The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) have awarded Jack Lee, who holds a Master of Science degree (Physiology and Pharmacology) from Western University, with an OCE-OBI Entrepreneurship Fellowship to help commercialize technology that will assist in the treatment of tremors, the most common of all movement disorders.
Year: 2013
New laboratory highlights $1.4 million in new funding
Researchers at Western University have secured funding to establish a new laboratory to improve services for newcomers to Canada and to conduct gender analysis of international development policy and practice.
Students simulate Mars Rover mission at Canadian Space Agency
Media representatives are invited to attend a simulation of a robotic mission to Mars, conducted by a team of 30 university students and researchers in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), on Thursday, June 6.
$3-million gift prepares Western Engineering students for future in leadership and innovation
Western University’s Faculty of Engineering and Ivey Business School will now offer engineering students an education like no other in Canada, thanks to a generous $3-million gift from John M. and Melinda Thompson.
Western University to announce extraordinary gift
Western University President and Vice-Chancellor Amit Chakma and Chancellor Emeritus John M. Thompson and Melinda Thompson will announce details of a significant gift to Western.
Western Engineering students win Ontario Centres of Excellence Connections Competition
Western Engineering students placed first overall in the University category of the Connections Competition at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery Conference in Toronto.
Western Classical Studies students unearth Roman history at Vindolanda
For the next six weeks, Greene and Meyer will lead students in an archaeological dig at Western’s Field School at Vindolanda – the only field school at the site.
New brain imaging study advances understanding of how humans use tools
Using brain imaging, researchers at Western University and Queen’s University have revealed new insights into how the human brain supports the use of everyday tools like plastic tongs.
Humans answer “yes” or “no” to Western neuroscientists via brain activity
Researchers at Western University have used neuroimaging to read human thought via brain activity when they are conveying specific “yes” or “no” answers.
Research identifies a way to make cancer cells more responsive to chemotherapy
New research from Western University explains why some cancer cells don’t respond to chemotherapy, and identifies a mechanism to rectify that.
Discovery Week: Learning about rural medicine from those living it
168 year one students will fan out to communities across Southwestern Ontario (SWO) stretching from Tobermory to Point Pelee and Sarnia to Woodstock to experience “Discovery Week.”
Western led research strips down platinum to nanosized fuel cell catalysts
Dividing highly expensive platinum isotopes into nanosized particles (or even single atoms) has triggered the discovery of less expensive way to create fuel cells for use in everything from automobiles to computers.