Month: April 2012

New research by a team of psychologists from Canada, Italy and Switzerland shows that undecideds are not impartial, but instead reveal a preference for information that confirms their gut reactions.

Ecohealth is just one of the themes being tackled in a conference being held by Western University’s Office of Global Health at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

Western University’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard Vorobyov present a new model of brown dwarf formation that unites the best parts of existing theories and has far-reaching implications for understanding the population of low mass objects in the universe.

Thanks in part to a prestigious grant from the Canadian government’s Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program, a team led by a neuroscientist from Western University is looking to better understand brain injury in newborn children.

Dental practitioners, students, faculty and staff from Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are partnering with Community Living London and the organization Oral Health, Total Health (OHTH) for the third annual Sharing Smiles Day.

IBM is contributing a landmark $65 million of computers and software to Western University

Fourteen distinguished individuals will receive their honorary degrees when Western University hosts its 299th Convocation this June.

Jessica Grahn, a neuroscientist at Western University, has been awarded a grant from the GRAMMY Foundation® for her ongoing research in studying how the brain senses and reacts to music.

Western University announced the formation of a new Ontario-based multi-million dollar research and development computing network today with its partners, the Governments of Canada and Ontario, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Toronto.

Researchers at Western University are sounding an alarm over the danger of giving children pain-killers containing codeine following a tonsillectomy for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS).

Western’s University College Hill will transform from a beautifully manicured lawn to a sea of colourful eggs, chocolate and candy on Saturday, April 7th for the first annual Easter Eggstravaganza.