Jan 20th, 2012
Chris Lachapelle, a UWindsor graduate (BHK 1995), will deliver a free public lecture entitled “Fans Versus Safety: Can We Afford Both?” on Friday, January 20, at noon in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
Current Students
With a retrospective of major Canadian abstractionists as a backdrop, a panel will discuss the topic “Unpacking Abstract Art Practices Today” Saturday at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Part of the Alone + Together visiting artist lecture series, the event will feature art historian and critic Karen Wilkin joining artists Luanne Martineau and John Kissick, both of whom have exhibitions currently on display at the gallery. Roald Nasgaard, author of Abstract Painting in Canada and professor contemporary art at Florida State University, will act as moderator.
The International Student Centre will usher in the year of the dragon with a screening of China Central Television’s Spring Festival Gala, from noon to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 23.
The centre, located on the second floor of Laurier Hall, will show the program and serve Chinese snacks – nuts and sweets – in its lounge. Admission is free and open to the university community.
Campus Ministry presenting dinner and a show
Jan 20th, 2012
A team of students from the Odette School of Business has finished third in a cross-province competition of accounting “soft skills” – teamwork, negotiation, communication, and time management – sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario at its Toronto headquarters January 7.
For the last 45 years, Tony Blair has been making the world a better place, one argument at a time.
A professor emeritus in the university’s Philosophy department, Blair is one of the original founders of a school of thought known as informal logic. Simply put, it’s a manner of ordinary reasoning that helps people become more skilled critical thinkers, better able to assess the validity of arguments they’re faced with every day.
The Lancer basketball teams will face one of their toughest tests to date this weekend when they play host to the Brock Badgers on Saturday night at the St. Denis Centre.
The games will be one of the featured match-ups in Canadian university basketball, carried live for local viewers on TV Cogeco’s cable channel 11 and webcast for out-of-town fans at SSN Canada.
Student Health Fair brings campus and community agencies together in one place to answer the myriad of questions students have, says health promotion nurse Judi Wilson.
“So many resources are gathered here for them,” Wilson said Wednesday in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium. “They can wear beer goggles to learn about the effects drinking has on their senses or they can get a relaxing massage.”
A reception tonight will celebrate the opening of a group painting exhibition featuring works by artists with UWindsor ties.
Dean Carson, a staff member in the Leddy Library, and former visual arts instructor Jim Mroczkowski have teamed up with Matthew Hawtin for “Are you in the room?” at SB Contemporary Art.
Gallery owner Sarah Beveridge said she was initially intrigued by the differences in the artists’ practices and processes, but couldn’t help drawing parallels between them.
Students in visual arts professor Cyndra MacDowall’s introductory photography course in chemical and digital photographic processes explore a wide range of themes in their exhibition, “A Thousand Words: Comments on Photography,” currently on display in the LeBel Building’s SoVA Projects Gallery.
The Asian delicacy shark fin soup is often served at weddings, banquets and important business deals and symbolizes wealth, power, prestige and honour, but demand for its main ingredient has led to the overfishing and rapid decline of many shark species around the world.
A visiting researcher will discuss his work, which he hopes will help slow that decline, at a lecture this afternoon.