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Presentations measure progress of engineering student projects

The west African state of Ghana has a booming lumber industry that produces a troublesome waste product – sawdust.

“They have to burn it just to get rid of it all,” says Muhammad Ahsan Pasha. “But what if it could be turned into fuel?”

Pasha leads a group of fourth-year mechanical engineering students working to make that dream come true. His team – Emma Ayieko, Vipandeep Benipal and Sukhjit Sandhu – presented the progress on their capstone project, designing a generator powered by biogas from sawdust, as part of a daylong series Friday.

Lunchtime lecture to introduce role of safety champion in health care

A presentation on Monday, March 26, will summarize the scope of medical error and identify human limitations.

In “Introduction to the Safety Champion Role and Human Factors in Patient Safety,” Jeanette Tanafranca will discuss the role of human factors engineering, as well as contrast faulty systems to faulty individuals.

Tanafranca is a clinical quality facilitator and leads the safety champion program at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System. Her presentation is set for noon to 1 p.m. in room 203, Toldo Health Education Centre.

Student program to range from Purcell to Liszt

From a tuba serenade to a violin’s impressions of summer, student musicians will present a varied selection of works in a free public recital Monday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in room 139, Music Building.

Part of the School of Music’s Take 4 series, the program features:

Modern comedy to wrap up University Players season

University Players completes its 53rd season with Neil LaBute’s modern comedy Some Girl(s), March 29 to April 1 and April 11 to 15 at Essex Hall Theatre.

This hysterical comedy follows “Guy” – a magazine writer about to be married – to four hotel rooms in four cities, where he meets with four past lovers. He hopes to clear the air between them, which proves difficult considering he fled these relationships years ago and used them as material for his articles. Can this commitment-phobe warm his cold feet without getting burned by his old flames?

Students reap rewards of smoking cessation contest

It may have been scorching hot Wednesday afternoon, but it was much less smoky than usual, as the Leave the Pack Behind student health services group held its awards ceremony in the Thirsty Scholar.

With about 50 student participants on hand to watch, UWindsor president Alan Wildeman handed out awards to those winners who reduced or eliminated cigarettes from their lives.

Student researcher finds Red Wing home streak more impressive with shoot-outs

There are those hockey fans who believe that when the Detroit Red Wings set a new record for home wins this season there should have be an asterisk beside their names because several of those 23 victories came as a result of shoot-outs.

Then again, there are some more cerebral sports analysts who believe that if an asterisk is added to the record books, it should only be to note that with the shoot-outs included, the accomplishment becomes all the more extraordinary.

Win tickets to travel from sacred to profane

The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the Spring Choral Concert “From the Sacred to the Profane,” in Assumption University Chapel on Sunday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for students, available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212; or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music.