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Year: 2016

Indigenous youth from Kluane First Nation to visit Western University

Indigenous youth from Kluane First Nation to visit Western University

A documentary research team, including two Indigenous youth from Kluane First Nation, will visit Western University on Wednesday (March 30) to test mercury levels in fish collected from their own community. The Kluane First Nation Government is based at Burwash...

Annual salary disclosure from Western

Annual salary disclosure from Western

In keeping with the Public Sector Disclosure Act, Western University is releasing an annual list of employees whose 2015 income met or exceeded $100,000, as reflected on their T4 slips. Also outlined on the list are taxable benefits for the year 2015. Most of...

Western joins forces with prestigious SHAD program

Western joins forces with prestigious SHAD program

Western University is the latest top university to join with SHAD, a prestigious program which brings the best and the brightest high school students to university campuses across the country every July for an intense program that helps them reach their full...

Increasing lifelong mobility by addressing osteoarthritis

Increasing lifelong mobility by addressing osteoarthritis

For more than three million Canadians suffering from osteoarthritis, getting out of bed in the morning or opening a jar can be a serious challenge. The disease, which results in degeneration of bones and joints, has a very human face, causing severe pain and...

Purple pride on full display at Western’s March Break Open House

Purple pride on full display at Western’s March Break Open House

Western University is hosting its annual March Break Open House this weekend, providing future students, their families and friends, an opportunity to meet with award-winning faculty, staff and students and learn why Western offers the best student experience among...

Western welcomes new neuroscientist who unlocks minds with machines

Western welcomes new neuroscientist who unlocks minds with machines

If you watch science fiction movies from 1970s, you would think by the year 2016 there would be a robot in every home performing tasks like cooking, cleaning and cutting the lawn. But there isn't. Jörn Diedrichsen, who has come to Western University from University...

Obese women in Canada make less money than non-obese women

Obese women in Canada make less money than non-obese women

According to a study completed at Western University, obese women in the Canadian workforce earn less money than non-obese women. Sisira Sarma, PhD, and his team from Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, analyzed data on adults, 18 to 53 years old,...