#WesternU is reshaping children’s hearing care with custom AI-driven earmolds for hearing aids. The innovative project, in collaboration with @boystownhospital.bsky.social, received USD $4.4M from the Oberkotter Foundation to improve access and reduce costs for families.

2026 #SSHRCStorytellers: These finalists explore how emotional expression differs in life stages; immigrant worker challenges; providing better care for victims of intimate-partner violence (IPV); and clinical experiences of racialized parents. sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/research-...

⭐🏆 Congrats to @marcuswdrover.bsky.social - recipient of the 2025 Chemistry Excellence Research Award! Marcus delivered his award lecture this past Wednesday! @westernu.ca @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Join us on May 21st for our annual Space Day event! 🚀 This year's theme is The Road to Launch, where we will hear from an interdisciplinary set of speakers on the wide ranging aspects of space sovereignty in Canada. Learn more and RSVP at the link here: space.uwo.ca/events/space...

⭐: Dr. Piotr Wilk, @westernu.ca 📝: Examining how individual- and area-level factors affect trajectories of healthy aging: An analysis of respondents from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging 🔗: www.clsa-elcv.ca/our-approved...

We appreciate the opportunity to meet with our colleagues at @unibonn.bsky.social to further strengthen our research relationships. Looking forward to hosting you in the future! www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/kana...

Thrilled to share this podcast episode in which I discussed #MAIT cells & their therapeutic potentials in #InfectiousDiseases & #Cancer. #Immunology #Immunotherapy #Tcell #CellTherapy @schulichmeddent.bsky.social @westernu.ca @westernuresearch.bsky.social @cdnimmunol.bsky.social

The upcoming @westernu.ca Rotman Institute of Philosophy’s Retreat explores how ideas move across disciplines, institutions, & policy to create real-world impact thru dialogue, collaboration, and knowledge translation. A natural synergy with our #TRIDENT mandate!🌎✨👇 www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/knowle...

Congratulations and thank you to all finalists for sharing these stories, and particularly to the three #WesternU finalists! #PurpleAndProud

From apps to active cities, #WesternU students tackled Canada’s inactivity crisis with bold health innovations pitched at the President’s Challenge. With support from Morrissette Entrepreneurship, they're turning ideas into solutions to get Canadians moving. 🏃‍♀️

Researchers at #WesternU are receiving more than $21.5M from @innovation.ca for projects tackling challenges across the country, from preventing material degradation to advanced imaging that can better understand brain diseases, infections and cancers.

Congratulations!

Help shape the CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction’s Institute Research Priority Plan for 2026–2036 by sharing your input on emerging needs and priority areas in neuroscience, mental health, and addiction. Please complete survey & RT! forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Join us April 2, 10:00AM - 12:00PM in WIRB 3000 for “Agency & AI,” an interdisciplinary panel exploring how AI shapes human agency. Featuring speakers from Western across philosophy, engineering, business, and more. In‑person & virtual. All welcome! Full event details: www.uwo.ca/events/2026/...

Rotman Member Mark Daley interviews with CBC's Andrew Brown monthly on topics of AI. This month's topic: the impact AI is having on the development of robots. Watch the full interview here: tr.ee/QzGnPyV-0R #westernu #artificalintelligence #research #robotics

Congratulations to Joanna Redden in @westernufims.bsky.social on being awarded one of eight 2026 Dorothy Killam Fellowships! news.westernu.ca/2026/03/joan... Thank you to the Killam Program and the National Research Council for continuing to build Canada's future by encouraging advanced study.

Including #WesternU's very own WindEEE Research Facility.

Today, the Federation launches its Strategic Plan: Inflection Point (2026–2030). For nearly a century, and for 30 years as a unified national organization, the Federation has worked to sustain the HSS in Canada. This Strategic Plan marks not simply a continuation of that work, but its next chapter.

A new study from #WesternU biology prof and Centre for Animals on the Move member Alice Boyle shows rainfall patterns play a powerful role in shaping bird reproduction and survival rates. @animalsonthemove.bsky.social

IMMUNEQUITY is a new public-private international collaboration led by #WesternU, aiming to reimagine how #HIV cures are developed so scientific innovation, affordability, manufacturability and equitable accessibility are treated as inseparable goals.

📅 Join us for Day of DH! March 18, 8:45am-4pm in the Scholar's Lab. Explore digital humanities through hands-on workshops, lightning talks & a panel discussion. No prior experience needed! Register: vist.ly/4sra8

MA History candidate Taylor-Victoria Northwood is preserving Windsor’s Silent Generation through oral history & digital storytelling. Discover her work at: grad.uwo.ca/academics/in... #WesternU #PublicHistory

Congratulations and thanks for your vision and service, Ted! Looking forward to having you back at #WesternU!

Great #ArtofCreation exhibit opening at D.B. Weldon Library @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Meet our speakers for the Research & Media Workshop! This workshop focuses on strengthening academics’ engagement with media + journalists, + brings together scholars + experts from #WesternU Media Relations team to discuss expertise as they relate to engaging with the media.

#WesternU researchers Bogumil Karas and Emma Walker have uncovered a new method to reliably deliver #DNA into diatoms, a key step toward rapidly engineering cells to produce cleaner fuels and valuable health compounds. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social

Know an individual or team from the RIC network that has made an impact in the knowledge mobilization profession? Nominate them or nominate yourself! The deadline to apply is March 1, 2026: bit.ly/4aC1sSF

Join us for a Research & Media Workshop! Co-hosted with the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, it will focus on strengthening academics’ engagement with media + journalists. When: March 4th, 1:30 – 3:00 pm Where: D.B. Weldon Library, Scholar's Square 🔗 www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/resear...

