Undergraduate Students

Student ambassadors and volunteers from Ottawa staff the Curiosity Shop when it was set up at the Canada Science and Technology Museum. The display will be at Devonshire Mall on March 19 and at the CAW Student Centre on March 20.

Researchers to provide answers to the curious

Mar 12th, 2014

What are you curious about?

If there’s ever been a pressing question that’s kept you up at night, there are now tens of thousands of researchers at Ontario’s 21 universities who may be available to provide you with an answer.

The Curiosity Shop is a traveling pop-up venue that allows people across the province to ask questions ranging from “Why is the sky blue?” to “How do you make a light sabre?”

Private mercenaries and decentralized terrorist organizations simply didn't exist in the same kinds of numbers today as they did when the Geneva Convention protocols were established, according to the organizer of a conference examining how international humanitarian laws can be applied to them.

Applying humanitarian law to 'non-state actors' focus of conference

Mar 11th, 2014

Trying to sort out how international humanitarian laws govern everyone from terrorists to private mercenaries seems far removed from everyday life in Windsor, but it really should concern everyone.

Dick Pound says that five Olympic rings have become an iconic image that nearly everyone in the world recognizes.

Former IOC VP Dick Pound to deliver two lectures here

Mar 10th, 2014

For Olympic athletes who tested positive for banned substances at the Winter Olympics in Sochi last month, Dick Pound has a very simple message.

This illustration demonstrates how an underwater compressed air energy storage system works.

Area industry could cash in on underwater energy storage industry, prof believes

Mar 6th, 2014

Storing energy underwater is new technology still in its infancy but has tremendous potential for industrial growth, says a UWindsor engineering professor.

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Rupp Carriveau

Research Matters

Chemistry professor Bulent Mutus holds up some of the various forms of chitosan that were used to make a filter like the one behind him.

Chemist discovers shellfish material may help prevent algal blooms

Mar 3rd, 2014

A chemistry researcher and his industrial partners are testing a new method of filtering agricultural wastewater with the help of an unexpected material.

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Bulent Mutus

Predict the winners in Oscar contest

Feb 28th, 2014

Why not take a shot at besting the University’s resident film expert by outdoing his Oscar predictions?

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Vincent Georgie

MBA student Ryan Donally and business professor Vincent Georgie will be heading to the Oscar ceremonies this weekend to learn more about how the film industry markets itself.

Hockey pro turned business student heading to Oscars

Feb 27th, 2014

MBA student Ryan Donally and business professor Vincent Georgie are heading to the Oscars to learn more about how the film industry markets itself.

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Jeff Defoe is the newest faculty member in engineering and will focus his research and teaching on aerospace.

New engineering prof ready to take flight

Feb 26th, 2014

The University’s aerospace engineering program has reached a greater altitude thanks to the addition of a new faculty member with some impressive credentials.

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Jeff Defoe

Arc of Nazi plans for Berlin subject of lecture today

Feb 25th, 2014

Second World War enthusiasts won't want to miss an important lecture today about the Nazi's plans to turn Berlin into what was supposed to be the imperial capital of the German racial empire.

Many slaves escaped their situations in the US only to be re-enslaved in the Maritimes, according to a visiting lecturer who will speak here Thursday.

End to slavery brought new form of racism in eastern Canada

Feb 25th, 2014

African-descended people played an important role in bringing slavery to an end in Canada’s Maritimes, but that came with some cost.