Sustaining ecosystems that support fisheries, lakes and wetlands will be the common focus of more 300 scientists coming to Windsor to share their findings from across Canada, the U.S. and the United Kingdom.
Those researchers will attend the 66th annual Canadian Conference For Fisheries Research, being held at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts in cooperation with the Society of Canadian Limnologists and the Society of Wetland Scientists.
Siyaram Pandey’s Kevin Couvillon Research Project on Anticancer Effects of Dandelion Root Extract, got another boost from the community yesterday when the India Canada Association presented a cheque for $5000 to Dr. Pandey during a ceremony in Essex Hall. The ICA, which has a long history of supporting community initiatives, raised the money at its annual fund-raising dinner in October, which featured India’s consul general to Toronto, Preeti Saran, as its guest of honour.
The Great Lakes are at risk of “death by a thousand cuts,” according to a University of Windsor biologist who was part of an international team of scientists who spent three years identifying the worst threats to one of the world’s largest supplies of fresh water.
A program that places master’s students of political science in internship positions has won a vote of confidence from Leamington—the town will double its commitment next year.
After Rachael Myers completed her term as the program’s first intern in Leamington, it has agreed to take two next year.
The GATA Winter Academy presents a series of workshops to help undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants get off to an informed start, January 8 to 17.
Helping adults diagnosed with autism and other intellectual disabilities get in shape has been an extremely rewarding experience for graduate student Phil McKeen, and it’s provided him with a new sense of perspective about his own life.
Oncologists may soon be able to quickly determine if certain tumours will resist chemotherapy thanks to work done by a UWindsor physics researcher and his graduate assistant.
The air in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation is about to get a lot cleaner.
Workers from Nedlaw Living Walls were busy this week installing more than 1,500 plants into the building’s biowall, which will help naturally filter the air that flows through the 300,000 square foot engineering building.
A professor in the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research is hopeful that a stolen laptop containing an invaluable amount of extremely important data on it will be returned.
“Whoever stole it can keep the computer,” said Aaron Fisk. “We won’t even press any charges, and we’re considering some sort of reward. It’s just really important that we get the data back.”
Stephen Pender loves literature.
That might seem like a fairly obvious statement for an English professor to make, but according to an article recently published in University Affairs magazine, many literary scholars have become ambivalent about their 
raison d’être.
