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April 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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Global News led with news about Western researchers’ work towards finding treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19, as part of a larger story about research efforts across Ontario.
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CBC’s flagship science program Quirks & Quarks interviewed Western researcher Stephen Barr about efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19.
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A piece penned by Western researcher Greta Bauer appeared in The New York Times, explaining why people should not intentionally infect themselves with COVID-19 to achieve immunity.
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Western researcher Eric Savory’s research using a cough chamber to measure how far and fast influenza particles can be propelled through the air in a cough jet received news coverage nationally and internationally, including this piece in the Wall Street Journal.
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Hong Kong-based newspaper The South China Morning Post also covered Eric Savory’s cough chamber research.
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BBC News published an in-depth story discussing how COVID-19 might affect the workplace – specifically the future of the handshake. Ivey professor Kanina Blanchard provided expert commentary.
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Following the mass shooting tragedy in Nova Scotia, Western researchers Peter Jaffe, Barb MacQuarrie, and Linda Baker joined with University of Guelph colleague Myrna Dawson to pen a piece for The Globe and Mail on the impacts of domestic violence.
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The National post was one Canadian outlet that reported on a partnership between Suncor and Western researchers to use technology intended to treat wastewater from refineries to produce COVID-19 testing kits
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The Times of India, one of the largest selling English-language daily newspapers in the world covered the research of Kathleen Hill who used machine learning to investigate COVID-19 by rapidly classifying genomes.
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Canadian Geographic reported on research led by Western researchers which analyzed dinosaur teeth to reveal new insights into the inner workings of ancient dinosaur communities.
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