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.
Year: 2013
Business Cares Food Drive to kick off 2013 campaign
The Business Cares Food Drive team will officially launch the 2013 campaign.
Media expert available to comment on landmark NHL-Rogers deal
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
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
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
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?
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
New interdisciplinary research from Western University has uncovered fundamental links among three major learning difficulties in some school-age children.
Birds predict weather change and adjust behaviour by reading barometric pressure
A new study from Western University’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR) proves through experimentation that birds can predict changes in the weather by reading the rise and fall of barometric pressure.
Legal expert available to comment on Supreme Court ruling in union picket-line case
The Supreme Court of Canada released a unanimous decision today holding that restrictions on a union’s expression rights on a picket-line imposed under Alberta’s privacy law were invalid.
Western welcomes 11,000 visitors for annual Fall Preview Day
Western University’s Fall Preview Day takes place on Saturday, November 16th.
Taking a philosophical approach to better understand science
Recruited from the University of Athens, Stathis Psillos was named Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science at Western’s world-renowned Rotman Institute of Philosophy.