Integral brain health – a concept that recognizes the interconnectedness of cerebral, mental and social well-being – was the focus of an international workshop hosted by the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. The event on Jan. 28 gathered …
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Outreach event introduces the future to history
Pirates and punk rock. Gruesome assassinations and weird operations. More than 260 high schoolers and their teachers were treated Wednesday to an eclectic sampler of some of human history’s unheralded tales and learned why these stories are important.
Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London
Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...
Science of storytelling finds leadership at Western
Douglas Keddy understands what a good story can accomplish.
Don’t shake in sheets; laugh yourself to sleep
No matter if you read him in the ‘Beforelife’ or the afterlife, find out why the best line Western Law professor Randal Graham ever wrote won’t appear in any of his books.
Researcher: Activism changing museums for better
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
Zitani name borne upon tiny wings, again
Just three millimetres long, Leptodrepana ninae flits about tropical Costa Rica with iridescent wings that would make a cathedral’s stained-glass windows look drab by comparison. Until this spring, the tiny parasitoid wasp was so low-profile, it lacked even a name....
Six Mustangs selected in 2018 CFL Draft
TORONTO – The Canadian Football League (CFL) added a few more Mustangs last week as six members of the current Western roster were selected in the 2018 CFL Canadian Draft. David Mackie, Jean-Gabriel Poulin, Jordan Beaulieu, David Brown, Alex Taylor and Harry McMaster...
Alumx wins fight for non-binary birth certificate
Joshua M. Ferguson, BA’09 (Film Studies), who identifies as non-binary trans and uses the pronouns ‘they,’ ‘them’ and ‘their’ to reflect gender identity has been issued a non-binary birth certificate after a year-long legal battle with the provincial government....
Listening to the brain’s hidden superpowers
Echo, a female superhero in Marvel’s Daredevil and Avengers comic books, is one of the very few deaf characters of the genre. Because she is deaf, Echo pays attention to visual details and movements, allowing her to learn new abilities by watching others. But what...
Singers urged to be kind to their inner voice
Opera singer Bethany Hynes, a Don Wright Faculty of Music graduate student, asks her peers a simple question: what does your voice mean to you? “Singers think about their voice a lot – how they function, how they sound and what it says about them as people,” she says....
Celebrating 50 years of Family Medicine
Although it has been decades since Dr. John Sangster, MD’67, and his mother provided care for his ailing grandmother, the memories are still fresh. He clearly remembers the thoughtful, patient and caring approach of his family doctor. “He supported us and gave us the...
Moonlite brings bright idea to night-night
A night-time ritual that began as a shadow-puppet theatre between a mother and daughter has transformed into a medley of storybook favourites playing out on ceilings across North America.