In what he has said will be his last Olympic Games, Usain Bolt's goal of repeating his three gold medal-winning performances from each of the previous two Olympic Games may be in jeopardy. The star sprinter was forced to withdraw from the 100-meter final of the...
The importance of youth-focused mental health programs in our communities has come sharply into focus over the last several months after the recent cluster of youth suicides in Woodstock, Ontario. Researchers from Western University and Lawson Health Research...
Commuters in the City of London that use roadways at Western University are being advised of an upcoming construction project that will be disrupting normal traffic flow for a significant portion of the month of July. Construction has begun on the new Western...
Western University's Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Earth Sciences, is hosting a special Asteroid Day event on Thursday, June 30. Asteroid Day is an annual global...
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 Olympic Games, as well as breaking news items from the upcoming...
Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l586gF1EPDI The impact of concussions in sport are no longer a secret. Recent high-profile lawsuits brought against the National Football League and National Hockey Leagues by former players have brought international attention to what...
Recognized as one of Canada's leading experts in American politics, US foreign policy, interest groups and think tanks, Donald Abelson says, "Donald Trump is rude, offensive, obnoxious, and according to Hillary Clinton, 'temperamentally unfit' to be president of the...
Award-winning journalist Kevin Newman and Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Karina LeBlanc headline a special event this week at Western University, which is part of the Walrus Foundation's educational mandate to provide forums for conversations on matters vital to...
A newly published article written by Louis Charland from Western University's renowned Rotman Institute of Philosophy and his collaborators warrants caution about proposals to explicitly allow in the new Canadian federal legislation medical assistance in dying (MAID)...
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie has appointed Western University's Richard H. McLaren as the independent person heading an investigation team tasked with probing doping allegations related to the 2014 Sochi Olympics. McLaren, a renowned...
A new Canadian research project is collecting big data from medieval melodies chanted by monks more than 1,000 years ago. And it's all searchable. But to what end? Kate Helsen, an assistant musicology professor at Western University's Don Wright Faculty of Music, is...
