Press Release Archive

May 20, 2021Windsor, ON – The University of Windsor and the City of Windsor are uniting to join the Windsor-Essex community in learning, inspiring, and imagining what is ahead for our region following the pandemic.

Beginning in June, a six-part “Envision a Post-COVID Future” virtual speaker series will feature nationally renowned guest speakers with expertise in areas such as business, social justice, innovation, policy, and technology. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions.

 (Windsor, Ontario, May 13, 2021) ­­-- In recognition of the specific and ongoing issues of systemic racism faced by students, researchers, and faculty in Canadian higher education, the University of Windsor’s Office of the President has invited  submissions for the UWindsor Anti-Black Racism Teaching and Learning Grant.

The grants will fund:

· Research projects that focus on aspects of teaching in higher education;

· Academic units and educational leaders in implementing course and curricular reforms; and

 (Windsor, Ontario, May 12, 2021) ­­– They go by names like Lilliput, Rainbow, Pigtoe, and Snuffbox, and despite being perpetually mistaken for rocks, they’re of vital importance to Ontario’s rivers and streams.

  (Windsor, Ontario, May 10, 2021) ­­– UWindsor engineering professor Narayan Kar is leading a new $1.8 million research project to make better electric drive systems.

(Windsor, Ontario, April 8, 2021) ­­– The tiny insect attracted to overripe bananas and discarded apple cores is being used at the University of Windsor to unlock one of the mysteries surrounding cancer in humans.

UWindsor biologist Andrew Swan is using fruit flies to study a protein that holds cell division in check. The protein, called tuberin, is the product of a tumour suppressor gene in our DNA. It’s been established that tuberin is related to cell growth, but Swan says its role in mitosis, or cell division, requires further study.