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Founded in 1878, Western University in London, Ontario is one of Canada’s leading research-intensive universities, combining academic excellence with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social and cultural growth in the arts, humanities, engineering, sciences, health sciences, social sciences, business and law. With research collaborations on every continent and students and faculty trained far and wide, Western is actively engaged internationally. Western’s campus community is comprised of more than 38,000 students from 127 countries, 3,800 faculty and staff and 294,000 alumni in 154 countries. Western offers nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in 11 faculties, a School of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies and three affiliated university colleges. Western is proud to provide Canada’s best student experience.

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The Artemis I Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. The successful Artemis I mission was the first in an increasingly complex planned series of missions, which have now been delayed. (NASA/Cory Huston)

What delays to the Artemis II and III missions mean for Canada

Gordon Osinski, Western University

NASA announced that the next two Artemis missions — Artemis II and III — will be delayed for safety reasons. However, Artemis IV remains on schedule.
A worker lifts a solar panel to the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky. Small-scale solar infrastructure can deliver green energy at a fraction of the life-cycle emissions as large solar farms. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Small-scale solar has key benefits, and one critical weakness, over large solar farms

Joshua M. Pearce, Western University

Looking to go solar? While small-scale solar delivers the best results with the least life-cycle impact, a mixed approach offers the best long-term path towards an all-electric future.
Researchers investigated how the availability of neighbourhood amenities may have contributed to changes in youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the pandemic. (Unsplash/Paul Hanaoka)

Neighbourhood amenities may have helped youth mental health and stress early in the pandemic

Alexander Wray, Western University; Gina Martin, Athabasca University; Jamie Seabrook, Western University; Jason Gilliland, Western University; Kendra Nelson Ferguson, Western University, and Stephanie Coen, University of Nottingham

Neighbourhood features may have helped youth cope with the mental health impact of pandemic restrictions. Parks didn’t play much of a role but food amenities and the suburbs did.
In the last two decades alone, Canada has lost nearly 150,000 farmers with the current population standing at just 260,000. Barriers to farming need to be addressed to mitigate this loss. (Shutterstock)

Canada’s agricultural policies need to better serve local farmers and communities

Richard Bloomfield, Western University

The impact of agricultural issues extends far beyond the farming community. Current social crises, including biodiversity loss and food inaccessibility, affect everyone.
To address barriers that racialized women with non-native accents experience in the Canadian workplace, we need to understand what kinds of bias they face. (Shutterstock)

How ‘benevolent sexism’ undermines Asian women with foreign accents in the workplace

Ivona Hideg, York University, Canada; Samantha Hancock, Western University, and Winny Shen, York University, Canada

Recent research explores how women with non-native English accents — specifically Mandarin — fare in the Canadian job market.
Asap tebal dari kebakaran hutan di Alberta utara dan British Columbia memenuhi udara pada pukul 9 pagi di Yellowknife, N.W.T. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Braden)

COP 28: 7 kebijakan energi yang dapat menyelamatkan 1 miliar nyawa pada 2100

Joshua M. Pearce, Western University

Studi terbaru menyatakan 1 miliar orang berisiko besar meninggal sebelum waktunya pada akhir abad ini akibat perubahan iklim. Berikut tujuh kebijakan energi yang bisa menyelamatkan nyawa mereka.
Una densa humareda procedente de los incendios forestales del norte de Alberta y Columbia Británica inunda el aire en Yellowknife (Canadá). THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Braden

COP28: siete acciones que podrían salvar mil millones de vidas de aquí a 2100

Joshua M. Pearce, Western University

Según un estudio reciente, es probable que mil millones de personas mueran prematuramente a finales de siglo a causa del cambio climático. He aquí siete políticas energéticas que podrían salvarles la vida.
Heavy smoke from wildfires in northern Alberta and British Columbia fill the air at 9 a.m. in Yellowknife, N.W.T. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Braden

COP28: How 7 policies could help save a billion lives by 2100

Joshua M. Pearce, Western University

A recent study found one billion people are likely to die prematurely by the end of the century from climate change. Here are seven energy policies that could save their lives.
Drake has made a career as a heartbroken player who sings and raps. Drake accepts artist of the decade award at the Billboard Music Awards on May 23, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

How Canadian R&B artists like Drake and Justin Bieber complicate ideas of race, music and nationality

Amara Pope, Western University

Canadian R&B artists, including Drake, have built lifestyle brands that simultaneously reinforce and challenge dominant beliefs about R&B music as Black and American, and Canadian identity as white.
Social media sites have given many the potential to reach millions of people instantly. With that reach, the risks and impacts of defamation can be far greater. (Shutterstock)

Are We Dating The Same Guy? Online groups toe the line between protecting women and defaming men

Treena Orchard, Western University and Erika Chamberlain, Western University

Social media groups have emerged designed to protect women from bad dating experiences. Those who use them could be liable to being sued for defamation.

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