Keara Stanislawczyk is shown here in the lab where she'll use traditional taxonomic methods to analyze the water fleas she will catch in the Hamilton Harbour this summer.
Keara Stanislawczyk will spend a good part of her summer bobbing around in Hamilton Harbour trying to find tiny microscopic water fleas.
Round gobies, zebra mussels, Asian carp and lamprey, like the ones shown here, are just a few of the many types of invasive species studied by the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network.
A university-headquartered national research network devoted to stopping the spread of aquatic invasive species will soon expand its reach all the way from the shores of South of Africa to the coast of Spain.
A foundation has approved $80,000 in research funding for a project investigating the efficacy of natural compounds in battling cancer.
Rachel Hasson won a best oral presentation award at Ontario Biology Day for her research on the relationship between temperature and the spring arrival dates of migratory birds.
Based on the award-winning research of a fourth-year biology student, it should be a safe bet that most migratory birds will be a little late this spring getting back to the area from down south.
After analyzing 18 years of bird banding data, Rachel Hasson discovered that nine varieties of song birds, ranging from orioles to warblers, were arriving back to southern Ontario anywhere from three to eight days early, depending on the change in temperature in any given year.
Michael Holmes and Yasina Somani pose with the trophies they won in the UWindsor’s Three Minute Thesis competition.
Researchers have to be able to present their work in a way people can understand, says the winner of the UWindsor’s Three Minute Thesis competition.
Chemicals called PBDEs are commonly used as flame retardants in things like televisions and computers and may have harmful effects on the environment, according to a visiting scientist who will lecture here Thursday.
A wide variety of chemicals used in household goods ranging from furniture to fabrics might be effective at preventing fires, but new types of “replacement” flame retardants are being released into the environment and their long term consequences are still unknown, according to a scientist who will deliver a guest lecture here Thursday.
The inaugural class of SWORP grant recipients: Sabrina Botsford, Matthew Galati, Christopher Langley, Danielle Mackenzie, Kristin Mayrand, Jasmin Nari and Shihan Rajasingham.
A new program that will fund medical students to conduct research under the supervision of UWindsor faculty is intended to foster a proficiency in the research process.
The Schulich-UWindsor Opportunities for Research Excellence Program (SWORP) provides funding for first- and second-year students in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry-Windsor Program to undertake projects in any area of biomedical, medical or health-related research. The awards are valued at $5,000 each, with UWindsor and Western splitting the cost.
The inaugural seven recipients are
Stories about the politics and practices of altering life forms that raise questions about the possibilities of re-imagining life in a post-industrial ecology will be shared during a special round-table discussion at Villain’s Beastro tonight.
PhD student Dave Yurkowski pulls a ringed seal into a boat in Resolute Bay, Nunavut.
Mention seals to most Canadians and chances are their minds will immediately jump to the variety of harp seals that are controversially hunted on the east coast.
But the lesser known ringed seals are just as important to Canada’s Arctic, and a PhD student in the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research is devoting his research to studying their behaviour and how it may be changing as a result of climate change in the north.
Dalhousie physics professor Kimberley Hall will discuss her research into quantum computing Friday on the UWindsor campus.
Dalhousie physics professor Kimberley Hall will discuss her research into quantum computing Friday on the UWindsor campus.
