Education professor Peter Jaffe and Engineering professor Andy Sun have been awarded the 2019 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research.
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May 31, 2019

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Hellmuth Prize 2019 awarded to Jaffe, Sun

Education professor Peter Jaffe and Engineering professor Andy Sun have been awarded the 2019 Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research. The honour recognizes faculty members with outstanding international reputations for their contributions in research.

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Western News

mental health

Tech brings home insight into mental health

From tablets and smartphones, to glucose monitors and medicine dispensers, a new Western-led research project anticipates these and other smart technologies will make a huge difference in the health - and lives - of those dealing with severe mental illness.

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board

‘Board’ student struck first-ever gold out West

While the snow is no longer flying, the memories remain fresh for Will Malisch. Earlier this year, the HBA-Computer Science student won Canada’s first gold medal in men’s snowboard cross on the first day of competition at the 29th Winter Universiade that took place in the heart of Siberia in Krsnoyarsk, Russia.

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balloon

Students land project – after a lost year

One year ago, a team of Western graduate students launched a high-altitude balloon (HAB) 20 km into space with the lofty goal of studying the Earth’s stratosphere to get a better sense of what microbial life could be living there.

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walls

Study unlocks brain’s role in moving about

Every office or family has one - the colleague who mistakenly walked into a wall or the sibling who mistook a closed glass door for an open entrance.

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Working at Western

Traffic Delay

Busy day to cause delays Tuesday

Western officials are urging the campus community to use a bit of caution – and maybe some alternative routes – as a busy Tuesday, June 4, nears.

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Living Well @ Western

Get Up & Go!

An outdoor activity class that rotates through a series of mobility exercises, body-weight movements, and short runs. Guaranteed to ramp up your steps and get your day started right.

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Events

lego

The FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Jr. London Expo will be held on June 1, 2019 from 1pm-4pm. Teams will showcase their projects at the Amit Chakma Engineering Building, Western University.

Commentary

beavers

Why giant human-sized beavers died out 10,000 years ago

Giant beavers the size of black bears once roamed the lakes and wetlands of North America. Fortunately for cottage-goers, these mega-rodents died out at the end of the last ice age. Now extinct, the giant beaver was once a highly successful species. Scientists have found its fossil remains at sites from Florida to Alaska and the Yukon.

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PBnJ - Professors Beyond Jobs

“Terrible. Wonderful. Crazy. Perfect.” Find out who exactly Earth Sciences professor Cam Tsujita is describing with those words on the latest episode of PBnJ: Professors Beyond Jobs, a Radio Western podcast hosted by Aniruddho Chokroborty Hoque.

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