Fighting COVID-19 in our Community and Region

 The University of Windsor research community is committed to working with local and regional healthcare, government, and industry partners to respond quickly to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic.

Below you will find information on how our research community is supporting efforts to fight COVID-19 in our region.

Project to combat vaccine hesitancy in local African populations - October 29, 2021

Windsor City Hall the First Exhibition Location of the Windsor Essex Sewing Force's Community Quilt - October 28, 2021

Research shows effectiveness of homemade masks - October 19, 2021

UWindsor research shows effectiveness of homemade masks - October 18, 2021

CDC says people with mixed-dose COVID-19 vaccinations will be eligible to enter U.S. - October 16, 2021

U.S. to accept mixed COVID-19 vaccine doses for international travellers, CDC says - October 15, 2021

New York congressman Higgins urges Canada to drop COVID-19 travel test before Nov. 8 - October 15, 2021

Windsor's first jury trial since COVID-19 spreads across courtrooms - October 12, 2021

Researchers aiming to increase vaccine awareness - September 14, 2021

U of W to research vaccine misinformation - September 14, 2021

UWindsor research team lands $500,000 for COVID research - September 8, 2021

University of Windsor research will tackle COVID-19 from different angles - September 5, 2021

Federal COVID research funding responds to Windsor-Essex's unique location, population - September 3, 2021

UWindsor researchers land $500K federal grant for multi-disciplinary COVID-19 study - September 3, 2021

Researchers seeking participants for COVID-19 survey - August 23, 2021

Study confirms toll the pandemic is taking on children's mental health - August 13, 2021

Pandemic making broad impacts on children's mental health, researchers find - August 12, 2021

New nurse shines light on trickle-down effect of burnout - August 11, 2021

Windsor study finds irritability, anxiety on the rise in kids during pandemic - August 11, 2021

Researchers teaming up to build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among students and yound adults - August 6, 2021

'Tired, burned out and angry': UWindsor study sheds light on state of working nurses - August 5, 2021

Study finds pandemic driving nurses out of the profession - August 4, 2021

Testing tool provides early detection of COVID-19 cases - July 27, 2021

Researcher seeking to shed light on inner workings of condominium life - July 12, 2021

Magazine features professor's art project - July 12, 2021

Restrictions ease at Canada-U.S. border - July 5, 2021

UWindsor research team joins province-wide COVID wastewater project - June 3, 2021

Choral compositions address challenges of coping with COVID - June 2, 2021

Social worker cited for inspirational leadership - May 25, 2021

Federal minister praises nursing grad's work on vaccinating Indigenous community - May 21, 2021

Psych professor recognized for volunteer service to healthcare workers - May 20, 2021

Screening study to expand reach - May 19, 2021

Monitoring COVID-19 one flush at a time - May 10, 2021

Researcher to study COVID varients surfacing in Windsor-Essex - May 10, 2021

Chatham-Kent Joins Wastewater Testing INitiative for Early COVID-19 Detection - May 10, 2021

Chatham's poop useful in fighting COVID-19 - May 10, 2021

C-K testing for COVID in Chatham sewage - May 10, 2021

UWindsor researcher maps which Windsor neighbourhoods need help accessing vaccines - April 19, 2021

Researcher exploring arts audience engagement in pandemic age - April 13, 2021

COVID-19 handling a 'disaster' for front-line workers, researchers argue - April 13, 2021

Border battle: Canadians, Americans wonder when - or if - normalcy will return - April 8, 2021

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Person in 30s dies, 14 new cases reported, mostly in Edmundston - April 7, 2021

N.B. COVID-19 roundup: In-person classes to resume this fall for colleges and universities - April 7, 2021

Alarming spike in Great Lakes drownings tied to COVID-19, study finds - April 7, 2021

Sewing volunteers hit milestone - April 6, 2021

UWindsor runs Pilot Project on Rapid COVID Testing in Asymptomatic Population - April 1, 2021

Wastewater COVID-19 testing of UWindsor residence discovers asymptomatic case - March 29, 2021

