Students visit Oxley Estate Winery as part of a series of field trips for a biology course with Prof. Sherah Vanlaerhoven. Winemaker Andrew Wilson talked about real-world integrated pest management practices in viticulture.
By Sara Elliott
What started as a field trip to farms and wineries for a biology course, ended with job offers and a potential new career path for some students.
Prof. Sherah Vanlaerhoven brought the students from BIOL 4008, Integrated Pest Management course, to five agricultural businesses across Essex County to learn about economic pest control practices.
— Published on Oct 6th, 2025
Participants of the Bystander Initiative course. (Courtesy Frances Cachon)
By Lindsay Charlton
We cannot change what we do not acknowledge, says learning specialist Frances Cachon.
As the University of Windsor’s Bystander Initiative marks five years since its campus-wide expansion, Cachon, the program’s coordinator, emphasizes the importance of addressing difficult topics head-on.
“By getting comfortable in the discomfort, that's where the potential for real transformation lies,” she said. “Having public, informed and open conversations that matter is how we create meaningful social change.”
— Published on Sep 29th, 2025
University of Windsor alumna Marie Howe has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection New and Selected Poems. (Courtesy Marie Howe)
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.’”
— Published on Sep 23rd, 2025
Raed Kadri, BASc (2009), leads the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) at the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI).
By Sara Elliot
University of Windsor engineering alumnus Raed Kadri says he is a “die-hard Windsor advocate” who lives and breathes the city of Windsor.
“I see the potential here. I think the city needs all of us,” says Kadri.
— Published on Sep 22nd, 2025
Fulbright specialist Dr. Chris Kelley, a professor from Florida Polytechnic University (left), in the mechatronics lab at the University of Windsor with Dean of Engineering Dr. Bill Van Heyst and professor Dr. Jalal Ahamed. (KYLE ARCHIBALD/The University of Windsor)
By Lindsay Charlton
As UWindsor prepares to launch its new mechatronics program, a Fulbright Specialist’s visit is helping faculty explore innovative teaching approaches and hands-on learning opportunities.
Chris Kelley, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Florida Polytechnic University, spent two weeks at the University through the prestigious Fulbright Specialist Program.
— Published on Aug 26th, 2025
UWindsor’s Engineering Summer Camp campers, counsellors, and student volunteers pose for a photo in the atrium of the Centre for Engineering Innovation at the University of Windsor on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (ANGELA KHARBOUTLI/The University of Windsor)
By Lindsay Charlton
The countdown began.
Ten, nine, eight…
Mr. Incredible, strapped into his vessel, launched from the third floor of the Centre for Engineering Innovation and raced down a zipline, landing in a tower carefully engineered for his safety.
Tasked with creating a popsicle stick tower to catch action figures zipping down from the third floor, campers from UWindsor’s Engineering Summer Camp gathered in the atrium Friday to put their designs to the test.
— Published on Aug 20th, 2025
The 2025-26 Ignite work-study job postings will go live Aug. 15.[MICHAEL WILKINS/The University of Windsor]
By Sara Elliott
Students – get your resumés ready and start practicing your interview skills.
The 2025-26 Ignite work-study job postings are about to go live.
— Published on Aug 12th, 2025
Saba Ikhlaq accepting the John Vardon Memorial Transportation Scholarship for excellence in a master’s-level transportation program at the 2025 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Canada annual conference in Halifax, N.S. (Courtesy Saba Ikhlaq)
By Lindsay Charlton
When Saba Ikhlaq heard the University of Windsor recognized not once, but twice at a national conference this summer, she felt a deep sense of pride.
The graduate student pursuing her master of applied science in engineering travelled to Halifax, N.S., this summer for the 2025 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Canada conference. The national gathering of transportation professionals awarded her the prestigious John Vardon Memorial Transportation Scholarship for excellence in a master’s-level transportation program.
— Published on Aug 8th, 2025
Twenty-eight University of Windsor students from the faculties of education and nursing took part in an experiential learning trip to Tanzania, focusing on social justice and humanitarian work. (Student supplied photo)
By Sara Elliot
Watching a cesarian section surgery up close in Tanzania was a pivotal moment for nursing student Gabriela DiGesu.
“It was a truly profound cultural experience to be able to immerse myself in that,” says DiGesu.
— Published on Sep 10th, 2025
Students doing hands-on learning during study abroad field course in Paris. Prof. Dan Mennill is leading a lecture on bioacoustics in urban green spaces. (DAN MENNILL/University of Windsor)
By Sara Elliott
“The field course was a pivotal point in my academic journey because if not for my study abroad experience, I genuinely would not be in this lab and I wouldn’t be doing my master’s in this area of study,” says Natalie Emerick (BSc 2025).
In 2023, Emerick and 13 other University of Windsor undergraduate science students accompanied professors Dan Mennill and Stéphanie Doucet to Paris for a field study course.
— Published on Sep 10th, 2025
Students visit Oxley Estate Winery as part of a series of field trips for a biology course with Prof. Sherah Vanlaerhoven. Winemaker Andrew Wilson talked about real-world integrated pest management practices in viticulture.
