through collaborations with Western neuroscientists and neurobiologists. And those researchers are looking to crack the brain-injury code with help from Mao, a world-class engineer. “When we’re wanting a...
Alex Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), who had never seen a bobsleigh until the age of 23, is a Team Canada Olympian waiting his turn on the international stage in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Student mental health must be stitched into the fabric of Western, says a new draft strategic plan that recommends both expanding academic and social supports and consolidating health-and-wellness care.
Nothing lights up the night – or sparks the interest of researchers – quite like a meteor sighting. At 7:23 p.m. Wednesday, a network of Western-operated cameras captured a fireball jetting across southern Ontario. Analysis of the video data suggests that fragments of...
A crew of feisty buccaneers have invaded the Paul...
Political Science professor Radoslav Dimitrov is playing an important role in reworking how the European Union is communicating its climate policies. A global environmental politics and climate diplomacy expert, Dimitrov was recently invited to become a member of the...
If you were teaching three lab-intensive Engineering courses this term, and if you were also director of the Mechatronic Systems Engineering program at Western, you’d likely want to find some time to wind down and relax a bit. Or, you could go from Engineering to...
After Katherine Albion became Director of Commercialization at Western’s Sarnia-Lambton Research Park in 2012, tenancy ballooned to include more than 30 companies working in advanced manufacturing, water treatment, ethanol production and other clean-tech initiatives....
The murder stories Michael Arntfield’s students are unearthing aren’t something you’d ordinarily see on the evening news. That’s an injustice his Cold Case Society and Study Group is working to redress. “In the United States, non-white (murder) victims have an 8-10...
From the tobacco fields of a small town in southern Ontario, to the oil fields of Alberta and Texas, the journey for Anthony Vysniauskas, BESc’74, MESc’76, began with an idea that had nothing to do with business. “Initially, we were dreaming up ideas for a successful...
A patient with an irregular heartbeat often requires multiple hospital visits and procedures, called catheter ablation treatments, to restore the heart to good health. One Western Biomedical Engineering PhD student, however, is using robotics to change that to a...