A tornado that sliced through a rural area south of Didsbury, AB on July 1 is among the most powerful ever recorded in Canada. It has been rated at EF4 by Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project, in collaboration with the Environment and Climate Change Cana …
Consciousness – and what the concept means – has been debated for centuries by philosophers and scientists alike. We are conscious because we can communicate with one another through our behaviour and language – but how do we know the state or extent of consciousness...
When you sing “Happy Birthday,” chances are you aren’t thinking much about the “shape” of the cheerful song. Music Theory PhD student Kristen Wallentinsen most definitely is. Her research is focused on mathematical representations of melodic contour, or shape, in...
Trish Tucker, a professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, is currently working on a study that aims to increase the physical activity levels of preschoolers during childcare hours.
Prior to the Paralympic Games in Rio last summer, Laura Misener found herself cringing after watching a broadcast interview with a Canadian athlete who uses a wheelchair. The female athlete, who has children, was asked by a befuddled reporter, ‘You have two children?...
If there’s one thing Travis McKenna didn’t want to do with his life, it was work a regular 9-5 job. A career in aviation seemed anything but traditional, so out of high school he applied, and was accepted to the Commercial Aviation Management (CAM) program in...
From the ongoing progress in human clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, to the world’s first ethical guidelines for cluster randomized trials, Western will soon showcase some of its top research moments with the creation of digitally linked historical plaques across...
A Western researcher is giving tiny Atlantic salmon fry a fighting chance to make it to maturity in vast Lake Ontario, more than a century after over-fishing and habitat loss caused its disappearance from the lake. A team led by Bryan Neff, a professor in the...
High levels of narcissism and a weaker sense of peer belonging is leading millions of young adults to take part in deceptive ‘like-seeking’ avenues on Instagram, a recent Western study revealed.
When you’re speaking with Molly Henry, she’s taking note of the rhythms in the conversation you are having. Henry, a postdoctoral fellow at Western’s Brain and Mind Institute (BMI), is interested in how synchronization between brain rhythms and environmental rhythms –...
If you are in the midst of teaching your child how to read, you might just be able to teach them something else in the process. A long-standing belief among academics, teachers and parents alike indicates in order to learn something new from a book, a child must first...
We are built to forget – it is a psychological necessity. But in a social media world that captures – and, more importantly, remembers – everything we say and do, forgetting is becoming a thing of the past. If we lose the ability to forget our past, we lose the...
For Fatima Ba’abbad, BHSc’14, the role Canada’s favourite past time played in residential schools cannot be overlooked.
Consciousness – and what the concept means – has been debated for centuries by philosophers and scientists alike. We are conscious because we can communicate with one another through our behaviour and language – but how do we know the state or extent of consciousness...
When you sing “Happy Birthday,” chances are you aren’t thinking much about the “shape” of the cheerful song. Music Theory PhD student Kristen Wallentinsen most definitely is. Her research is focused on mathematical representations of melodic contour, or shape, in...
Trish Tucker, a professor in the School of Occupational Therapy, is currently working on a study that aims to increase the physical activity levels of preschoolers during childcare hours.
Prior to the Paralympic Games in Rio last summer, Laura Misener found herself cringing after watching a broadcast interview with a Canadian athlete who uses a wheelchair. The female athlete, who has children, was asked by a befuddled reporter, ‘You have two children?...
If there’s one thing Travis McKenna didn’t want to do with his life, it was work a regular 9-5 job. A career in aviation seemed anything but traditional, so out of high school he applied, and was accepted to the Commercial Aviation Management (CAM) program in...
From the ongoing progress in human clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, to the world’s first ethical guidelines for cluster randomized trials, Western will soon showcase some of its top research moments with the creation of digitally linked historical plaques across...
A Western researcher is giving tiny Atlantic salmon fry a fighting chance to make it to maturity in vast Lake Ontario, more than a century after over-fishing and habitat loss caused its disappearance from the lake. A team led by Bryan Neff, a professor in the...
High levels of narcissism and a weaker sense of peer belonging is leading millions of young adults to take part in deceptive ‘like-seeking’ avenues on Instagram, a recent Western study revealed.
When you’re speaking with Molly Henry, she’s taking note of the rhythms in the conversation you are having. Henry, a postdoctoral fellow at Western’s Brain and Mind Institute (BMI), is interested in how synchronization between brain rhythms and environmental rhythms –...
If you are in the midst of teaching your child how to read, you might just be able to teach them something else in the process. A long-standing belief among academics, teachers and parents alike indicates in order to learn something new from a book, a child must first...
We are built to forget – it is a psychological necessity. But in a social media world that captures – and, more importantly, remembers – everything we say and do, forgetting is becoming a thing of the past. If we lose the ability to forget our past, we lose the...
For Fatima Ba’abbad, BHSc’14, the role Canada’s favourite past time played in residential schools cannot be overlooked.