Lake Erie may be experiencing some of the worst levels of pollution it has seen since the 1960s, but a regional director of the International Joint Commission is confident that science will be able to turn that trend around by recommending action needed to restore it to a healthier state.
Dramatic increases to the government imposed fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks in the U.S. may decrease the auto industry’s carbon foot print but pose some serious challenges for vehicle and component part manufacturers and the engineers who support them, according to Peter Frise.
“Fuel economy is going to have to improve 40 per cent from 2010 levels by 2016,” said Dr. Frise, the scientific director of the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence. “This is creating profound challenges for the industry.”
Ruby Shah has experienced her share of peaks and valleys in life, but would undoubtedly tell you it was those low points that bolstered her resiliency and provided her with the tenacity it would take to pursue her vision of becoming a community-minded social worker one day.
Canadian journalists who specialize in health and science reporting are doing a tremendous job of covering their subject matter but need to remain ever-vigilant about asking hard and sometimes uncomfortable questions when presented with new research, according to Brian Goldman.
Putting down on paper a vivid description of what might happen if terrorists ever launched an attack on the Windsor-Detroit border is akin to thinking the unthinkable, but totally necessary in order to convince people of the necessity of taking a more holistic approach to counter-terrorism, according to Richard Chasdi.
Determining both the causes and the effects of climate change can be tricky business for a scientist, but there’s little doubt in the mind of Arctic researcher Aaron Fisk about whether it’s happening. Climate change is dramatic, 
it’s real and at this point it may be irreversible, he believes.
If you’ve ever visited a hospital emergency room, then you know the anguish that comes with sometimes having to wait for extended periods of time to see a health care professional.
It’s time for society to consider a new definition of materialism and re-think what constitutes ‘the good life,’ according to a philosophy professor who has written a new book on the subject.
In its standard interpretation, materialism says the only things that truly exist are matter and energy and that our reality is defined by them. Ethically, the term has come to be negatively associated with material greed and a fascination with amassing wealth and commodities.
Forward-thinking municipalities may one day be able to generate revenue from an unavoidable process on which they already spend millions of dollars if a UWindsor scientist can develop a process to create eco-friendly fuel from organic waste.
Subba Rao Chaganti, who works in professor Dan Heath’s lab at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, is examining a microbial battery which can convert solid municipal waste in to ethanol.
The next time you’re driving down a gravel road, John Roung wants you to think about the amount of dust that’s flying around.
If there’s not that much of it, there’s a good chance the road may have been sprayed with a new dust control product that was developed for his company in collaboration with a UWindsor chemist.
