UWindsor students captured a number of awards at the 2024 Canadian Society for Chemistry conference in Winnipeg.
Two undergraduates won prizes for their research posters: Jonathan Houser in the Bio-organic and Medicinal Chemistry Division and Liz Sylvestre in the Organic Chemistry...
In contrast to traditional natural resource management that fosters autocratic decision-making, an ecosystem approach champions collaboration and empowering stakeholders, says a UWindsor researcher.
John Hartig, a visiting scholar at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, writes in an online column that once isolated pollution sources came under control, the focus has...
Recalling his own challenges as a student grappling with the complexities of X-ray diffraction, Anton Dmitrienko was determined to make the field more accessible as one of the organizers of the 17th Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop, May 3 to 6 on the UWindsor campus.
The event attracted academic and industrial participants and featured instructors from Canada, the United States,...
Echolocation in bats, smart pavement, aircraft propulsion, drug discovery, and clean combustion — these are a just a handful of the new University of Windsor research projects the federal government will fund for the next five years.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has announced it will fund 22 UWindsor researchers with grants totalling more than...
From black sand beaches to smelly bubbling mud pits, 12 students from the Faculty of Science were able to experience all the natural wonders of Iceland. Led by professor Ali Polat and geochemistry technician Melissa Price from the School of the Environment, and accompanied by chemistry professor Phil Dutton and Lisa Sylvestre, the group spent 10 days in the country.
Some of the...
Professor Nick Vukotic is helping design a novel biodegradable material that could potentially treat one of the deadliest brain cancers, glioblastoma.
Once implanted, the polymeric material would deliver chemotherapy medications. The release rate of the drug would be controlled by how fast that polymer degrades or breaks up.
“Brain cancer is very challenging to treat due to the...
From June 23 to 28, the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts will host a conference celebrating women in art, science, and technology.
“FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology 2024” will present cutting-edge interdisciplinary research across the arts and sciences through multi-modal audience engagement strategies.
For the first time in Canada, project...
UWindsor representatives won plaudits in the student research presentation competitions at the Canadian Association of Physicists annual congress in London, Ontario.
More than 20 people attended from the University, including current students, faculty, and alumni who have moved on and are performing research at other...