Wastewater Testing of UWindsor Campus Residence Leads to Early COVID-19 Detection - March 29, 2021

University of Windsor Residence under 'Modified Quarantine' - March 28, 2021

UWindsor places Alumni Hall residents under 'modified' quarantine - March 28, 2021

University of Windsor Residence Building's Wastewater Sample Tests Positive for COVID-19 - March 28, 2021

Wastewater tests positive for COVID-19 at University of Windsor - March 28, 2021

University Says Waste Water at Residence Tests Positive for COVID-19 - March 28, 2021

UWindsor researchers launch COVID testing pilot project on campus - March 23, 2021

UWindsor gets $540,000 funding for COVID sewage surveillance - March 23, 2021

Project to test Thunder Bay wastewater for COVID-19 progressing well, city says - March 23, 2021

Provincial funding boosts research tracking COVID-19 through sewage - March 23, 2021

University of Windsor project to test wastewater for COVID-19 continues to expand - March 22, 2021

Ontario to fund multi-party COVID wastewater research - March 22, 2021

Windsor's COVID-19 sewage surveillance project gets $540K funding boost - March 22, 2021

The Year of COVID 3: Spanish Flu in Windsor-Essex - March 18, 2021

Ontario launching surveillance network looking for COVID-19 in wastewater - March 18, 2021

Ontario Investing in Wastewater Testing System to Detect COVID-19 - March 18, 2021

App provides guide to COVID-19 vaccine pharmacies - March 17, 2021

'Hundreds of openings' still available for AstraZeneca vaccine at pharmacies in Windsor-Essex - March 16, 2021

Researchers set to screen for COVID-19 on campus - March 15, 2021

Database collects news relating to people with disabilities and COVID-19 - March 15, 2021

Guest column: World seems to forget technology is overwhelming for many seniors - March 13, 2021

UWindsor students make pandemic pivot to help at-risk women - March 9, 2021

Windsor court ruling puts COVID-19 'hoax' belief at centre of custoy fight - March 8, 2021

National art exhibition features faculty work - March 8, 2021

Public event to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Windsor-Essex - February 19, 2021

Uncertainty at the Windsor border as Ottawa promises testing for non-essential travellers - February 2, 2021

Caregivers are now asked to join discussion on mental health - February 2, 2021

Local health unit plan could see ujp to 20K inoculations per day - February 2, 2021

Windsor company among winners of PPE national supply challenge - February 2, 2021

WECHU reports drop in new COVID-19 cases as death toll rises - Janauary 29, 2021

Law students examining impact of COVID-19 on UWindsor experience - January 27, 2021

Thunder Bay's raw sewage will be tested for COVID-19 - January 27, 2021

Local COVID-19 cases continue steady decline as death toll mounts - January 26, 2021

Declining COVID-19 rates in Windsor-Essex sewage suggest spread is slowing - January 18, 2021

Blanchet's choice to block critics on Twitter limits free speech: experts - January 18, 2021

COVID-19 cases appear to stabilize in Windsor-Essex; top doc cautiously optimistic - January 15, 2021

Windsor police 'monitoring compliance' with stay-at-home order amid worries over who is targeted - January 14, 2021

Wastewater COVID-19 testing shows early look into community viral levels - January 4, 2021

Co-op students work with COVID-tracing technology start-up - January 4, 2021

'Kick in the teeth': UWindsor professor says Ontario finance minister lost trust after pandemic vacation - December 31, 2020

Research team exploring municipal resilience in pandemic - December 16, 2020

Study gives voice to silenced health-care workers - December 16, 2020

Engineering fund to support action against COVID-19 - December 11, 2020

Windsor-Essex might not be able to play the 'border city' card to get COVID-19 vaccine priority - December 9, 2020

Front-line health care workers on the brink, study shows - December 9, 2020

Magazine highlights COVID-19 research by engineering faculty - December 9, 2020

Stay-at-home paper lab to house bio-art projects - December 8, 2020

'People should not go out' - Pandemic hitting Windsor-Essex harder than ever, top doc says - December 5, 2020

