London, Ont. was the site of The Amazing Race Canada Tuesday evening, and Western University was front and centre for the latest leg of the Race. Western provided racers with a unique challenge, one where they had to calm their mind and body in a mindfu …
Victoria Wiebe is no stranger to putting pen to paper to turn her creative thoughts into works of poetry or young-adult fiction. Now, the published author and Psychology student will be helping other writers find their voice as the 2016-17 Student Writer-in-Residence....
Two professors are the latest recipients of Distinguished University Professorships (DUP) awards, joining a select group of faculty members recognized for exceptional scholarly careers. Honoured this year are John Leonard, English and Writing Studies, Arts &...
Three Western programs now count themselves among the global elite, as Nursing, Philosophy and Psychology were named among the Top 50 programs in the world, according to the 2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released today. In total, Western programs...
Humans can be a bit noisy. And while our racket has become second nature to us, Western research has shown the songbirds are hoping we could keep it down a bit.
Victoria Esses is palpably excited about it. In fact, she’s thrilled. In a month or two, the first Syrian refugee family – a family with six children under 7 years old – will be coming to London, thanks to the Refugee Sponsorship Fund at Western. The fund, established...
Companies that create brain games often make wild claims about their cognitive benefit, warns a Western neuroscientist.
Etienne LeBel, MSc’07, PhD’11 (Psychology), was recently named one of 10 international winners of the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science, supported by the John Templeton Foundation, and presented by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social...
Now that she’s here, Psychology graduate student Madeleine Brodbeck is ready to change gears.
Hundreds of voices rang in my ears as I squeezed by throngs of people at the Hack Western 1 Project Expo last year. The Mustang Lounge was filled with rows of tables, where teams stood with their laptops and phones to show off what they’d made this past weekend. My...
What’s in a name? Quite a bit, when it comes to academic research in Canada, says Western Psychology professor Marc Joanisse. This summer, Joanisse was named chair of the Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research (PRCR), an interdisciplinary review and advisory body...
Presenting the winners of the 2015 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.
Western and Lawson Health Research Institute researchers recently received a financial boost from the Government of Ontario as 20 projects are now being backed by the Ontario Research Fund (ORF).