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Year: 2019

STEAM big with Science Rendezvous @WesternU

Western University faculty, staff and students host the third annual Science Rendezvous @WesternU this weekend at TD Stadium. A national science festival taking place in 25 cities across Canada, Science Rendezvous brings together communities to experience the joy of...

London Health Research Day highlights science communication

London Health Research Day highlights science communication

Can a urine test one day help diagnose prostate cancer? What role does estrogen play in severe asthma in women? These questions, along with hundreds more are being investigated by medical students, graduate trainees and postdoctoral scholars at Lawson Health Research...

“Cook your Wash” campaign reduces risk of HIV transmission

“Cook your Wash” campaign reduces risk of HIV transmission

New studies from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University have found for the first time that HIV can be transmitted through the sharing of equipment used to prepare drugs before injection and that a simple intervention – heating the equipment with a...

Avoidable food waste costs households $600 per year

Avoidable food waste costs households $600 per year

An average household in London throws out food almost daily, the equivalent of $600 per year, a new Western-based study shows. And if that’s the case in a mid-sized city like London, it’s not a stretch to suggest similar avoidable waste costs are echoed in homes...

Western welcomes CSA astronaut Dave Williams for Space Day

Western welcomes CSA astronaut Dave Williams for Space Day

This week, astronaut David Saint-Jacques became the fourth Canadian to complete a spacewalk. Today, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration presented the first-ever image of a black hole to a global audience. Space, literally and figuratively, is all...