Students interested in learning more about what kind of careers are available in the environmental sector should attend a special event at Vanier Hall today.
Representatives from such employers as BASF, the Ontario Power Authority, Union Gas, the Essex Region Conservation Authority, Dillon Consulting and Stantec Engineering will participate in a panel discussion. A networking session following will allow them to discuss their career paths with interested students.
A University of Windsor graduate has won a coveted Governor General’s award for his latest collection of poetry.
Killdeer, a book of poems and essays by two-time UWindsor alumnus Phil Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the Canada Council for the Arts announced yesterday.
A group of business students is hoping to build bridges with families and the community through the universal language of song. They have planned a night of karaoke Thursday as a fundraiser for the YMCA of Windsor and Essex County.
“Youth are the future,” says Kamal Khaj. “A key element to the success of youth lies in the provision of support and resources made available to them. They will have to succeed in post-secondary studies and volunteerism, and as they complete university or college they will have to contribute to Canadian society through employment and civic engagement.”
What kinds of arguments do politicians use? A group of UWindsor researchers will share the findings of their study on Thursday, November 17, at 4 p.m. in room 105, Memorial Hall.
Philosophy professors Hans V. Hansen and Douglas Walton, and students Sam Atkin, Dillon Fowler, Laura Nicola and Shane Perron will report on their study of this fall’s Ontario election in a free public presentation, “How Do You Argue? Let Us Count the Ways.”
The Democratic Republic of Congo has been labelled “the worst place in the world to be a woman,” says Kate Murray. So why did this 21-year old social justice student travel to the war-torn African country?
“To promote education,” says Murray, who spent two and a half weeks this summer in the Congolese province of North Kivu.
“Supporting primary education in North Kivu, educating oneself, and supporting the dissemination of first-hand knowledge in Canada are, I believe, integral to eradicating poverty,” she says.
Eighteenth-century Detroit is often depicted as a fur-trading post in the historiography of the colonial Great Lakes, says historian Guillaume Teasdale, while in fact, hundreds of French families from the St. Lawrence valley settled in the Detroit River region during that time.
“As a result, Detroit developed into a thriving French colony that was connected to the western Great Lakes through the fur trade,” says Dr. Teasdale, a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture at the University of Ottawa.
They call themselves the Faculty of Mo.
Dave Andrews, a professor in the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Phil Graniero, an associate professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, have teamed up to raise funds for prostate cancer research by growing their moustaches during what is quickly becoming universally recognized as the month of “Movember.”
After 50 years in the world of contemporary conceptual art, with exhibits at some of the planet’s best-known galleries, you’d think Iain Baxter& had earned the right to wear a t-shirt like the one he donned for a recent opening of a retrospective collection of his career at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Paul Henshaw likes it when his undergraduate students approach him to discuss opportunities for graduate study.
“It shows there is a connection there, an interest in what we’re studying,” says the acting associate dean of graduate studies, a professor of civil and environmental engineering.
Still, he says, the faculty’s perspective is just one part of deciding whether to pursue further education. That’s why the Graduate Studies Showcase, Wednesday in the CAW Student Centre Commons, is structured to provide a range of perspectives.
Many of the lessons learned from humans living in outer space are relevant to our lives back on earth, say members of a panel discussing “Living in Space: Reaching the Final Frontier,” on Wednesday at Canada South Science City.
UWindsor professors Bill Baylis of physics and Phil McCausland of earth and environmental sciences will join Windsor astronomer Randy Groundwater in a free public presentation at 7:30 p.m. November 16 as part of the Science Café series, sponsored by the University’s Faculty of Science.
