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Mike McKay says Erie Hack provides shared solutions to shared problems

Erie Hack competition looks to address the lake's most pressing problems

Sep 20th, 2021

Erie Hack, a data and engineering competition designed to generate innovative technology solutions for some of Lake Erie’s most pressing problems, is now open for registration.

Since its inception in 2017, the program has leveraged the expertise of researchers, designers, engineers, developers, and creative individuals across the region to activate, cultivate, and accelerate solutions to the health of the lake.

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Biochemistry professor Yufeng Tong and team have received CIHR funding to tackle news ways of fighting COVID and variants

Biochemistry professor Yufeng Tong and team have received CIHR funding to tackle new ways of fighting COVID and variants

Federal COVID research funding responds to Windsor-Essex’s unique location, population

Sep 3rd, 2021

A team of UWindsor professors developing novel ways to detect COVID and limit the spread of its variants has been awarded $500,000 from a federal agency that funds health research.

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Professor Trevor Pitcher readies a water-monitoring buoy for deployment in July 2019.

Project providing automatic alerts on water quality and quantity

Aug 4th, 2021

Researchers are partnering with the tech firm BlackBerry on a system to monitor water levels and quality and alert officials to risks as they arise.

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Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

The WE-Spark COVID-19 Dashboard can detect outbreaks of COVID-19 in real time.

Testing tool provides early detection of COVID-19 cases

Jul 27th, 2021

The WE-Spark COVID-19 Dashboard can detect outbreaks of COVID-19 in real time.

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Mike McKay says Erie Hack provides shared solutions to shared problems

UWindsor research team joins province-wide COVID wastewater project

Jun 3rd, 2021

Mike McKay and his team at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research are part of province-wide effort to analyze wastewater for COVID.

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Chemistry professor Kenneth Ng will study the proteins that manage how coronaviruses replicate and infect, to prepare to battle emerging variants.

Researcher to study COVID variants surfacing in Windsor-Essex

May 10th, 2021

Chemistry professor Kenneth Ng will study the proteins that manage how coronaviruses replicate and infect, to prepare to battle emerging variants.

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Mike McKay, executive director of UWindsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, has received another $540,000 in funding for his research program that uses samples from wastewater treatment plants as an early warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks. The funding is part of a $12 million investment by the province to support and expand the network of researchers analyzing wastewater across Ontario.

Provincial funding boosts research tracking COVID-19 through sewage

Mar 23rd, 2021

A UWindsor research team received $540,000 to test samples from wastewater treatment plants as an early warning system for COVID-19.

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Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

Jackie Fong leads staff member Elizabeth Fidalgo Da Silva through the MyCap app as part of a pilot project to screen campus volunteers for COVID-19.

Researchers set to screen for COVID-19 on campus

Mar 15th, 2021

The COVID Surveillance Platform study will test the saliva of campus volunteers for COVID-19.

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Yufeng Tong

Jackie Fong

Elizabeth Fidalgo Da Silva

Chris Houser

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Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

UWindsor professor Mike McKay spoke to the health of the Great Lakes last week on the provincial public affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

Professor helps set public agenda for Great Lakes

Feb 9th, 2021

UWindsor professor Mike McKay spoke to the health of the Great Lakes last week on the provincial public affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

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Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research

Mike McKay, executive director of the Great Lake Institute for Environmental Research, is leading a research team using sewage as an early warning system to determine trends in COVID-19 infection rates.

UWindsor COVID research gets $300,000 funding boost

Nov 9th, 2020

Mike McKay is leading a research team using sewage as an early warning system to determine trends in COVID-19 infection rates.

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