Understanding the evolution of a 400 million-year-old anti-viral protein that first emerged in marine life, is helping researchers get the upper-hand on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Researchers at Western University were interested in the origin of a gene that...
OTTAWA, ON, May 16, 2018 – Western University has been selected to host the 2020 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the country’s largest multidisciplinary gathering of academic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The conference, which will...
With the 42nd Ontario general election set for June 7th, the following political experts from Western University are available to speak with the media. Cameron Anderson Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Co-Director, Political Behaviour Research...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvxHDXD4Tnw Western University’s Vladimir Hachinski – past president of the World Federation of Neurology and a world-renowned stroke expert – is a 2018 Killam Prize winner for health sciences. The Canada Council for the Arts announced...
Equity, diversity and inclusivity are crucial to the future of Canadian science. This is a topic of national importance that has garnered attention and action from the federal government, funding agencies and scientists across the country. To help address this...
Despite recent developments in human rights and education law, as well as a shift in special education delivery and efforts to make schools more inclusive, public education in elementary and secondary schools is failing many students who have intellectual...
Researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute have shown a novel relationship between the intestinal microbiome and atherosclerosis, one of the major causes of heart attack and stroke. This was measured as the burden of plaque in the carotid...
Lisa Henderson has been appointed to a five-year term as the new Dean of Western University’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS), commencing January 1, 2019 through June 2024. Following an international search, Henderson's appointment was advanced with...
One of Western University's longest-serving deans has been tapped to lead the academic and budgetary affairs of the institution into the future. Western Engineering Dean Andrew Hrymak was named Provost & Vice-President (Academic) for the term August 1, 2018 to...
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. The orbiter's Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, took this stunning image, which features part of an impact crater, during the instrument's test period....
By using images of the brain to look at how its outer surface is folded on itself, researchers can predict which high-risk patients will develop psychosis with more than 80 per cent accuracy. Before now, there has been no way to examine young people before they...
Following an extensive ground and aerial survey led by wind engineering experts at Western University, it has been determined that the tornado outbreak of June 18th, 2017 in southern Québec is officially the largest recorded in the province's history and,...