UWindsor researchers want the federal government to start planning to ease border restrictions - December 5, 2020

Time to find ways to reopen border for business, local research group says - December 3, 2020

Program helps small businesses navigate pandemic - December 3, 2020

Could COVID-19 antigen testing reopen the border? Windsor experts think so - December 2, 2020

Canada and U.S. should consider ways to ease border restrictions, say UWindsor experts - December 2, 2020

Panel to discuss pandemic performance - December 1, 2020

Public health wants you to make a COVID isolation plan: Here's how you do that - November 30, 2020

Research into COVID-19 subject of online presentation - November 30, 2020

Social barriers in Windsor school community with province's larges COVID-19 outbreak amplify risk - November 28, 2020

UWindsor study reveals toll of COVID-19 on Ontario health-care workers - November 24, 2020

How to talk to your children about school COVID-19 cases - November 24, 2020

Healthcare workers talk of COVID devestating toll - November 24, 2020

UWIndsor project tests wastewater for COVID-19 - November 18, 2020

Experts, patients to provide answers online about dealing with COVID-19 - November 18, 2020

University of Windsor professor receives grant for 21K to research anxiety app results - November 15, 2020

UWindsor COVID-19 wastewater research gets funding boost - November 10, 2020

UWindsor COVID research gets $300,000 funding boost - November 9, 2020

University of Windsor researchers receive $300,000 toward COVID-19 wastewater study - November 8, 2020

Pandemic behind increased drownings on Great Lakes beaches, research suggests - November 3, 2020

Local healthcare workers asked to complete survey about mental health during pandemic - October 26, 2020

Study of COVID-19's psychological impact on local healthcare workers enters second phase - October 26, 2020

A 'perfect storm' of pre-election uncertainty along the U.S.-Canada border - October 22, 2020

Tracking COVID-19 in wastewater a good indicator of community spread, researchers confirm - October 21, 2020

Lakeshore to participate in COVID-19 wastewater testing - October 19, 2020

Seven month lookback: how U of T experts have studies the social effects of COVID-19 - October 18, 2020

SIMS: City sewage samples flush up early indicators of coronavirus spread - October 16, 2020

Lakeshore Taking Part In COVID-19 Wastewater Testing - October 15, 2020

Windsor Law report examines impact of pandemic on municipal governance - October 13, 2020

Underwater robots help Great Lakes scientists collect data during pandemic - October 8, 2020

Researchers at UWindsor use underwater robot to collect Great Lakes data - October 7, 2020

Municipalities made big decisions in early pandemic days with limited public participation: report - October 7, 2020

University of Windsor instructor touts mediation to ease stress for students - October 1, 2020

Governance in Canada's cities during COVID-19 subject of report - September 30, 2020

Windsor Law Centre for Cities releases first report focusing on municipal governance during COVID-19 - September 29, 2020

Pandemic research into children's mental health gets provincial funding boost - September 28, 2020

Walking through a pandemic - study shows people are stepping up - September 25, 2020

Local researchers' study finds increased anxiety among children since COVID-19 - September 25, 2020

Windsor-Essex Sewing Force reaches 25,000 masks made for residents - September 24, 2020

Throne speech pledge of COVID-19 relief, ending systemic racism resonates with Windsor-Essex - September 23, 2020

Community group reaches milestone in creating hand-made masks - September 22, 2020

Community organization reaches 25K milestone in hand-made PPE for Windsor-Essex - September 22, 2020

Windsor-Essex sewing group reaches milestone of 25,000 masks and caps - September 21, 2020

Nano-fibres seen as solution for face mask filters - September 18, 2020

Pandemic protection for construction workers goal of research project - September 17, 2020

The show must go on(line); UWindsor theatre performances to be presented over Zoom - September 12, 2020

New Research Projects Aim to Improve Ontario's Response to COVID-19 - September 10, 2020

Privacy, community trust, equity a concern after Windsor police access COVID-19 database - September 8, 2020

