Search

LATEST NEWS & RELEASES

Memorial set to honour Flight PS752 victims

Memorial set to honour Flight PS752 victims

Western President Alan Shepard sent the following invitation to the community today regarding a memorial service honouring the four Western students aboard Ukraine International Flight PS752. *   *   * Following last week’s tragic crash of Flight PS752 in Iran, the...

Junior Astronauts touching down at H.B. Beal

Junior Astronauts touching down at H.B. Beal

The Canadian Space Agency’s Junior Astronauts initiative was launched last year with a goal to engage elementary and secondary school students and get them excited about the cosmos by showcasing different ways they can be involved in and enriched by planetary and...

Neuroscience controversy resolved: The hippocampus is not just a GPS

Neuroscience controversy resolved: The hippocampus is not just a GPS

It’s a controversy that goes back to a Nobel Prize winning idea that there is a specific part of our brain that acts as our Global Positioning System (GPS), responsible for knowing at any given time where we are in the world and how to navigate it. Recently,...

Behavioural research gets boost with first open-access database

Behavioural research gets boost with first open-access database

Neuroscience researchers at Western University have developed the first open-access repository for raw data from mouse cognitive testing. Called MouseBytes, the database gives researchers a platform to share rodent cognition data using touchscreen cognitive testing...

Lung images of twins with asthma add to understanding of the disease

Lung images of twins with asthma add to understanding of the disease

Two lung imaging studies from Western University, including one performed in non-identical twin patients with life-long asthma, have shown that airway defects in the lungs of asthmatic patients are like thumbprints – they have a unique pattern and maintain that...

Patrick Hickey named 24th Rhodes Scholar in Western University history

Patrick Hickey named 24th Rhodes Scholar in Western University history

Western University alumnus Patrick Hickey has been named a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, one of only 11 Canadian students to earn the esteemed award this year, Rhodes Trust officials announced this week. Hickey, an Honors Business Administration (HBA) graduate...

Major gift to transform emerging field at Western

Major gift to transform emerging field at Western

A major gift by a long-time Western University supporter will be announced Thursday, November 21. The donor will be in attendance and available for interviews, as will university officials, researchers and students. WHAT: Major gift announcement to Western University...