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Month: September 2017

$5-million gift bolsters women in engineering and business leadership

$5-million gift bolsters women in engineering and business leadership

Women seeking to combine engineering and business degrees will receive a major boost at Western, thanks to a $5-million gift from Linamar Corporation and the families that grew it from a one-lathe machine shop into a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise. Linamar,...

Western rocks the crater in unique Sudbury field course

Western rocks the crater in unique Sudbury field course

  Thirty-two students from Western and around the world will be journeying almost two billion years back in time in a unique, intensive one-week field course to study the planet’s second-largest impact crater. Prof. Gordon (Oz) Osinski, acting director of...

Western undergrads named global award-winners

Western undergrads named global award-winners

Thirty-eight Western University undergraduates— whose research ranges from mental health care to the effects of climate change — have received international recognition for excellence in scholarship. The Undergraduate Awards is a global academic competition that spans...

Time for Spaced-Out (real) science at Western on Saturday

Time for Spaced-Out (real) science at Western on Saturday

Planet Nibiru doesn’t exist — and there is zero scientific basis to support a viral “prophecy” that a secret planet will somehow appear on Saturday to mark the start of the end of life on Earth. “This apocalyptic claim, based on ‘numeracy research’ that has gained...