The selections for the 2015 Leddy Research Question Competition have been made and can be read below!

A big thank you to everyone who submitted this year. Once again we had a lot of great questions and we encourage everyone to submit again next year. In addition - keep and eye out for this year's UWill Discover Conference for a chance to present your research at the University's campus wide event.

We Have Our Winners!

Congratulations to the winners in this years Leddy Research Question Competition and thank you again to everyone who participated and voted!

  • Most Votes: Do women who agree with society’s values of thinness and beauty report more appearance investment and higher body dissatisfaction? (Tanja Samardzic)
  • Randomly Selected Finalist: How will the stream of millions of refugees into Europe in 2015 and 2016 contribute to the risk of pandemic in Eurasia? (Nathan P. Doupnik)
  • Random Voter: Kelsey Joncas
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Are students who learn in an interdisciplinary way more likely to be able to tackle complex issues than students learning in one discipline?

Yasin Avci, University of Windsor

Do black holes exist permanently?

Shawn David Smith, University of Windsor

Do women who agree with society’s values of thinness and beauty report more appearance investment and higher body dissatisfaction?

Tanja Samardzic, University of Windsor

Does company specialization lead to sustainable competitive advantage or organizational inertia?

Jonas Lee

Does the use of makeup reduce the frequency of viral infection transmitted by face-hand contact?

Melanie A. Grondin, University of Windsor

How does being a bilingual child diagnosed with ADHD affect reading comprehension when compared to being monolingual child diagnosed with ADHD?

Jesse Nicole Baker, University of Windsor

How will the stream of millions of refugees into Europe in 2015 and 2016 contribute to the risk of pandemic in Eurasia?

Nathan P. Doupnik

Is it acceptable for a government to enforce brutal actions on a developing nation (e.g., torture, etc.), if doing so leads the nation to become more highly developed?

Katrina Anna Hermle, University of Windsor

Is it better to tell a white lie or the truth?

Claudia Cheng, University of Windsor

Is learning material by hearing it taught in a lecture really more beneficial than learning the same material from a textbook?

Amy Basilious, University of Windsor

Takaari Kajita and Arthur B McDonald won the Nobel Prize for detecting that neutrinos have mass. Is there still more new physics to be discovered beyond the Standard Model?

Aaron T. Bondy, University of Windsor

To what extent does the scope of practice of staff influence the quality of patient care in the acute care setting?

Jessica Anne Marton

What factors prompt students and faculty to engage in phatic communication? How is it conditioned? What tools can we use to compare interactions on campuses in Canada and abroad?

Rachel Stadder, University of Windsor

What is the effect of using maple syrup on human skin, for the purpose of all-natural hair removal?

Anahita Hassanpour, HarmoScent

What was the original purpose of the education system? To educate? To provide daycare? Or was it an attempt to create a cookie-cutter society fit for the working class?

Lisette Anne Lynn Gagnon

Why does some content trend faster on social media than other content? Why did “Gangnam Style” create such buzz across all outlets of social media?

Kyle Rodrigues Cacilhas C

Will being a superhero really satisfy people?

Claudia Cheng, University of Windsor