Kent Walker believes the research he helped conduct may have important policy implications for business schools.
Producing fuels from under-utilized biomass instead of fossil based feedstock is an effective means of alleviating concerns about climate change and energy security, according to an engineering professor who will present his research at a conference in India this week.
“These are the major factors driving our search for cheap renewable energy sources,” said Jerald Lalman, a professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Laverne Jacobs hopes the research she conducts in California will ultimately help improve accessibility for people with disabilities in Ontario.
Marijke Taks studies the soci-economic impacts of sports and leisure and says the organizers of the International Children's Games have done an excellent job in engaging the community's assistance in planning the event.
Non-mega events like the International Children's Games are more likely to better engage local volunteers and are less likely to leave behind “white elephants,” according to Marijke Taks.
English head Karl Jirgens sits in the department's seminar room with a large jar with an image of former writer-in-residence W.O.Mitchell's face imposed on it. The room's other jars - made by professor Tom Dilworth - include images of Alistair Macleod and Joyce Carol Oates, and are jokingly referred to as the shrunken heads.
![Lauren Fitzsimmons](http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/education/sites/uwindsor.ca.dailynews/files/styles/full/public/cricketdnshot.jpg?itok=a6MisgeI "Lauren Fitzsimmons holds up a cricket. The post-doctoral fellow discovered that crickets celebrate winning fights with "victory dances," especially if other crickets are watching.")
Lauren Fitzsimmons holds up a cricket. The post-doctoral fellow discovered that crickets celebrate winning fights with "victory dances," especially if other crickets are watching.
Art student Pearl Van Geest works on one of her latest creations in her Le Bel studio.
Kyle Brown has been working with the Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital foundation on promoting a fundraising event at Comerica Park for Canadian fans of the Detroit Tigers.
Bill Anderson looks out at the Detroit River, over which billions of dollars of agri-food products cross every year, according to a recent report commissioned by the research institute he directs.
Gwendolyn Ebbett, left and Joan Dalton stand beside one of the last remaining, and now obsolete, card catalogues in the Leddy Library.
