Inspiring Minds is a campus-wide partnership between Western Research, the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the Writing Support Centre, Western Libraries, Student Experience, and Western's 11 faculties.
Inspiring Minds seeks to broaden awareness and impact of graduate student research, while enhancing transferrable skills. Being able to communicate your research to broad, interdisciplinary and lay audiences -- both inside and outside academia -- is becoming an increasingly important skill for scholars of all levels.
Inspiring Minds seeks to help graduate students enhance this skill.
This non-competitive showcase highlights work by Master's and Doctoral students from all 11 of Western's faculties and schools.
The following series highlights all submissions received from the Faculty of Science.Submissions from 2021
Looking Inside Minerals using Sodium Nuclei and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Stephen Pilar
Can Mathematics Help Restore Forests?, Tedi Ramaj
The role of prr12a and prr12b in Zebrafish: A Model for a Rare Human Disease, Renee J. Resendes BSc; Gregory M. Kelly PhD; and Tugce Balci MD, FRCPC FCCMG
Transition from Oxic to Anoxic Conditions in a Nuclear Waste Repository, Elham Salehi Alaei
Studying Fesaibility of Simultaneous Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI and [15O]water PET Measurements, Ramanpreet K. Sembhi
Image-Sensing-Smart-Parking Systems (ISenSmaP), Aakriti Sharma Ms
Diseases diagnostic tool for ginseng growers, Pankaj Singla
The Evolution of Be Star Disks in Binary Systems, Mark Suffak
Characterizing the lifetime phases of wildland fires from the Sioux Lookout District in Ontario., Chelsea Uggenti, Charmaine B. Dean, and Douglas G. Woolford
Blockchain in Cyber Security for Autonomous Vehicles, Sadia Yeasmin
Explore the life at edge: Chlamydomonas sp. UWO241, Xi Zhang