Curious minds and future students are invited to explore the world of psychology at Psych Night on Wednesday, April 30.
Hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the event will begin at 7 p.m. in Room 100 of the Toldo Health Education Building.
The evening will include a mock lecture on “How to be a Critical Consumer of Information,” along with insights into what it’s like to study psychology at the University of Windsor.
Attendees will hear from co-op students and alumni about their experiences, learn about potential career paths, and get a glimpse into a typical week in the life of a psychology student.
The event will wrap up with a Q&A session featuring faculty, staff and current students.
Admission is free, and attendees are encouraged to register in advance online. Check-in will begin at 6:45 p.m. The event will run from 7 to 8 p.m.
The Class of 2025 celebrated the end of the semester at the annual Grad Brunch, where Windsor Law introduced a meaningful new tradition: a time capsule capturing the spirit and memories of their law school journey.
To be displayed in the trophy case, the time capsule contains heartfelt notes, photos and mementoes contributed by members of the graduating class. It serves as a snapshot of their experiences, friendships and the legacy they leave behind.
The capsule is set to be opened at their 10-year reunion, offering a nostalgic glimpse into their time at Windsor Law and a reminder of how far they’ve come.
The Faculty of Science celebrated staff, faculty and students who went above and beyond in their job with the announcement of the 2025 Science Awards.
The Faculty of Science held their annual Spring and Shout event to celebrate those staff, faculty and students who went above and beyond in their job with the announcement of the 2025 Science Awards.
Faculty and staff award recipients:
Research Excellence & Impact Award – Jeff Rau, Physics
Research Excellence & Impact Award – Phillip Karpowicz, Biomedical Sciences
Roger Thibert Teaching Excellence Award – Trevor Pitcher, Integrative Biology
Outreach & Community Engagement Award – Marcelo Arbex, Economics
Staff Impact Award – Candy Donaldson, Integrative Biology
Staff Impact Award – Aldo DiCarlo, Physics
Staff Service Excellence Award – Laura McLean, Faculty of Science
Going Above & Beyond in Research Post-Doc/RA – Ana Podadera, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Friend of Science – Katelynn Bedard Bone Marrow Association
Friend of Science – Let's Talk Science
Student award recipients:
Ambassador Award Undergraduate – Emily Archambeault, Integrative Biology
Ambassador Award Graduate – Stephanie Dinescu, Biomedical Sciences
Ambassador Award Graduate – Nick Philbin, Biomedical Sciences
Going Above & Beyond in Research Undergraduate – Christopher Jaworski, Integrative Biology
Going Above & Beyond in Research Doctoral – Rahaf Hussein, Chemistry & Biochemistry
TA Excellence Award Undergraduate – Ananya Sood, Integrative Biology
TA Excellence Award Undergraduate – Lynn Hajj Hassan, School of Computer Science
GA Excellence Award Undergraduate – Mohamad Alkassab, Biomedical Sciences
The event also acknowledged recent retirees and new staff members.
The awards are designed to formally recognize and celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of members within the Faculty of Science.
Chevrolet Good Deed champions visit labs at the University of Windsor to thank the Lakeshore Lightning for their efforts to raise $100,000 toward cancer research.
Do-gooders raising money for local cancer research got a closer look at the kind of work their efforts could support during a campus visit Thursday.
The Lakeshore Lightning hockey team, winners of the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup, toured cancer research labs at the University of Windsor as a thank-you for their community contributions.
The team was welcomed by university president Dr. Robert Gordon and Dr. Dora Cavallo-Medved of the Faculty of Science to the Essex Centre of Research (CORe), where they toured five cancer research labs and received some WE-Spark swag.
The Good Deeds Cup is awarded to the minor hockey team that makes the biggest impact by sharing their acts of kindness on social media, helping spread positivity, teamwork and community spirit.
Lakeshore Lightning submitted 1,288 good deeds to win.
