Lancer men’s soccer players Massimo Megna and Mike Pio will suit up for Ontario University Athletics’ inaugural soccer showcase, this weekend in Vaughan, north of Toronto.
Megna, a fourth-year human kinetics major, and Pio, a second-year science student, will play on the West team in an East-West match-up on Sunday, May 5. The event is designed to showcase Ontario university soccer to prospective student-athletes.
Besides the obvious benefits of bringing together hundreds of scientists who study natural health products, a UWindsor biochemist hopes a major conference here next week will help people realize the potential of an already growing industry that could create new jobs and growth in that sector.
A highly-regarded scientist from McGill University who developed a probiotic that helps lower cholesterol will be a featured speaker for a major national conference on natural health products research being held here next week.
Science Rendezvous will offer mall-goers a unique experience during Saturday’s Research Showcase event—a chance to see how they would look if they were scientists.
“We will have a photo booth that will allow people to immerse themselves in science,” says organizer Tazeen Ahmed, a third-year arts and science student majoring in biology. “They will be able to pick up a photographic print at our Science Rendezvous.”
Science Rendezvous, May 11 in the CAW Student Centre, promises a fun way to learn more about science.
A wide variety of animals throughout the natural world pass along signals to their offspring in order to help them adapt to a world that may be much harsher to live in, according to a University of Windsor biologist.
UWindsor doctoral candidates Chris Allan and Rebecca Williams will join 28 graduate students from across the province for the finals of the Three Minute Thesis competition today—Thursday, April 18—at Queen’s University.
The competition challenges researchers to offer a presentation on their thesis or dissertation topic to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.
She’s studied stingrays in the Cayman Islands and caribou in the Canadian boreal forest, but now a predictive ecologist will use her expertise to better understand the ecosystems of the Great Lakes.
Sharing her passion for science with elementary and high school youth helped to remind Michelle Bondy why she loved the subject in the first place. Now she is hoping to spread that enthusiasm with the help of student volunteers from the University of Windsor.
A UWindsor biology grad (BSc 2009), Bondy is outreach program coordinator for the Faculty of Science, and has started recruiting for Let’s Talk Science, which offers free hands-on activities to engage children in science, technology, engineering and math.
Science Olympiad serves several purposes, organizer Paul Preney said Friday as teams from local high schools took part in the event.
“The competitors have fun, learn about teamwork and solve problems,” said Preney, a doctoral candidate in computer science and three-time UWIndsor grad (BSc 1996, MSc 2000, BEd 2006). “Plus they get to see a university campus and meet some of our students.”
The transition from high school to university is rarely an easy one, but the process was a whole lot smoother for Joanne Yu thanks to some upper-year students who always had her back.
“There was always someone there who I could ask questions and get good answers,” said Yu, who is just wrapping up her first year in chemistry.
