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It’s been long known that chemical companies, which are among the largest polluters worldwide, tend to offshore or outsource their polluting activities. But, a new study, Sweeping it under the rug: Positioning and managing…

When Western neuroscientist Ryan Stevenson got the news he had won a competitive two-year fellowship, his first thought was: “Do they have the right Ryan?”  He’s one of eight recipients of the 2024 Dorothy Killam Trust Fellowship,…

Western has launched a new program to support research collaborations between researchers and non-academic partners from diverse sectors including non-profit, government, industry and corporate.   The Research Engagement…

Alex Irving has been appointed as Executive Director of Government Relations for Western, effective April 22, 2024. Irving brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in public affairs to the role, having worked both within the Ontario…

The Faculty of Engineering at Western has launched its first women-only option for the Advanced Machine Shop Training course.   Created to provide hands-on, technical training, the course offers a women-only section in response to…

To further strengthen Western’s long-standing partnership with Makerere University, a delegation led by President Alan Shepard signed a memorandum of understanding today in Kampala with Uganda’s largest and oldest institution of…

Two Western PhD candidates are among the inaugural recipients of a scholarship to commemorate victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after taking off in March 2019.  Flight 302 Legacy Award was created to…

The hippocampus – a seahorse-shaped region of the brain which plays a particularly important role in cognitive aging and memory function – has been studied as a singular region for several years. However, there remains a gap in…

A medical technology startup from Western has obtained seed funding of more than $2 million to develop a robotics system for colon cancer treatment.   Tenomix Inc. was founded in 2021 by a team of fellows upon completion of The Medical…

The animals are on the move, driven further and faster by pollution, wildfires and the shifting of their habitats in response to climate change. But a global tracking system can find them.   Birds and bats in the air. Insects on the…