Projects examining diabetes, lifelong care programs receive nearly $1.5 million.
Research & Innovation
Western study explores link between neighbourhoods and heart health
New research looks at national health data, community well-being and neighbourhood information to study effects of social environment on cardiovascular health
Study shows peer support can help consumers break out of debt cycle
Ivey prof leads analysis of how social stigma affects continued indebtedness
Mapping the stories of formerly enslaved Black Londoners focus of new research
Interactive website to document histories of individuals who fled slavery in the U.S. and settled in the Forest City
Northern Tornadoes Project confirms 117 tornadoes for Canada in 2022
NTP researchers conducted 447 severe weather investigations using satellites, aircraft, drones and ground surveys and confirmed 117 for 2022.
New EEG procedure accurately measures distress caused by tinnitus
New EEG testing procedure for tinnitus (ringing in the ears), led by physics professor Andrea Soddu, described in the journal Brain Communications.
Study shows how personal stories of health risks got students to stop vaping
Babac Salmani, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences, studied the intention and behaviour change of regular vapers after they watched a short video explaining the potential health risks.
New 3D ultrasound may improve accuracy of liver cancer treatment
Simulated study finds new robotic ultrasound system can optimize liver cancer ablation therapy
Milk consumption increased ancient human body size, finds study
Researchers compared skeletons from archaeological sites spread over 25,000 years.
Page from first book printed in England to be studied
Leaf from first edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, published on Caxton’s printing press in 1476, now part of Western Libraries Archives and Special Collections.
Western research leads to new understanding of how HIV hides itself in the body
A new study has identified a new function of a virus-fighting protein called APOBEC3 (A3) in the integration process of HIV in the human genome.
AI tech exaggerates biases in facial age perception more than humans
Western-led study tested a large sample of AI technologies available today and found not only did they reproduce human biases in the recognition of facial age, but they exaggerated those biases.