The wonders of science were on display Saturday to hundreds of visitors attending Science Rendezvous at the CAW Student Centre. Volunteer presenters organized activities and exhibits in a range of disciplines, from chemistry, physics and biology to computer science, astronomy, forensics and engineering.
Windsor was one of a number of sites across Canada participating in the festival, showcasing world-class research happening at the nation’s universities and other institutions.
Graduating students can display their pride by purchasing a customized diploma frame—also makes a great gift idea for family and friends to mark the special day.
The Office of Alumni Affairs offers the service and can even have a diploma framed and waiting for pick-up at the June Convocation celebrations. Funds generated from this program are used by the Alumni Association to support programs and initiatives for UWindsor students and alumni.
A scientist born in Windsor but who now conducts his research at New York’s Columbia University will discuss how a natural product derived from plants like aloe vera may slow the progress of such neurodegenerative diseases as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s when he appears as a featured speaker at a conference here next week.
At a time of declining rates of response to surveys, Gwendolyn Ebbett is very pleased to have seen increased participation in the Leddy Library’s web questionnaire on its services.
“We actually increased our response rate over the previous survey three years ago,” says Ebbett, dean of the library.
She says the library will use the responses to better understand how the University community rates library services and where staff can concentrate efforts towards improving services.
The Monkeys with a Typewriter Theatre Company will stage a play by UWindsor grad Matt St. Amand (BA 1995, MA 2000) this weekend and next at the Korda Zone Theatre, 2520 Seminole Street.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond centres on Hal Dagon, a washed-up actor who enjoyed fleeting fame in the early 1980s after starring in a couple surprise hit horror movies. What his agent didn’t steal from him, his ex-wife got in the divorce settlement. As the play opens, he’s eking out the rest of his existence in a beat-up old apartment in the rough end of Windsor.
Children who tend to snack in the evening spend more time watching television and playing video games and their portion sizes get larger with the more screen time they get, according to a master’s student in kinesiology.
An award-winning researcher from California and long-time collaborator with the Los Alamos National Laboratory will speak here tomorrow about his efforts to help create the equivalent of “hurricane charts” that help predict when structures might fail.
Performances of Brave Hearts, by playwright Harry Rintoul, will give Windsor audiences a chance to see the production before it hits the New York stage.
The play tells the compelling story of the relationship between two gay men, GW and Rafe. With touches of humor, Brave Hearts uses irony to confront issues of pain and loneliness, and the need for comfort and love in an era when a diagnosis of HIV meant certain death.
A tour of the simulation spaces in the Medical Education Building and Toldo Health Education Centre is one of the highlights of Campus Technology Day, Thursday, May 16.
Nursing instructors Judy Bornais and Debbie Rickeard will guide participants through the faculty’s Simulation Centre, which offers students authentic simulated learning experiences so they can apply theory to practice and learn to safely care for future patients.
Lancer alumna Nicole Sassine was one of 19 female scholar-athletes from across the province honoured by Ontario University Athletics as “Women of Influence” at a luncheon held Tuesday, May 7. The award honours female student-athletes who have excelled in their chosen sports and fields of study.
Sassine says she is proud to have won recognition both for academic and athletic accomplishment.
