HHL News & Updates

Why Do Birds Bring Us So Much Happiness?

We hear their songs with the rising sun that let us know we have all made it to the beginning of a new day. We feed them, watch them, and enjoy their colourful presence on a daily basis. We do this because we love the Bird Nation.

HHL is recruiting for undergraduate Sci Comm and Outstanding Scholars. Deadline to apply is April 28th read for further details!

UWill Discover is a conference where the students of UWindsor can share their thesis research and creative projects in an academic setting. This year’s theme is Sustainable Futures which invites students to share their research through the lens of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Initiatives.

This year HHL is proud to showcase two of our undergraduate thesis students Rose Simard and Salma Al Ghazaly, as well as one of our newest PhD students, Lauren Damphousse.

Happy International Women’s Day 2023!

Each year we celebrate UN Holiday honouring and celebrating women! We proudly reflect on the incredible role that women play in our lives and in our science. One way we choose to celebrate is by gathering Dept of Integrative Biology and GLIER communities together to share a lunch and dialogue exchange on barriers and facilitators to science and full participation by all. It’s hard to believe that this will be our fifth year of holding an IWD event!

Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day! World Wildlife Day is a UN holiday that celebrates the world’s plants and animals! This year’s theme is “Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation” and this theme could not be more relevant to the work of our team and lab values. Our work – and the work of conservation and restoration - is simply not possible without help of partners!

HHL is proud to be made up of a diverse group of talented individuals! During the month of February special attention is taken to celebrate our valued Black members as well as other researchers within the research community! In this blog we highlight the outstanding contributions of Dr. Grite Nelson, HHL's African Woman in Science mentee, Mariah Alexander, HHL's Environmental Artist, and Dr. Peter Soroye, an early career researcher whose also a dear friend of HHL. All these individuals are great examples of black excellence in STEM. We invite you to read and learn more about their contributions to our team and the greater research community.

Send this lovebug to your invertebae this Valentines day <3 Check out our blog post read about why HHL loves our inverteBAEs!

This Valentine’s Day we’re sharing our love and appreciation for Ode’imin and our lab’s Indigenous Knowledge Circle. We are honoured to announce our next great initiative in support of Indigenous stewards and future generations. With support from the University of Windsor’s Advancement Office and Faculty of Science, the Healthy Headwaters Lab is proud to launch the Indigenous Guardians Endowment Fund, an investment-based approach to funding future projects and initiatives.

Coming out of our annual hibernation, we’ve rested and reflected on all of the amazing achievements of the Healthy Headwaters Lab over the year 2022. Our numbers are only part of the story, and we also look forward to sharing our experiences and lessons learned thus far in future posts.