Research and Creative Activity

This October, Leddy Library joins the global academic community in celebrating International Open Access Week (OA Week), Oct. 20 to 26. 

OA Week encourages candid conversations about the ways we can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing to address the inequities that shape societies and our response to them.  

By Sara Elliott

Drummers’ bodies endure a brutal beating during live shows, but Nadia Azar’s research seeks to alleviate that stress. 

“Professional athletes don’t just go out in the field or onto the ice and play their game. There’s a lot of preparation that comes before that, such as getting in the gym and working on strength and conditioning,” says Dr. Azar, kinesiology professor. 

By Kate Hargreaves 

As demand for mental health care rises in hospitals and private practice, waitlists for these essential services continue to grow. 

That’s why assistant professor of psychology, Alexander Daros, and his research team began investigating innovative interim solutions to support people while they wait. 

By Sara Elliott 

Next summer, a team of scientists will travel across the Arctic tundra in a new mobile research and training lab. 

As they collect data in Iqaluit, they hope to better understand how the rapidly declining snow bunting — an Arctic-breeding songbird that winters in southern Canada — is responding to urban development in the North. 

By Sara Elliott

As the once permanently frozen ground known as permafrost rapidly thaws in the Canadian Arctic, emerging health threats loom.  

Researchers at the University of Windsor are using modern science and Indigenous knowledge to address the emerging issue.  

By Lindsay Charlton

Acclaimed poet Marie Howe (BA 1974) was stunned to learn she had been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection New and Selected Poems.

“It was absolutely stunning and surprising that this happened,” she recalled. “I heard about the news from a friend who called me and said, ‘You won the Pulitzer.’ I didn’t believe it. For about three or four minutes, we went back and forth, and I told him, ‘Stop, that’s not even funny, don’t even say that.’”

By Sara Elliott

A new eBook co-edited by UWindsor’s nursing dean and a recent grad shares global frontline stories that reveal how COVID-19 transformed family roles in patient care. 

The collection, COVID-19: A Global Shift in Family Nursing Practice, features personal reflections from 20 nurses across nine countries, illustrating how the pandemic forced a rethinking of family involvement in clinical settings. 

By Lindsay Charlton

Go for launch.

In Timmins, Ont., the University of Windsor Rocketry team, along with student teams from across the country, designed, built and launched high-power rockets in the 2025 Launch Canada competition last month.

The national aerospace engineering challenge tested teams’ innovation, accuracy, teamwork and strength under real-world conditions as they launched their designs.

By Sara Elliott

Windsor Law hosted the 2025 We Robot interdisciplinary conference, drawing more than 100 scholars and practitioners from around the world for lively discussions on the legal and policy implications of robotics and artificial intelligence. 

Among the panels and workshops, one creative project stood out—an original zine titled Resisting Techno Fascism. 

By Lindsay Charlton

What does it mean to have closure? How can closure be measured? 

It is something mentioned often in popular media, the idea of getting closure. Sitcom fans might remember the scene from Friends when Rachel leaves a message for Ross letting him know she’s over him, saying, “Now that, my friend, is what we call closure.”  

It’s a term we hear everywhere, but what it really means — and how to measure it — isn’t as clear.