2017 Archive

Gradcast December 2017
Gradcast No. 149: Pretty Fly for a Social Guy
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Sarah Lee December 2017
Sarah Lee wins the Faculty of Science Award of Excellence for Staff
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Gradcast Novemeber 2017
Gradcast  No. 147: To Hibernate, Perchance to Dream
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Badru Mugerwa November 2017
Western News: Scholar shedding light on how animals perceive threats
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Gradcast November 2017
Gradcast No. 145: What Does Stress Smell Like For a Bird?
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Gradcast November 2017
Gradcast No. 142: The Birds and the Beats
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Gradcast October 2017
Gradcast No. 140:The Latest Scoop on Parkinson's Disease
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Sound of Science Episode 4 September 2017
Sound of Science Episode 4: Inventing the Future
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NSERC Projects September 2017
Western News: NSERC backs Western research projects
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Bridget Murphy September 2017
Western Media Relations: Western undergrads named global award-winners
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Anne Simon August 2017
Too near, or too far? What fruit flies teach us about personal space
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Also in ...
[The London Free Press]
[Daily Mail online]
[New York Post]
[Science Daily]
Colorado potato bub August 2017
Western News: New process allows ‘live’ look inside insects
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[Also in the Daily Mail online]
Irena Creed August 2017
Irena Creed to head School of Environment & Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan
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Greg Thorn July 2017
Western News: Researchers re-classify mistaken-identity mushrooms
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Western Science Speaks

July 2017
Western Science Speaks S1E11: Songbirds: Insight into Predator-Prey Interations
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Blue Green Algae July 2017
CBC News Britsih Columbia: Toxic blue-green algae ends swimming at popular Victoria lake
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Western Science Speaks

July 2017
Western Science Speaks S1E10: Spiders in the Age of Climate Change
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Silk moth July 2017
CBC London: Emerge, mate, die: The tough life of the giant silk moth
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Human super predator impacts ecosystems June 2017
Top predators’ fear of human ‘super predator’ can impact entire ecosystems
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Leanne Grieves Vanier Scholar June 2017
Congratulations to this Year's Vanier Scholars from the Western Science Community
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Wedstern Science Speaks

June 2017
Western Science Speaks S1E9: Plants in the Age of Climate Change
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Messenger filming May 2017
Jeremy McNeil wins NSERC Award for Science Promotion
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Western Science Speaks

April 2017
Western Science Speaks S1E7: Maintaining biodiversity in a rapidly changing environment
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New research opens a window on eye health

April 2017
New research opens a window on eye health
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Western wows at 2017 Ontario Biology Day

March 2017
Western wows at 2017 Ontario Biology Day
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Western researchers get $3.3 million funding boost

March 2017
Western researchers get $3.3 million funding boost
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Helping a monarch future take flight January 2017
Helping a monarch future take flight
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Parasitic plant February 2017
The Scientist: This Parasitic Plant Steals More Than Nutrients From Its Hosts
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Biology dissertation nabbing attention, top honours January 2017
Biology dissertation nabbing attention, top honours
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