UWindsor Research and Innovation

We’re celebrating 10 outstanding members of the UWindsor research community.

The 2026 Research & Innovation Excellence Awards honoured faculty, students, a postdoctoral fellow, and staff whose work is pushing boundaries across disciplines, from freshwater restoration to health policy, innovation, creative activity, and inclusive research practice.

Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients:
Dr. Cameron Proctor, Dr. Jalal Ahamed, Dr. Jennifer Willet, Haleh Nazemi, Prathana Pillai, Fallon Mitchell, Abigail Scott, Aaron Newhook, Dr. Catherine Febria, and Dr. Adrian Guta.

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📣 Welcome, Dr. Barbara Crow! 📣

We’re pleased to announce Dr. Barbara Crow as the next provost and vice-president, academic at the University of Windsor, effective July 1, 2026.

An accomplished leader and researcher, Dr. Crow brings extensive senior academic leadership experience and a strong commitment to student success, research excellence, and community engagement.

In this role, she will provide leadership across key areas of the University, including teaching and learning, research, student experience, strategic enrolment management, international development, library sciences, and academic support services that serve students, faculty, and staff.

🔗 Learn more about this exciting appointment: https://brnw.ch/21x2Ffn

Dr. Jyotika Virdi's new book, Indian Art Cinema and its Cultural Elites, revisits India's art cinema movement through the lens of class.

The book examines films, filmmakers, and institutions from the mid-1950s to the 1990s, asking how art cinema helped shape cultural authority and class identity in post-independence India.

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Precision Oncology in action: How WE-SPARK is transforming local cancer research Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope brought Canadians together to help find a cure for cancer. His legacy continues through partnerships spurred on by the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network, which includes WE-SPARK Health Institute. (Graphic courtesy of Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network) B...

Have an idea you have been waiting to pursue?

The University of Windsor is launching a new Innovation Fellowship designed to support early-stage founders, creators and researchers as they take the next step.

Through this 14-week program, participants will receive mentorship, hands-on learning, and up to $12,000 in funding to help develop and validate their ideas.

Open to students, recent graduates, faculty and researchers from any discipline, the Fellowship focuses on practical skills like market validation, intellectual property strategy and commercialization planning.

The program concludes with a final pitch showcase connecting participants with advisors and community leaders.

Applications are open now and close May 4, 2026.

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University of Windsor launches Innovation Fellowship with $12,000 in funding per participant Students, researchers and recent graduates with an idea worth pursuing now have a new pathway to develop it.  The University of Windsor Innovation Fellowship will select 10 participants for a venture development program supporting early-stage founders, creators and...

What happens when you stop following the rules of how things are “supposed” to be built? 💡

University of Windsor researcher Jill Urbanic has been named a finalist for an international 3D printing innovator award, recognizing work that rethinks how additive manufacturing can be designed and applied.

This kind of research challenges assumptions, connects with industry, and leads to solutions used around the world.

At UWindsor, innovation is driven by people willing to approach problems differently.

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