Children have become less physically active in school, despite teachers recognizing the importance of daily movement. Now, a new study published in BMC Public Health reveals the implementation of Ontario’s Daily Physical Activity (DPA) policy is in sharp …
In recognition of nearly 25 years of research in the field of sport management, Western Kinesiology professor Alison Doherty will receive two awards from the North American Society for Sport Management at its annual conference.
Five research projects have been chosen to receive joint funding under an innovative research exchange agreement between the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Western University and the University of Toronto.
Western’s sustainability research efforts got a $1.125 million boost last week from Newalta Corp., North America’s leading provider of resource recovery solutions.
Just weeks after his research sent shockwaves across the pediatrics community, one Western researcher hopes the use of codeine-based medicine for toddlers may soon be a thing of the past, avoiding the deadly consequences some children have faced already.
While their complex research projects could – and often, do – fill hundreds of pages, Western graduate students had only three minutes to explain their work and its impact to a diverse audience as the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) hosted 3MT, a three-minute thesis competition developed at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.
Five Western University researchers look to find innovative solutions to global challenges, thanks to the province’s Early Researcher Awards program.
Nine Western research projects, all with eyes on Africa, will be able to explore their ideas across the continent thanks to funding from The Africa Institute at Western.
New research by a team of psychologists from Canada, Italy and Switzerland shows undecided voters are not impartial, but instead reveal a preference for information that confirms their gut reactions.
Western’s Three Minute Thesis Competition culminates at 3 p.m. today, April 26 in the McKellar Room, University Community Centre.
Western PhD students Riley Dillon and Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong were named among 10 Africa-based and 10 Canada-based graduate students receiving funding from the Africa Initiative Graduate Research to confront critical issues facing Africa.
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard Vorobyov present a new model of brown dwarf formation that unites the best parts of existing theories and has far-reaching implications for understanding the population of low mass objects in the universe.
This week, Western plays host to ‘Gender and Transitional Justice,’ an international conference discussing a number of gender-related issues pertaining to the kinds of extraordinary justice used in societies in the wake of serious violations of human rights.
In recognition of nearly 25 years of research in the field of sport management, Western Kinesiology professor Alison Doherty will receive two awards from the North American Society for Sport Management at its annual conference.
Five research projects have been chosen to receive joint funding under an innovative research exchange agreement between the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Western University and the University of Toronto.
Western’s sustainability research efforts got a $1.125 million boost last week from Newalta Corp., North America’s leading provider of resource recovery solutions.
Just weeks after his research sent shockwaves across the pediatrics community, one Western researcher hopes the use of codeine-based medicine for toddlers may soon be a thing of the past, avoiding the deadly consequences some children have faced already.
While their complex research projects could – and often, do – fill hundreds of pages, Western graduate students had only three minutes to explain their work and its impact to a diverse audience as the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (SGPS) hosted 3MT, a three-minute thesis competition developed at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.
Five Western University researchers look to find innovative solutions to global challenges, thanks to the province’s Early Researcher Awards program.
Nine Western research projects, all with eyes on Africa, will be able to explore their ideas across the continent thanks to funding from The Africa Institute at Western.
New research by a team of psychologists from Canada, Italy and Switzerland shows undecided voters are not impartial, but instead reveal a preference for information that confirms their gut reactions.
Western’s Three Minute Thesis Competition culminates at 3 p.m. today, April 26 in the McKellar Room, University Community Centre.
Western PhD students Riley Dillon and Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong were named among 10 Africa-based and 10 Canada-based graduate students receiving funding from the Africa Initiative Graduate Research to confront critical issues facing Africa.
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard Vorobyov present a new model of brown dwarf formation that unites the best parts of existing theories and has far-reaching implications for understanding the population of low mass objects in the universe.
This week, Western plays host to ‘Gender and Transitional Justice,’ an international conference discussing a number of gender-related issues pertaining to the kinds of extraordinary justice used in societies in the wake of serious violations of human rights.