Jibran Khokhar is determined to answer a chicken-and-egg question: Which precedes the other, substance use or serious mental illness? With singular focus and an advanced set of tools, Khokhar, the new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Translational Neuro …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gsz8EHiNc Mars may not be alive, but it’s not dead either. Curiosity rover has detected traces of methane at the planet’s surface, as well as organic molecules in powdered rock samples drilled from about five centimetres below the...
While greed, pride and curiosity brought about some change in the The Middle Ages, one Western researcher argues food and climate change were also main drivers.
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.
When light streams through her window in just the right way, Milena Canning will sometimes stoop to pick up a shiny coin she has noticed on the wooden floor of her Glasgow-area home. But her hand comes up empty – the ‘coin’ is just a dancing sunbeam, a quirk of...
There was no reason to think the mummified remains were anything but a bird.
No matter if making connections across the centuries, or just around the corner, Genevieve de Viveiros’ exploration of a 19th-Century French novelist has led to 21st-Century insights about the spread of ideas and the place of her community in the world.
As James Purkis sees it, he is in “the geeky corner of Shakespeare studies.” More than two decades ago, the English and Writing Studies professor dove into his doctoral work on The Bard by way of theoretical and historical questions regarding collaboration. At the...
Thy Phu wants you to see beyond the photograph. She wants you to consider not only what is pictured, but what is missing – and why. She wants you to think about who is taking the photo and the power that comes with selecting the image that resides in the frame. This...
A new study of water intake among people with chronic kidney disease is literally a “glass-half-full scenario,” said Dr. William Clark. Clark, professor at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, said standard...
Douglas Keddy understands what a good story can accomplish.
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
Just three millimetres long, Leptodrepana ninae flits about tropical Costa Rica with iridescent wings that would make a cathedral’s stained-glass windows look drab by comparison. Until this spring, the tiny parasitoid wasp was so low-profile, it lacked even a name....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gsz8EHiNc Mars may not be alive, but it’s not dead either. Curiosity rover has detected traces of methane at the planet’s surface, as well as organic molecules in powdered rock samples drilled from about five centimetres below the...
While greed, pride and curiosity brought about some change in the The Middle Ages, one Western researcher argues food and climate change were also main drivers.
Entrepreneurs have always been Eric Morse’s kind of people. Today, Morse now finds himself charged with fueling entrepreneurial success across the entire campus after being named Special Advisor to the President and Director of Entrepreneurship at Western for a three-year term.
When light streams through her window in just the right way, Milena Canning will sometimes stoop to pick up a shiny coin she has noticed on the wooden floor of her Glasgow-area home. But her hand comes up empty – the ‘coin’ is just a dancing sunbeam, a quirk of...
There was no reason to think the mummified remains were anything but a bird.
No matter if making connections across the centuries, or just around the corner, Genevieve de Viveiros’ exploration of a 19th-Century French novelist has led to 21st-Century insights about the spread of ideas and the place of her community in the world.
As James Purkis sees it, he is in “the geeky corner of Shakespeare studies.” More than two decades ago, the English and Writing Studies professor dove into his doctoral work on The Bard by way of theoretical and historical questions regarding collaboration. At the...
Thy Phu wants you to see beyond the photograph. She wants you to consider not only what is pictured, but what is missing – and why. She wants you to think about who is taking the photo and the power that comes with selecting the image that resides in the frame. This...
A new study of water intake among people with chronic kidney disease is literally a “glass-half-full scenario,” said Dr. William Clark. Clark, professor at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and a Lawson Health Research Institute scientist, said standard...
Douglas Keddy understands what a good story can accomplish.
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
Just three millimetres long, Leptodrepana ninae flits about tropical Costa Rica with iridescent wings that would make a cathedral’s stained-glass windows look drab by comparison. Until this spring, the tiny parasitoid wasp was so low-profile, it lacked even a name....