December 10, 2015 Western Sports and Recreation Services will continue its “proud tradition of excellence” under new leadership as the unit shifts under the leadership of the Associate Vice-President (Student Experience) portfolio.
November 19, 2015 Community partners gathered to launch the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion (CRHESI), a new organization focused on studying the effects of inequality and discrimination to improve health policy and services in London and surrounding area.
October 31, 2015 A recently-completed study by Nursing professor Abe Oudshoorn mapped the postal codes of nearly 800 recovering addicts living in London
October 10, 2015 The Faculty of Health Sciences community is mourning the death of Andrea Christidis, 18, a first-year student in the School of Health Studies, who died as a result of injuries caused by a car crash late Wednesday night.
October 01, 2015 During the month of October, the InMotion Community Challenge asks participants who commit to do something active each day to track their activity. There is a mobile app available to track exercise and activity, and there are forms available online as well.
September 19, 2015 Congratulations to Cheryl Forchuk, PhD, Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, on her induction as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).
July 18, 2015 London’s street sex workers live and work farther afield than expected, but must make their ways into areas most dangerous to them to get health care and social services, a novel new study concludes.
July 09, 2015 Part of Western’s Bone and Joint Institute and the Collaborative Training Program in Musculoskeletal Health Research, Amanda Ali is the inaugural recipient of the Kirkley Postdoctoral Fellowship in Musculoskeletal Health Research and Innovation.
June 04, 2015 After serving as Faculty of Health Sciences' Associate Dean (Programs) for more than 10 years, Kevin Wamsley has been named Academic Vice-President and Provost at St. Francis Xavier University.
May 21, 2015 Health Studies professor Aleksandra Zecevic has been named one of five North American winners of the 2015 Brightspace Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning.
April 26, 2015 School of Occupational Therapy assistant professor Mike Ravenek has developed two new resources aimed at helping those with Parkinson's disease, and those providing medical care, better manage the disease.
April 18, 2015 Arthur Labatt School of Nursing professor Helene Berman recently received the Nursing Network on Violence against Women International (NNVAWI) 2015 Excellence in Research Award at the 20th conference in Atlanta, Ga.
April 16, 2015 The National Centre for Audiology's anechoic chamber is proving useful in helping researchers understand how the blind use sound to 'see'.
April 02, 2015 Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Jack Scott has been named the 2015 Western Humanitarian Award winner for his First Nation Hearing Health program, which addresses hearing health issues in James Bay First Nations communities.
March 31, 2015 Tobacco use kills more than five million people per year and smoking is the world's single most preventable cause of death. As a result, researchers at Western University are now actively combating cigarette cravings through exercise and a new study has delivered promising results.
March 26, 2015 Western researchers will be at the forefront of preventing, detecting and combating family violence and child abuse as part of a 10-year, $100-million investment by the federal government.
March 12, 2015 School of Health Studies professor Jennifer Irwin was named as a 2015 winner of the Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching, the most prestigious teaching award offered by Western.
March 02, 2015 Audiology students from Western's National Centre for Audiology are helping students in grades four through six learn about preventing hearing loss.
February 10, 2015 Fourth-year Health Studies student Caroline Ehrhardt and School of Kinesiology faculty member Lisa Fischer were recently awarded the YMCA of Western Ontario Young Women of Excellence awards.
February 06, 2015 Faculty of Health Sciences Dean Jim Weese was recently announced as the recipient of the 2015 North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) Garth Paton Distinguished Service Award.
February 05, 2015 Western Nursing professor Marilyn Ford-Gilboe is heading up the Ontario portion of a national iCAN Plan 4 Safety study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The project seeks to assist women affected by relationship violence who may be more willing, or able, to seek information or support via the web.
January 22, 2015 A study being conducted by Health Studies professor Treena Orchard is looking at how geography and sociology impact the health of sex trade workers in London.
January 15, 2015 You don’t often speak of exercise and texting in the same breath. But Emma Cotten looks to change that as the second-year Kinesiology master's student prepares to launch a study to get students to hang up on sedentary behavior.
January 14, 2015 Mental health clients in the province are getting a much-needed ‘safety net’ upon re-entering their communities thanks to a novel Western-led initiative. The Transitional Discharge Model bridges the hospital and community for benefits to both individuals and the health system.
