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Western University among Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2016

Western University among Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2016

For the third year in a row, Western University has been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers. Western employs more than 13,000 people and offers a huge array of career opportunities that encompass engineering, research, accounting, the trades, administration,...

The beginning of the end for HIV

The beginning of the end for HIV

Western University’s Eric Arts, PhD, is leading the only North American site collaborating with the European AIDS Vaccine Initiative (EAVI2020) to accelerate the development of an HIV vaccine. Arts and his team of researchers at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine...

Engage Western brings together communities in conversation

Engage Western brings together communities in conversation

Western students, staff, faculty, alumni and members of the London and Middlesex community, will gather at Western University on Friday, November 6 for discussions about the student experience in London and Middlesex and the role the University plays in promoting the...

Western receives funding for sexual violence prevention program

Western receives funding for sexual violence prevention program

Western University has received a significant grant from the Ontario Women’s Directorate to fund a new program aimed at preventing incidences of sexual violence on Ontario postsecondary campuses. The $381,000 grant will fund the 'Building an Upstander Culture to...

Innovation meets commercialization in new competition

Innovation meets commercialization in new competition

Medically inducing hypothermia in a patient has been shown to prevent further brain injury following stroke, brain trauma or cardiac arrest but the process also cools the entire body potentially leading to blood clotting and even heart attacks. A medical device to...