In her highly controversial 1962 bestseller Silent Spring, author Rachel Carson argued that the uncontrolled and widespread use of such pesticides as DDT was killing a wide variety of birds that were facing the possibility of extinction if something wasn’t done to address the problem.
Research Matters
After years of conducting experiments based largely on trial and error, chemistry professor James Green has learned to manage his expectations for positive outcomes. However, he can’t deny the fleeting surge of excitement he felt when a compound he helped develop proved effective at killing certain types of cancer cells in preliminary lab tests.
Marshall McLuhan might be considered by many as one of the prominent modern Canadian intellectuals, but he was actually heavily influenced by a lesser-known Swiss art historian and architectural critic, according to a visual 
arts professor who will lecture on the subject today.
Over the next five years, Dan Heath hopes to unite the wide variety of researchers across campus studying environmental issues.
“I really want to expand the role of environmental research at the University of Windsor,” said Dr. Heath, a biology professor who takes over as the new director of the University’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in May.
A physics professor who is researching methods of using laser technology to detect the presence of potentially life-threatening bacteria on the surfaces of materials we commonly touch or in the food and liquids we regularly consume will discuss his work on CJAM today.
It seems only fitting that Debra Hernandez-Jozefowicz would be the featured guest on a radio show on CJAM on the same day the station is paying tribute to Joe Strummer, the former front man of the pioneering British punk band The Clash.
Not only does she conduct research on youth homelessness, an issue that was near and dear to Strummer’s 
heart, but she even quoted him in her own PhD dissertation.
When families in Windsor and Essex gather around their Christmas trees this year, chances are they may open a gift that was purchased on Black Friday, the day after American Thanksgiving and the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.
Before he detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building in April of 1995, killing 168 people and injuring more than 800 others, Timothy McVeigh read The Turner Diaries.
A novel set in 2099, the book depicts a violent overthrow of the United States federal government and is based on the premise that a secret cadre of Jews have conspired to create a totalitarian government that has confiscated all civilian firearms and controls both the media and the entire economy.
Certain people may be genetically predisposed to suffering negative side effects of living near wind turbines, according to an engineering professor studying the problem.
Zebra mussels, round gobies and other invasive species have been living in the Great Lakes and other inland Canadian waters for years now, but could soon spread to the Canadian Arctic according to a leading conservation ecologist and expert on the subject.