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Access to equipment advances chemistry career aspirations
- Jul 17, 2024When Lara Watanabe (PhD 2022) was an undergraduate at a small Canadian university, she dreamed of getting access to high quality equipment like X-ray diffractometers for crystallography. Pursuing her doctoral degree in the UWindsor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry not only turned that dream into reality but quickly led to a fulfilling role in a highly specialized field.
In May...
Added infrastructure to advance computer research
- Jul 10, 2024The School of Computer Science is about to expand its ability to crunch big data. Its acquisition of highly specialized computing equipment will allow researchers to better tackle problems revolving around information retrieval, social network analysis, and drug design.
Hossein Fani and co-applicants Ziad Kobti and Alioune Ngom received $150...
Conservation and art unite to protect birds
- Jul 10, 2024The student whose design will help prevent birds from flying into a student centre window is excited to see the mural completed.
Titled The Feathery Friends of Windsor, the illustration by integrative biology major Manpreet Bhachu incorporates various species including butterflies, fish, indigenous plants, and a variety of birds. Seven bird species are depicted in the panels...
Excellence as educator earns award for biology professor
- Jul 10, 2024Integrative biology’s Isabelle H. Barrette-Ng has been awarded the 2024 Faculty of Science Roger Thibert Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of her exceptional contributions towards engaging students and educational leadership.
Since joining the Faculty of Science as head of integrative biology in 2020, Dr. Barrette-Ng has excelled as an educator. A highlight being bringing the...
Students earn plaudits at national chemistry conference
- Jul 8, 2024UWindsor 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...
Study recommends ecosystem approach to managing Great Lakes
- Jul 8, 2024In 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...
Workshop on X-ray diffraction shares theoretical and practical knowledge
- Jun 28, 2024Recalling 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,...
UWindsor researchers awarded more than $3.8 million in NSERC grants
- Jun 28, 2024Echolocation 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...
