Posts Tagged: Social Science
Jean Chrétien to present keynote address at Western’s Social Science Academic Conference
January 22, 2016
The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, who served as Prime Minister of Canada for three full terms in majority governments, will…
Western University experts available to discuss New Year’s health and wellness resolutions
January 6, 2016
As 2016 gets underway, many Canadians have made New Year’s resolutions to improve their health and wellness. Will they stick…
Why people with autism sometimes fail to see ‘the big picture’
December 16, 2015
New findings by Melvyn Goodale from Western University’s Brain and Mind Institute, in collaboration with Australian researchers at Swinburne University…
Western professor to provide detailed ‘insider’s account’ of UN Climate Change Conference
December 16, 2015
As the world watched events of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) unfold, Western University’s Radoslav Dimitrov seized a…
Western University expert attending Paris climate change conference available to media
November 26, 2015
With the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) set to begin on Monday in Paris, an expert from Western University…
Western researcher and acclaimed Civil War historian wins major book award
November 13, 2015
The connection between war, society and medicine is and always will be an important and rich field of study for…
Western’s Leadership and Democracy Lab to host post-election panel
October 19, 2015
Western University’s Leadership and Democracy Lab is hosting a post-Canadian federal election panel on Tuesday, October 20, which will feature…
New Western-led research facility looks to protect our rivers
October 16, 2015
Western University geography professor Adam Yates has developed a better way of understanding how actions on land affect life…
New study shows touch works independently of vision in object identification
October 7, 2015
A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects…
Western to host observatory viewing for rare eclipsed Supermoon Sunday
September 25, 2015
The Moon will move completely into the Earth’s shadow – a spectacle known as a total lunar eclipse – this…