
A May 1 upgrade of Blackboard Learn will provide features and enhancements that simplify many everyday tasks.
A May 1 upgrade of Blackboard Learn will provide features and enhancements that simplify many everyday tasks.
When the rains eventually blanket northwest Costa Rica, ushering in the country’s wet season, a booming chorus of yellow toads will fill the tropical forest.
And the moment that rain starts to fall, UWindsor’s Katrina Switzer will race to a pond in Santa Rosa National Park where she’ll match 3D printed “Robotoads” with unsuspecting mates.
“The Neotropical Yellow Toads have a large breeding event that really only happens once a year during the first massive rainfall,” Switzer explained, adding the rain usually starts falling in the middle of the night.
Friday’s grand opening of the Clinical Neuropsychology Service Clinic at the University of Windsor’s Psychological Services and Research Centre (PSRC) drew a large community crowd, with everyone from UWindsor president Alan Wildeman to community partners and potential clients on hand to check out the program’s new space.
Colin Novak is big in Japan.
And if the associate professor of mechanical, materials and automotive engineering isn’t yet, he will be soon.
A camera crew from Japan’s national public broadcaster NHK will be at the University of Windsor on April 16 to report on Dr. Novak’s investigation into the source of the infamous Windsor Hum.
Novak’s Noise Vibration and Harshness-Sound Quality Group set up low-frequency noise monitoring stations across the city’s west end to record noise within the hum’s frequency range.
The University Print Shop advises instructors to have their exam materials copied by the professionals.
Organizers are now inviting proposals for presentations at Campus Technology Day, June 7 in the CAW Student Centre.
The Office of Open Learning is partnering with other institutions to host an Open Education Summit on May 7.
UWindsor’s resident Greenland shark expert will be making waves on the east coast this weekend.
Aaron Fisk, professor at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, will be a guest on the CatsRoundtable radio program airing this Sunday between 8:30 and 10 a.m.
Hosted by American businessman John Catsimatidis, the show is broadcasted weekly in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo.
The winner of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition at the University of Windsor is examining how the chirping of the Savannah Sparrow may help researchers to better understand the development of human language.
Biological sciences master’s student Ian Thomas took home the $1,000 top prize and the chance to represent the University of Windsor at the Ontario 3MT competition final at York University on April 19, 2018.
Windsor and Essex County have accepted the Smart Cities Challenge.
Stakeholders in the initiative gathered for a formal announcement at the Joyce Entrepreneurship Centre to launch the SMART Windsor Essex — Smart Cities Challenge, which tasks municipalities to think creatively in achieving meaningful outcomes for residents using innovation, data and connected technology.
The winner of the challenge can receive up to $50-million from Infrastructure Canada to implement their ideas.