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Canada South Science City will hold its 12th annual Earth Day fundraising dinner on Friday, April 20, at the Fogolar Furlan club.
Canada South Science City will hold its 12th annual Earth Day fundraising dinner on Friday, April 20, at the Fogolar Furlan club.
A benefit dinner April 28 will support Canada South Science City.
A lecture Wednesday will discuss the development of genetically modified foodstuffs.
Earth and Environmental Sciences professor Ali Polat will discuss how our planet generated continental land masses in a free public lecture Wednesday.
Computer scientist Robin Gras will discuss “An Artificial World for exploring ecological questions” in a free public lecture Wednesday.
What is the environmental impact of eating beef? A public lecture Wednesday will explore the issue.
A UWindsor chemistry professor will explain x-ray crystallography—and some discoveries made using it—in a free public lecture Wednesday.
Organic electronics is generating interest not only in the science community but in the business world as well. Its current market of about one billion dollars is expected to grow to $45 billion by 2016.
In a free presentation entitled “Organic Electronics: From Serendipitous Discovery to Market,” Holger Eichhorn will provide some of the facts behind the buzz.
UWindsor biology professor and award-winning cancer researcher Lisa Porter is the featured guest of the eighth annual Earth Day Dinner, a fundraising event for Canada South Science City, on Wednesday, April 17.
In her talk, Living Forever: Stem Cells and Cancer—How are they Linked?, Dr. Porter will discuss what stem cells are, how they are involved in cancer, and what that means for future treatments.
Over 60 per cent of boreal Canada is made up of lakes, rivers, marshes, bogs, fens and swamps: wetland habitats that are an essential component of the boreal forest’s biodiversity.
Biology professor Jan Ciborowski will discuss efforts to rebuild sustainable wetlands in disturbed landscapes such as the postmining landscape of the oilsands region in a free public lecture Wednesday entitled “The Landscape after Oilsands Mining: studying, measuring, protecting, and restoring Alberta's northern wetlands.”