Campus Recreation is offering free sessions during Mental Health Awareness Week, January 14 to 18, allowing students and employees to try out a variety of fitness and instructional classes.
UWindsor employees can check out lunchtime fitness classes in the Education Gym, between the CAW Student Centre and the University Computer Centre, weekdays at 12:10 p.m.
The School for Arts and Creative Innovation will kick off its 2013 concert season with a recital showcasing some of its best performers Sunday, January 13.
The Ron W. Ianni Memorial Scholarship Competition will feature solo performances by eight student musicians vying for a $500 scholarship named to honour the late president of the University of Windsor.
These competitors qualified by receiving the highest marks in the December 2012 instrument juries:
The Department of Human Resources invites the campus community to the first annual Employee Recognition Awards reception, Wednesday, January 23, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Vanier Hall’s Winclare A.
This event has been designed to celebrate the outstanding contributions of all employees to the achievement of the University’s mission and vision, says chief human resources officer Rita LaCivita.
At this event, the Employee Recognition Program Awards will be presented to the following individuals/teams:
Members of the University of Windsor faculty and staff—as well as their families—can attend Sunday’s Lancer basketball games free of charge.
U of W Family Appreciation Day will feature prizes and giveaways as well as match-ups between the Waterloo Warriors and Windsor’s nationally-ranked men’s and women’s basketball teams. The women play at 1 p.m. and the men at 3 p.m. January 13 in the St. Denis Centre fieldhouse.
Having full access to one of the top materials sciences facilities in Canada is akin to visiting an unlimited scientific smorgasbord for Javad Samei.
“It’s like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet,” the PhD candidate in materials engineering enthused yesterday after the university signed a collaborative research agreement that will allow its students and faculty to use the CanmetMATERIALS laboratory in Hamilton, ON.
A committee reviewing the operations of the University’s career and co-op services has issued a call for feedback from faculty, students and staff.
The committee members will provide recommendations on enhancements to meet the needs of students and alumni, says provost Leo Groarke, who initiated the review.
The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) is offering two Graduate Student Fellowships in the Winter semester 2013. Conditions and description are as follows:
The latest edition of Studies in Social Justice focuses on “the Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care.”
Article titles include:
A biology researcher hopes her studies will result in fewer brain cancer related deaths among children.
Elizabeth Fidalgo da Silva, a research associate and adjunct professor in Biological Sciences, is studying the role that a protein called tuberin plays in suppressing medulloblastoma, the most prevalent of all childhood brain cancers. Brain cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer related death in children under 19 and the third leading cause in young adults between 20 and 39.
High school students considering the possibility of studying engineering will be welcomed to a very different environment this coming Wednesday evening at the Engineering Information Forum.
