The University of Windsor Centre for Career Education, in partnership with St. Clair College, is holding a job fair for students and alumni of both institutions on Tuesday, January 22, at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts.
A biology researcher hopes her studies will result in fewer brain cancer related deaths among children.
Elizabeth Fidalgo da Silva, a research associate and adjunct professor in Biological Sciences, is studying the role that a protein called tuberin plays in suppressing medulloblastoma, the most prevalent of all childhood brain cancers. Brain cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer related death in children under 19 and the third leading cause in young adults between 20 and 39.
High school students considering the possibility of studying engineering will be welcomed to a very different environment this coming Wednesday evening at the Engineering Information Forum.
While her findings are still very preliminary, a UWindsor biology student has found that newly reconstructed wetlands in the oil sands of Alberta support a greater variety of bird species than their natural, old-growth counterparts.
Masters student Sheeva Nakhaie has been tracking birds in the area of Fort McMurray over the last three summers, counting species in existing boreal forests, as well as in those wetlands that have been mined for bitumen by petroleum companies and then restored to their original conditions.
UWindsor Frost Week, sponsored by the UWSA, returns for its second year, welcoming students back to campus for the winter semester.
While government belts may be tightening, there are still plenty of new and untapped sources of research funding, especially for those able to clearly demonstrate their work has relevance for their surrounding community and industries, according to Michael Siu.
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.
