Wednesday, March 11, 2026

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Your car can be hacked, and this Killam Fellow is working to stop it 


Every time you start your car, sensors, software and wireless connections work together to keep you moving. Dr. Mitra Mirhassani wants to make sure no one can use that technology against you. 

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Better medicines, local jobs: How a UWindsor chemist is closing the gap between lab and life


A University of Windsor researcher is making the medicines people already take work better – and turning that science into jobs, companies and globally commercialized technology rooted in Windsor-Essex.

PEOPLE, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Stand-up success: Alumna takes comedy from stage to screen


Courtney Gilmour (BA ’12) is a two-time Juno-nominated stand-up comedian, a voice on PAW Patrol and a recent addition to the cast of Trailer Park Boys.  

LATEST NEWS

Lancer’s journey from island roots to national dreams


Surrounded by water — that’s likely where the similarities between Windsor-Essex and Hawaii, the birthplace of Lancers fifth-year men’s volleyball veteran Chase Bridges-Hunter, end.

TEACHING & LEARNING

What a nursing student found in a neuroscience lab: Alzheimer's research and a career edge


Anna Papanastassiou spends most days in her nursing classes learning how to care for people. But in a quiet neuroscience lab at the University of Windsor, she is also learning how to study the brain through hands-on genetic testing.

PEOPLE, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Accessibility, adaptability, connection: Building age-friendly universities and communities


With age comes a wealth of lived experience and a lifetime of growth and knowledge.  

COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIPS

Soteara Kong builds community and momentum through co-op and campus leadership


Not long after Soteara Kong began her undergraduate studies at the University of Windsor, she became part of a new chapter for the Communication, Media and Film program.

COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIPS

Student-athlete wins national and provincial awards for community service


Human Kinetics graduate student and track and field athlete Chloé VidAmour has been recognized nationally as the first ever Lancer recipient of the USPORTS Student-Athlete Community Service Award.  

PEOPLE, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Understanding birds through an Indigenous lens


Bird enthusiasts will have a chance to learn how Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language, describes birds and their roles in the natural world at an upcoming campus event. 

PEOPLE, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Third JCRID issue centres decolonization, global voices


Which perspectives in academic publishing are amplified — and which are overlooked?

IN BRIEF

Stacks for STEM brings students and faculty together over pancakes


Registration for Lancer Summer Camps opens April 7


Dates set for Head Start orientation

EVENTS

Mar. 12

Talk to explore challenges of advancing LGBT rights in international diplomacy


Mar. 31

UWindsor takes over Little Caesars Arena for Pistons College Night

 

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