Academic and Research Programs

Ignite Discovery

Western excels in moving research out of the labs and into the lives of people around the world. From the operating room to the boardroom, the factory floor to spacecraft rocketing beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, Western’s research drives discovery and influences the way we live.

We will strengthen our international reputation by focusing our research on select themes and innovate across disciplines to explore new ways of addressing important global issues. These discoveries will create new programs for students, such as resource geoscience and biomedical engineering, and enhance the competitiveness of our graduates.

Our vision includes

• Supporting select research programs in areas of business,
  neuroscience, philosophy of science and public health
• Incorporating undergraduate students into research effort
• Creating a more entrepreneurial engineering curriculum
• Reconfiguring our libraries to support the way students
  collaborate, learn and conduct research
• Enriching focused areas of study such as entrepreneurship
  and Jewish, American and African studies
  
• Learning experiences such as geology and archaeology
  field schools and curatorial fellowships
  
  
  

Feature Stories

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• Wind dome concept comes to life.
• Innovative institute at Western helps answer the tough questions.