Cogeco cable 11 will air the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball gold medal game between the Windsor Lancers and UBC Thunderbirds at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24.
The CIS named Lancer guard Miah-Marie Langlois its female athlete of the week after she led her team to the national championship.
What kind of film gets into the Toronto International Film Festival? There’s an easy way to find out, thanks to the Windsor International Film Festival, which will hold a special screening of Canada’s top 10 short films at the Capitol Theatre on Friday, March 23, at 7 p.m.
“I think it’s really important for students who make short films to see which short films make it in to the big festivals,” said communications professor Kim Nelson, one of the organizers.
The screening is divided into two programs of five films each.
Notions of class have been rooted at least in part in physiology, says Kevin Siena.
An associate professor of history at Trent University, he will explore the contributions of medical literature to that process in his free public lecture, “Rotten Bodies: Plague, Fever, and the Plebeian Body in Early Modern England,” Friday, March 23, at 5 p.m. in the Oak Room, Vanier Hall.
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century plague and fever tracts commonly connected epidemics with poverty, Dr. Siena says.
Canada’s young people are overweight, and poor eating habits are a major reason why, says Rhona Hanning.
An associate professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo , she will deliver a free public lecture entitled “Promoting Healthier Diets for Kids: Can Schools Make a Difference,” at noon on Friday, March 23, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
The University Chamber Choir will premiere a new work by UWindsor alumna Shelley Marwood (BMus 2004) at the Spring Choral Concert on Sunday, March 25.
An emerging composer based in Toronto, Marwood has had works performed by the Vancouver, Winnipeg and Windsor symphony orchestras. Her composition, Elements, is based on a poem of the same name by her grandmother Ruby Mulcaster.
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.
As a kid growing up in Chatham, Morgan McNaughton spent most of his summers playing competitive soccer. Looking back now, he realizes the chance to play his favourite sport in an organized league was something of a luxury.
“I knew people who weren’t able to play sports like hockey just because registration and equipment was so expensive,” said the fourth-year kinesiology student. “It’s unfortunate that some people can’t play because everyone wants us to be physically active. It’s a shame to miss out on those opportunities because your family can’t afford it.”
Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff will play two shows at Phog Lounge as a fundraiser for MedOutreach, Thursday, March 22.
The group will send four medical students, two dental students and two nursing students this summer to Tanzania, where they will work to improve primary health care and promote disease prevention projects. The students must raise $60,000 to cover the cost of their travel as well as medical and school supplies they will donate to clinics and schools there.
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.
The School of Music’s Take 4 series will showcase students in recital, Wednesday, March 21, at 4 p.m. in room 139, Music Building.
The program features:
