Media Releases Archives: 2013
Classes Without Quizzes investigates Indigenous peoples and their ties to the land
December 2, 2013
Western University’s popular complimentary lecture series, Classes Without Quizzes, features the research of Chantelle Richmond, Director of Western’s Indigenous Health Lab.
Popular Polar Stick competition returns to Western
November 28, 2013
Western University hosts its annual Polar Stick Bridge Competition.
Western’s Faculty of Science celebrates Eureka moments and major transformation
November 28, 2013
Western University is set to celebrate many of its own Eureka moments when the Faculty of Science officially re-opens the Physics & Astronomy Building at a special event.
Business Cares Food Drive to kick off 2013 campaign
November 27, 2013
The Business Cares Food Drive team will officially launch the 2013 campaign.
Media expert available to comment on landmark NHL-Rogers deal
November 26, 2013
With news breaking today about a landmark 12-year, $5.2 billion deal between the National Hockey League and Rogers Communications for broadcast and multimedia rights, a broadcast journalism historian from Western University is available to speak to media about its impact on sports programming in this country.
Western University cancer researcher teams up with Chinese scientists to study chemotherapy
November 25, 2013
Western University cancer researcher Shun-Cheng (Shawn) Li, PhD, has been awarded a China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
London-area elementary students and LEGO robots battle at Western
November 21, 2013
Western University’s WE FIRST Robotics Mentorship Club will host London-area elementary school students as they work together to design and build LEGO robots in the 2013 FIRST LEGO League Challenge.
Fraunhofer Project Centre for Composites Research @ Western announces Advisory Board
November 20, 2013
Western University announced today the new Advisory Board for the Fraunhofer Project Centre (FPC) for Composites Research @ Western.
What matters now? Our brains, economy, health terrorism, aging?
November 20, 2013
Culham is one of five researchers from across Ontario who will debate “What Matters Now?” at a free public engagement event at the London Children’s Museum.
Western researchers explore links between learning disorders in children
November 19, 2013
New interdisciplinary research from Western University has uncovered fundamental links among three major learning difficulties in some school-age children.