A Western-based international research project aims to strengthen disaster resilience in coastal communities in Canada, Cuba and Indonesia, tackling a peril of climate change. As global temperatures continue to rise, increasing the chance of simultaneou …
Western has been awarded Five Stars by the QS Stars audit, authored by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), publishers of the QS World University Rankings.
Gitta Kulczycki knows tomorrow won’t be much different from today. In fact, she stresses it will take a whole lot of tomorrows to get to where Western wants to be on environmental sustainability. But that’s no excuse for not getting started.
With this week’s release of Western’s first-ever sustainability strategy, Creating a Sustainable Western Experience, it is expected that students, staff and faculty will begin to see a cultural shift at Western.
Known worldwide for his research around critical care medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Raymond Kao has been named the Group Captain G. Edward Hall Chair in Military Critical Care Research at Lawson Health Research Institute, the research arm of London Health Sciences Centre. The chair, a Canadian first, is named after Western’s former Dean of Medicine and longest-serving president.
While more than 120,000 Canadians have pacemakers – and an estimated 25,000 new ones are implanted each year – these patients are unknowingly putting themselves at risk of a lower standard of care down the road.
It won’t be an easy climb to the top of the research heap for Western, said John Capone, Western vice-president (research). But it’s something he feels the university needs to do.
Some millennia ago, Yes might have been the object of worship in ancient Egypt. Today, Yes – a modern, domestic house cat – is helping shed light on the practice of mummification and the lives of ancients, such as Ramses II, the most celebrated pharaoh of Egypt.
Harnessing solar power from the moon sounds like, well, an over-the-moon sort of likelihood. But for Rajiv Varma, work begins when the sun sets.
For Anthropology postdoctoral fellow Andrew Wade, it was a face-to-face meeting like no other.
Results of a recent clinical study by researchers from Western and the University of Arkansas reveal the presence of a unique blood marker, which may further the understanding of possible gut linked environmental contributors to autism.
When most people think immigration, they picture Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal as destinations for the more than 250,000 newcomers arriving each year to Canada. That would be correct. But a Western-led immigration study, however, hopes to open the door for newcomers to settle in medium and small communities across the country as well.
The Government of Canada launched a new study today to identify the cause of the so-called ‘Windsor Hum,’ which will be conducted, in part, by renowned Western University astronomer Peter Brown.