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October 2019
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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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Australian outlet 9NEWS featured a story on Western researcher Adrian Owen’s efforts to better understand the vegetative state.
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U.S. network ABC News reported on research from Western’s Steven Laviolette which discovered how two compounds present in marijuana -- cannabidiol and THC -- interact in the brain.
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Zack Taylor, director of Western’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance, provided expert comment to the Globe and Mail for a piece on major issues for Canadian cities and how those play out in federal elections.
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Western neuroscientist Adrian Owen talked to Jim Al-Khalili on BBC’s The Life Scientific about his search for awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness.
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A New York Times report on the gene-editing tool Crispr, featured new research findings from Western’s David Edgell published in Nature Communications.
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Western researcher Leslie Bikos was featured in a story by the Toronto Star on an expert panel’s recommendation that Ontario’s coroners begin tracking first-responder suicides.
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Western’s Peter Brown provided expertise for a CBC report about a comet passing in close proximity to Earth.
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Political scientist Laura Stephenson provided expert commentary to CNBC in the United States following the election of a minority government in Canada.
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CBC News covered the installation of Linda Hasenfratz as Western’s 23rd Chancellor.
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