Research Institutes THE GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE Situated on a major international boundary and trade route, the Great Lakes Institute (GLI) is in the heart of the world's most significant freshwater system. The Institute is a unique hub that hosts five major multi-disciplinary groups that carry out world-class international research on sustaining our natural, economic and social environments. These groups have access to campus-wide facilities, as well as a dedicated building situated on the water that hosts an extensive range of well-equipped laboratories, accredited analytical facilities, meeting rooms and offices. Established in 1981, GLI is now undergoing a period of explosive development, recruiting additional faculty, and building new research endeavours and new opportunities for graduate education. GLI exists to foster interdisciplinary research on the human impacts on environments, and the consequences and challenges of those impacts to quality of life. The earth's environments are changing rapidly in a number of ways due to human impacts. These include pollution of soils, water and air, mismanagement of coastlines and natural resources such as fisheries and forests, climate change, reduction and division of natural habitats, biodiversity loss, invasions by new species, and unintended genetic modifications of natural populations. GLI focuses on how to assess, understand, remedy and above all prevent, these impacts through better scientific understanding of the nature and functioning of natural systems, and how our actions affect them. To do this requires full involvement of the health and social sciences, law, economics, architecture, planning, ethics and the humanities in order to provide coordinated research into practical systems that allow for sustainable development that not only protects the natural environment, but also enhances the social and economic fabric of the communities that inhabit it. Further details of this Research Institute are at www.uwindsor.ca/glier. FLUID DYNAMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE The Fluid Dynamics Research Institute was founded to foster interdepartmental and inter-College research and postgraduate teaching related to the dynamics of fluids. Members conduct basic and applied research, and are committed to providing a broad training for graduate students in all aspects of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Members are drawn from Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. Research ranges from theoretical studies on stability and exact solutions to enhancement of flow measurement techniques to implementation of commercial computer codes and development of new codes for industrial problems. Application areas include environmental engineering, the automotive, defence and petroleum industries, biomechanics and aeronautics. Graduate students affiliated with Institute members in their research projects will register in the member's department and complete the degree requirements of that department. Further details are available from http://venus.uwindsor.ca/research/fdri/ index.htm.