With an undergraduate degree in English literature and a master’s degree in cultural studies, it seemed a natural next chapter for Tanja Grubnic to merge both passions pursuing her PhD in English at Western. Her doctoral research explores ‘instapoet …
Move over Punxsutawney Phil, Wiarton Willie and Shubenacadie Sam – it turns out the earliest animal to predict the coming of spring in North America was not a groundhog, but a bear.
During a space-to-Earth connection today, Saint-Jacques launched Exploring Earth, a web-based initiative in cooperation with Western researchers that uses photos he is taking in orbit to explain the amazing science of how Earth works.
Word problems pose a unique challenge for those with developmental language delays (DLDs), perhaps ironically putting words the root of their numbers problem, according to a Western study.
Western-led research has shown that the growing phenomenon of loneliness is, for some, more than just a feeling – it is part of their genetic makeup.
You may come to enjoy the dystopian future landscapes, but you’ll stay for the cake when Laura Batterink takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.
From the moment she first heard it, Skylee-Storm Hogan understood that sharing the story of Chief Shingwauk was a necessity.
Western Psychology professors Laura Batterink and Lindsay Bodell were recently named Rising Stars by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in recognition of the pair being outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their post-PhD research careers. Batterink and Bodell were two of only six Canadian scientists named among the international class of 76.
The following In Memoriam piece was prepared by colleagues for Professor Emeritus Rajulton Fernando, who died Dec. 11, in London. He was 72.
Renowned Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen has been named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) as part of the 2019 New Year’s Honours list.
At first, everything was fine. At 11, Mariana Garcia emigrated from Mexico to Canada. She welcomed the chance to make a life in a new country. “ But soon, the realities of her situation took hold. No one at her school spoke Spanish, leaving Mariana isolated. By the final years of high school, she was quite vulnerable.
Movie piracy may be siphoning less money from the box office than some analysts suggest, a paper by a Western PhD student says. In fact, the word-of-mouth promotion generated by people who view illegal downloads could, in some cases, offset movie-house losses as the...
Nine Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.