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June 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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New research co-led by Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen aims to answer pressing questions about COVID-19’s direct and indirect effects on the brain. The study is a collaboration between Western, the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. The launch of the study was featured in the National Post.
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An international study by the CovidSurg Collaborative research team, which includes Western professor Janet Martin, found that COVID-19 patients who undergo surgery face increased risks of pulmonary complications or even death when compared to those not suffering from the disease. The study received wide coverage, including this piece in Forbes Magazine.
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Western’s Janet Martin also spoke to CBC’s The National about the risks of post-COVID-19 surgery.
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To reach their ambitious goal of locating every tornado that occurs in Canada, Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project teamed up with The Weather Network, which gives NTP unprecedented access to a vast resource of severe weather content.
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Western anthropologist Andrew Nelson pulled in a multidisciplinary team to analyze and run a high-resolution micro-CT scan, the team found that the remains belong to a human male fetus aged between 22 and 28 weeks gestation. The finding was covered in several outlets, including the UK’s The Sun.
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Chantelle Richmond, associate professor at Western and a member of The Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19, joined two colleagues from Queen’s and McMaster to pen a piece published in the Globe and Mail on Indigenous communities and COVID-19.
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Policing culture researcher Leslie Bikos appeared as an invited guest on CBC’ The Current about calls for police services to address systemic racism in law enforcement.
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New research led by Ravi Menon and published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, showed that mild impacts experienced by athletes are causing subtle brain changes, even in the brains of those who are otherwise healthy and symptom-free athletes. The study was covered by several outlets, including The Daily Mail in the U.K.
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To accelerate 5G innovation in Canada, Western partnered with Bell Canada to create an advanced 5G research centre – turning the campus into a ‘living lab’ that will help shape smarter cities and communications systems, boost drone security, better manage business continuity, and more. The announcement received coverage from outlets including CTV News and Mobile Syrup, Canada's go-to source for the latest and most interesting stories in mobile technology.
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CTV News covered news that Western and Lawson Health Research Institute researchers were the first in the world to profile the body’s immune response to COVID-19, which could have big implications for treatment.
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