A new $1-million catalyst fund will support university research efforts focused on resilience and recovery from disease outbreaks - both related to the current COVID-19 pandemic and those beyond, university officials announced today.
Western teams across campus are supporting production of low-cost, substantively effective medical face shields that could be in hospitals for health-care workers within days, if not hours.
Working from home has become the ‘new normal’ for many. What is not normal, however, are the kitchens, bedrooms and other spaces recently converted into makeshift workstations.
Millions of people confine themselves to their homes as they battle an invisible, viral enemy. Schools and theatres close. Playgrounds empty. Medical staff choose which patients will get life-saving respirators, and which will not.
We know this is an especially challenging and disruptive time for our students as they navigate the unexpected and far-reaching implications of COVID-19. For those asking how they can help, we have launched the Student Relief Fund to provide critical resources to those students who find themselves with urgent expenses related to travel, access to technology, health and wellness and other unforeseen circumstances.
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences #congressh will not be held this year, in any form. Federation CEO Gabriel Miller offered a video message to explain the decision.
“The idea is to train our immune system to recognize this spike protein. So when a person becomes infected, the body already knows how to recognize it and mount an attack,” said Stephen Barr, an associate professor at Western.
"In these remarkable times, people are making sense of the global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic as a war we must fight," said Francine McKenzi, a professor and chair of the history department at Western and author of GATT and Global Order in the Postwar Era.
Wondering what to do when you reach the end of your rope, find yourself ‘Under the Influence’, or stuck in a galaxy far, far away? Laura Misener, Director of the School of Kinesiology, has you covered when she takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen
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