As participants in this year’s edition of the World’s Challenge Challenge competition, Western students are showing their acute understanding of problems related to sustainability and are putting their best efforts together to suggest solutions. …
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
Helping bend, shape needs of Western, world
Earlier this month, Clayton Cook and his University Machine Services team constructed a much-need bracket for a local neurosurgeon – a devise to hold a patient’s head in place during lifesaving surgery. Just another Thursday around the shop.
Advanced Manufacturing pivots to face shields
Western teams across campus are supporting production of low-cost, substantively effective medical face shields that could be in hospitals for health-care workers within days if not hours.
Learning from echoes of past plagues, poxes, flus
Students in Western medical historian Shelley McKellar’s ‘Plague, Pox and Flu: Disease in Global History’ undergraduate course are in the rare position of learning the historical lessons of pandemics while living in one.
Tool eyes mental health, wellness of athletes
Co-developed by a Western researcher, a new tool that looks to address the mental-health and wellness challenges of elite athlete struggling only days after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) postponed the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Doctor issues dispatches from Italian front
The escalating COVID_19 situation in Italy motivated Dr. Fabio Salerno, a nephrologist and PhD Candidate at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, to return to his home country last week to help care for patients and support his health-care colleagues.
Conflict zone tech deploys to COVID-19 front lines
Applying lessons learned in conflict zones half a world away, Dr. Tarek Loubani is helping front-line health-care workers closer to home combat COVID-19.
Med students providing protective gear, care packs
Medical students at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are helping a local effort to supply personal protective equipment to primary care teams across the London region.
Campus offers critical supplies for front lines
John McCormick saw an opportunity to support colleagues on the local front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, his gesture to provide critical supplies has inspired others across campus.
Funding backs Western COVID-19 vaccine efforts
Western efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine received a major jolt thanks to million-dollar investment by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), federal officials announced today.
Researcher ‘optimistic’ as crisis hits close to home
Like many, Saverio Stranges has had some long days in recent weeks. With a brother and other family back home in the Lombardy Region of Italy – one of the hardest hit areas from COVID-19 virus – the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor has seen his professional and personal worlds collide.
Med students unite to aid health-care colleagues
Medical students at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are rallying to support their local communities and health-care colleagues during the COVID-19 containment efforts.
Eight faculty honoured for teaching excellence
Eight exceptional faculty members have been awarded Western’s highest honours for leading and inspiring their students. Collectively and individually, they exemplify the heart of excellence in teaching – and their influence has stretched across faculties, disciplines and decades.
Helping bend, shape needs of Western, world
Earlier this month, Clayton Cook and his University Machine Services team constructed a much-need bracket for a local neurosurgeon – a devise to hold a patient’s head in place during lifesaving surgery. Just another Thursday around the shop.
Advanced Manufacturing pivots to face shields
Western teams across campus are supporting production of low-cost, substantively effective medical face shields that could be in hospitals for health-care workers within days if not hours.
Learning from echoes of past plagues, poxes, flus
Students in Western medical historian Shelley McKellar’s ‘Plague, Pox and Flu: Disease in Global History’ undergraduate course are in the rare position of learning the historical lessons of pandemics while living in one.
Tool eyes mental health, wellness of athletes
Co-developed by a Western researcher, a new tool that looks to address the mental-health and wellness challenges of elite athlete struggling only days after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) postponed the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Doctor issues dispatches from Italian front
The escalating COVID_19 situation in Italy motivated Dr. Fabio Salerno, a nephrologist and PhD Candidate at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, to return to his home country last week to help care for patients and support his health-care colleagues.
Conflict zone tech deploys to COVID-19 front lines
Applying lessons learned in conflict zones half a world away, Dr. Tarek Loubani is helping front-line health-care workers closer to home combat COVID-19.
Med students providing protective gear, care packs
Medical students at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are helping a local effort to supply personal protective equipment to primary care teams across the London region.
Campus offers critical supplies for front lines
John McCormick saw an opportunity to support colleagues on the local front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, his gesture to provide critical supplies has inspired others across campus.
Funding backs Western COVID-19 vaccine efforts
Western efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine received a major jolt thanks to million-dollar investment by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), federal officials announced today.
Researcher ‘optimistic’ as crisis hits close to home
Like many, Saverio Stranges has had some long days in recent weeks. With a brother and other family back home in the Lombardy Region of Italy – one of the hardest hit areas from COVID-19 virus – the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor has seen his professional and personal worlds collide.
Med students unite to aid health-care colleagues
Medical students at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are rallying to support their local communities and health-care colleagues during the COVID-19 containment efforts.
Eight faculty honoured for teaching excellence
Eight exceptional faculty members have been awarded Western’s highest honours for leading and inspiring their students. Collectively and individually, they exemplify the heart of excellence in teaching – and their influence has stretched across faculties, disciplines and decades.