Western University’s BrainsCAN initiative and Robarts Research Institute will be hosting the inaugural Brainhack Western from March 2 – 4, 2017. The event will bring together dozens of researchers, students and faculty members from departments ranging from engineering...
An intensive, four-day collaboration between some of the best student minds at Western and some of Ontario’s most innovative companies wraps up Friday for the showcase event of Industry Problem-Solving Week. The workshop has featured 52 students from different...
An international research team, led by neuroscientists at Western University, has developed a potentially game-changing method for analyzing brain scans, which will greatly inform radiologists and surgeons examining and treating patients with head injuries. Currently,...
A Western University bio-archaeologist and a Western-trained forensic sculptor have laid to rest a pernicious 700-year-old rumour: Scottish warrior-king Robert the Bruce did not have leprosy. The suggestion their national hero may have had the disfiguring, contagious...
In November 2011, Glen Canning’s daughter, Rehtaeh, was sexually assaulted by four males at a house party near Halifax. The assault was photographed, and the photos shared on social media. Rehtaeh was subsequently harassed and bullied for months. In 2013, suffering...
Medical researchers are making great strides as they design pharmaceuticals that attack a wide range of diseases. Plant researchers are finding ever more efficient ways to increase crop yields. But conventional approaches have their challenges: often, drugs travel to...
The Bank of Canada’s delicate dance of setting and tweaking monetary policy – assessing financial trends, pressures and risks and then aiming for two-per-cent inflation —is crucial to Canada’s economic wellbeing. Price stability helps ensure sustainable economic...
Western University is pleased to be host to His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, on March 8 as speaker in the President’s Lecture Series and in celebration of Canada’s sesquicentennial. The Lecture Series – a free, public...
About 1,000 student athletes at Western University are taking a stand for mental health, a statement as bold as the hats on their heads. All this week, varsity athletes have been wearing blue toques as part of a mental health campaign with partners Bell Let’s Talk and...
With a red-and-white nod to Canada’s 150th birthday, Western University announced Wednesday that the university community has raised $657,234 for this year’s United Way of London & Middlesex campaign. The donations increase Western’s total United Way contributions...
Friday’s inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump marks the start of a new American reality that will shape that nation's political, economic and social discourse. The official beginning of Republican governance, following the most talked-about election in the...
The Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation, a body set up by the federal government, released a set of recommendations this week on how marijuana should be regulated in Canada. One of those recommendations was that marijuana should not be available to...
