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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Schizophrenia is one of the world's most devastating mental disorders and affects more than 21 million people globally. A new study of identical twins shows for the first time that schizophrenia may be caused by not one distinct but an accumulation of gene mutations,...
A network of cameras directed by Western University observed a bright fireball across southern Ontario at 7:23 p.m. on Wednesday, January 24. Analysis of the video data by Western scientists suggests that fragments of the meteor are likely to have made it to the...
With the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games just weeks away, members of the Ontario Sport Management Collective are available to media for comment and expert analysis. The Ontario Sport Management Collective is a co-operative of university-based...
A new organization aimed at sharing knowledge and research on how to best teach Math will soon bring Ontario’s Math researchers and teachers closer together. The Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER) and the Mathematics Knowledge Network (MKN) were...
For a second consecutive year, Londoners are taking steps to bring one of three of the city’s innovations to market – and to snag their share of more than $20,000 in prize money. The annual Proteus Innovation Competition officially kicked off on November 17 with...
The Mars Camera, officially known as CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System), aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) captured its first high resolution images of the Red Planet last week. The Swiss-led camera worked almost...
