The re-allocation of campus parking for faculty and staff will take effect on Tuesday, August 26, reports Campus Services.

The parking garage at the corner of Wyandotte Street and Sunset Avenue will open with entrances off both California and Sunset avenues.

On that date, the following surface lots will close:

• Lot K on the west side of Sunset between Wyandotte and Fanchette streets
• Lot L on the east side of Sunset between Wyandotte and Fanchette streets
• Lot O, the Maintenance Building parking lot south of Union Street
• Lot T on the west side of Sunset between Wyandotte and Union streets

Employee permit holders affected by the changes have received notification and permits and gate access cards for their newly-assigned lots. They will need to begin using them on Tuesday, August 26, says Anna Kirby, executive director of Campus Services.

Any members of faculty or staff who have not yet picked up their new permits may do so with photo identification at the parking services office located on the second floor of the CAW Student Centre. All questions should be directed to the Campus Parking office at 519-253-3000, ext. 2413.

Dieppe Gardens is the setting for an outdoors screening Saturday of a feature film made by UWindsor graduates.

Communications grad Ted Bezaire wrote and directed The Birder; classmate Mike Stasko shared the writing credit. Locales around Windsor and Essex County served as backdrops during filming.

Open Air Cinema presents the screening, with snacks and merchandise for sale, August 23. It opens at 8 p.m. with live entertainment; a children’s short film follows at 9 p.m. and the feature at 10 p.m. Bring blankets or chairs—no seating provided. Learn more on the Facebook event page.

UWindsor professor emeritus Ralph Johnson’s essay collection, The Rise of Informal Logic, has become the second volume in the Windsor Studies in Argumentation open access monograph series.

First published in print by Vale Press in 1996, the work is now available as an electronic edition in PDF, EPUB and Kindle formats with minor corrections.

Windsor Studies in Argumentation decided to republish the book to make a compelling account of the formation of informal logic as a discipline available to a broad audience, says philosophy professor Chris Tindale, an editor in chief of the monograph series.

“Written by one of the founders of the field, The Rise of Informal Logic includes essential chapters on the history and development of informal logic,” Dr. Tindale says. “Other chapters in the collection are key reflections on the theoretical issues raised by the attempt to understand informal argument.”

Dr. Johnson retired in 2006 after 39 years as a UWindsor professor. In 1971, he and his colleague, J. Anthony Blair, developed an approach to reasoning they called informal logic and published their text Logical Self-Defense in 1976. In 1979, Johnson and Blair founded the Informal Logic Newsletter, which became the journal Informal Logic in 1985.

Windsor Studies in Argumentation is one of the first monograph series in the world launched on the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Monograph Press software. The first volume in the series, What do we Know About the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives, was recently featured as the unglue.it project’s Creative Commons book of the day. Its edition of The Rise of Informal Logic is available through its online catalogue.

To learn more about open monograph publishing, contact Dave Johnston, administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor for the Leddy Library, at djohnst@uwindsor.ca.

Organizers of the fifth annual Nano Ontario Conference, planned for Windsor in early November and chaired by UWindsor physics professor Roman Maev, have issued a call for abstracts outlining poster or oral presentations by students and industry professionals.

The conference will explore the province’s capacity for developing nanotechnology, with an emphasis on commercial application and economic impact.

UWindsor chemistry professor Tricia B. Carmichael is one of the featured keynote speakers, along with:

• Gregory W. Auner, professor of engineering and director of the smart sensors and integrated microsystems (SSIM) program at Wayne State University;
• Lawrence T. Drzal, professor of engineering and director of the Composite Materials and Structure Center at Michigan State University;
• David J. Lockwood, principal research officer for Measurement Science and Standards at the National Research Council Canada; and
• Robert J. Nemacich, professor of physics at Arizona State University.

Abstracts are due by September 12. Find information on submissions as well as registration details on the conference website.

UWindsor students or recent graduates under the age of 30 who are starting a business—or hoping to grow one—in Windsor-Essex can apply for help from the Entrepreneurship Practice and Innovation Centre.

Under the EPICentre’s mentorship program, eligible individuals can qualify for up to $5,000 and the support of a mentor to reach business milestones over four months.

Applications are due by September 5 and must contain the following information:

• Name of applicant and business
• Confirmation of student or alumni status, along with program of study
• Current business challenges
• Business plan, if available
• Milestones targeted for business
• Skills sets of your ideal mentor

E-mail along with any additional comments to Nicole Sleiman at nsleiman@uwindsor.ca.

Cycling is a low-impact exercise that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. The August edition of Workplace Wellness E-Digest, published by the Department of Human Resources’ Office of Employee Engagement and Development, offers information about how to enjoy the benefits of biking.

In addition to maintenance tips, rules of the road, and safety advice, the newsletter provides details on the City of Windsor’s bicycle use master plan and a map of campus bike racks. Read the Workplace Wellness E-Digest.