Rupp Carriveau feels like a torchbearer for UWindsor’s research community.
“We have so many people doing such incredible things and that’s what really makes me proud,” said Dr. Carriveau. An associate professor in civil and environmental engineering, he’s participating in a province-wide awareness campaign aimed at convincing the general public about the importance of university research.
An artistic streak and a keen awareness of the importance of making complex information understandable translated into a first place province-wide video contest finish this week for an engineering student and amateur filmmaker.
“It was something creative,” Brian Cheung said of making the video that explains the operation of an underwater compressed air energy storage system he works on as a master’s student in civil and environmental engineering. “It was a nice break from research and calculations.”
Helping judges in Palestine better understand forensics evidence so that they don’t undermine the claims of women who are victims of violence is just one of the many positive results to come out of a major project to bring a greater awareness of human dignity to courtrooms in the occupied territories.
Live garden plants like water hyacinth and water lettuce are being sold right across the country despite the fact they represent a clear and unregulated threat to Canada’s aquatic ecosystems, according to a UWindsor biology professor who will appear as an expert on invasive species before a government standing committee in Ottawa on Wednesday.
Throughout history, eras have been characterized by the types of materials, machines and technology we’ve created: The Iron Age. The Industrial Revolution. The Information Age.
In the complex world of product manufacturing, a UWindsor engineering professor believes we’ve already entered a new era.
A UWindsor biochemist will talk about his work on finding ways to halt the progression of Parkinson’s disease when the Parkinson’s Society of Southwestern Ontario holds its regional conference here for the first time ever.
If you’re a faculty member from around campus doing research or scholarly work related to the environment and looking for a unique opportunity to work for a short term at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, the deadline to apply is quickly approaching.
Julie Macfarlane has a simple message for all of those who believe that Islam’s proponents are trying to take control of western civilization by following their own set of laws that disregard current governing legislation.
It’s a simple experiment used to demonstrate some basic laws of physics, but the “fire tornado” was just cool enough to catch the attention of producers at the Discovery Channel planning to air a segment about a nationwide celebration of science.
Uprisings in Arab countries have been a struggle for human dignity, but their successes to date can only be described as modest, in part because of their inability to freeze out sectarian hardliners trying to gain control in the region, according to an expert who spoke on the UWindsor campus Thursday.
“The people have not yet achieved what they were looking for,” said Bahey El Din Hassan, who has won the label “the father of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement.”