Student designing toolkit for communicating health research - September 8, 2020

Pandemic opens up great green opportunities for Great Lakes - September 4, 2020

Windsor group lands $50K grant to develop low-cost ventilator - September 3, 2020

Healthcare researchers and executives to engage in conversations on COVID-19 - September 3, 2020

Windsor-Essex public health can now track COVID-19 through wastewater - September 3, 2020

Prof developing low-cost ventilator design - September 2, 2020

Researchers from University of Windsor shed light on nurses experiences amid pandemic - August 27, 2020

Computer science student designing algorithms to identify risk of social isolation - August 27, 2020

Nurses need more than praise to cope with pandemic, say professors - August 26, 2020

Podcast addresses legal approaches to global crisis - August 25, 2020

Opinion piece calls for health care investment - August 25, 2020

Heroes, or just doing our job? The impact of COVID-19 on registered nurses in a border city - August 24, 2020

Student's pandemic research focuses on adults with intellectual disabilities - August 17, 2020

Researchers test Windsor sewage for coronavirus - August 6, 2020

U of W researchers developing microchip device to detect COVID-19 - August 5, 2020

Windsor's poop proving useful tool in fight against COVID-19 - July 31, 2020

Windsor Law professor to participate in global course on COVID-19 and equality law - July 31, 2020

UWindsor researchers looking for earlier warnings of COVID complications - July 28, 2020

No trace of COVID-19 in London's wastewater - July 28, 2020

Researchers looking for signs of COVID-19 in Londoner's poop - July 28, 2020

London wastewater tests showed no trace of COVID-19 - July 27, 2020

Walking study analyzes how people's fitness habits have changed throughout pandemic - July 24, 2020

COVID-19: Canadian truckers worry about entering U.S. due to coronavirus - July 23, 2020

National study launched to measure COVID-19 impact on daily life - July 22, 2020

Grad student researches pandemic's effect on 12-step recovery programs - July 21, 2020

Project builds referral network to address elder abuse - July 20, 2020

"I'm not willing to go": Canadian truckers worry about entering U.S. due to coronavirus - July 20, 2020

BEYOND LOCAL: Women may delay leaving an abusive partner if they co-own a pet - July 19, 2020

Health unit encourages participation in national survey on pandemic life - July 15, 2020

Kinesiology profs push to have Windsor-Essex included in national pandemic study - July 15, 2020

U of W study reveals discrimination against nurses commuting to Michigan - July 15, 2020

14 New Cases of COVID-19 in Windsor Essex as of Tuesday - July 14, 2020

University of Windsor and health unit partner for national study about COVID-19 impacts - July 14, 2020

Windsor-Essex Sewing Force supports frontline workers - July 10, 2020

UWindsor prof worries more beach goers could lead to more drownings - July 9, 2020

Student researchers brainstorm virtually on how to deal without labs - July 9, 2020

Researchers study municpal resiliency in pandemics - July 9, 2020

Majority of Canadians believe Canada-US border should stay closed in August - July 8, 2020

Sociology prof pens article on COVID-19's contribution to Black Lives Matter - July 7, 2020

Virtual events to answer public questions about COVID-19 - July 6, 2020

Study examines children's mental health during COVID-19 - July 1, 2020

Online study to research impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Windsor-Essex children - June 30, 2020

Researchers studying the impact of COVID-19 on mental health of children in Windsor-Essex - June 30, 2020

UWindsor researcher leads nationwide study on healthcare supply chain - June 29, 2020

Pandemic research to focus on your immigrants and refugees - June 26, 2020

Experts concerned about asymptomatic migrant workers being allowed on the job - June 26, 2020

UWindsor researcher aims to help people cope with isolation, uncertainty due to COVID-19 - June 25, 2020

Advocates critical of Ontario plan to control COVID-19 on farms - June 25, 2020

Prof compares coronavirus pandemic to the epidemic of hate and racism - June 24, 2020

COVID-19 Comeback: Great Lakes businesses and scientists bounce back - June 23, 2020

Pandemic research to help people who use drugs - June 22, 2020

Law student turns to viral storytelling to assist community living agency in pandemic - June 17, 2020

