Western University commends the Canadian government for delivering the largest investment ever in fundamental science research as part of the 2018 federal budget. In Equality + Growth: A Strong Middle Class, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill...
Month: February 2018
Top scientists headline conference with goal of inspiring young women in STEM
Emily Lalone is a rising star at Western University and the lifelong mobility expert will share her personal journey of academic excellence and her latest biomedicine and imaging discoveries as a keynote speaker at the Inspiring Young Women in STEM (IYWSTEM)...
Major media coverage for International Centre for Olympic Studies
Michael Heine, Director of Western's International Centre for Olympic Studies, was an influential voice over the past few weeks as a nation celebrated Canada's success at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Serving as an academic expert for a number of...
Persistent firefighters’ injuries make them ‘working wounded’
The longer a firefighter’s career, the greater the chances of suffering from persistent neck, back and limb pain, research co-authored at Western University shows. Fully 70 per cent of all active firefighters who participated in the recent year-long study experienced...
This Valentine’s Day: Can the heart be mechanically replaced?
Western University Professor Shelley McKellar explores the history of artificial hearts in new book William Schroeder lived for 620 days after his diseased heart was removed from his chest and replaced with an artificial heart. In the first moments after he emerged...
Rate of earthquakes depends on volume of fluids in hydraulic fracturing operations – but the magnitude of the largest possible events does not
New findings published by the high impact journal Science show that the rate in which earthquakes are triggered or induced by fracking depends on the volume of the hydraulic fracturing operations. But the magnitude of the triggered events is not capped - contrary to a...
Bone and Joint expert finds physiotherapy moves Canada during cross-country investigation
Dave Walton, considered one of Canada’s foremost authorities on musculoskeletal trauma and rehabilitation, traveled more than 12,000 kilometres this past summer in an effort to better understand how physiotherapists were rehabilitating injured Canadians and amplifying...
Olympic expert available to media to comment on 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games
With the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games just one week away, the director of Western University's International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) is available to discuss socio-cultural issues such as politics, commercialism, doping, equity, and governance of the...