In partnership with Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Oxford County Community Health Centre’s (CHC) dental clinic has expanded its services to address the unmet treatment needs of county residents. The clinic started in early …
Community
Experts sound warning about child hearing
Canadian audiologists are urging federal decision-makers to prioritize child hearing health following a report card from the Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force showing the country has once again received an overall ‘insufficient’ grade.
Urquhart named 2019-20 Writer-in-Residence
Some five decades ago, when Jane Urquhart was studying English at the University of Guelph, there was one lonely anthologized textbook to supplement learning for the university’s solitary course in Canadian literature.
Study: Food waste costs not appetizing to many
Wasting food has become a way of life for many Londoners who, according to one Western-led study, are tossing an average of $600 into the trash every year.
Grant to examine rights of transgender children
Western Law professor Claire Houston recently received $6,800 from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Explore Grant to support her project, ‘Respecting and Protecting Trans and Gender Non-conforming Children.’
Students connect to history via small objects
It’s through remarkable stories about seemingly unremarkable objects that Huron University College History professor Amy Bell and her students have unraveled the anti-slavery stories of “small things.”
New registry to boost brain research participation
Launched this week, OurBrainsCAN is a central participant registry for cognitive research at Western with the goal to increase community involvement in these world-class brain studies.
Rockhounds chisel away at surplus minerals
Rockhounds of all sorts lined up Friday to examine and buy the minerals, which ranged from antimony to fluorite to zincite. Some were surplus samples from the Dana Minerals Collections, while others had been donations that couldn’t be incorporated into the collections because they were too small or were duplicates.
Funding backs unique shelter-to-housing plan
Abe Oudshoorn knows emergency shelters have the potential to transition into permanent housing.
Gifts, project open door wider to city history
A few taps on any smartphone can tell you that Eldon House, London’s oldest residence, was once home of the Harris Family, but it takes a collection like the Harris Family Fonds to gain a deeper understand of what that legacy means.
Investments shine new light on campus
A multi-million-dollar overhaul of Western’s exterior lighting – along roadways and paths, in parking lots and beside buildings – will brighten up and improve safety across the campus, university officials announced today.
Wiki project adds Western knowledge to mix
From the prosaic to the arcane, Wikipedia offers a world of factual tidbits, images and data about millions of people, places and things. Now a group of volunteers is looking to add Western-rich content to a number of entries in the crowd-sourced public database.
Partnership aligns area imaging expertise
A new multi-million dollar partnership in local medical imaging technology will be an opportunity to bring research findings to patient bedsides more rapidly and readily than ever before, according to university and hospital officials.