Tricia Carmichael wishes people could stop assuming the worst when they hear about chemicals.
“Chemicals are not a bad thing,” says the associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry. “There are 300 different naturally occurring chemicals in an apple, but people don’t like the word ‘chemicals’ because it evokes something in their mind that can be very negative.”
Complications from the flu can be very serious, but help is on the way.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit will administer free immunization at flu vaccine clinics in the CAW Student Centre's Ambassador Auditorium:
First-year arts and sciences student Milos Savic took top honours in the video contest sponsored by the Office of Public Affairs and Communications to demonstrate Lancer pride.
Savic’s entry played on the theme “The most interesting university in the world,” spoofing a popular series of beer commercials. It earned 773 “likes” on Facebook, winning him an iPad2.
Second-place winner Shawn Lippert will receive a $100 gift certificate to the University Bookstore, and third-place finisher Flora Wong will receive a $50 University Bookstore gift certificate.
The gorgeous early-autumn weather this week has students wearing t-shirts and shorts and everyone enjoying the sunshine.
George Kalivas, the new social media coordinator in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, took advantage of Wednesday’s balmy temperature to hit the campus and record his walk.
The Lancer football team is back in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport top 10 after earning a 4-1 start to the season. The squad is looking to go 5-1 – its best start in 25 years – with a win Saturday, October 8, at home over the Queen’s Gaels.
Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji was just 18 when she threw herself into Ottawa’s Rideau River in March 2008. In May this year, a Minnesota man was sentenced to jail for his role in encouraging her suicide after he struck up an online friendship posing as a young woman and proposed a suicide pact.
A group of UWindsor drama students will explore this tragedy in an original play to be staged October 15 and 16 in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre’s Studio Theatre.
A marketing campaign rolling out this month depicts the decision process students undertake when choosing a university, and reassures them that they won’t get lost in the crowd at the University of Windsor.
The campaign ranges across a number of media in southwestern Ontario markets, says Holly Ward, executive director of Public Affairs and Communications. Print advertising includes daily and community newspapers, placards in public transit and posters in shopping malls. Commercials will run before movies in cinemas and on radio stations.
Thanksgiving Day – Monday, October 10 – is a statutory holiday. There are no classes and all UWindsor offices, including the Leddy and law libraries, will close for the day.
Food Services has issued hours of operation for the weekend:
Friday, October 7
Just a couple of days before the Thanksgiving weekend, Enrique Chacon is starting to worry about finding enough volunteers for the Host for the Holidays program.
He is one of the organizers of the program, which matches international students with Windsor families willing open their homes to share Thanksgiving dinner with a visitor from overseas.
