May 26, 2023 (From left) Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Lisa Saksida; Faculty of Education professor Emma Duerden; president and CEO of Brain Canada Viviane Poupon with London North Centre MP Peter Fragiskatos (Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications) Western researchers have received two of four Canada-wide grants through the Canada Brain Research Fund. One project is working to fast-track drug development for neurodegenerative diseases and the other is exploring technology to study the brain at the patient’s bedside. Education Dean Donna Kotsopoulos and Ivey professor Lauren Cipriano, Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics, Management and Policy (Photo source: Geoff Robins) Ivey professor Lauren Cipriano and her mentor Donna Kotsopoulos, dean of the Faculty of Education, are participating in a new mentorship program offering Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs of equity-deserving groups access to networking opportunities, skills development and a community of inclusivity and support. Anthropology PhD student Tamara Britton (centre) with collaborators from local communities at Pacoche Wildlife Refuge in Ecuador (Photo source: Tamara Britton) Tamara Britton is one of this year’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Top 25 Storytellers. Chosen from nearly 200 applicants, her research looks at the relationships between people, nonhuman primates and bamboo in the Pacoche Wildlife Refuge in Ecuador. Sociology professor Kaitlynn Mendes (Photo source: Western Communications) As social media and the online world changes, the risks for young users are also evolving. Sociology professor Kaitlynn Mendes delves into the shifting online harms impacting Canadian youth, highlighting the urgent need for enhanced support and protection. Chemistry professor Yolanda Hedberg and PhD student Robert Addai (Photo source: Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications) Chemistry PhD candidate Robert Addai started by studying fufu, a staple of his Ghanian diet but his research on corrosion led him to a field of study far from a West African kitchen: an icy Canadian road. Faculty, staff and artists in Western's artLAB (Photo source: Jennifer Martin/Western Visual Arts) The newest exhibition at Western’s artLAB features work from three diverse faculty artists. Ashar Mobeen, a PhD candidate in visual arts and curator, hopes the show is a “transformative experience” for audience members. Working at WesternGraduates at Spring 2022 Convocation (Photo source: Geoff Robbins) Notice to join the academic procession Subscribe to Working at Western weekly email Photo of the WeekLast week a community member brought this little furry friend to the Western Special Constable Office as it had been separated from its mother with no other geese around. The staff named him Ryan Gosling and released him to a family of geese who happily adopted him into their flock. (Photo source: @WesternuWSCS) Coming UpFOGS plant sale (Photo source: Laura Mantz/Western Sustainability) May 30 (12 to 2 p.m.), May 31 and June 1 (12:30 to 1:30 p.m.) May 31 (9 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.) WeCLISH graduate student conference May 31
(12:10 to 12:30 p.m. and 12:30 to 12:50 p.m.) Western in the NewsSchulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Marnin Heisel (Photo source: Western Communications) CBC Cross Country Checkup Canadian Geographic Space.com CBC London CommentaryUnited States President Joe Biden (Photo source: Wikimedia Commons) The Republican and Democratic parties are increasingly coming to embrace distinctive and mutually exclusive visions with no possibility for common ground. Political science PhD student Sam Routley discusses what that means for Joe Biden in 2024. |