Windsor Law researchers secure grant funing - June 16, 2020

UWindsor chemist researching drug to fight COVID-19 - June 12, 2020

University of Windsor small business study aims to help companies navigate COVID-19 - June 10, 2020

Pandemic study looks at being a nurse in a border city - June 9, 2020

Healthcare workers focal point of new study - June 8, 2020

The key to early detection of COVID-19 outbreaks might be in sewage - June 5, 2020

Pandemic parenting highlights inequities in academia: researchers - June 5, 2020

UWindsor research team designing new testing device for COVID-19 - June 4, 2020

Grant boosts UWindsor research tracking COVID-19 through sewage - June 3, 2020

Maintaining mental health a continuing challenge during pandemic - June 1, 2020

Restrictions on travel between U.S. and Canada a threat over long term: Researchers - June 1, 2020

Study to examine pandemic's effect on small business - June 1, 2020

Talking Animals: How do dogs sniff out diseases in humans? - May 30, 2020

'We know we can reliably detect COVID-19 in our waste water': Can sewage water help predict a Second wave of COVID-19 - May 29, 2020

University of Windsor psych project offers free counselling to hospital workers - May 29, 2020

Project offers free counselling to hospital workers - May 28, 2020

Cross-Border Personal Mobility in the COVID-19 Crisis - May 26, 2020

Researchers studying impact of COVID-19 on physical activity - May 26, 2020

UWindsor researcher studies link between vaping and COVID-19 complications - May 25, 2020

Testing Wastewater for COVID-19: Canadian researchers hoping to detect patterns in water's viral load - May 22, 2020

Testing Canada's wastewater could give early warning of second wave of COVID-19 - May 22, 2020

Nostalgia used to justify taxpayer bailouts of Canadian football: researchers - May 22, 2020

Can nostalgia save the CFL? - May 20, 2020

GLIER studies sewage waste to track COVID-19 - May 20, 2020

UWindsor studies sewage waste for COVID-19 - May 20, 2020

UWindsor chemist researching novel ways to fight COVID-19 - May 19, 2020

Grassroots group sews 10-thousand masks, scrub caps for Windsor-Essex health-care workers - May 18, 2020

Sewage Check: Great Lakes researchers look to wastewater for data on COVID-19 - May 18, 2020

Imagine if a gas pump handle could help fight viruses - May 17, 2020

UWindsor chemist researching ways to mitigate virus spread with help of federal grant - May 15, 2020

Volunteer group battles COVID-19 with sewing needles - May 14, 2020

Doctoral candidate pens chapter for e-book about COVID-19 - May 14, 2020

UWindsor researchers lend expertise to volunteers sewing masks at home - May 13, 2020

Famalies can access legal help during COVID health crisis - May 12, 2020

University of Windsor prof, top world expert, says COVID-19 shows medical supply chains are inadequate - May 11, 2020

Venture Women winners embracing COVID-19 business landscape - May 11, 2020

Engineering co-op student helps employer increase face shield production - May 8, 2020

Flood of COVID-19-related lawsuits expected to hit courts - May 8, 2020

COVID-19: The impact of coronavirus on migrant workers - May 7, 2020

Biochemist researching improvements to COVID-19 testing - May 7, 2020

Systemic approach necessary to protect health: researcher - May 5, 2020

Prof seeking to harness power of gaming to fight pandemic - May 4, 2020

University of Windsor helps to lead the way to teaching remotely - May 4, 2020

Coronavirus: $50M class-action lawsuit application filed against long-term care home operator - April 30, 2020

Law professors argue emergency measures threaten cities' democratic decision-making - April 28, 2020

Shared living quarters a risk to migrant workers: researchers - April 28, 2020

President praises contributions by University community to pandemic fight - April 27, 2020

City urged to close streets, share lanes with pedestrians - April 25, 2020

BASF Canada producing hand santizer for donation at Windsor plant - April 25, 2020

UWindsor researcher to study effects of social isolation on families - April 24, 2020

U of W researchers helping community design better protective masks - April 23, 2020

