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Western appoints AVP for innovation, partnerships

Western appoints AVP for innovation, partnerships

David Muir has spent decades matching innovation with industry in the private and public sectors. He has learned first-hand the power of collaboration. On Feb. 1, Muir will bring his expertise back to Western – where he earned two degrees in chemistry …

Pollen DNA may clue-in forensic details

Pollen DNA may clue-in forensic details

For one Western researcher, DNA found in pollen grains can provide a fingerprint to determine their precise origin. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Bogumil Karass collaborated with research teams from Emory University in Atlanta and University of...

Program gives faculty the ‘write’ stuff

Program gives faculty the ‘write’ stuff

Competing demands for time sometimes makes it challenging for faculty to find time and space for writing. Now, a new program out of Research Western aims to help faculty members un-block, and improve upon, their academic writing.

Space buff discovers exoplanet 

Space buff discovers exoplanet 

Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. Now he has gone and found one – although, at about 700 light years from Earth, it would be a tough commute. The Western University graduate student has teamed with Paul Wiegert, Graduate Program...

Sweet becomes sour with narcissists at work

Sweet becomes sour with narcissists at work

Chocolate cake every day sounds like wonderful idea. But, over time, its sweetness is apt to become tiresome, cause a toothache and ultimately be more trouble than it’s worth. This ‘chocolate cake’ metaphor is one way to depict the similar rise and fall of the...

Conference to showcase Research Western supports

Conference to showcase Research Western supports

Are ROLA and WREM just alphabet soup to you? Need to leverage internal funding to land that next external grant? Want to better understand the finer points of writing a grant, contract or an ethics application? Enter the first-ever Research Western Conference.

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...

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...

Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives

Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives

Dog-eared pages, stacks of magazines and a worn library card can all represent the rich relationship senior Canadians have with their books. And Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Paulette Rothbauer is using these representations to help change...

Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone

Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone’s capital city, amidst an uneasy peace in the bloody aftermath of the country’s civil war, sat a shipping container converted into a makeshift courtroom. And inside this metal box, a team of lawyers sought to bring justice to women and young girls of...

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Aiming to bridge the gap between the Ivory Tower and the general public, Western has committed to being a founding member of The Conversation Canada. The Conversation, a daily independent news and analysis online publication, delivers expertise from the academic and...

Federal budget signals commitment to science

Federal budget signals commitment to science

Western researchers are better positioned to undertake cutting-edge work, thanks to the largest investment ever in fundamental science research, tabled late last month as part of the 2018 federal budget.

Pollen DNA may clue-in forensic details

Pollen DNA may clue-in forensic details

For one Western researcher, DNA found in pollen grains can provide a fingerprint to determine their precise origin. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Bogumil Karass collaborated with research teams from Emory University in Atlanta and University of...

Program gives faculty the ‘write’ stuff

Program gives faculty the ‘write’ stuff

Competing demands for time sometimes makes it challenging for faculty to find time and space for writing. Now, a new program out of Research Western aims to help faculty members un-block, and improve upon, their academic writing.

Space buff discovers exoplanet 

Space buff discovers exoplanet 

Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. Now he has gone and found one – although, at about 700 light years from Earth, it would be a tough commute. The Western University graduate student has teamed with Paul Wiegert, Graduate Program...

Sweet becomes sour with narcissists at work

Sweet becomes sour with narcissists at work

Chocolate cake every day sounds like wonderful idea. But, over time, its sweetness is apt to become tiresome, cause a toothache and ultimately be more trouble than it’s worth. This ‘chocolate cake’ metaphor is one way to depict the similar rise and fall of the...

Conference to showcase Research Western supports

Conference to showcase Research Western supports

Are ROLA and WREM just alphabet soup to you? Need to leverage internal funding to land that next external grant? Want to better understand the finer points of writing a grant, contract or an ethics application? Enter the first-ever Research Western Conference.

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...

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western to host more than 8,000 scholars in London

Western has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will run from May 30 to June 5, 2020, is...

Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives

Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives

Dog-eared pages, stacks of magazines and a worn library card can all represent the rich relationship senior Canadians have with their books. And Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Paulette Rothbauer is using these representations to help change...

Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone

Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone’s capital city, amidst an uneasy peace in the bloody aftermath of the country’s civil war, sat a shipping container converted into a makeshift courtroom. And inside this metal box, a team of lawyers sought to bring justice to women and young girls of...

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Western joins The Conversation to promote research-based journalism

Aiming to bridge the gap between the Ivory Tower and the general public, Western has committed to being a founding member of The Conversation Canada. The Conversation, a daily independent news and analysis online publication, delivers expertise from the academic and...

Federal budget signals commitment to science

Federal budget signals commitment to science

Western researchers are better positioned to undertake cutting-edge work, thanks to the largest investment ever in fundamental science research, tabled late last month as part of the 2018 federal budget.