The Spring 2012 edition of VIEW, the University of Windsor’s alumni magazine, is now available online by visiting www.uwindsor.ca/view. New for the online issue of VIEW is the addition of short videos that accompany selected stories. Look for the triangular “play” button to zoom in and watch the story unfold.
Current Students
There’s a difference between math and baking, says Kevin St. Denis: “Math is easier.”
The third-year mathematics major prepared a couple of pies in celebration of Pi Day, Wednesday in Erie Hall.
“It’s just some premade crust and I poured in two cans of filling – cherry and blueberry,” St. Denis said. “I tried to shape them like the letter R because I was going for two pie R.”
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?”
This summer school isn’t remedial – it’s an honour.
Rachel Mok Tze Chung, a second-year student in mathematics and statistics, is one of 16 women from across Canada invited to the two-week Summer School for Women in Math Conference in Waterloo this August.
The conference is intended to encourage attendees to continue on to graduate work in mathematics. The program will provide both enrichment of the undergraduate curriculum and a research component in a collaborative environment.
Six students in their first year of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts will offer a sneak peek at their work and practices in a group exhibition opening Saturday at SB Contemporary Art.
The exhibition, appropriately titled PEEK, features works by Patricia Coates, Nicolas de Cosson, Michael DiRisio, Tommy Mayberry, Bruce Thompson and Owen Eric Wood. They explore a range of issues and themes, including the environment, gender issues, queer theory, identity and relationships, says curator Sarah Beveridge.
Mar 14th, 2012
The Humanities Research Group’s Distinguished Speakers Series presents Tracy Davis delivering her free public lecture, entitled “How historical is spectatorship? Knowledge, expertise, insight and taste among racialized and gendered audiences in mid-Victorian Britain,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in the Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University.
When Irish eyes are smiling, they’ve probably seen the special dishes the Marketplace Homestyle station is laying out in honour of St. Patrick’s Day.
It might be a couple of days early, but the food court in the CAW Student Centre will celebrate on Thursday, March 15, with a menu featuring:
A free public reception Thursday, March 15, will celebrate the opening of Origins, an exhibition showcasing the projects of students completing their first year in the Visual Arts and the Built Environment (VABE) program, at 5 p.m. in the LeBel Building’s SoVA Projects Gallery.
Participating students include:
Mar 14th, 2012
When Lancer women’s basketball players triumphed on home court a year ago, they not only captured the first Bronze Baby trophy in school history, they also put an end to 19 years of Western domination of their sport.
If they are to repeat as Canadian Interuniversity Sport champions this weekend, the Lancers will have to do so in Canada West territory, with no fewer than four Western teams leading one of the deepest fields in recent memory.
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?”