The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to its recital featuring pianist Philip Adamson and cellist Ben Gitter this Sunday, October 30, at 2:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
Admission to this performance of 20th century Russian music is $15, $5 for students. Tickets are available online at www.uwindsor.ca/music; by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212; or at the door.
There is no better bonding exercise than actual exercise, says Francine Herlehy, assistant dean for student services in the Faculty of Law.
She is organizing a team of students, faculty and staff to participate in iClimb for United Way, soliciting sponsorship before mounting more than 1,000 stairs in the WFCU Centre on Friday.
“This is a way for Windsor law to come together,” Herlehy says. “The iClimb allows them to actively participate, rather than just write a cheque.”
The law school has an ongoing relationship with United Way.
The Organization of Part-time University Students (OPUS) invites part-time undergraduate students to lunch on Wednesday, November 9.
The OPUS Part-time Student Social is scheduled for noon in the organization’s office, room 172, CAW Student Centre. Pizza and pop will be served, and attendees may enter a free draw for a cash prize of $250.
Guest speaker Marty Lowman of the Advising Centre will discuss the Student Information System (SIS) and will provide valuable information on how to navigate the degree audit and appeal processes.
Toronto-based artist Lorena Salomé will discuss her practice in a free public presentation on Thursday, October 27, at noon in room 115, LeBel Building.
The artist’s talk is part of the School of Visual Arts Alone + Together lecture series.
Salomé has exhibited her work in her native Argentina, as well as in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Germany. She makes use of different technologies – video, electronics and mechanics – for her artwork.
Seven UWindsor authors – Tony Blair, Leo Groarke, Ralph Johnson, Kate Parr, Robert Pinto, Christopher Tindale, Douglas Walton – account among them for at least five textbooks on reasoning and argument evaluation.
Now, several members of that group are working to identify an approach to informal logic common to this University.
Blair, Johnson and Tindale have drafted the Windsor Method, which outlines a broad school of thought on identifying, analyzing and judging reasoning and arguments.
The debate over what to do about climate change needn’t pit economic progress against environmental preservation, according to Peter Sale.
The Multi-Faith Space in the CAW Student Centre is intended to provide all students, staff and faculty with a place for prayer, meditation and reflection in a context of pluralism.
In addition to a large room, it extends to neighbouring facilities for ablutions.
A joint project of the University and the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance, it was formally inaugurated with a ceremony October 18.
Watch a video by producer Peter Freele of the Centre for Teaching and Learning highlighting the reception.
Hundreds of students discussed options for further study with representatives from dozens of institutions yesterday.
The Continuing Education Fair filled the CAW Student Centre Commons as patrons spoke face-to-face with admissions officers, recruiters, and faculty from across North America.
Third-year psychology student Stephanie Jackson said she plans to pursue graduate study and was glad to see how many options are available.
Biology master’s student Kara-Anne Ward won yesterday’s DailyNews trivia contest and earned two tickets to see the University Players world-premiere production of Chameleon, by drama professor William Pinnell.
Ward’s name was drawn from all entrants who correctly responded that chameleon’s change colour in response to light, temperature, and mood; Santa Fe, New Mexico is the highest US state capital; and the one-act drama The Bounty was Pinnell’s first play.
While smoking rates have declined across Ontario to about 19 percent of the general population, young people use tobacco at a higher rate.
UWindsor biology professor Lisa Porter, a cancer researcher, is one of three speakers addressing this issue at Trash the Ash! Cancer Talk 2011: Tobacco, the first in this year’s Schulich Windsor Health Lecture Series. The free public event will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, in the Hangar on the St. Clair College campus.
