World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations (UN), will be marked this year on Monday, June 20, and comes at a time when the world is seeing record numbers of people displaced from their home countries as a result of war and conflict....
Monkeypox cases are being reported in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Colombia. Dr. Sameer Elsayed is an infectious diseases physician and professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at...
Ron Schmeichel, a Canadian entrepreneur and financier, is lending his name to Western’s new entrepreneurship and innovation building, with a $10-million donation and a shared commitment with Western University to cultivating Canada’s future entrepreneurs.
Western biomaterials expert Kibret Mequanint has developed the first-ever water-hating fluid, which displaces body fluids surrounding an injury allowing for near-instantaneous gelling, sealing and healing of injured tissue.
A landmark study conducted by researchers at the Ivey Business School’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value, examined two Canadian “hot spots” for circular innovation in the agri-food sector.
As Finland and Sweden both now formally asked to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and much emphasis tp-date has been placed on Russia’s anti-NATO position and the goals of the United States. However, as Western University and King’s University...
New research from Western University suggests some viruses evolve more like a dynamic social network – rather than a rigid tree, as was previously believed – recombining with one another to create a web of intersecting subtypes. This work has implications for...
Leading up to Ontario’s provincial election on June 2, the following experts from Western University are available to speak to media on a wide range of topics including voting attitudes, health policy, COVID-19 response, economy and finance, housing and public...
Western University has placed first in Canada and third in the world in a global ranking of universities working toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Released today, the Times Higher Education 2022 Impact Rankings assess more than 1,500...
The second set of data from Canada’s 2021 census is promising to show fascinating population trends. Michael Haan, director of the Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western University, is available for comment following Wednesday’s release from Statistics...
Western bioethicists argue that existing legislation preventing families of deceased donors from identifying their beneficiaries is outdated and unfair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHMaIjUjQOg&feature=youtu.be A bright fireball was observed by a network of all-sky cameras across southern Ontario at 11:37pm on Sunday, April 17, 2022. Analysis of the video data suggests that fragments of the meteor are likely to...