Don't forget to tune in to Neuroscience Research Day on February 19th and 20th! 🧠 Explore cutting-edge neuroscience research from Western University students & London researchers. Free event open to all curious minds. See you there! songsuwo.ca/nrd2026

Our next #CountdowntoArtemisII expert: Western Space Research Officer, Eric Pilles! He is project manager of an asteroid-eating bacteria project with an int'l team of researchers incl. @westernu.ca Engineering Joshua Pearce + @romtoronto.bsky.social Ian Niklin. 🚀 🔗 news.westernu.ca/2024/10/eati...

Two research teams may have found possible landing sites for the lost Soviet moon lander Luna 9, guided by expert insight from geography and environment professor emeritus Philip Stooke. Fascinating history and science in action 🌕🔍 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/s...

Meet the PIERS team, our NeuroConnect program 2 winners! This interdisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians + students will co-create solutions for ED care to improve the lives of London's post-secondary students + create meaningful scientific change. 🔗 win.uwo.ca/research/New...

Remember to apply for Western Space's 2026 Undergraduate Summer Internships by Saturday, February 15th, 2026! You can apply for more than one project. Learn more about each of the projects and how to apply here: space.uwo.ca/training/sum... 🚀

Join us at the kNOw-PAIN Conference on March 26th! This one-day conference will feature engaging talks, fascinating speakers + networking opportunities in the dynamic and complex field of pain research, patient care +more. Stay tuned for more info. Register here: www.knowpain.ca/2026conference

Dr. Glenn Bauman recently completed his time with OICR’s Clinical Translation program. In this Q&A he chats about his longtime involvement with OICR, its critical support of his practice-changing prostate cancer research and what’s new in cancer research in #LdnOnt. https://bit.ly/4kq2QvY

Researchers at @westernu.ca are working on a new type of #battery – called solid-state sodium batteries – that are showing promise as a safer, cheaper, more powerful alternative to #LithiumIon. https://youtu.be/bvUB4keZa88

Brainhack Western is coming! This fun event March 27-29 includes talks, collaboration, workshops and more. For more details or to register visit: brainhackwestern.github.io

Congratulations to all #LDNOnt recipients!

How do we keep Indigenous cultures alive? Chantelle Richmond, Director of the Indigenous Health Lab at Western University, shows how land, relationships, and community-led research create lasting impact. www.theimpactproject.ca/stories/chan... #IndigenousHealth #WesternUniversity #SocialScience

The CSSL is supporting another storm-themed artistic experience, this time an exhibit at Western's McIntosh Gallery called 'Atmospheric Shifts'. Details and artist bios: mcintoshgallery.ca/exhibitions/... Below are some photos from my recent visit. I'm happy to have 2 of my own tornado prints up!

Undergraduate Summer Research Internship 2026 Applications are live! See details below. #westernu #undergraduate #internships #interdisciplinary #research

Come join us!! 🚀 Awesome opportunity for an Assistant Prof. (tenure-track) in medicinal chemistry @westernu.ca! Priority date is March 16th! Get your applications in! Msg. for questions/queries! www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Cancer touches all of us in different ways — through family, friends and loved ones. We're marking #WorldCancerDay by sharing the people and ideas changing what it means to be diagnosed with cancer. The Catalysts explores the breakthroughs, challenges and questions shaping cancer research today.

This Wisdom Wednesdays, we spotlight Prof. Alan MacEachern (History) on why understanding the past matters and how curiosity keeps his teaching alive. Meet the human behind the research 👇 🔗 www.ssc.uwo.ca/humans_ssc/m...

Western University is partnering with the world’s largest non‑nuclear submarine builder to advance defence research and strengthen Canadian sovereignty. Learn more on Western News: news.westernu.ca/2026/02/west...

Our next #CountdowntoArtemisII expert: #WesternU planetary geo PhD candidate, Jack Hostrawser! His research on impact cratering, remote field training and his work with astronauts provides unique insight into what the #ArtemisII crew will see on their historic journey. 1/2

Meet Professor Jesus (Jesse) Chavarria in this week’s Wisdom Wednesdays: Humans of Social Science. From addiction research to critical thinking, his work explores how understanding motivation helps us make sense of human behaviour. 🔗 ssc.uwo.ca/humans_ssc/m...

We are ready for the #ArtemisII launch!🚀 Western Space has partnered with the Forked River Brewing Company for a special #ArtemisII launch party. Join us on Feb 6th and watch humanity’s first return to the Moon in over 50 years! See post for details! #TeamHansen #ToTheMoon

#WesternU ingenuity is going to the Moon. Led by @westernu.ca Engineering prof Jayshri Sabarinathan, a team of researchers + industry partners were selected by the CSA to develop a compact dual-camera imager to investigate the resources + properties of the Moon. 🔗 news.westernu.ca/2026/01/dual...

New research from the Working to Enhance Brain and Body Research (WEBB) Lab, led by education professor Barbara Fenesi, offers hope for children who are unable to pursue medication as a treatment option due to side effects or other factors. https://ow.ly/spHF50Y3ZJt