Prof. Trevor Pitcher offers members of the UNI-COM: Lifelong Learning Class an opportunity for hands-on learning at UWindsor’s Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre (FREC) in LaSalle. [Photo courtesy of George Plantus]
A group of seniors passionate about lifelong education cast their curiosity into the waters of fish ecology during a recent visit to the University of Windsor’s Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre (FREC) in LaSalle.
The visitors were members of the University-Community (UNI-COM): Lifelong Learning Class, a voluntary organization of adults aged 50 and older who, with support from the University and the community, promote teaching, learning, mentoring, advocacy and research.
— Published on Oct 21st, 2025
School of Computer Science undergraduate students Oluwaseun Samuel-Ipaye (left) and Ewaoluwa Olakunle (right) are on the Dean’s honour roll and attended the reception. [JOEL GUERIN/University of Windsor]
By Sara Elliott
The Faculty of Science hosted a celebration to recognize the latest Dean’s Honour Roll recipients.
Nearly 800 students – less than a third of enrolled science students – made the honour roll for the 2024-2025 academic year.
— Published on Oct 17th, 2025
Second-year engineering student Masa Damdoum holding her Sonepar Women's Scholarship award with Jen Sagat, marketing specialist at ElectroZad. (Courtesy Masa Damdoum)
By Lindsay Charlton
At just 16, Masa Damdoum started university. Now a second-year electrical engineering student, she has been awarded a national scholarship recognizing women in technical fields.
Damdoum was named one of two recipients of the 2025/2026 Sonepar Women’s Scholarship for her excellence in the electrical field.
— Published on Oct 14th, 2025
Head coach Chantal Vallée and guard Chidera Ifearulundu (No. 9) watch the action intently during the Windsor Lancers’ game vs. the Aquinas Saints on Dec. 28, 2014. (EDWIN TAM/University of Windsor)
By Kate Hargreaves
Celebrated Lancers women’s basketball head coach and faculty member Chantal Vallée has added another honour to her long list of accomplishments and awards: being featured alongside top global executives in the Brunswick Review.
Her profile appears in the magazine’s August 2025 Navigation issue, which highlights inspirational leaders in business, art and sport navigating uncertain times.
— Published on Oct 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.
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
Prof. Trevor Pitcher offers members of the UNI-COM: Lifelong Learning Class an opportunity for hands-on learning at UWindsor’s Freshwater Restoration Ecology Centre (FREC) in LaSalle. [Photo courtesy of George Plantus]
