As Doc Brown looks back to the future, Western University is preparing for this weekend's 75th Anniversary celebrations of the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory. Named for the late Hume Blake Cronyn (a prominent lawyer and politician in London, Ont. at the turn of the...
Research & Innovation
Some patients in a vegetative state retain awareness, despite being unable to move
New insight into a vital cerebral pathway has explained how some patients in a vegetative state are aware despite appearing to be unconscious and being behaviourally unresponsive. The findings, published in JAMA Neurology, identify structural damage between the...
Western’s Leadership and Democracy Lab to host post-election panel
Western University's Leadership and Democracy Lab is hosting a post-Canadian federal election panel on Tuesday, October 20, which will feature experts from Western's Department of Political Science and the Ivey School of Business. After delivering opening statements...
New Western-led research facility looks to protect our rivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sCrC6cAkfY Western University geography professor Adam Yates has developed a better way of understanding how actions on land affect life in our waterways. Yates and his colleagues have recently constructed the Thames River...
‘Raving For Introverts’ drops the beat at Western’s annual Music Research Showcase
Western University's Jay Hodgson is developing technology that allows people to compose banging techno music simply by moving their bodies to the beat. A Musicology and Popular Music professor at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, Hodgson has created a...
Western launches initiative exploring musical learning experiences across lifespan
The University of Edinburgh's Katie Overy started her academic career with her graduate research, which examined dyslexic children's difficulties with musical timing and the potential of rhythm-based music lessons to support dyslexic children's language and literacy...
New study shows touch works independently of vision in object identification
A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects depends on visual circuitry in the human brain. The idea is that feeling the shape of an object somehow conjures up visual...
Researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute receive C$3.7 million to study the impact of the Western diet on the health of the fetus
In pregnant women, the “Western diet” – an energy-dense diet that is high in calories from sugars and simple fats – may be responsible for negative changes in the metabolism of the placenta, setting their children and grandchildren up for a predisposition to heart...
Medical residents help to reduce emergency department wait times
Western University researchers have completed the first study demonstrating that medical residents are associated with a reduction in emergency department wait times and patients leaving without being seen in a medium-volume community hospital. Medium-volume community...
Western to host observatory viewing for rare eclipsed Supermoon Sunday
The Moon will move completely into the Earth's shadow – a spectacle known as a total lunar eclipse – this Sunday (September 27). For southwestern Ontario, this will be the last chance to observe a total lunar eclipse until January 2019. Western University's Department...
Western collaborative study shows future Athabasca River flows may not sustain water demands for Alberta oil sands
The Alberta oil sands, the world’s third-largest crude oil reserve, require fresh water from the Athabasca River – lots of water – as it is estimated that three barrels of water are required to produce just one barrel of crude oil. In 2012 alone, this amounted to 187...
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...