When Classical Studies professor Kelly Olson studies vintage fashion, she's not rummaging through a bin of tattered denim. Instead, she's helping us understand how really vintage clothing - from ancient Rome and Greece - can teach us about how people lived and what was important to them.
Funding News
The renewed Canadian Common CV (CCV) will be implemented on June 19, 2012 for all CCV subscriber agencies, including CIHR. All CIHR applicants who submit their applications on or after June 19, 2012 will be required to use the renewed Canadian Common CV (CCV). (More)
April 13, 2012
Effective May 1, 2012, the Office of Research Ethics will move to an electronic protocol submission and post-approval process system called ROMEO for the Non-Medical Research Ethics Board community - Full Board and Delegated protocols only. (More)
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Western Research News
May 11, 2012
Gently cradling a 5,000-year-old cuneiform clay tablet from Ur, Andrew Nelson wishes he could peel back the layers to find out what makes up this first-generation iPad. And thanks to a new microCT scanner at Western's Sustainable Archaeology Repository (SAR), the Anthropology professor has done just that. (More)
May 11, 2012
Western professor Dr. Gregor Reid and his Lawson Health Research Institute team have been named Grand Challenges Explorations winners, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The researchers, one of only three Canadian recipients, are the first London, Ont.-based team ever to receive the award. (More)
May 10, 2012
Western's sustainability research efforts got a $1.125 million boost last week from Newalta Corp., North America's leading provider of resource recovery solutions. (More)
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