Year: 2013

Please be advised that access routes to and from Western University are experiencing heavy congestion during peak hours of 8-9 a.m. and 4-5 p.m. daily due to multiple construction projects at and around campus.

Neuroscientists at Western University (London, Canada) have made a remarkable new discovery revealing the underlying molecular process by which opiate addiction develops in the brain.

Please be advised that Western Road will experience a brief delay in traffic flow between 3:00-3:30 p.m. on Monday, September 9 due to the opening of the Western University’s new Richard Ivey Building.

Sumagen Canada Inc and Western University announced today that the Phase I Clinical Trial (SAV CT 01) of the first and only preventative HIV vaccine based on a genetically modified killed whole virus (SAV001-H) has been successfully completed with no adverse effects in all patients.

Western University will be conducting two tests of its emergency weather siren.

Western University, and its affiliated university colleges, will welcome back some 38,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students for the 2013 fall term with a full schedule of activities.

Western University is committed to growing its number of academically qualified international students and its newly formed English Language Centre (ELC) will create such an opportunity for its first-ever class, which is set to arrive on campus this weekend.

On behalf of Western, I want to reiterate my ongoing concern for the plight of Dr. Tarek Loubani, an assistant professor in our Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, who is currently being detained in Egypt.

Western University’s state-of-the-art athletics stadium has a new name. TD Stadium, formerly known as TD Waterhouse Stadium, will be home to a new season of Western Mustangs varsity athletics.

An international clinical trial led by Dr. Brian Feagan of Western University has found that the investigational antibody vedolizumab is an effective treatment for those suffering from ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) when other treatments have failed.

Western University is attempting to gather more information regarding the well-being of Dr. Tarek Loubani, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, following his recent detainment in Cairo, Egypt.

Researchers at Western University have furthered their game-changing neuroimaging techniques in communicating with patients believed to be in a vegetative state by connecting with an individual that has proved otherwise unresponsive for the past 12 years.