The Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of Saturday, August 12 and continue into the early hours of August 13, and conditions are shaping up for a stunning display, said Western meteor investigator Denis Vida. The new Moon, which occurs only …
The need for ‘personal space’ among fruit flies has Biology professor Anne Simon buzzing when it comes to potentially learning more about individuals with autism spectrum disorder or schizophrenia. “How does the brain decide there is another individual of the same...
It’s the “home away from home” Western entrepreneurs need to compete across Canada. Last week, Western, along with partner institutions the University of Toronto and McMaster University, launched ONRamp, a collaboration and co-working space on the Toronto campus...
Medicine was the last thing Adrian Bulfon ever wanted as a career. But after being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at 16, the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry student now traverses the halls of Victoria Hospital in London on a path to becoming a...
When it comes to researching medieval manuscripts, Samantha Tyson says photocopies or digital versions cannot hold a candle to the real thing. “And don’t hold candles to them,” laughed the third-year Medieval Studies student. Today, Western students can touch a...
For Paul van der Werf, it’s not about food waste. It’s about food. “It’s not just your banana peels and egg shells and coffee grounds. You should see what ends up thrown away – untouched and left-over food, like a $12 roast. At that point, you’re just rolling up a...
It was a stroke of serendipity that led to Michael Zanetti’s discovery of the hottest rock on Earth. In 2011, Zanetti, now a postdoctoral researcher in Earth Sciences at Western, was on an analog mission with Earth Sciences professor Gordon Osinski at...
After he had a stroke at age 15, John Humphrey’s left arm was useful “only as a paperweight” while he studied his way through high school, college and university. He was happy to be alive – to have survived after blood clots had formed, then raced to his brain one day...
It was just a matter of time before these guys got together. All three were first-year Scholar’s Electives students. All three were Science students. All three lived in Elgin Hall. In fact, they were roommates. So, when Mike Ge, Andrey Petropavloskiy and Max Soltysiak...
As avian malaria and other parasites continue to spread northward into new habitats, wildlife health experts are sounding the alarm of potential threats to global health up and down the food chain, according one Western researcher. “Parasites are everywhere; they make...
Senior citizens are shaping the way neighbourhoods evolve and grow, all in the name of maintaining deeper connections to their communities as they age, according to one Western researcher’s work inside a pair of London neighbourhoods. “We were looking at how the...
They produce winds strong enough to swallow whole islands in their maw. They whip up waves that re-shape cityscapes. And they bring rains and floods, devastating and seemingly relentless.
Two Western professors have been named among the newest members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Those named to the College represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada....
The need for ‘personal space’ among fruit flies has Biology professor Anne Simon buzzing when it comes to potentially learning more about individuals with autism spectrum disorder or schizophrenia. “How does the brain decide there is another individual of the same...
It’s the “home away from home” Western entrepreneurs need to compete across Canada. Last week, Western, along with partner institutions the University of Toronto and McMaster University, launched ONRamp, a collaboration and co-working space on the Toronto campus...
Medicine was the last thing Adrian Bulfon ever wanted as a career. But after being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at 16, the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry student now traverses the halls of Victoria Hospital in London on a path to becoming a...
When it comes to researching medieval manuscripts, Samantha Tyson says photocopies or digital versions cannot hold a candle to the real thing. “And don’t hold candles to them,” laughed the third-year Medieval Studies student. Today, Western students can touch a...
For Paul van der Werf, it’s not about food waste. It’s about food. “It’s not just your banana peels and egg shells and coffee grounds. You should see what ends up thrown away – untouched and left-over food, like a $12 roast. At that point, you’re just rolling up a...
It was a stroke of serendipity that led to Michael Zanetti’s discovery of the hottest rock on Earth. In 2011, Zanetti, now a postdoctoral researcher in Earth Sciences at Western, was on an analog mission with Earth Sciences professor Gordon Osinski at...
After he had a stroke at age 15, John Humphrey’s left arm was useful “only as a paperweight” while he studied his way through high school, college and university. He was happy to be alive – to have survived after blood clots had formed, then raced to his brain one day...
It was just a matter of time before these guys got together. All three were first-year Scholar’s Electives students. All three were Science students. All three lived in Elgin Hall. In fact, they were roommates. So, when Mike Ge, Andrey Petropavloskiy and Max Soltysiak...
As avian malaria and other parasites continue to spread northward into new habitats, wildlife health experts are sounding the alarm of potential threats to global health up and down the food chain, according one Western researcher. “Parasites are everywhere; they make...
Senior citizens are shaping the way neighbourhoods evolve and grow, all in the name of maintaining deeper connections to their communities as they age, according to one Western researcher’s work inside a pair of London neighbourhoods. “We were looking at how the...
They produce winds strong enough to swallow whole islands in their maw. They whip up waves that re-shape cityscapes. And they bring rains and floods, devastating and seemingly relentless.
Two Western professors have been named among the newest members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Those named to the College represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada....