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With a career that spans projects for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the PGA Tour, NASCAR, the National Hockey League and the International Association for Venue Managers, Matthew Walker has demonstrated expertise in the areas of consumer behavior, market research, social responsibility, environmental systems, and brand management.
He will share that expertise in a free public lecture, “Research and Consulting in the Sport Industry: Bridging the Practice-Theory Divide,” at noon Friday, October 12, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
Because there are so many different types of cancer there will never be a single cure for them, but researchers have made significant advances in fighting the disease on an individual basis, according to Lisa Porter.
“If you think about it, 60 years ago we didn’t even know what cancer was,” said Dr. Porter, an associate professor in Biological Sciences who devotes much of her lab time to studying the mechanisms that cause cancer cells to divide and grow.
UWindsor will confer degrees on nearly 1,000 graduating students during two sessions of the University’s 98th Convocation ceremonies Saturday, October 13, at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre, College and California Avenues.
Donald Walker, president of Magna International, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will address Convocation at the 10 .a.m. session and Jenny V. Coco, president of Coco Paving Inc., will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and will address Convocation at the 3 p.m. session.
Students and faculty from the School of Computer Science will be among those celebrating National Science and Technology Week at a Robotics Open House at the Windsor Public Library’s central branch on Thursday, October 11.
“We will be displaying a number of robots, including the new Turtlebot, football-playing Lego NXTs and a robot that can solve Rubik’s cube,” says professor Ziad Kobti, director of the School of Computer Science.
Given that Gurupdesh Pandher knows a thing or two about sharing good ideas, it might be reasonable to expect that there should be some choice new ones coming out of the Odette School of Business in the not-so-distant future.
The faculty's new senior associate dean, academic, Dr. Pandher has spent a fair portion of his research time focusing on why employees of various organizations share performance improving ideas and innovation – or, as is more often the case – keep them to themselves.
University of Windsor student Melissa Boehler is excited to attend a charity dinner this week to raise funds for Caleb’s House orphanage in Haiti.
“It’s refreshing to see young adults get involved in causes that help those that need it the most,” Boehler said.
Windsorites Julia Monk and Justin Parkinson organized the Just’in Hime for Help Charity Dinner, to be held on Thursday, October 11, at the Caboto Club. Chatham’s Emily Hime founded the Hime for Help organization; Parkinson will be traveling to Haiti to work with Hime at the orphanage.
Psychology major Sara Estoesta drew more than one benefit from a tour of the Leddy Library in September—she won a $50 gift card to the University Bookstore.
The prize draw helped to promote the tours, which attracted almost 150 student participants from September 18 to 20. Each 20-minute tour featured service points in the Leddy Main and West buildings, as well as explanations of the library’s borrowing policies, collections and help services.
The institution of a moment of reflection to replace prayer during University of Windsor Convocation ceremonies will create a more inclusive atmosphere, says Kaye Johnson, director of the Office of Human Rights, Equity and Accessibility.
“We operate to make things as inclusive as possible—widening the circle,” she says. “A moment of silent reflection will allow people to use this time as they need to, not as someone else decides.”
As she and her teammates warmed up for the 4x400m relay at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship meet in Winnipeg this past March, says Nicole Sassine, “We tried not to think about what was at stake.”
The Lancer women were on the verge of winning their fourth straight national title, but Guelph was just a few points behind as the final event loomed.