Business London Magazine February 2015 - Current BMSc student intern Margaret Weryk and Western Science Alumni Stephen Rolland are both featured in this story about hiring Western students.
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Biologist Robert Cumming says the current state of Alzheimer’s research is like that koan where the person loses their keys in a dark street. They only search in the radius of the street lamp, where it’s easy to see, but the keys are sitting just outside the pool of light.
Business London Magazine February 2015 cover story - Robin Goad bets that patience and perseverence will pay off for Fortune Minerals.
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CTV News London - Clues to Alzheimer's - Dr. Robert Cumming is looking at the role of metabolism in Alzheimer's
London Free Press - Menus a thing of the past? - The typewriter, film camera and rotary phone. If an app cooked up by two young Londoner entrepreneurs takes off, you could add restaurant menu to the list of tools whose best before date has passed.
London Free Press - Study shows climate change could lead to mass heart attacks in salmon - Nutritionists often praise salmon as a super food in the fight against heart disease. But the fish renowned for its Omega-3 fatty acids is at risk of dying off from heart attacks brought on by climate change, say scientists at Western University.
Ottawa Citizen - Science, public belief — and the inescapable lag time laid bare by U.S. study (with video) - Bryan Neff at Western University has just studied how climate change will make chinook salmon have heart attacks, but he knows for a scientific fact that predicting bad consequences of climate change brings a backlash.
Western Media Release - Western scientists predict mass "heart attacks" for Canada's Pacific salmon population - Pacific salmon feed millions of people around the world each year. With numbers already drastically on the decline, rising temperatures caused by climate change now further threaten the sustainability of this vitally important fish and it remains unknown how well populations inhabiting the British Columbia coast can adapt.
PhysOrg - Amazing impact crater where a triple asteroid smashed into Mars - At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks so unusual is that it likely is a triple impact crater, formed when three asteroids struck all at once in the Elysium Planitia region.
Yahoo News - Why Salmon Might Disappear From the Menu - A new study by a group of Canadian scientists, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, looks at how Pacific chinook salmon will fare as their streams become warmer in the next several decades.
Universe Today - Amazing Impact Crater Where a Triple Asteroid Smashed into Mars - This oblong-shaped crater could have been created from a triple asteroid, or it could have been a binary asteroid, and one broke apart, creating the three overlapping craters.
Chemistry World - Ex-US Navy weapons specialist arrested over chemical stockpile - An American opthamologist, who reportedly worked with chemical weapons during his former stint with the US Navy, was arrested in Ottawa, Canada, on 21 January for stockpiling dangerous chemicals, including osmium tetroxide, and threatening police.
Prof. Jack Mustard of Brown University talks about Exploring Mars in Search of Habitats at the SCUGOG lecture on Feb. 12.
Amer Elbeid of PolyAnalytik Inc. (left) shares a few tips about job interviews and resume preparation with chemistry student Hendrick Chan (right) at the Chemistry Mock Interviews. Industry representatives graciously donate their time and expertise at this event to help students gain valuable interview skills.
Amber Senese (left) experiences what a real world job interview is like with Tim Clark from GreenCentre (right) at the Chemsitry Mock Interviews.
Brandon Lines from Siltech (left) discusses what would be involved in working at his company with student Seono Kim (right) at the Chemistry Mock Interviews.
Allan Rey from Apotex Pharmatech (left) talks over the merits of the Chemistry Mock Interview program with Dr. Mark Workentin of the Chemistry Department (right).
The Faculty and Staff Recognition event, held on December 15th, gathered colleagues from all of our departments and reserach centres to highlight the successes and accomplishments of our dedicated people. See more on our flickr photo album.
Western alumna Mary Catherine Fallona presenting Dr. Charles Trick with the Fallona Interdisciplinary Science Award medallion with James Fallona.
Dr. Trick delivered the keynote presentation as the recipient of the first annual Fallona Interdisciplinary Science Award.
Photograph courtesy of Henry Leparskas.
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques (foreground) visited Western to analyse some field samples from an ancient asteroid collision in the microprobe laboratory.
Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques (in foreground) visited Western to follow up on field research he undertook this summer with CPSX Associate Director and Dept. Earth Sciences professor Dr. Gordon “Oz” Osinski (standing).
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