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Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Western professors Kathryn Brush (Visual Arts) and Tsun-Kong Sham (Chemistry) have been awarded the 2017 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...

Western students help name craters on Mars

Western students help name craters on Mars

Western names are now written among the stars – or, at least in this case, written upon a planet. On April 3, the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System approved names for two craters on Mars – names proposed by Western Science students...

Alumna sets sights on world’s tallest peak

Alumna sets sights on world’s tallest peak

Only two years ago, Illina Frankiv had never set foot on a mountain. Today, she has successfully summited some of the most formidable peaks in the world, and now has her sights set on the Earth’s tallest – Mount Everest.

Team eyes non-invasive alternative to biopsies

Team eyes non-invasive alternative to biopsies

A Western research team is developing a way to diagnose prostate cancer without resorting to surgery, possibly reducing the number of biopsies that need to be conducted. A team led by Len Luyt, a Chemistry professor cross-appointed to Medical Imaging, has developed a...

Roots rally professor to the call

Roots rally professor to the call

Amanda Moehring was born to answer the call. “I’ve always been of the mindset that if you see something that needs to be done, something that needs to happen, you just do it,” said the Western Biology professor. When an email began to circulate among science...

Teaching in the age of social media

Teaching in the age of social media

  To some of my students’ displeasure, I have my office hours on Friday afternoons. I prepare for this ancient tradition of face-to-face, pen-and-paper pedagogy by tidying my office, purging unwanted scraps of paper, removing half-empty coffee cups, and sometimes...

New research opens a window on eye health

New research opens a window on eye health

Poets see the eyes as a window to the soul. Scientists increasingly view the eyes as a window to the inner workings of the body. And early vision loss, according to Western researchers, could be a predictor, and precursor, of other ailments that may appear later in...

Western among top in game design programming

Western among top in game design programming

Mathias Babin admits to staying up until 3 a.m. when it comes to video games. But it’s not what you think. The fourth-year Science student spends more hours behind the scenes then he does in front of the screen. “I play less videos games than I ever have in my entire...

Astronomers map unique ‘wrong-way’ asteroid

Astronomers map unique ‘wrong-way’ asteroid

For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the ‘wrong’ way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with Jupiter and about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet’s space, according to a report published in the latest issue of Nature....

Brush named to top professor honour

Brush named to top professor honour

Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush smiles as she remembers getting a photo from one of her students doing a cartwheel in front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, just north of Paris, France. She may be an internationally recognized art historian and an...

NASA discovery may confirm signs of life in outer space

NASA discovery may confirm signs of life in outer space

Earth occupies what planetary scientists sometimes call the “Goldilocks Zone.” Its distance from the sun means it is neither too hot, nor too cold to support liquid water – a key ingredient for life. Astronomers are perpetually on the lookout for planets that, like...

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Hellmuth Prize celebrates elite researchers

Western professors Kathryn Brush (Visual Arts) and Tsun-Kong Sham (Chemistry) have been awarded the 2017 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research –...

Western students help name craters on Mars

Western students help name craters on Mars

Western names are now written among the stars – or, at least in this case, written upon a planet. On April 3, the International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System approved names for two craters on Mars – names proposed by Western Science students...

Alumna sets sights on world’s tallest peak

Alumna sets sights on world’s tallest peak

Only two years ago, Illina Frankiv had never set foot on a mountain. Today, she has successfully summited some of the most formidable peaks in the world, and now has her sights set on the Earth’s tallest – Mount Everest.

Team eyes non-invasive alternative to biopsies

Team eyes non-invasive alternative to biopsies

A Western research team is developing a way to diagnose prostate cancer without resorting to surgery, possibly reducing the number of biopsies that need to be conducted. A team led by Len Luyt, a Chemistry professor cross-appointed to Medical Imaging, has developed a...

Roots rally professor to the call

Roots rally professor to the call

Amanda Moehring was born to answer the call. “I’ve always been of the mindset that if you see something that needs to be done, something that needs to happen, you just do it,” said the Western Biology professor. When an email began to circulate among science...

Teaching in the age of social media

Teaching in the age of social media

  To some of my students’ displeasure, I have my office hours on Friday afternoons. I prepare for this ancient tradition of face-to-face, pen-and-paper pedagogy by tidying my office, purging unwanted scraps of paper, removing half-empty coffee cups, and sometimes...

New research opens a window on eye health

New research opens a window on eye health

Poets see the eyes as a window to the soul. Scientists increasingly view the eyes as a window to the inner workings of the body. And early vision loss, according to Western researchers, could be a predictor, and precursor, of other ailments that may appear later in...

Western among top in game design programming

Western among top in game design programming

Mathias Babin admits to staying up until 3 a.m. when it comes to video games. But it’s not what you think. The fourth-year Science student spends more hours behind the scenes then he does in front of the screen. “I play less videos games than I ever have in my entire...

Astronomers map unique ‘wrong-way’ asteroid

Astronomers map unique ‘wrong-way’ asteroid

For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the ‘wrong’ way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with Jupiter and about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet’s space, according to a report published in the latest issue of Nature....

Brush named to top professor honour

Brush named to top professor honour

Visual Arts professor Kathryn Brush smiles as she remembers getting a photo from one of her students doing a cartwheel in front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis, just north of Paris, France. She may be an internationally recognized art historian and an...

NASA discovery may confirm signs of life in outer space

NASA discovery may confirm signs of life in outer space

Earth occupies what planetary scientists sometimes call the “Goldilocks Zone.” Its distance from the sun means it is neither too hot, nor too cold to support liquid water – a key ingredient for life. Astronomers are perpetually on the lookout for planets that, like...