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Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Could your fear of math class, or even the idea of talking about math, impact your academic decisions and overall performance at university? When it comes to math anxiety, choices as to what courses students take, or even the field of study they choose, may stem from...

Graduate students connect education and neuroscience

Graduate students connect education and neuroscience

Western graduate students Stephanie Budgen and Anna Matejko’s work in the area of cognitive neuroscience is now part of a new web-based, open-access science journal launced by Nature Publishing Group recently at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC.

New lab to capture immigrant experience

New lab to capture immigrant experience

A new laboratory exploring immigrant settlement and integration issues will help create a smoother pathway into Canadian society for these vital members of the country’s future economy and labour market, two Western professors say.

Bringing new opportunity to the community

Victoria Esses has been researching discrimination, immigration and prejudice for more than 20 years. She’s taught psychology, published papers and won awards. She has been named a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo and a SSHRC research fellow at the University of Toronto.

Continuing a dogged pursuit of the canine mind

The idea of ‘the canine hero’ was, in some sense, the impetus for Western’s Dog Cognition Lab, supervised by Psychology professor emeritus William Roberts, and run by doctoral candidate Krista Macpherson.

Study: Media reflection of immigrants not reality

Study: Media reflection of immigrants not reality

A new Western-led study shows Canadian media outlets exploit already existing negative portrayals of immigrants in order to create a crisis mentality. It’s an approach, researchers argue, that harms the nation as a whole.

Alumna’s hard work, continued education and passion help save lives

From London, Ontario to London, England, Jannah Wigle has transitioned a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from Western to a position with U.K.-based Options Consultancy Services, a maternal and newborn health program in six African countries, including Malawi.

Competition puts students’ research on the clock

Their research may have taken years to form, but Western graduate students had a mere three minutes to distill the complexities and significance of their work at the second annual 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Banting fellowship adds up for Lyons’ math anxiety research

Could your fear of math class, or even the idea of talking about math, impact your academic decisions and overall performance at university? When it comes to math anxiety, choices as to what courses students take, or even the field of study they choose, may stem from...

Graduate students connect education and neuroscience

Graduate students connect education and neuroscience

Western graduate students Stephanie Budgen and Anna Matejko’s work in the area of cognitive neuroscience is now part of a new web-based, open-access science journal launced by Nature Publishing Group recently at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC.

New lab to capture immigrant experience

New lab to capture immigrant experience

A new laboratory exploring immigrant settlement and integration issues will help create a smoother pathway into Canadian society for these vital members of the country’s future economy and labour market, two Western professors say.

Bringing new opportunity to the community

Victoria Esses has been researching discrimination, immigration and prejudice for more than 20 years. She’s taught psychology, published papers and won awards. She has been named a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo and a SSHRC research fellow at the University of Toronto.

Continuing a dogged pursuit of the canine mind

The idea of ‘the canine hero’ was, in some sense, the impetus for Western’s Dog Cognition Lab, supervised by Psychology professor emeritus William Roberts, and run by doctoral candidate Krista Macpherson.

Study: Media reflection of immigrants not reality

Study: Media reflection of immigrants not reality

A new Western-led study shows Canadian media outlets exploit already existing negative portrayals of immigrants in order to create a crisis mentality. It’s an approach, researchers argue, that harms the nation as a whole.

Alumna’s hard work, continued education and passion help save lives

From London, Ontario to London, England, Jannah Wigle has transitioned a Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from Western to a position with U.K.-based Options Consultancy Services, a maternal and newborn health program in six African countries, including Malawi.

Competition puts students’ research on the clock

Their research may have taken years to form, but Western graduate students had a mere three minutes to distill the complexities and significance of their work at the second annual 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.