Over four years in the bachelor of medical sciences program, Sitara Lewis has learned a lot. But a defining lesson in empathy – from her time spent distributing meals and essential supplies to people experiencing homelessness – is among those she’ …
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Molecular weapon targets bad bacteria
Instead of prescribing a broad-spectrum antibiotic, like a tiny nuclear missile that indiscriminately kills both bad and good bacteria, Greg Gloor is working on developing a targeted molecular weapon that will combat only the body’s most detrimental, infectious...
Facing dementia with strength and resilience
On Sundays when he was much younger, Anthony Carapinha would tag along with his Mom to the nursing home where she worked as a long-term care provider. “I would sit with Mr. Jones, Mr. Boyle and an international judge who spoke five different languages – all at once,”...
Surf’s over: Reign of the data kings
I was holding a pack of blank DVDs in my hand and fretting over the price. It was 2004 when DVDs cost a buck each. How much would I have to spend to ensure I could restore my files when (not if) my computer crashed? The store owner saw my hesitation and called out in...
Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research
As an undergraduate student, Nicole Neil helped change the life of a young boy with autism. She found textbook concepts came to life as she worked with him. Now an Education professor at Western, she remembers real life intersecting with classroom learning: "I was...
Minister of Sport takes championship tour
Kent Hehr, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, visited Western Wednesday making a number of stops around campus.
How to build better nurses, through smarter tech
Nursing professor Richard Booth believes introducing greater technology into health care – even robot nurses – is not an ‘if’ but a ‘when.’
What the Laurier experience can show us about teaching and learning
The issues of freedom of speech and transgender rights, highlighted by recent events involving a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, remind me of my first year as a university instructor in the late 1990s, when I taught a communications course on...
Findings urge you to stand up for a better life
Chances are good you have started 2018 much the same way you ended December - by spending hours and hours on your backside. Working, studying, driving, web surfing and binge-watching. “Even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline for an average of 11 hours...
Professor’s work adds up for fellowship
A new fellowship award will lend a wider global scope to one Western professor’s research on how children develop numeracy. Psychology professor Daniel Ansari has been awarded a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, valued at 400,000 Swiss francs (more than...
Minister of Science explores ‘amazing work’
Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan stopped by Western Tuesday to learn about what she calls the “amazing work” being done across the university. Duncan spoke with researchers and...
Alumni Hall to play host to Prime Minister
Western will once again play host to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Alumni Hall will be the setting of a London Town Hall meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11.
Sedentary desk jockeys, stand up for your health
Sit up, stand up, repeat often. Sedentary Canadians can put their prolonged chair-sitting days behind them with a few simple, strategic behavioural changes, says a new study by Western University researchers. “Even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline...
Molecular weapon targets bad bacteria
Instead of prescribing a broad-spectrum antibiotic, like a tiny nuclear missile that indiscriminately kills both bad and good bacteria, Greg Gloor is working on developing a targeted molecular weapon that will combat only the body’s most detrimental, infectious...
Facing dementia with strength and resilience
On Sundays when he was much younger, Anthony Carapinha would tag along with his Mom to the nursing home where she worked as a long-term care provider. “I would sit with Mr. Jones, Mr. Boyle and an international judge who spoke five different languages – all at once,”...
Surf’s over: Reign of the data kings
I was holding a pack of blank DVDs in my hand and fretting over the price. It was 2004 when DVDs cost a buck each. How much would I have to spend to ensure I could restore my files when (not if) my computer crashed? The store owner saw my hesitation and called out in...
Pioneering direction in Down syndrome research
As an undergraduate student, Nicole Neil helped change the life of a young boy with autism. She found textbook concepts came to life as she worked with him. Now an Education professor at Western, she remembers real life intersecting with classroom learning: "I was...
Minister of Sport takes championship tour
Kent Hehr, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, visited Western Wednesday making a number of stops around campus.
How to build better nurses, through smarter tech
Nursing professor Richard Booth believes introducing greater technology into health care – even robot nurses – is not an ‘if’ but a ‘when.’
What the Laurier experience can show us about teaching and learning
The issues of freedom of speech and transgender rights, highlighted by recent events involving a teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University, remind me of my first year as a university instructor in the late 1990s, when I taught a communications course on...
Findings urge you to stand up for a better life
Chances are good you have started 2018 much the same way you ended December - by spending hours and hours on your backside. Working, studying, driving, web surfing and binge-watching. “Even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline for an average of 11 hours...
Professor’s work adds up for fellowship
A new fellowship award will lend a wider global scope to one Western professor’s research on how children develop numeracy. Psychology professor Daniel Ansari has been awarded a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, valued at 400,000 Swiss francs (more than...
Minister of Science explores ‘amazing work’
Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan stopped by Western Tuesday to learn about what she calls the “amazing work” being done across the university. Duncan spoke with researchers and...
Alumni Hall to play host to Prime Minister
Western will once again play host to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Alumni Hall will be the setting of a London Town Hall meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11.
Sedentary desk jockeys, stand up for your health
Sit up, stand up, repeat often. Sedentary Canadians can put their prolonged chair-sitting days behind them with a few simple, strategic behavioural changes, says a new study by Western University researchers. “Even if we exercise regularly, most of us sit or recline...