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Western Heads East: From grassroots to global impact

Western Heads East: From grassroots to global impact

Twenty years ago, a powerful speech inspired a small group of Western faculty and staff to find a way to help communities facing a staggering HIV/AIDS crisis on the other side of the globe. Building on the work of Western researchers, the group connecte …

Student skates to success on national team

Student skates to success on national team

Mackenzie Spong balances time between representing her country on the ice while raising the profile of her sport off of it with the goal of expanding opportunities for girls across the country and around the world. She also manages to go to class.

Western atop world in Undergraduate Awards

Western atop world in Undergraduate Awards

By Kristine Dundas, Western Communications  A passion for translating research to patient care has led Tiffany Ni, BMSc’18, to the top of the world. Ni was recently named a Global Winner in the Medical Sciences category of The 2018 Undergraduate Awards for her thesis...

Professor brewing up history in Norfolk County

Professor brewing up history in Norfolk County

Tim Wilson grew up on the family farm in Norfolk County, hopping through the Carolinian Forest looking for dinosaurs. More than four decades later, still no dinosaurs, but he is still hopping.

Study eyes gap in aiding fall-prone seniors

Study eyes gap in aiding fall-prone seniors

A newly published study shows London-area paramedics are spending at least a month’s worth of time each year literally picking up seniors who have called emergency services after a fall.

NCA Director: Teamwork moves all toward success

NCA Director: Teamwork moves all toward success

Susan Scollie will tell you – she was elected a “caretaker,” not a director. “It speaks to our collegiality; it’s a good-spirited group that is really happy to be working together. It’s a rare and positive element,” Scollie said of Western’s National Centre for...

‘Recovered’ concussed athletes returning to play too soon

‘Recovered’ concussed athletes returning to play too soon

Doctors who give student-athletes the ‘all clear’ to return to play following a concussion may be under-estimating the lingering cognitive impairment that persists, Western researchers say. Kinesiology professor Matthew Heath said concussed athletes demonstrate a...

Sinclair honoured for simulation innovation

Sinclair honoured for simulation innovation

When Barbara Sinclair started teaching at Western nearly 20 years ago, the old clinical nursing skills laboratory was in “a bad state of disrepair, with not much of a budget, a few body parts and old equipment.”

Grant backs work offering tremor relief

Grant backs work offering tremor relief

Tremor, one of the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, significantly affects the lives of patients. But if researchers involved in a Western-led effort are successful, those symptoms will soon be a thing of the past.

Teams earn Collaborative Health grant backing

Teams earn Collaborative Health grant backing

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) have awarded a pair of Western research groups with Collaborative Health Research Projects operating grants.

Student skates to success on national team

Student skates to success on national team

Mackenzie Spong balances time between representing her country on the ice while raising the profile of her sport off of it with the goal of expanding opportunities for girls across the country and around the world. She also manages to go to class.

Western atop world in Undergraduate Awards

Western atop world in Undergraduate Awards

By Kristine Dundas, Western Communications  A passion for translating research to patient care has led Tiffany Ni, BMSc’18, to the top of the world. Ni was recently named a Global Winner in the Medical Sciences category of The 2018 Undergraduate Awards for her thesis...

Professor brewing up history in Norfolk County

Professor brewing up history in Norfolk County

Tim Wilson grew up on the family farm in Norfolk County, hopping through the Carolinian Forest looking for dinosaurs. More than four decades later, still no dinosaurs, but he is still hopping.

Study eyes gap in aiding fall-prone seniors

Study eyes gap in aiding fall-prone seniors

A newly published study shows London-area paramedics are spending at least a month’s worth of time each year literally picking up seniors who have called emergency services after a fall.

NCA Director: Teamwork moves all toward success

NCA Director: Teamwork moves all toward success

Susan Scollie will tell you – she was elected a “caretaker,” not a director. “It speaks to our collegiality; it’s a good-spirited group that is really happy to be working together. It’s a rare and positive element,” Scollie said of Western’s National Centre for...

‘Recovered’ concussed athletes returning to play too soon

‘Recovered’ concussed athletes returning to play too soon

Doctors who give student-athletes the ‘all clear’ to return to play following a concussion may be under-estimating the lingering cognitive impairment that persists, Western researchers say. Kinesiology professor Matthew Heath said concussed athletes demonstrate a...

Sinclair honoured for simulation innovation

Sinclair honoured for simulation innovation

When Barbara Sinclair started teaching at Western nearly 20 years ago, the old clinical nursing skills laboratory was in “a bad state of disrepair, with not much of a budget, a few body parts and old equipment.”

Grant backs work offering tremor relief

Grant backs work offering tremor relief

Tremor, one of the most disabling symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, significantly affects the lives of patients. But if researchers involved in a Western-led effort are successful, those symptoms will soon be a thing of the past.

Teams earn Collaborative Health grant backing

Teams earn Collaborative Health grant backing

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) have awarded a pair of Western research groups with Collaborative Health Research Projects operating grants.