How did the portrayal of people with disabilities shift in the wake of the U.S. movement for civil rights?
David Mitchell, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities and an associate professor in the College of Education at Temple University, will examine this question in a free public lecture entitled “The Capacities of Incapacity: Disability and Neoliberal Novels of Embodiment,” on Wednesday, November 7, at 110 a.m. in Vanier Hall’s Katzman Lounge.
Oil and gas companies often go to very expensive measures to replace pipelines that are in danger of cracking and bursting, but a PhD student in engineering is part of an award-winning team finding ways to better determine how long a cracked pipeline will last in the field.
“This will help the oil industry to make informed decisions on whether or when a cracked segment of pipeline needs to be replaced,” says Hossein Ghaednia, a student in professor Sreekanta Das’s Center for Engineering Research in Pipelines.
During an event yesterday to announce new seed funding for UWindsor cancer researchers, biochemistry professor Michael Boffa quipped that he usually has good ideas “coming out of his ears.”
“The problem is getting these ideas off the ground and finding the funding to make them happen,” he said.
Packianathan Chelladurai, a professor of sport and fitness management in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion at Alabama’s Troy University, will deliver a free public lecture entitled “Manifestations of Sport and their Management,” at noon Friday, November 2, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
Despite the fact that social media web sites like Flickr are worth millions of dollars, the users who generate nearly all the content for them are surprisingly comfortable with their labour being “unwaged,” according to a new communications professor.
“The thought of someone else making money off their work doesn’t hold much sway with Flickr members,” said Brian A. Brown, an assistant professor who joined the department of Communication, Media and Film this fall.
Impulse is the catalyst of an argument and initiates the decisions that follow, says philosophy professor Christopher Tindale.
“Impulses do not arise from nowhere; they are related to past states,” he says. “I am interested in how the impulse for anything begins, and how our resulting arguments are directly affected by how we make choices.”
He will explore the origin of impulse as a stimulus for argumentation in a free public lecture entitled “Inventing Arguments” on Friday, October 26, at 2 p.m. in room 207, Essex Hall.
A free public seminar Friday morning is the latest in a series sponsored by the Windsor History of Economic Thought Club.
David Laidler, a professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, will deliver “Two Crises, Two Ideas and One Question” at 10 a.m. October 26 in room G125, Chrysler Hall North.
When the musicians and artists who make up what is now known as the Noiseborder Ensemble first came together in 2008, they were highly influenced by Windsor’s proximity to an international border crossing.
A University of Windsor scientist will appear on Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet Thursday to explain the physics behind using lasers to remove tattoos and unwanted hair.
Physics professor Steven Rehse will be on the show using balloons and lasers to demonstrate the principles of a process called selective photothermolysis.
Scholarly communication and academic publishing are quickly evolving and these developments are transforming the sharing of research and scholarship.
In observance of Open Access Week 2012, the Leddy Library will host Shana Kimball, head of publishing services at the University of Michigan’s MPublishing, for a free public lecture Tuesday on academic publishing, open access and the development and impact of MPublishing at the University of Michigan.
