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cancer research donationLisa Porter, Caroline Hamm and Gay Wrye hold a $25,000 donation from Windsor Regional Hospital.

International cancer research initiative closer to reality with donation

Jan 20th, 2014

The first true international cancer research corridor in North America is one step closer to being launched in Windsor-Essex, thanks to a recent contribution from Windsor Regional Hospital.

In late December, hospital board chair Gay Wrye presented the Windsor Cancer Research Group with a cheque for $25,000 as part of a matching challenge grant program.

INCHES programFrom left, PhD student Zainab Bazzi and chemistry professor Rob Schurko watch as Assumption student Chau Nguyen removes a flower from a cooler of liquid nitrogen.

High school students conduct their own chemistry magic show

Jan 15th, 2014

It’s one thing to watch a magic show, but quite another to perform the tricks.

A group of Grade 11 chemistry students found that out yesterday when they visited the University to see first-hand what it will be like if they decide to pursue the subject at the next level.

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Rob Schurko
Tricia Carmichael
Dave AndrewsHuman kinetics professor Dave Andrews works on a laptop in his office. The ergonomics researcher is recruiting participants for a study to determine whether the way people interact with their mobile devices may be hurting them.

Mobile device users required for ergonomics research

Jan 13th, 2014

An ergonomics researcher is reminding people from around campus who work regularly with cell phones, tablets and laptops that they may be eligible to participate in a research project to determine if the way they interact with their devices may actually be hurting them.

Aaron Fisk and Nigel HusseyAaron Fisk, left, and Nigel Hussey, are two of the authors on a new journal paper which suggests it's time to reconsider standards used to classify organisms in to various categories in the food chain.

New paper challenges scientific beliefs about ecosystems

Jan 9th, 2014

It’s time for conservation managers and those who do everything from set fishing quotas to establish how endangered and threatened species are listed to completely rethink how we regulate ecosystems, according to a pair of scientists who have authored a paper that challenges how organisms are classified in food webs.

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women's basketball teamMembers of the UWindsor women's basketball team are shown here in a file photo from 1963, when they were still known as the 'Lancerettes.'

Female athletes made 'great strides' in 50 years

Jan 8th, 2014

They’ve come a long way from being called the “Lancerettes.”

In the last 50 years, women student-athletes at the University of Windsor have gone from being “a down-sized version of the real” Lancers to earning legitimacy, respectability, and along the way, a bulging trophy case full of national and provincial championships in basketball, track and field, volleyball and curling.

Alistair MacLeodAlistair MacLeod will be the English department's writer-in-residence for the winter term.

'Literary giant' Alistair MacLeod named writer-in-residence

Jan 7th, 2014

If you’re an aspiring writer planning on having a manuscript critiqued, it couldn’t hurt to have it looked at by one of the most well-known and highly regarded authors in Canadian literature.

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Alistair MacLeod
Otis VacratsisOtis Vacratsis is one of several scientists to receive a Golden Jubilee Research award. He'll use it to help better understand the basic science behind the causes of Chacot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Outstanding scientists receive research and infrastructure grants

Jan 7th, 2014
A better understanding of the basic causes of genetic diseases will be just one of the many outcomes of new research grants in the Faculty of Science.