The search for life beyond Earth is a major driver for space exploration. That’s why the discovery of clay minerals on Mars almost two decades ago continues to captivate scientists around the world. Clay formation is linked to rocks interacting with wate …
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.
While home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise across the globe, developed countries seem to be opting for more hospital visits, which could place the developing world at the centre of research innovations surrounding kidney disease treatment, according to Western professor Arsh Jain.
We could power the planet for a year if we managed to collect all of the solar power from one hour of sunshine on Earth. Admittedly, Chemistry professor Zhifeng Ding isn’t quite there yet. But thanks to a Strategic Project Grant of $517,255 over three years from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), his work to develop more practical solar cells got a major boost.
Computer Science professor Mark Daley said with terabytes of research information rolling in on a daily basis “everyone is drowning in data nowadays.” But a $65-million donation of analytics software from IBM Canada, announced Wednesday, might just be the life preserver data junkies need.
Joining IBM Canada (contributing $175 million) and the governments of Canada and Ontario (contributing $20 million and $15 million, respectively), Western joins the University of Toronto as a major partner in the new Ontario-based multi-million dollar computing network, announced Tuesday in Toronto.
Lori Turik, Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation executive director, was appointed to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for a three-year term, Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq announced this week.
Prompted by the demand for case-based management education at universities in Africa following the launch of Ivey Publishing’s 39 Country Initiative, Richard Ivey School of Business professor Nicole Haggerty has initiated a new elective course HBA students this spring in hope of shedding light on the rapidly changing African business world and the opportunities there.
While people with reduced kidney function are more likely to develop cardiovascular conditions, that doesn’t necessarily ring true for those with reduced renal mass from donating a kidney, according to Western Epidemiology & Biostatistics professor Amit Garg.
Western Engineering professor Jose Herrera will lead a new municipal research project supported by the Canadian Water Network to develop a user-friendly model to forecast lead levels in drinking water.