By Lindsay Charlton

After a nearly 10-year career serving in the United States Navy, scholar Dr. Bryon Garner was left with many questions surrounding race, patriotism and belonging.

“I was working for the federal government, but I had these questions about my experience being a Black person in America and in the military, and I was searching for answers I wasn’t sure how to find,” the historian said.

It was seeking those answers that led Garner to begin his academic journey.

For students and researchers with ideas that could become businesses or not-for-profits, entrepreneurship can feel like a world apart from academic life.  

By Sara Elliott

Catherine Febria’s research begins in the smallest streams, where land, water and people meet. Its impact is now being recognized nationally.

From microbes and mushrooms to watersheds across the Great Lakes Basin, the University of Windsor ecologist uses science to understand and restore freshwater ecosystems while building relationships with the communities that depend on them.

By Sara Elliott

For more than two decades, University of Windsor researcher Dr. Aaron T. Fisk has helped change how scientists understand freshwater ecosystems – from how contaminants move through aquatic food webs to where fish travel, feed and spawn across the Great Lakes and the Arctic.

That body of work has now earned Fisk one of Canada’s highest academic honours.