Computer Science

award winners and Cherie GagnonAccessibility manager Cherie Gagnon (right) congratulates winners in the Innovative Designs for enhancing Accessibility (IDeA) student competition.

Ideas to enhance accessibility earn recognition for students

Positive change can start with a simple idea.

Students took their ideas to solve accessibility-related barriers and competed in the 2023 Innovative Designs for enhancing Accessibility (IDeA) student competition, in February. The winners were formally awarded at UWindsor’s Accessibility Awareness Day Events on March 28.

Kenneth NgBiochemistry professor Kenneth Ng is a member of a multidisciplinary group of UWindsor researchers partnering in an effort to enhance Canada’s preparedness for future pandemics.

University of Windsor partners in pandemic peparedness research hub

The University of Windsor is a major partner in a new federal research hub set to enhance Canada’s preparedness for future pandemics.
Krishna Telapudi, Kameswara Peddada, and Kartik Peddinti with professor Pooya Moradian Zadeh during Computer Science Demo DayKrishna Telapudi, Kameswara Peddada, and Kartik Peddinti discuss their project Simplified SCO on Wheels” with professor Pooya Moradian Zadeh during Computer Science Demo Day.

Computer science students demonstrate projects

Keen computer science students lined up to pitch their latest programming endeavours to attendees at the 2022 Computer Science Demo Day, Dec. 8.

300 Ouellette Ave. held the event in-person for the first time since the pandemic started. The downtown building houses the Master of Applied Computing (MAC) program.

MAC student Kameswara Peddada was there with his fellow project members pitching their project “Simplified SCO on Wheels,” a product that allows you to check yourself out at a store using your cell phone.

Victoria AbboudUWindsor instructor and alumna Victoria Abboud has been longlisted for the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Photo by Kiren Javed, Nile Photography.

Campus author up for literary award in nonfiction

UWindsor instructor and alumna Victoria Abboud has been longlisted for the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize.