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 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
• Student Mentoring & Engagement Award – Tricia Carmichael, Chemistry & Biochemistry
• 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.

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.

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.”

The following winning projects received awards at the end of the day:

• Industry Choice Award: MHS (Make Hiring Simple) – Hemaprakash Raghu, Monisha Govindaraj
• 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.

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.

WE-Spark Health Institute invited the winners of the national Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup to tour cancer research labs at the University of Windsor and meet the scientists working behind the scenes as a thank-you for their community contributions.

The Lakeshore Lightning hockey team was welcomed by university president Robert Gordon and Dora Cavallo-Medved, interim director of WE-Spark, to the Essex Centre of Research (CORe), where they toured five cancer research labs and received some WE-Spark swag.

“WE-Spark invited the girls team to campus to congratulate and celebrate with them,” says Cavallo-Medved.

“We had them tour our cancer research labs so that they could see first-hand the impact of their efforts to support cancer research and how it is benefiting the whole community. Both hockey and research demand dedication, adaptability, and a passion for pushing limits. We were impressed by their collective efforts and how their win brought national attention to local cancer research.”

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.

Members’ 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 its $100,000 winnings to the Cancer Research Collaboration Fund and the Play for a Cure tournament, which supports local cancer research projects through the WE-Spark grants program. Jeff Casey, Harvey and Elaine Snaden, who lead the Play for a Cure tournament, joined the team along with their parents.