2015 News Archive

2015 News Archive
bird in flight November 2015
THE MESSENGER - A special pre-release screening at Western Film
[read more]
Brock Fenton November 2015
Fenton named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
[read more]
CES Group

November 2015
Winged victory for biology students at Canadian Entomological Society meeting
[read more]

Holly Stover

October 2015
Holly Stover, Biology, was named among four Western PhD candidates to receive the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
[read more]

Nimalka Weerasuriya

October 2015
Weeding out the competition.
[read more]

Vi Bui

September 2015
Congratulations to Vi Bui for winning “Best Student Oral Presentation” from the Botanical Society of America at the Botany 2015 meeting!

Her talk was titled “Wood anatomy of Norway spruce and Scots pine under warming and elevated CO2

Lego figures

September 2015
A fourth-year’s guide to accepting that you probably won’t get into medical school

by Jeremy Lant
[read article]

Group photo

August 2015
Delegation setting African foothold for new program
[read more]

Jeremy McNeil

August 2015
CONGRATULATIONS JEREMY!
Jeremy McNeil elected Fellow of
The Entomological Society of America
This honour is given to individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to entomology in one or more of the
following: research, teaching, extension, or administration
[read more]

Anne Simon

August 2015
How Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter
Anne Simon's work highlighted in the New Yorker
[read more]

David Smith running marathon

June 2015
A Marathoner’s Guide to Genetics
[read article]

Alan Noon

June 2015
Noon to receive President’s Medal for Distinguished Service
[read more]

Anirban Banerjee

May 2015
Congratulations Anirban
Banerjee
Recipient of a 2014-2015 Graduate Student Teaching Award
[read more]

Brian Branfireun

May 2015
Mercury buildup in birds sounds warning for all
[read more]

Parnassius Smintheus

April 2015
What are butterflies telling us about global warming
By Aniruddho CHokroborty Hoque
[read more]

Shiva Singh

April 2015
Hellmuth Prize 2015
Shiva Singh honoured for global research reputation
[read more]

Materials and Biomaterials Showcase and Lecture

Materials and Biomaterials Showcase and Lecture
Monday April 27

[read more]

Biology 4999 Award Winners

April 2015
We had a great turn-out for Biology and Environmental Science Research Day on Saturday, March 31, 2015 and excellent presentations by our Biology 4999E and Environmental Sciences 4999E students. In each room, students voted for the best presentation. Here are the award winners

Chris Guglielmo

March 2015
"Novel power source may take flight soon"
Western Science, March 26, 2015
[read full article]

Songbird

March 2015
Watch The Nature of Things episode featuring video from the AFAR wind tunnel
[watch video]

Biology 4999 students

March 2015
Congratulations to our Biology 4999 Students
[read more]

Charlie Trick

March 2015
Charles Trick wins Award For Excellence in Teaching
[read more]

Biodiverity Gallery Opening

March 2015
Biodiversity Gallery Grand Opening. Rare Dangered and Extinct
Thursday March 12, 5pm at Jane's Courtyard, MSA ground floor

Jeremy McNeil Lecture

March 2015
BUGS: Helen Battle Lecture
Dr. Jeremy McNeil: Are Humans Really Smarter Than Insects
March 05 at 6pm in Physics and Astronomy148

Laura Ferguson January 2015
Congratulations Laura Ferguson (Sinclair Lab)
For winning Best Student Presentation for the Division of Ecoimmunlogy and Disease Ecology at the annual meeting for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Ben Rubin

January 2015
Dr. Ben Rubin
Measuring Life and Loving it
By Aniruddho Chokroborty Hoque
[read full story]

Robert Cumming

January 2015
Cancer cells may hold secret to combating Alzheimer’s disease
Western Biology professor Robert Cumming’s research explores the metabolic processes of cancer cells, which may offer insight on these ‘sugar-crazy’ brain cells and their protective effect against Alzheimer’s disease.
[read more... Western News Jan 22, 2015]

Jeremy McNeil

January 2015
Congratulations Jeremy!
Jeremy McNeil Named to Order of Canada
[read more]

Anne Simon

January 2015
Avoiding stressed individuals!
The Simon lab developped a straightforward and powerful
behaviour assay to study social interactions in Drosophila melanogaster.
[watch video]

Brent Sinclair talk

January 2015
Nature in The City 2015
A six-part series of illustrated talks on nature within the City of London.
This years series features Biology Department's Brent Sinclair, Brock Fenton and Greg Thorn
[read more]

Laura FergusonPhoto link