Pandemic proves value of supply chain infrastructure: researcher - April 23, 2020

History teaches the significance of community during a crisis - April 23, 2020

Funding boosts local COVID-19 research - April 23, 2020

As Earth Day turns 50, COVID-19 offers valuable warning - April 22, 2020

Local researchers to tackle COVID-19 issues with $143,000 in funding - April 22, 2020

$143,000 Awarded Locally for COVID-19 Research - April 22, 2020

$143K in grants awarded to fight COVID-19 - April 22, 2020

$143,000 Awarded Locally for COVID-19 Research - April 22, 2020

UWindsor researcher looking at impact of pandemic on physical activity - April 22, 2020

Researchers call for communal response to challenges of pandemic - April 21, 2020

Collaboration platform to ignite research connections - April 21, 2020

Engineering team partners with local manufacturer to combat spread of COVID-19 - April 20, 2020

Sewage could hold the secrets to the coronavirus numbers in Windsor? Research group hopes so - April 17, 2020

Prioritizing Collective Responsibilities in the Response to COVID-19 - April 17, 2020

Alberta's success in its COVID-19 response - April 16, 2020

Impact of pandemic on cross-border trade subject of discussion - April 16, 2020

UWindsor prof offers webinars for teachers about online learning - April 16, 2020

Art workshop pivots during pandemic to deliver pottery to your porch - April 16, 2020

How did ALberta emerge as the only province in Canada to be prepared for the novel coronavirus pandemic? - April 15, 2020

Windsor's EPICentre aims to help businesses pivot during COVID-19 - April 15, 2020

How Alberta stockpiled medical equipment before COVID-19 struck - April 13, 2020

Valiant latest Canadian supplier to add to arsenal of health, free of charge - April 9, 2020

Student enterprise producing face shield components - April 9, 2020

St. Clair College, University of Windsor support frontline workers - April 8, 2020

Local post-secondary institutions, alumni, and students team to donate to COVID battle - April 8, 2020

Windsor Regional Hospital Using Facetime to Help Patients - April 7, 2020

College and University Donate to Windsro Regional Hospital - April 7, 2020

U of Windsor, St. Clair College donate $100K to COVID-19 fight - April 7, 2020

Institutions launch funding initiatives for COVID-19 research - April 7, 2020

College and University Donate to Windsor Regional Hospital COVID-19 Fight - April 7, 2020

Sanitizer formulated by UWindsor chemists gets into — and onto — local hands - April 6, 2020

University of Windsor researchers design masks, door handle openers to fight COVID-19 spread - April 4, 2020

Innovative COVID-19 prevention products developed by UWindsor engineering team - April 3, 2020

Wolfhead Distillery distributes hand sanitizer, collects donations for Amherstburg food bank - April 3, 2020

UWindsor engineering team develops products to combat spread of COVID-19 - April 3, 2020

UWindsor Engineering Team Brainstorming COVID Protection Solutions - April 3, 2020

Collaboration steps up during pandemic - March 31, 2020

Canadian universities heed the call for help in the fight against COVID-19 - March 31, 2020

What does COVID-19 mean for your civil liberties? Watchdog group on alert – March 28, 2020

U of Windsor launches online tool for parents teaching at home - March 28, 2020

Faculty of Ed reviews online resources to help educators and parents teaching from home – March 27, 2020

University extending helping hand to health agencies – March 27, 2020

World: Trucks must keep rolling across Canada-US border amid coronavirus pandemic - March 26, 2020

Nursing students needed to assist Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare for COVID-19 – March 26, 2020

University donates medical supplies to COVID-19 testing centre – March 26, 2020

UWindsor donates protective gear, ventilators to Windsor Regional Hospital – March 25, 2020

Why talking to your kids about their time online is more important now because of COVID-19 - March 25, 2020

What these companies are doing to make hand sanitizer for you - March 24, 2020

University teams up with local businesses to produce more hand sanitizer - March 24, 2020

UWindsor researchers and local businesses working to fill hand sanitizer shortage – March 23, 2020

