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Year: 2017

Western students unearth 150-year-old headstones at local cemetery

Western students unearth 150-year-old headstones at local cemetery

  Five Western students working on a tombstone archeology project at Woodland Cemetery have discovered as many as 60 stone markers, some dating back to Canada’s Confederation. “We knew the stones had been placed somewhere near the east part of the cemetery when...

Smile, and the world thinks you’re older: study

Smile, and the world thinks you’re older: study

Turn that frown upside-down? Not if you’re keen on looking younger, you shouldn’t. A new study shows that smiling can make you appear to be a year older than if you wear a poker face. And if you reacted to that finding with a look of surprise – well, that expression...

After tough times, pre-teens’ brains wired for rewards

After tough times, pre-teens’ brains wired for rewards

Adversity leads pre-teens to be more impulsive by making their brains more sensitive to rewards, a new Western University study has found.     The study, entitled “Ventral striatal activity links adversity and reward processing in children,” is published in...

Three Western students name Martian craters

Three Western students name Martian craters

Not just anybody can name a crater. But if you are keenly interested in studying these planetary potholes, it’s easier than you might think, say three Western students who now have made their mark on the Mars map. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working...

Western University named among Canada’s greenest employers

Western University named among Canada’s greenest employers

Western University has been named one of the 2017 winners of Canada’s Greenest Employers competition. The annual award is organized by the Canada's Top 100 Employers project and acknowledges workplaces with noteworthy environmental programs and earth-friendly policies...