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Student estimates real-time pandemic death rates with cremation data

Student estimates real-time pandemic death rates with cremation data

The number of deaths in Ontario rose significantly in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic – not really a surprise. But data show that the excess mortality was due not just to coronavirus but to other, non-COVID causes as well, and that was unex …

Collaboration leads to ‘something special’

In a non-descript room of an eerily quiet wing of South Street Hospital, Mandar Jog’s work may look like a game to some. But the outcome could have a tremendous impact when it comes to the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological movement disorders.

On the clock: Competition places graduate research centre stage

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.

Santa’s got a brand new app

Thanks to Hamed Saadat, a third-year computer science student, Santa’s Delivery has arrived – just in time for the holidays.