Students from Oshawa’s university will present their findings on different ways to deal with drug-addicted criminals at the fifth annual student research day. On Aug. 22, undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) will present their results from research related to alternatives to traditional criminal justice measures in dealing with drug-addicted offenders.

In addition, students will be creating an interactive learning tool designed to help learners understand Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and improve technology to process waste tires into marketable products. More than 70 students from the university’s faculties of Business and Information Technology, Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, Education, Engineering and Applied Science, Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, Health Sciences and Science will share their research findings while demonstrating first-hand the significant research opportunities UOIT offers to students.

Dr. Christopher diCarlo, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences will be the keynote speaker at the event. His presentation, Natural Systems: A Collective Understanding of Humanity, will include a discussion of his Relations of Natural Systems project. The event will be held on Aug. 22 with the keynote presentation at 11 a.m. in the east atrium in the Science Building. Poster presentation will run from 1 to 4 p.m in the Business and Information Technology atrium. For more information, visit www.uoit.ca.