Research & Innovation

By Kate Hargreaves

For any musician, losing the ability to play their instrument sounds like a nightmare.

For Satoshi Yamaguchi, drummer for the Japanese rock band RADWIMPS, this became a reality while on a national concert tour in 2009.

Having developed musician’s dystonia, a rare neurological condition impacting his motor control, Yamaguchi continued to perform until 2015 when he made the decision to step away from drumming due to progressing symptoms.

The University of Windsor is helping shape Canada’s future in nuclear science by joining an international initiative aimed at transforming how scientists access neutron technology. 

Neutron beams are indispensable tools for probing the structure of materials, from advanced batteries to biological tissues, without causing damage. 

By Lindsay Charlton

How institutions respond to gender-based violence can shape survivors’ recovery — and, if inadequate, can deepen harm, says a University of Windsor researcher investigating how campus responses to sexual assault influence healing and long-term outcomes. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

Kathleen Rose (MEd ’25) calls herself a long-time gamer, playing early role-playing games (RPGs) like Baldur's Gate since the 1990s. 

As the mother of young children at the time, and as a woman in the male-dominated video gaming space, she began to wonder about what messages these games were sending to players about gender and bodies. 

“As an English teacher, games are a text. They’re a media text like anything else,” she explains. 

By Victor Romao

When Krista Abdel Sater walked into her first-year classes at the University of Windsor, she never imagined her business degree would lead her into academic research — or to a high-impact co-op role at one of the world’s leading professional services firms.

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 

As water levels in the Detroit River rise and fall, so do concentrations of toxic legacy pollutants. 

New research by University of Windsor environmental science PhD candidate Mona Farhani shows that higher water levels are associated with increased concentrations of bioavailable polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at some locations — a long-lasting toxic chemical linked to human and ecosystem health risks.

By Sara Elliott 

With respiratory viruses surfacing this cold and flu season, University of Windsor researchers are asking ill members of the campus community to voluntarily provide saliva samples for viral research. 

The Saliva Screening Lab, which is part of a research project led by Dr.Kenneth Ng and supported by the New Frontiers in Research Fund, is appealing campus-wide to those feeling under the weather to help advance virus surveillance.  

By Sara Elliott

The key to designing future brain cancer therapies could lie with a mighty protein called Spy1, which is found in neural stem cells in the adult brain. 

Neural stem cells play a critical role in memory, learning and brain repair. 

The University of Windsor is seeking an internationally renowned scholar and scientist for nomination to the federal Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program. 

This national initiative is designed to attract world-class research leaders whose work aligns with Canada’s strategic priorities.