What germinated as an idea last fall is now in full bloom at the Environmental Sciences Western Field Station. Field station manager Grant Edwards and horticultural specialist technician Caroline Rasenberg have created a pollinator garden at the site …
Five more professors can add their name to Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching list, co-presented by the University Students’ Council, The Bank of Nova Scotia and the university’s Alumni Association. Honoured as the best in the classroom this year...
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 &...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
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...
Western isn’t playing around when it comes to game design as the university was named today among the top destinations in the world to study – and launch a career in – the popular discipline, according to The Princeton Review’s seventh annual rankings of the best...
Western researchers received more than $700,000 in Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding this morning, supporting a trio of efforts, including one offering relief to more than three million Canadians who suffer from osteoarthritis. Schulich School of...
Four Western research projects recently shared in nearly $2 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants, the funding body announced last week. The goal of the grants is to increase research and training...
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new Western-led study demonstrates that fear of these top predators has a cascading effect down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems....
Even after centuries of research in chemistry, the possible combination of elements, molecules and compounds are nowhere near exhausted. “We’re not even close,” said Western Chemistry professor Kim Baines. “We still get excited about making a new compound which is...
Western Chemistry professor Kim Baines has been awarded the 2015 Humboldt Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recently announced. The award is granted to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories and/or insights have had a significant...
Coming to Western from Germany, Sweden, the United States and across Canada, these new Canada Research Chairs are developing HIV vaccines, improving hearing and movement, learning how and why people migrate and immigrate, and exploring the foundations of physics.
Five more professors can add their name to Western’s Award of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching list, co-presented by the University Students’ Council, The Bank of Nova Scotia and the university’s Alumni Association. Honoured as the best in the classroom this year...
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 &...
Botanical drawings of fungi illustrate the natural marriage between art and science, and those who attended the one-day Mushroom Festival on March 17 at The Bookcase in the John Labatt...
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...
Western isn’t playing around when it comes to game design as the university was named today among the top destinations in the world to study – and launch a career in – the popular discipline, according to The Princeton Review’s seventh annual rankings of the best...
Western researchers received more than $700,000 in Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding this morning, supporting a trio of efforts, including one offering relief to more than three million Canadians who suffer from osteoarthritis. Schulich School of...
Four Western research projects recently shared in nearly $2 million in Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Strategic Partnership Grants, the funding body announced last week. The goal of the grants is to increase research and training...
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new Western-led study demonstrates that fear of these top predators has a cascading effect down the food chain critical to maintaining healthy ecosystems....
Even after centuries of research in chemistry, the possible combination of elements, molecules and compounds are nowhere near exhausted. “We’re not even close,” said Western Chemistry professor Kim Baines. “We still get excited about making a new compound which is...
Western Chemistry professor Kim Baines has been awarded the 2015 Humboldt Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recently announced. The award is granted to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories and/or insights have had a significant...
Coming to Western from Germany, Sweden, the United States and across Canada, these new Canada Research Chairs are developing HIV vaccines, improving hearing and movement, learning how and why people migrate and immigrate, and exploring the foundations of physics.