July 21, 2023 (From left) Julian Brimelow, Northern Hail Project (NHP) executive director, Madeleine Richer, 4th year student and summer intern, and NHP field coordinator Devon Healy with a hail disdrometer in Calgary (Photo source: Jeff Renaud/Western Communications) The Northern Hail Project has grown from three to 10 researchers and has installed 19 hail disdrometers that will record storm data within and around Calgary. Research assistant Anjutha Selvaraj holding the autoinjector (Submitted photo) A research team has developed a new 3-D printed, open-source autoinjector – a device designed to deliver a single dose of medicine – for a tenth of the cost of a similar store-bought product. University College (Photo source: Western Communications) Western will host the International Association for College Admission Counseling Conference in July 2024, becoming the first university to host the annual conference twice in the three decades since it was first held. Prof studying what students and teachers need to thriveStudents, staff and faculty attended Out at the Beach to kick off Pride Month on campus this year (Photo source: Steven Anderson/Western Communications) Education professor Wayne Martino studies trans-affirmative education, investigating what students and teachers need to thrive at school. His newest research project comes amid an “intensification of hate and transphobia,” making it more urgent than ever. Mariya Tsybulnyk (Photo source: Ivey Communications) Pediatrician turned MBA student Mariya Tsybulnyk has found a new home at Ivey after fleeing her hometown of Kharkiv last year to escape the Russia-Ukraine war. Oleksiy Zaika, MSc'15, PhD'23 and Sydney Robinson, MESc'21 (Photo source: Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications) Sydney Robinson met Oleksiy Zaika on their first day of bootcamp in the Western Medical Innovation Fellowship program. Since then, they have created an automatically adjustable prosthetic socket and founded Vessl Prosthetics Inc. Working at WesternVolunteers handing out healthy snacks and water at a Care Hub during Orientation Week 2022 (Photo source: Student Experience) Orientation Week Care Hubs: Call for volunteers Western Farmers Market Photo of the WeekThis week, campers took part in a massive game of "octopus" to warm up for Sport Western track camp, where they learn the fundamentals of running, jumping and throwing. (Photo source: Sport Western) Coming UpRepresentation of the Dragonfly landing on Titan (Image source: Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory) July 22 (8:30 to 11 p.m.) July 23 (12 p.m.) July 26 (12 to 1 p.m.) Western in the NewsDr. Leigh Sowerby (Photo source: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry) Global News The Globe and Mail CBC News CTV News Channel CommentaryPanama's Schiandra Gonzalez, left, and Canada's Ashley Lawrence during a CONCACAF Women's Championship soccer match in Monterrey, Mexico, July 8, 2022. (Photo source: Fernando Llano/AP Photo) With the women’s FIFA World Cup kicking off this week, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Jane Thornton discusses female soccer player health and the importance of the athlete’s perspective in bridging the data gap in this Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal article. |