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International research internships benefit students, faculty

International research internships benefit students, faculty

More than 50 international students from 10 different countries are at Western this summer, completing research in astrophysics, climate change, artificial intelligence and a wide range of other areas of study. The students are part of the Mitacs Global …

Entrepreneurial team wins with surgical precision

Entrepreneurial team wins with surgical precision

Make it another innovation-and-commercialization win for PhD candidate Patrick McCunn and Alex Moszcynski, PhD’17. After taking one of the top spots in last year’s Proteus Innovation Competition with their plans to commercialize a cloud-based data collection app, the...

Bringing coding for girls to the community

Bringing coding for girls to the community

For adults, playing can be a break from life. For young girls in grade school, playing might just be the first step to a fulfilling career. This month, 60 young women aged 12 to 17 had fun and gained digital skills at Go CODE Girl – an annual ‘Just for Girls’ coding...

New tech may benefit Parkinson’s sufferers

New tech may benefit Parkinson’s sufferers

A new prototype for wearable tremor suppression gloves has a team of Western researchers believing real change is on the way for the more than 6 million people in the world afflicted by Parkinson’s disease.

Alumnus earns Olympic gold in 2-man bobsleigh

Alumnus earns Olympic gold in 2-man bobsleigh

Alex Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), and Justin Kripps captured gold late Monday for Canada’s third-ever Olympic medal in men’s two-man bobsleigh. The pair actually tied with Germany’s Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis for first place after all four runs were completed, both sleds finishing with a total time of 3:16.86.

Western gets boost  from federal supercluster

Western gets boost from federal supercluster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=GWVyYmmLb5k Western hopes to gain a boost in leading advanced-manufacturing research through partnerships with industry that will vie for a share of $950 million in new funding through the Innovation Superclusters...

‘Science, Action!’ contest puts research in motion

‘Science, Action!’ contest puts research in motion

Postsecondary students across the country, including three from Western, are getting out of the labs and behind the camera for the annual Science, Action! initiative, sponsored by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to highlight...

Engineering a solution for brain trauma

Engineering a solution for brain trauma

Haojie Mao is working to understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) through collaborations with Western neuroscientists and neurobiologists. And those researchers are looking to crack the brain-injury code with help from Mao, a world-class engineer. “When we’re wanting a...

Alumnus chasing history in Pyeongchang

Alumnus chasing history in Pyeongchang

Alex Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), who had never seen a bobsleigh until the age of 23, is a Team Canada Olympian waiting his turn on the international stage in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Entrepreneurial team wins with surgical precision

Entrepreneurial team wins with surgical precision

Make it another innovation-and-commercialization win for PhD candidate Patrick McCunn and Alex Moszcynski, PhD’17. After taking one of the top spots in last year’s Proteus Innovation Competition with their plans to commercialize a cloud-based data collection app, the...

Bringing coding for girls to the community

Bringing coding for girls to the community

For adults, playing can be a break from life. For young girls in grade school, playing might just be the first step to a fulfilling career. This month, 60 young women aged 12 to 17 had fun and gained digital skills at Go CODE Girl – an annual ‘Just for Girls’ coding...

New tech may benefit Parkinson’s sufferers

New tech may benefit Parkinson’s sufferers

A new prototype for wearable tremor suppression gloves has a team of Western researchers believing real change is on the way for the more than 6 million people in the world afflicted by Parkinson’s disease.

Alumnus earns Olympic gold in 2-man bobsleigh

Alumnus earns Olympic gold in 2-man bobsleigh

Alex Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), and Justin Kripps captured gold late Monday for Canada’s third-ever Olympic medal in men’s two-man bobsleigh. The pair actually tied with Germany’s Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis for first place after all four runs were completed, both sleds finishing with a total time of 3:16.86.

Western gets boost  from federal supercluster

Western gets boost from federal supercluster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=GWVyYmmLb5k Western hopes to gain a boost in leading advanced-manufacturing research through partnerships with industry that will vie for a share of $950 million in new funding through the Innovation Superclusters...

‘Science, Action!’ contest puts research in motion

‘Science, Action!’ contest puts research in motion

Postsecondary students across the country, including three from Western, are getting out of the labs and behind the camera for the annual Science, Action! initiative, sponsored by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to highlight...

Engineering a solution for brain trauma

Engineering a solution for brain trauma

Haojie Mao is working to understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) through collaborations with Western neuroscientists and neurobiologists. And those researchers are looking to crack the brain-injury code with help from Mao, a world-class engineer. “When we’re wanting a...

Alumnus chasing history in Pyeongchang

Alumnus chasing history in Pyeongchang

Alex Kopacz, BESc’13 (Mechanical Engineering), who had never seen a bobsleigh until the age of 23, is a Team Canada Olympian waiting his turn on the international stage in Pyeongchang, South Korea.