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Teaching & Learning
Technician using 3D printing machine at UWindsor
May 15th, 2026

By Lindsay Charlton

As additive manufacturing becomes more common across industries ranging from healthcare to automotive, a new course is helping professionals better understand the rapidly evolving technology.

Community & Partnerships
Destiny Cadarette stands beside a nursing colleague outside in front of a truck
May 15th, 2026

By Sara Meikle

What TV gets right

The medical drama The Pitt is doing more than drawing viewers — it’s sparking overdue conversations about violence in emergency departments, and the realities nurses face every day.

At the University of Windsor, faculty and frontline nurses say the show comes closer than any other to portraying life in the emergency department (ED), but it still only tells part of the story.

People, Equity & Inclusion
headshot of Dr. Desai over image of room 2223 education building
May 15th, 2026

By Kate Hargreaves 

What is the role of education in repairing injustice, and how does a gender transformative approach align with these aims? 

Guest speaker Dr. Karishma Desai will deliver a lecture titled “Gender Transformative Education: Potentials and Possibilities of a Feminist Reparative Education” as part of the UWindsor Faculty of Education’s invited speaker series on June 4 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 

Teaching & Learning
Headshot of Linda Patrick
May 14th, 2026

By Sara Meikle

For more than five decades, Dr. Linda Patrick has helped shape nursing in Ontario as a clinician, educator, administrator, researcher, mentor and advocate.

This year, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) recognized that impact with one of its highest honours, the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Research & Innovation
A group of nursing students and faculty stand around a table of menstruation kits in Tanzania.
May 15th, 2026

By Sara Meikle

A group of University of Windsor nursing students have turned a transformative global experience into research, reflection and recognition.

Community & Partnerships
Dr. Kyle Asquith on UWindsor campus
May 14th, 2026

By Lindsay Charlton

The Canadian Communication Association was born from conversations held at the University of Windsor.

Nearly four decades later, it's coming back.

The return will bring more than 200 scholars, industry professionals and students working across communication and media from Canada and the United States to campus June 2 to 4  for its annual conference hosted by UWindsor’s Department of Communication, Media and Film (CMF).

Teaching & Learning
image os high school students in Odette lounge during the Outcry competition
May 14th, 2026

 

By Victor Romao

“Buy 10!”
“Sell 20!”
“Take it!”

The shouts echoed across the Odette School of Business trading pit April 21 as nearly 200 high school students stepped into the high-pressure world of stock trading — shouting orders, flashing hand signals and scrambling to outpace the market in the Outcry Trading Competition.

Teaching & Learning
Outstanding Scholar Nicole Vanier and Dr. Tim Brunet
May 13th, 2026

Outstanding Scholars students, friends and family gathered to celebrate the 2025/2026 graduating cohort.

The third annual Outstanding Scholars Gala celebrated the program’s hallmarks: curiosity, courage and community.

Nicole Vanier won the Outstanding Scholar Leadership Award for her contributions to the Outstanding Scholars Committee, academic excellence and work as a research assistant in the Rondeau-Gagné Group lab.

Research & Innovation
Ali Mozafari stands in front of two emergency vehicles during training at CAF base in Windsor.
May 13th, 2026

By Sara Meikle

Ali Mozafari’s path through the University of Windsor has been anything but linear.

A fourth-year nursing student with research experience spanning health sciences and engineering, his story is defined by resilience, curiosity and determination.

“Honestly, it’s been a chaotic journey,” he said. “But I’m proud of how I turned it around and everything I’ve been able to do since.”

People, Equity & Inclusion
Group of students outside Dillon Hall with banner for African Diaspora Youth Conference
May 12th, 2026

By Kate Hargreaves 

Hundreds of future Lancers gathered at the University of Windsor May 7 and 8 for the 24th annual African Diaspora Youth Conference. 

Secondary students of African descent from Windsor, Toronto, the Greater Toronto Area, Guelph and Georgian Bay got to experience the UWindsor campus first-hand, participating in a variety of activities, workshops and keynotes across two days.