Chris Houser

student holding up precipitation gaugeA budding Climate Crusader holds aloft the tool of the trade during the project launch Tuesday.

Eighth graders enlisted in citizen science project

Thousands of students throughout Windsor-Essex are about to become citizen scientists by collecting precipitation data and helping support a better understanding of weather trends. The Faculty of Science and the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board (WECDSB) launched the Climate Crusaders initiative on Tuesday, March 26.

Dean of science Chris Houser leads a line of University faculty, students, and officialsDean of science Chris Houser (left) leads a line of University faculty, students, and officials to autograph the final steel beam before it was added to the top of the science research and innovation building under construction west of Essex Hall.

Ceremony marks milestone in science building construction

A “topping off” ceremony Wednesday marked a key milestone in the construction of the new science research and innovation building.

narwhalResearcher Harri Pettitt-Wade photographed narwhal during a field study in Tremblay Sound near the north end of Baffin Island, Nunavut.

Science sees significant rise in NSERC funding

The Faculty of Science has seen its funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada rise more than 25 per cent this year.