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Western honours this year’s most outstanding educators

Western honours this year’s most outstanding educators

The 2021-2022 Western Awards for Excellence in Teaching have been announced, honouring nine faculty members and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry anatomy education team. Recipients are being recognized for actively engaging and inspiring stud …

Exoplanet hunter brings search to Western

Exoplanet hunter brings search to Western

Sara Seager will keep searching, because she has no other choice. “The belief there is ‘something else,’ something else beyond the tedium of our daily lives, whether people express that through religion, belief in UFOs or the desire to find intelligent life in the...

Professor connects math, biology to order behaviour

Professor connects math, biology to order behaviour

Nature is a cutthroat business, where animals, even humans, are in a relentless competition for resources like food, mates or shelter. And whether we suffer or prosper, it all comes down to our genes, said Applied Mathematics professor Geoff Wild. Wild’s research...

Barron: Don’t lose sight of university’s meaning to young people

Barron: Don’t lose sight of university’s meaning to young people

In the flurry of worrying about career paths, partnerships with industry, tuition and fees, we might completely forget the four years at university are supposed to be important formative years in young person's life. (“Make sure debate about tuition costs is rooted in...

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly...

Six researchers named to Royal Society of Canada

Six researchers named to Royal Society of Canada

Six Western scholars have been named among 90 newly elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. The newly elected fellows have been elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Election to the academies of...

Generation next: Krammer named 2014 Schulich Leader

Generation next: Krammer named 2014 Schulich Leader

At his high school graduation, Mark Krammer cleaned up. The 17-year-old Prince Albert, Sask., native took home six awards, including the Governor General’s Scholarship and Medal, Canadian Parents for French Award, Western Communities Foundation Bursary Award and...

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Western Chemistry professor Joseph Gilroy and Robarts Research Institute postdoctoral scholar Andrea Di Sebastiano have been tapped as Western’s Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award winners for 2014. Gilroy looks to develop revolutionary chelating (i.e. metal binding)...

Maternal effect key to fish combating climate change

Maternal effect key to fish combating climate change

According to research by Western scientists, thermal tolerance in a wild fish population is a key factor in understanding how animal species adapt to climate change. Western Science professors Nico Munoz and Bryan Neff, along with collaborators at the University of...

Climate change impacting northern wetlands

Climate change impacting northern wetlands

New research from Western is exploring how climate change may fundamentally change Canada's northern wetlands. In a paper released in the journal Global Change Biology, Professors Zoë Lindo and Brian Branfireun, from Western's Faculty of Science, show the types of...

Exoplanet hunter brings search to Western

Exoplanet hunter brings search to Western

Sara Seager will keep searching, because she has no other choice. “The belief there is ‘something else,’ something else beyond the tedium of our daily lives, whether people express that through religion, belief in UFOs or the desire to find intelligent life in the...

Professor connects math, biology to order behaviour

Professor connects math, biology to order behaviour

Nature is a cutthroat business, where animals, even humans, are in a relentless competition for resources like food, mates or shelter. And whether we suffer or prosper, it all comes down to our genes, said Applied Mathematics professor Geoff Wild. Wild’s research...

Barron: Don’t lose sight of university’s meaning to young people

Barron: Don’t lose sight of university’s meaning to young people

In the flurry of worrying about career paths, partnerships with industry, tuition and fees, we might completely forget the four years at university are supposed to be important formative years in young person's life. (“Make sure debate about tuition costs is rooted in...

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Vanier celebrates the nation’s finest

Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly...

Six researchers named to Royal Society of Canada

Six researchers named to Royal Society of Canada

Six Western scholars have been named among 90 newly elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. The newly elected fellows have been elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Election to the academies of...

Generation next: Krammer named 2014 Schulich Leader

Generation next: Krammer named 2014 Schulich Leader

At his high school graduation, Mark Krammer cleaned up. The 17-year-old Prince Albert, Sask., native took home six awards, including the Governor General’s Scholarship and Medal, Canadian Parents for French Award, Western Communities Foundation Bursary Award and...

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Sharp idea keeps family tradition alive

Morgan Nordstrom is sharp in more ways than one. A third-year Science student, the 20-year-old also caters to a niche market of razor users. “My grandpa taught me how to shave with one (straight razor) when I was 16, and that’s when I inherited my...

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Offering up faster, deeper feedback

Surveys are not an effective solution to soliciting consumer feedback. And Robbie Goldfarb may just be the first person to figure this out. Goldfarb, a fourth-year Medical Sciences and Computer Science student at Western, recently launched Brevada, a start-up that...

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Di Sebastiano, Gilroy receive Young Innovator awards

Western Chemistry professor Joseph Gilroy and Robarts Research Institute postdoctoral scholar Andrea Di Sebastiano have been tapped as Western’s Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award winners for 2014. Gilroy looks to develop revolutionary chelating (i.e. metal binding)...

Maternal effect key to fish combating climate change

Maternal effect key to fish combating climate change

According to research by Western scientists, thermal tolerance in a wild fish population is a key factor in understanding how animal species adapt to climate change. Western Science professors Nico Munoz and Bryan Neff, along with collaborators at the University of...

Climate change impacting northern wetlands

Climate change impacting northern wetlands

New research from Western is exploring how climate change may fundamentally change Canada's northern wetlands. In a paper released in the journal Global Change Biology, Professors Zoë Lindo and Brian Branfireun, from Western's Faculty of Science, show the types of...