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By Sara Elliott  

A University of Windsor researcher is one step closer to building a facility that could deliver cutting-edge cancer treatment, produce medical isotopes and anchor a new industry in Windsor — after securing nearly $2 million to design it.  

Dr. Drew Marquardt, head of chemistry and biochemistry, has spent years advocating for a compact accelerator-based neutron source (CANS) in Windsor. The funding, announced March 13 as part of a $552-million federal infrastructure investment through the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), will support a full scientific and technical design for a prototype facility.  

By Kate Hargreaves 

Black mold, salmonella, E. coli and even brain-eating amoeba took over the CAW Student Centre March 16. 

What sounds like a health and safety nightmare was not, in fact, a biohazard but rather a Bioart fashion show coordinated by School of Creative Arts professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Jennifer Willet. 

By Sara Elliott

As questions about Canada’s economic direction mount, University of Windsor students will soon hear directly from someone working at the centre of it.

Economist Dr. Chris D’Souza from the Bank of Canada will visit campus Monday, March 23, speaking in three undergraduate classes as part of the bank’s Central Bank in Your Classroom program.

By Sara Elliott

WE-SPARK Health Institute is ready to support innovative health research and education projects with the launch of its 2026 grant competition.

The competition provides seed funding to stimulate research development in Windsor-Essex.

By Sara Elliott

Nearly half your genome operates on a clock. Daylight Saving Time throws it off.

When the clocks move forward an hour for Daylight Saving Time on March 8, our body’s natural clock — the circadian rhythm — gets disrupted. 

By Sara Elliott 

With Lake Erie locked in its heaviest ice cover in more than two decades, a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker has become an unlikely research platform for University of Windsor scientists. 

As the CCGS Vincent Massey breaks through thick ice, its crew is collecting water samples to help researchers understand how winter conditions shape the lake’s ecosystem. 

The hidden world of the Great Lakes will be revealed at the University of Windsor, where scientific instruments are being transformed into an immersive art installation. 

Creative Currents: Art and Science on the Great Lakes is a collaboration between RAEON, the Regional Aquatic Environmental Observatory Network, and INCUBATOR Art Lab, bringing the lakes’ offshore monitoring systems onto shore, giving visitors a glimpse into the currents, cycles and microscopic life that usually go unseen. 

By Sara Elliott  

Some farmed fish are snubbing commercial fish food pellets in favour of naturally and freely available microscopic organisms and invertebrates.   

That is according to PhD candidate Dennis Otieno’s study which showed farmed tilapia in net-pen cages in Kenya were not significantly consuming the provisioned commercial fish feed – one of the highest costs of production. 

By Sara Elliott

Here is your chance to create art through a scientific lens. 

Canada’s annual scientific research image contest 2026 edition is open for submissions. 

By Sara Elliott 

The new Dr. Lucjan Krause Graduate Scholarship for Physics Achievement honours the memory of a former University of Windsor physicist while supporting the next generation of researchers. 

The scholarship will be awarded annually to graduate students in the Department of Physics who strive for academic excellence. 

By Sara Elliott   

The journey to becoming a leader and a researcher began when biochemistry major Nicole Vanier was in high school.    

Having learned about the Outstanding Scholars program from her older sister, Jeannette Vanier (BSc ’23), she began to consider research, unsure of what to expect but open to the opportunities the program offered.