Over the next five years, Dan Heath hopes to unite the wide variety of researchers across campus studying environmental issues.
“I really want to expand the role of environmental research at the University of Windsor,” said Dr. Heath, a biology professor who takes over as the new director of the University’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in May.
When the time came to decide what to do with the money her Dragon Boat team had raised, it only made sense to Alexandra Shoust that it should go to a local researcher trying to help find a cure for breast cancer.
“I think the research that’s going on at the University of Windsor is just awesome,” said Shoust, a former captain of A Breast or Knot, one of two local teams made up exclusively of breast cancer survivors. “We thought, wouldn’t it be amazing if a cure, or a key to a cure, was found right here in our community.”
A forensics researcher is hoping to gain insight to help authorities solve murder cases and other suspicious deaths when an abandoned house near Barrie is intentionally torched this weekend – with about a dozen dead pigs inside.
Zebra mussels, round gobies and other invasive species have been living in the Great Lakes and other inland Canadian waters for years now, but could soon spread to the Canadian Arctic according to a leading conservation ecologist and expert on the subject.
It’s not too late to save the world from environmental devastation, according to a retired UWindsor professor and leading coral reef ecologist who will speak on campus Thursday night.
Three research projects involving a total of eight researchers from the University of Windsor, Windsor Regional Cancer Centre, Windsor Regional Hospital, and McGill University will share a total of $206,000 in funding from the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation.
The grants are made under the 2011 Seeds4Hope program, which supports innovative local cancer research.
The foundation’s president, Norma Brockenshire, said she was proud to support the work of the medical and research community.
By now most people are aware of the links between smoking and lung cancer, but they probably don’t know that cigarettes may contribute to breast cancer too.
Since August, fourth-year biology student Samantha Richardson has been feeding lab mice a mixture of corn oil, sesame oil and benzopyrene – just one of 50 carcinogenic chemicals found in cigarette smoke – and monitoring the effect on the animals’ mammary glands.
The debate over what to do about climate change needn’t pit economic progress against environmental preservation, according to Peter Sale.
Biology master’s student Kara-Anne Ward won yesterday’s DailyNews trivia contest and earned two tickets to see the University Players world-premiere production of Chameleon, by drama professor William Pinnell.
Ward’s name was drawn from all entrants who correctly responded that chameleon’s change colour in response to light, temperature, and mood; Santa Fe, New Mexico is the highest US state capital; and the one-act drama The Bounty was Pinnell’s first play.
While smoking rates have declined across Ontario to about 19 percent of the general population, young people use tobacco at a higher rate.
UWindsor biology professor Lisa Porter, a cancer researcher, is one of three speakers addressing this issue at Trash the Ash! Cancer Talk 2011: Tobacco, the first in this year’s Schulich Windsor Health Lecture Series. The free public event will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, in the Hangar on the St. Clair College campus.
