The William F. Clark Chair in Nephrology will help attract and retain top talent, enhance life-saving bench-to-bedside research
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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...
New study shows significant amount of online feedback unopened by university students
A new study led by researchers from Western University and Queen’s University Belfast shows that many students do not even open the feedback that is provided by their instructors online. The study also suggests that male students with low grade averages are far less...
Medical and law students at Western University explore Indigenous health through education
As a direct response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, a learning session for Western’s Medicine and Law students, is taking place to focus on the factors that have an impact on Indigenous health and law in Canada. Western University’s...
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’s Public Health Program becomes first in Ontario to be CEPH accredited
Western University’s Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health has received accreditation for five years from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), making it the first program in the province, and only the fourth in Canada, to receive this stamp of...
Western astronomer part of international identification of possible population of new black holes
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...
Indigenous youth from Kluane First Nation to visit Western University
A documentary research team, including two Indigenous youth from Kluane First Nation, will visit Western University on Wednesday (March 30) to test mercury levels in fish collected from their own community. The Kluane First Nation Government is based at Burwash...
New Director announced by Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University
Christopher Smeenk, is the new Director for Western University’s Rotman Institute of Philosophy. “The Rotman Institute of Philosophy is extremely fortunate to have Professor Chris Smeenk as its new Director,” says Michael Milde, Dean of the Faculty of Arts &...
Western students receive high marks at The Undergraduate Awards
Emma Rose Bonanno and 26 Western University colleagues were named among the international winners of The Undergraduate Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing top undergraduate work. In total, Western boasted 30 papers from across 14 categories cited as 'highly...
Jayne Garland named Western’s new Health Sciences dean
Jayne Garland has been appointed to a five-and-a-half year term as Western University’s Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, effective January 1, 2016.
Western University true crime expert named Fulbright Chair at Vanderbilt University
With his new book available now, Western University’s Michael Arntfield has been named the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in crime and literature at Vanderbilt University for 2016.