UWindsor chemists lend expertise to produce locally-made hand sanitizer – March 23, 2020

UWindsor Researchers Team with Local Manufacturer on Hand Sanitizer Project - March 23, 2020

Closing borders more about politics than science, say researchers – March 20, 2020

Border restrictions applauded by Windsor officials - March 19, 2020

Coronavirus: Canada-U.S. border closure, other travel restrictions undermine our values – March 18, 2020

Research Unknowns: COVID-19 puts Great Lakes field research prep on hold – March 17, 2020

The University of Windsor is committed to fighting COVID-19 by supporting assessment centres, healthcare facilities, and frontline healthcare workers in our region through donation of critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), medical equipment, and other important supplies to hospitals in our community.

To date, the University of Windsor has made the following donations to the health community in our region:

  • University of Windsor and St. Clair College student goverment groups and alumni associations have partnered with their institutions to donate $100,000 to Windsor Regional Hospital to help with the purchase of new venitlators on April 7, 2020 (read more here)
  • Departments across University of Windsor Faculties collaborated to inventory and donate PPE, including disposable gowns, gloves, masks, and other supplies, to healthcare facilities in our region on March 26, 2020 (read more here)
  • The Faculty of Nursing donated ventilators and other medical supplies, including masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer, to Windsor Regional Hospital on March 24, 2020 (read more here)

For more information on the donation of PPE, medical equipment, and other supplies, please contact Heather Pratt at hpratt@uwindsor.ca.

University of Windsor researchers from across our campus are collaborating with local and regional healthcare, government, and industry partners to respond quickly to the challenges of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic.

The following initiatives are just a few examples of the important collaborations currently underway.

Hand Sanitizer Initiative

Mid-March, Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor, Dr. John Trant, teamed up with Wolfhead Distillery; InnerSeasonings, maker of the TBQ line of sauces; and Peak Processing, a local maker of edible and topical cannabis products, to provide a made-in-Windsor-Essex solution to the global shortage of hand sanitizer. By the beginning of April, thousands of bottles of the custom hand sanitizer formulated by Dr. Trant using an ethanol-based by-product of the distilling process had already been donated to police officers, nurses, and volunteers in our region. On April 3, 1,900 bottles of hand sanitizer were handed out to the community in a by-donation event that raised approximately $12,000 for the Amherstburg Food and Fellowship Mission.

See the Daily News stories below for more information on the Hand Sanitizer Initiative:

Sanitizer formulated by UWindsor chemist gets into – and onto – local hands – April 6, 2020

UWindsor chemists lend expertise to produce locally-made hand sanitizer – March 23, 2020

UWindsor-Valiant 3-D Printing Project

Mechanical, Automotive and Materials Engineering Professor and additive manufacturing expert, Dr. Jill Urbanic, and her research team have partnered with local manufacturer, Valiant TMS, to optimize the design, 3-D print, and assemble face shields for use by front line workers. Face shields produced through this collaboration have been delivered locally to three nursing departments at Windsor Regional Hospital, two nursing homes, and an x-ray clinic, as well as to St. Joseph’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Family Medical and Dental Centre in Toronto.

See the news stories below for more information on the UWindsor-Valiant 3-D Printing Project:

Engineering team partners with local manufacturer to combat spread of COVID-19 – April 20, 2020

Valiant latest Canadian supplier to add to arsenal of health, free of charge – April 9, 2020

Windsor Essex Sewing Force Collaboration

Dr. Ken Drouillard and Dr. Alice Grgicak-Mannion from the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Dr. Lisa Porter from the Department of Biomedical Sciences have teamed up with community volunteer network, Windsor Essex Sewing Force (WESF), to develop and implement a testing and quality control program to optimize production of high-quality homemade face masks made by WESF’s more than 500 volunteer seamstresses. This collaboration, which also seeks to understand impacts on volunteers and the use of masks donated to health institutions, will make thousands of quality-tested and verified locally-made face masks available for use in our community healthcare institutions.

