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Healthcare workers focal point of new study A $5,000 grant will look into how frontline workers are emotionally handling the COVID-19 pandemic.

UWindsor research team designing new testing device for COVID-19 Professors designing a portable device to test for COVID-19, replacing the need for samples to be sent to a laboratory for analysis.

Maintaining mental health a continuing challenge during pandemic Mental health experts are looking to make counselling and therapy services more readily available as the stress of public health restrictions begins to take a toll on residents.

Study to examine pandemic’s effect on small business Odette School of Business professor Kyle Brykman is leading a study on the resiliency of small businesses.

Project offers free counselling to hospital workers A new project out of UWindsor’s Psychological Services and Research Centre offers help for hospital workers in distress.

Researchers studying impact of COVID-19 on physical activity Kinesiology professor Sarah Woodruff is finding people are less active while working from home.

UWindsor researcher studies link between vaping and COVID-19 complications Researchers exploring how an ingredient in vapes and e-cigarettes poses complications for those infected with the virus that causes COVID-19

Grassroots group sews 10-thousand masks, scrub caps for Windsor-Essex health-care workers The Windsor Essex Sewing Force's members are hard at work making PPE

UWindsor researchers lend expertise to volunteers sewing masks at home Ken Drouillard, a professor in UWindsor’s School of the Environment, is heading a research project to help the Windsor-Essex Sewing Force. The group of volunteers is sewing masks for healthcare workers.