Mental health can be a deeply personal and challenging topic, but Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry PhD candidate Kesavi Kanagasabai isn’t afraid to confront it. Kanagasabai introduced a new campus program that creates space for students to ta …
Earlier this summer, Visual Arts graduate student Jessica Cappuccitti curated an exhibition, Welcome to Detroit: Suzy Lake and Orlando Ford, at the McIntosh Gallery. The exhibition offered viewers an opportunity to understand how these images – some of Detroit’s decay and others that capture people with smiling faces and open arms – shape ideas about the city.
The global impact of WORLDiscoveries – a technology-transfer centre based at Western – has a new success story to tell, this time in the partnerships forged with Canadian and Asian business interests.
Western economist Jim MacGee has been appointed the Bank of Canada’s new Managing Director of Economic and Financial Research for a two-year term, beginning Jan. 2, 2019.
A new Western-led study has debunked claims that getting better at a brain-training game can translate to improved performance in other games and tasks.
Love lies broken in Lorne Campbell’s office. It has been deconstructed into thousands of data points on Excel sheets and transformed into code that coldly blinks from a computer screen.
Matt Stahl, a Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor, traces the origins of how labour laws have historically been used to exploit the careers of numerous female musicians, His work helps scholars and students of music better understand the role of law in the music industry.
Led by Engineering professor Jeffrey Wood, an advanced polymer composite materials and technologies team will CREATE more opportunities for the next generation of engineers thanks to $1.65-million NSERC grant.
While flat-Earthers continue to debate even the remote possibility that our world is spherical, new research shows the human brain is actually better understood in 2D rather than 3D.
While researching crime reporting across the globe, Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Romayne Smith Fullerton found North American media coverage of crime differed significantly from that of European news outlets.
Chris Alcantara knows it will take more than government funding to address the water crisis in Canada’s Indigenous communities. The money is important, sure. But building a collaborative relationship with Indigenous communities is what will build the foundation for future water infrastructure, he said.
A new economic model developed at Western calculates the cost of reallocating working‐age Canadians (20-64 years old) from one industry to another and shows that an unwillingness by many to relocate or change careers hurts the economy and leads to high unemployment regionally and nationally.
For American composers seeking a unique, American sound, the reverberations of the Cold War were palpable. As Emily Abrams Ansari sees it, the tension between the East and West transformed the nation’s music as it indelibly affected those who produced it.