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Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.
A recent report by Ontario’s auditor general shows families of children and youth experiencing mental health challenges are unable to quickly and effectively access the mental health services they ...
About half of those diagnosed with Parkinson’s develop dementia within 10 years, profoundly affecting patients, families and the health care system. Parkinson’s disease dementia causes memory loss, ...
A recent market study by the Competition Bureau is calling for more airline competition in Canada’s airline industry to reduce fares, increase service quality and provide better services to remote ...
Nursing professor and renowned mental health and homelessness researcher Cheryl Forchuk has been appointed an officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours. Forchuk has ...
For many families, summer camp is a rite of passage representing friendship, fun and freedom. But for families of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, it can be a season of rejection, stress ...
Three health-technology startups led by Western grads and faculty are among the recipients of Ontario’s Life Sciences Innovation Fund (LSIF), which is investing $6.5 million to help 13 companies bring ...
Look Ma, No Hands: A Chronic Pain Memoir Gabrielle Drolet, BA’20, Western student writer-in-residence, 2020 Imagine being a successful journalist and cartoonist, regularly contributing to the New ...
More than 8,000 Western graduates marked a milestone in their academic journeys during spring convocation. Western’s convocation celebrations turned downtown London, Ont. purple and proud as students ...
The system is able to detect all Canadian and foreign objects passing over the country larger than 30 cm in size. To date, the system has made nearly half a billion individual observations of more ...
What populations are most at risk? AG: Children, pregnant women, the elderly, anyone with complex health-care needs, those with mental health diagnoses, those who work outside and those without access ...
When Donna Noah, from Munsee Delaware Nation, first arrived at Western, she was a shy student and felt isolated on Western’s large campus. But once Noah started attending the Indigenous Circles of ...