“For too long, auditory research has involved people listening to single sounds in sound booths - and that’s just not how we listen in the real world." Enter the Brain and Mind Institute's new virtual acoustic space that’s helping neuroscientists at Western understand how our brains process sounds.
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Dec. 3, 2019

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New audio dome paints research soundscape

“For too long, auditory research has involved people listening to single sounds in sound booths - and that’s just not how we listen in the real world." Enter the Brain and Mind Institute's new virtual acoustic space that’s helping neuroscientists at Western understand how our brains process sounds.

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Alumnae named among Canada’s Most Powerful

Eleven Western alumnae have been named recipients of the 2019 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, the Women’s Executive Network recently announced.

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Food drive building to crescendo

Just before Christmas 20 years ago, a modest number of London businesses gathered 36,000 pounds of food for the London Food Bank.

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McKenzie more than just a dreamer

Maddy McKenzie, a third-year Nursing student, hails from the small town of Oakland, Ontario (Brant County), which is likely where she draws her classic country music style from.

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Military, medicine partnership grows at Schulich

A new office connecting the Canadian Armed Forces and the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry will help train military doctors and strengthen existing research and partnerships.

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Working at Western

Student Success Centre

Therapy Dogs

Drop in and visit with the St. John Therapy Dogs. Meet the dogs and their owners, learn about the Therapy Dog Program and the benefits they provide. Take some time out of your day to de-stress with new furry friends!

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Survey eyes costs of partner violence in workplace

Western researchers looking into the effects of intimate-partner violence on employers are turning to the university community for help.

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Social Highlights

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@westernuAlumni and adjunct professor Dr. Andrea Sereda HBSc‘03, MD‘07 is a physician focused on street-level, at-risk programs

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@SchulichMedDent “It’s important on #WorldAIDSDay to remember that the fight is not over.” @WesternU researchers, like Jessica Prodger, PhD, are tackling #HIV from all fronts: prevention, treatment and cure.

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Gradcast: Why are we such a musical species?

Gradcast hosts Connor Chato and Ariel Frame interview Nathan Oesch, a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Jessica Grahn's laboratory at Western. Nathan talks about his research determining how music contributes to group cohesion. Using techniques informed by evolutionary psychology, Nathan's work spreads across various disciplines and provides us with some important answers about how music affects humans on a social level.

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Endnotes

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Lending a ‘Voice’ - and far more

From an amazing reading list “guided by Hags,” to the direct beautiful storytelling of American country music legends, Education professor Barb MacQuarrie has a selection for everyone when she takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

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