Click on the link below for more information on the Windsor Essex Sewing Force Collaboration:

U of W researchers helping community design better protective masks – April 23, 2020

To donate to Windsor Essex Sewing Force, visit the University of Windsor’s Donations page.

Sewage Surveillance Project

Executive Director of the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and water quality expert, Dr. Mike McKay is teaming up with municipal partners in our region to examine the presence of the coronavirus in our sewage system and watersheds. By looking for the virus in our wastewater treatment plants, Dr. McKay is able to provide a better picture of how many people in the community are actually infected. This information will be particularly relevant to municipalities in identifying possible reemergence of the virus in the future.

Click on the link below for more information on the Sewage Surveillance Project:

Could sewage hold the secrets to coronavirus numbers in Windsor? Research group hopes so – April 17, 2020

University of Windsor researchers are engaged in COVID-19-related research initiative and/or offer the following areas of expertise relative to Covid-19:

Expert

Area of Expertise Relative to Covid-19

Dr. Chris Abeare

Social dynamics during pandemic

Mr. Nick Baker

Education, higher education, and education technology

Professor Reem Bahdi

Human dignity, human rights, and access to justice, as well as surveillance or profiling policies

Dr. Lori Buchanan/Ms. Jessica Hurtubise

Behavioural-immuno responses during pandemic

Dr. Caroline Hamm

Clinical Management

Dr. Heather Hartley

Communication, documentary filmmaking, and scriptwriting

Dr. Laverne Jacobs

Law, policy, people with disabilities and the law, human rights, administrative law and governance

Dr. Josee Jarry

Mental health in student populations and healthcare workers

Dr. Julie Macfarlane

Policy law/social dynamics, court closures, filings and procedural changes due to COVID-19

Dr. Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale

Public education to understand health threats (communication) and mobilize individual action to prevent transmission (transmission dynamics)

Dr. Lydia Miljan

Canadian public policy related to pandemic

Dr. Jayashree Mohanty

Mental health, coping mechanisms, families and social dynamics

Dr. Bulent Mutus

Diagnostics

Dr. Lana Parker

Education, including policy, e-learning and curriculum development

Dr. Sukanya Pillay

Canadian constitutional law and civic liberties, emergency laws and police powers and internal law specifically regarding transnational and global responses to global threats such as terrorism and pandemics

Dr. Lisa Porter

Development of new testing strategies for COVID-19 and COVID-19-realted clinical trials

Dr. Munir Rahim

Vaccines and therapeutics

Dr. Simon Rondeau-Gagne

Sensing devices for detection and diagnosis

Dr. Geri Salinitri

Education, teaching students, communication

Dr. Tess Sheldon

Public Health Law/Mental Health Law/Impact of Epidemic on Marginalized Communities, including people with Disabilities

Dr. Anneke Smit

Policy law; including municipal law, policy and innovation in the face of COVID, policy implications and intersections of municipalities addressing COVID, as well as impacts of COVID policy decisions on immigrant and refugee populations and refugee policy

Dr. Bonnie Stewart

Data literacies needed in the current pivot to online in the context of COVID-19; focused on the online shifts that COVID-19 is speeding up in education

Dr. Myra Tawfik

IP law (especially patents) and policy in relation to public health emergencies

Dr. Kristen Thomasen

Surveillance measures and privacy law – also legalities/ liabilities around the use of robotics in addressing COVID (in hospital, public spaces, etc.)

Dr. Yufeng Tong

Diagnostics

Dr. John Trant

Hand Sanitizer/Public Health

Dr. Christian Trudeau

Theoretical economist, expert in cost sharing, resource sharing, finding optimal schedules and appropriate compensations for those forced to wait, ethics in collective decision making

Dr. Jill Urbanic

Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping

Dr. Vasanthi Venkatesh

Policy law and social/ policy countermeasures

Dr. Zuochen Zhang

Education and communication

 

 

For more information on the response of the University of Windsor research community to COVID-19 or to connect with a researcher, contact the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation at vpri@uwindsor.ca.

For more information on COVID-19 resources available to researchers and healthcare professionals, please visit the WE-Spark Health Institute.