A million-dollar investment through the Automotive Partnership Canada will assist in the development of manufacturing processes to produce lighter-weight car parts, says UWindsor mechanical automotive and materials engineering professor Daniel Green.
Growing up in a region of the world that’s steeped in the ancient traditions of Confucianism, Sung Hyun Yun never gave it a second thought when his mother explained to him that he didn’t need to be in the kitchen helping with the dishes because he was a boy.
“It was very natural to accept gender-based norms and behaviour,” said Dr. Yun, a professor in the School of Social Work, who was born and raised in Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city.
“Can love potions be used to control an invasive fish?” is the title of the next Science Café at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at Canada South Science City. Biologist and author Lynda Corkum will describe her research efforts to control round goby and keep it from destroying native fish populations in the Great Lakes.
Given that Tom Gideon’s reason for existing is to protect NASCAR drivers, you’d think he might bristle a little more when he hears about stock car fans who say they only watch the races for the crashes. Oddly enough, it doesn’t prompt the kind of reaction you’d expect.
A UWindsor art grad’s work as a paleontology laboratory technician has earned him a little piece of immortality.
Ian Morrison (BFA visual arts 1988) has had a newly-identified species of horned dinosaur named after him: Gryphoceratops morrisoni.
“He seemed like the most appropriate person to name it after,” says David Evans, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, where Morrison has worked for more than 20 years. “What better person than the one who puzzled it together?”
The War of 1812 was a turning point in Canadian, American and First Nations histories, says Marshall Bastable, yet, like the recent war in Afghanistan, deciding how to remember and commemorate it is a problem.
“Much attention is given to which side won, but there are other important questions too,” says Dr. Bastable, a sessional instructor in the history department. “How did the various people at the time see the war? Was it a popular war? Was it a civil war? Was it glorious or a war full of terrible suffering and atrocities?”
For feminists like Catherine Hundleby, every day is women’s day. However, having a special day to help others recognize how much progress still needs to be made to create a truly equitable society for women is critical, the professor in philosophy and women’s studies says.
In November 2010, Johanna Skibsrud’s novel The Sentimentalists was announced as the winner of the Giller Prize, which promptly embroiled the work, its author, and its publishers in a clash between different modes of book publishing.
“The novel’s publication as a limited-run book from a small press, then as an e-book, then as a mass-market paperback sparked public interest in the kinds of questions usually asked by bibliographers,” says Alan Galey.
Several campus events on the theme of “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures” will celebrate International Women’s Day on Thursday, March 8.
The Womyn’s Centre is sponsoring a series of activities in the CAW Student Centre, including a showcase of community groups in the Commons from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Campus Recreation is offering UWindsor employees a chance to get in on the fun of the latest fitness craze, Hoopnotica, with a free class on Monday, March 12.
“This class not only builds core strength, but is also a low-impact cardiovascular workout that tones the entire body,” says Sandra Ondracka, manager of Campus Recreation.
Monday’s one-hour class begins at 5 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room, St. Denis Centre.
The session continues until April 16; registration is $35.40 plus HST for faculty and staff – hoops supplied!
