Year: 2012

Five research projects have been chosen to receive joint funding under an innovative research exchange agreement between the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Western University and the University of Toronto, the partners announced today.

A student-run extra-curricular club is providing first and second year medical students at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, with an opportunity to learn anatomy in a relaxed environment, combining education and recreation.

The 8th annual Spring Intergenerational Gala will be held on Sunday, May 6th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Best Western Lamplighter Inn.

A new donation of $1.125 million by Newalta Corporation will support research and development efforts at Western to discover technologies to protect the environment and create value from perceived wastes generated by industrial sectors such as oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, mining and manufacturing.

Announcement of a significant gift to Western University that will support training and research efforts related to environmental stewardship.

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.