Seven Western faculty members are being honoured as part of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) class of 2022. Kim Baines, Aaron Fenster, William Fisher and Adrian Owen were recently announced as RSC Fellows and Arghya Paul as Western’s newest member …
Repairing painful and debilitating knee injuries may soon be as easy as growing your own new cartilage, according to a Western researcher. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Alan Getgood, and his team at Western and Lawson Health Research...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients wrestling with one of its main symptoms may find long-term relief beyond medication thanks to the work of a Western researcher. Psychiatry professor Dr. Ruth Lanius has been utilizing brain-training techniques through...
Female surgeons and residents from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London gathered recently in operating rooms across the city to add their voices to a global rallying cry for women surgeons. They did so by taking a photo and sharing it for the world to see.
A door slamming. Construction outside your window. The hum of an overhead light fixture. Our brain is constantly inundated with an overabundance of sensory information, requiring it to sort out unwanted sounds in order to focus on the task at hand. While the sounds...
One Western researcher is offering a reason to pass the next time you think about reaching for that black licorice jelly bean, twist or whip – your health.
Nearly 3,000 Canadian women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year. Often undetected, until it progresses to late stages, the disease is the fifth most common – and the most serious – cancer in women. Symptoms of ovarian cancer generally appear after it has...
Tamara Tavares, a graduate student in the Emotional Cognition Lab (ECL) of Western’s Brain and Mind Institute, took the top spot in Western’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition last week, tackling the complex world of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a...
While they might not increase the risk of suicide, as previously claimed, common medications used to treat an enlarged prostate in men may, in rare cases, increase the risk of depression and self-harm in some individuals, said a Western researcher. The potential...
The field of biochemistry has changed dramatically over the past 65 years. One person who has not only witnessed this change but also contributed to the change is Dr. Bishnu (Bill) Sanwal. Sanwal came to Western in 1973 to serve as Chair of the Department of...
An unplanned meeting at a friend’s party led to Meera Karajgikar’s volunteer work with London’s Nepalese community, assisting Nepali and Bhutani refugees adjust to life in Canada. An employee of Western since 2004, Karajgikar met Indu Tamang, a 34-year-old Nepali...
Western French Studies professor Henri Boyi and Medicine/Microbiology & Immunology professor Lakshman Gunaratnam, along with alumnus Navjeet ‘Bob’ Dhillon, have been named finalist for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award for 2015. The annual event, given out...
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the...
Repairing painful and debilitating knee injuries may soon be as easy as growing your own new cartilage, according to a Western researcher. Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Alan Getgood, and his team at Western and Lawson Health Research...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients wrestling with one of its main symptoms may find long-term relief beyond medication thanks to the work of a Western researcher. Psychiatry professor Dr. Ruth Lanius has been utilizing brain-training techniques through...
Female surgeons and residents from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care London gathered recently in operating rooms across the city to add their voices to a global rallying cry for women surgeons. They did so by taking a photo and sharing it for the world to see.
A door slamming. Construction outside your window. The hum of an overhead light fixture. Our brain is constantly inundated with an overabundance of sensory information, requiring it to sort out unwanted sounds in order to focus on the task at hand. While the sounds...
One Western researcher is offering a reason to pass the next time you think about reaching for that black licorice jelly bean, twist or whip – your health.
Nearly 3,000 Canadian women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year. Often undetected, until it progresses to late stages, the disease is the fifth most common – and the most serious – cancer in women. Symptoms of ovarian cancer generally appear after it has...
Tamara Tavares, a graduate student in the Emotional Cognition Lab (ECL) of Western’s Brain and Mind Institute, took the top spot in Western’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition last week, tackling the complex world of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a...
While they might not increase the risk of suicide, as previously claimed, common medications used to treat an enlarged prostate in men may, in rare cases, increase the risk of depression and self-harm in some individuals, said a Western researcher. The potential...
The field of biochemistry has changed dramatically over the past 65 years. One person who has not only witnessed this change but also contributed to the change is Dr. Bishnu (Bill) Sanwal. Sanwal came to Western in 1973 to serve as Chair of the Department of...
An unplanned meeting at a friend’s party led to Meera Karajgikar’s volunteer work with London’s Nepalese community, assisting Nepali and Bhutani refugees adjust to life in Canada. An employee of Western since 2004, Karajgikar met Indu Tamang, a 34-year-old Nepali...
Western French Studies professor Henri Boyi and Medicine/Microbiology & Immunology professor Lakshman Gunaratnam, along with alumnus Navjeet ‘Bob’ Dhillon, have been named finalist for the RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award for 2015. The annual event, given out...
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) handed out the association’s annual scholarships Wednesday to outstanding students from across all 11 faculties. These awards are funded by UWOFA members, reflecting their commitment to students and to the...