Graduate Students

A senior advisor to the World Health Organization will discuss the subject of sustainable development and environmental health when he meets with the university’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders next week.

Adrianus (Ton) Vlugman, who is currently stationed at the WHO’s Pan American Health Organization’s office in Guyana, will discuss such technical concepts as sanitation, wastewater and solid waste management – including recycling and management of wastes from health care facilities in the Caribbean – in order to help describe what constitutes sustainable development.

Anyone who’s ever driven a truck, a bus or a bulldozer for a long period of time might have considered what kind of long-term damage the constant rumbling and bumping of those massive machines under them might be doing to their bodies.

For a tiny creature with such a cute and seemingly harmless name, the sea squirt has done a lot of damage in a relatively short time.

Now thanks to modern genetic analysis techniques, a trio of researchers from the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research have identified three previously unidentified sub-types of sea squirts, commonly known as the golden star ascidian, and discovered new clues about their capacity – and possibly the capacity of other organisms – for invading various ecosystems.

The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance will hold a referendum in March asking members to support a universal bus pass, president André Capaldi announced Monday.

Under the U-Pass proposal outlined by Capaldi, full-time undergraduates would pay $45 a semester, increasing over five years to $57.50 a semester, and would receive a pass for service on all Transit Windsor bus routes.

This represents a significant savings over the current student rate of $55 per month, Capaldi said.