August 18, 2023 Andrew Pruszynski (Photo source: Mac Lai/Schulich Medicine & Dentistry) With the help of a $5.1 million donation made by the Azrieli Foundation, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Andrew Pruszynski and Emory University researcher Sam Sober are taking an open-science concept to the next level by enabling researchers to utilize electrodes they have developed to accelerate motor neuroscience research on a national scale. Free Appropriate Sustainability Technology Research Group researcher Joshua Givans (Photo source: Jacob Arts) Meet the researchers creating affordable tech for crucial medical applications in low-resource communities, with support from Western’s Frugal Biomedical Innovations catalyst grants. (From left) Jenna Schulz and Hoda Seens (Photo source: Jenna Schulz and Hoda Seens; Collage: Rob Potter/Western Communications) Combined post-doctoral fellow and sport physiotherapy fellow at Fowler-Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic Jenna Schulz and doctoral candidate in health promotion Hoda Seens will each receive $50,000 as part of the 2023 Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Award to continue their research on returning to sport after giving birth and the pandemic’s impact on women’s mental health, respectively. Téa Mutonji (Photo source: Sarah Bodri) Award-winning poet, author and incoming writer-in-residence, Téa Mutonji, looks forward to being a relatable mentor in her new role. She was an undergraduate when her book Shut Up You’re Pretty was published and is currently pursuing her MFA in the low-residency creative writing program at NYU, where she was awarded the 2021 Jill Davis Fellowship in Fiction. Supercell forming in Edson, AB on July 24, 2023 (Photo source: Aaron Jayjack) Severe weather researchers from the Northern Hail Project and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology successfully launched two probes into a hailstorm, capturing previously unrecorded data about hail growth and directional behaviour, similar to the storyline of the 1996 blockbuster movie Twister. (Left to right) Outgoing AWM Western president Micaela Vancea, founding president Jacqueline Doan and outgoing vice-president Sophie Wu. (Photo source: AWM Western) The student-led Western chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics club advocates to make math more accessible for women and other marginalized populations. The club is one of four winners worldwide of a community outreach award. Working at WesternThames River, London, Ont. (Photo source: Western Communications) Submit your work to the Confluency exhibit Change to Office 365 and email login pages Photo of the WeekWestern Mustangs student athletes will be travelling in style this season on the newly painted Mustangs coach buses. (Photo source: Western Mustangs) Coming UpWestern Campus Recreation (Photo source: Western Mustangs) August 21 (12 to 1 p.m.) August 22 (2 to 2:20 p.m.) Western in the NewsPeter Brown (Photo source: Western Communications) The Globe and Mail CBC Ontario Today Interesting Engineering The London Free Press CommentaryThe Olympic Rings (Photo source: RuinDig, Yuki Uchida/Wikimedia Commons) The last two Olympic games were severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article published in The Conversation, Western researchers discuss what needs to happen to see a return to normalcy at the 2024 Paris Olympics. |