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Summer 2020
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Western In The News is an e-Newsletter that highlights stories with a Western focus that received significant media coverage. This service is provided by Western's media relations team.
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Western psychology professor Samantha Joel's research into predicting a relationship’s success using machine learning received an abundance of coverage across Canada and internationally, including on CNN.
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Western researcher Adrian Owen joined BBC’s medical editor Fergus Walsh to talk about research into the impacts of COVID-19 on the brain. The interview is at the 22:19 mark of the newscast.
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Global News featured research from Western and UBC showing that valleys on Mars may indicate its surface was carved by water melting beneath glacial ice sheets, rather than free-flowing rivers as previously thought.
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La Presse published a feature story about Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project.
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Nursing professor Marilyn Ford-Gilboe spoke to CBC about the new myPlan Canada app, co-developed at Western, that helps women in violent relationships assess their risks and plan how to stay safe.
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Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project was the subject of a feature story by CTV News.
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Bioethicist Charles Weijer provided expertise to news outlet FiveThirtyEight about the ethical implications of human challenge trials to study COVID-19.
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The London Free Press covered news of a $9.2 million gift from Jeff and Shelley Parr to create the new Parr Centre for Thriving at Western, bolstering the university’s proactive support for student mental health.
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Director of Indigenous Studies Janice Forsyth spoke to CBC News about professional sports teams changing their names after years of criticism for being offensive to Indigenous peoples.
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A research partnership between Western and Canadian Light Source to improve battery life for things like cell phones and electric vehicles was the focus of a CTV London story.
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