Their efforts included collecting mittens, jackets, snow pants and other winter essentials for those in need. The team also volunteered at a food bank, wrote letters to seniors in care facilities, delivered treats to emergency service workers, assisted at local schools and organized two fundraisers.
The team chose to donate their $100,000 winnings to the Cancer Research Collaboration Fund and the Play for a Cure tournament.
High schoolers competed in the fifth annual Windsor Brain Bee competition hosted by the Faculty of Science.
High schoolers well-versed in brain knowledge were on campus March 28 as the Faculty of Science hosted its fifth annual Windsor Brain Bee competition.
Twenty-four students competed in the event, battling it out over hot brain topics such as stress, neurotransmitters and brain disease.
Hailing from grades 11 and 12, the top three competitors received entrance scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,500 to study the program of their choice in the Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor.
Grade 12 student Adalyn Matteis from St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic High School claimed first place for the second year in a row. Sisters Nayanika Ghosh and Shayantika
Ghosh from Riverside Secondary School placed second and third, respectively.
As a regional Brain Bee winner, Matteis will represent the Windsor area in the CIHR Canadian National Brain Bee, held virtually April 25, 2025. The top three competitors from that event will attend the Canadian Neuroscience Meeting in Toronto in May and compete in the final round.
Brain Bee competitions are held globally. UWindsor’s Brain Bee was organized by biomedical sciences professor Jeff Dason and student volunteers Dunya Assaf, Adam Sghaier, Allie St. Louis, Sana Assaf, Gwen Haslam and Marco Oliverio.
Best Overall Demo Day Presentation winners of the 'PCOSCare' group from left to right: Saima Khatoon, Sana Sehgal, Spatika Girirajan, Namratha Muraleedharan, Yugank Ahuja
Eager students lined the aisles at the Advanced Computing Hub, the School of Computer Science’s downtown campus, ready to pitch their programming projects to staff, faculty and industry partners.
Undergrads, computer science graduate students and Master of Applied Computing (MAC) students showed off their CS Demo Day Winter 2025 pitches ranging from detecting sign language to agri-tech, and from crime prediction to education-focused platforms aimed at supporting student learning.
The students behind the women’s health project called PCOSCare: A Machine Learning and Simulation Framework for PCOS Risk Assessment and Treatment Analysis explored the hormonal disorder polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects people with ovaries during their reproductive years and causes symptoms such as hair loss, irregular menstrual cycles and high testosterone.
The PCOS team — made up of students Spatika Girirjan, Namratha Muraleedharan, Saima Khatoon, Sana Sehgal, Yugank Ahuja and Yuchen Liu — designed the project to help predict and simulate the risk of having PCOS by creating a web form combining machine learning and agent-based modelling.
“This has never been done before,” says Girirjan.
“Three girls on our team have PCOS and if they were diagnosed earlier, it definitely would have helped them a lot. We wanted, as a user, as a patient, we need something that can say we have PCOS.”
CTV Windsor’s Gary Archibald interviews students at the Advanced Computing Hub during CS Demo Day Winter 2025, where undergraduates, graduate students, and Master of Applied Computing (MAC) students pitched projects ranging from agri-tech innovations to women’s health solutions like PCOSCare, which won Best Overall Demo Day Presentation. (Photo by UWIndsor)
The following winning projects received awards at the end of the day:
Most Innovative Demo: Hand Gesture Control – Ved Prajapati, Om Siddhapura, Nisthaben Patel, Anshul Prajapati
Best Undergraduate Project: Spotify Playlist Manager – Seun Samuel-Ipaye
Best Overall Demo Day Presentation: PCOSCare: A Machine Learning and Simulation Framework for PCOS Risk Assessment and Treatment Analysis – Spatika Girirjan, Namratha Muraleedharan, Saima Khatoon, Sana Sehgal, Yugank Ahuja and Yuchen Liu
Best Poster Presentation: Digital Transformation in Finance – Richard Nonso and John Othuke
The event consisted of 46 presentations and eight posters.
Curious minds and future students are invited to explore the world of psychology at Psych Night
