A video podcast of a lecture featuring engineering professor Rupp Carriveau and his predictions for what life will be like in Ontario in 2030 is now available on line.
Dr. Carriveau, whose expertise is in renewable sources of energy, is the university’s representative in a campaign called Research Matters. Organized by the Council of Ontario Universities, its aim is to increase public awareness about the importance of university level research.
Anyone who has ever experienced a performance by Noiseborder Ensemble knows what a rich and complex blending of aural and visual information the group’s largely improvisational shows always include.
Trying to tell the ensemble’s story in a three-minute video would be a daunting challenge for any aspiring filmmaker, but it’s one that turned out to be rewarding for Owen Eric Wood.
A group of graduate students in kinesiology recently got an inside look at the highly secretive facilities used to train top U.S. Olympic athletes.
“They’re fairly guarded about who they allow at their training centres,” said Michael Ayotte, a master’s student in sport management who recently travelled to the Olympic Training Centre in Lake Placid, New York.
A highly-regarded scientist from McGill University who developed a probiotic that helps lower cholesterol will be a featured speaker for a major national conference on natural health products research being held here next week.
An online survey seeks student input on a variety of career-oriented programs and services that are offered to students by the University of Windsor.
The goal is to collect information that can then be analyzed and used to improve these services, says Chris Busch of the Centre for Executive and Professional Education.
“We hope that students will take the time to complete this survey and provide honest answers to the questions,” he says, while emphasizing participation is completely voluntary.
Everything from human-sized robots that can bash in buildings to new devices that help people exercise more efficiently will be on display when the university hosts its annual research showcase at Devonshire Mall this Saturday.
“This will be a wonderful opportunity for members of the community to experience first-hand some of the amazing research that goes on every day at the University of Windsor,” said VP, Research Michael Siu.
Besides supplying clean, renewable energy, Canada’s rapidly growing wind generation sector can provide plenty of economic benefits for depressed areas, according to a national wind energy research leader who will speak here Wednesday.
 Wind Energy Institute of Canada CEO Scott Harper. |
A professor who specializes in cross-border transportation studies traveled to the nation’s capital last week to have the chance to meet with federal politicians and convince them of the importance of his research.
A wide variety of animals throughout the natural world pass along signals to their offspring in order to help them adapt to a world that may be much harsher to live in, according to a University of Windsor biologist.
She’s studied stingrays in the Cayman Islands and caribou in the Canadian boreal forest, but now a predictive ecologist will use her expertise to better understand the ecosystems of the Great Lakes.
