The Ministry of Education has chosen the Faculty of Education at Western University to lead the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Early Years and Child Care along with the Ontario Reggio Association. Leading this initiative are Western Education faculty members...
Western University's Stephen D. Williamson has been named a 2018 recipient of The Bank of Canada's Fellowship Award. Recognized as an international expert in macroeconomics and monetary policy, Williamson holds Western's Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central...
NASA has shortlisted a revolutionary strategy, co-investigated by a Western University planetary scientist, for a future launch mission that could see a drone-like quadcopter buzz above the surface of Saturn's largest moon. The Dragonfly project would take advantage...
A team of researchers have developed an open-source, clinically validated template for a 3D printed stethoscope for use in areas of the world with limited access to medical supplies – places where a stethoscope could mean the difference between life and death. “As far...
A new holistic study from Western University confirms that exercise is an excellent ‘gateway’ behaviour for setting a smoker up both mentally and physically to quit the highly-addictive habit and also, for the first time ever, establishes important baselines regarding...
A new prototype for wearable tremor suppression gloves has a team of Western University researchers believing real change is on the way for the more than 6 million people in the world afflicted by Parkinson's disease. Ana Luisa Trejos, an Electrical and Computer...
In a new study, researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute, Western University and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) have found that specialized programs for early psychosis can substantially reduce patient mortality. Published online today in...
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)...
The longer a firefighter’s career, the greater the chances of suffering from persistent neck, back and limb pain, research co-authored at Western University shows. Fully 70 per cent of all active firefighters who participated in the recent year-long study experienced...
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...
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,...
