Many kids involved with sports grow up dreaming about being a professional athlete someday, but a group of grad students in kinesiology recently got an inside look at how they can turn their passion into a livelihood by visiting with employees from several sport organizations in Toronto.
Faculty
Oct 12th, 2012
Embracing technology that relies on high-pressure water injection to make auto parts while other institutions are abandoning their research on it will place the university’s engineering department in the good graces of car companies that need to make components from difficult to form lightweight materials, according to Daniel Green.
The University’s central safety committee, an advisory group of worker and management representatives, meets regularly to identify workplace health and safety hazards and recommend strategies to eliminate or minimize such hazards.
The October issue of Safety in Mind, the UWindsor health and safety newsletter, outlines the committee’s structure and its powers under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act.
The Senate Bylaw Review Committee is seeking input for its pending review of three key bylaws:
Approximately every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood. The good news is that in just one hour, you can help.
Hospital patients require treatment regardless of the weather, as they undergo treatment for cancer, surgery, for car accidents and other traumas, and for hundreds of other medical situations that require life-saving blood.
With Saturday’s Fall Convocation coming up, finding an appropriate gift for a graduate can be a chore—but it’s a chore the staff of the University Bookstore are eager to help with.
“We have a lot of great, useful products that are equally timeless,” says Shirley Bott, general merchandise buyer. “Students and their parents can keep wonderful memories of their time here at the university.”
The go-to place for UWindsor apparel, school supplies and much more, the bookstore suggests these five best-sellers:
Oct 11th, 2012
Recent economics grads Jessica Courtney (BSc 2009) and Tim Scholz (BSc 2008) will discuss their careers in a seminar entitled “What Economists Do” on Friday, October 12.
The event is the fourth in an annual series to provide an opportunity for students to meet working economists, discuss their personal career development and the challenges and rewards of life as a professional economist.
With a career that spans projects for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the PGA Tour, NASCAR, the National Hockey League and the International Association for Venue Managers, Matthew Walker has demonstrated expertise in the areas of consumer behavior, market research, social responsibility, environmental systems, and brand management.
He will share that expertise in a free public lecture, “Research and Consulting in the Sport Industry: Bridging the Practice-Theory Divide,” at noon Friday, October 12, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
Because there are so many different types of cancer there will never be a single cure for them, but researchers have made significant advances in fighting the disease on an individual basis, according to Lisa Porter.
“If you think about it, 60 years ago we didn’t even know what cancer was,” said Dr. Porter, an associate professor in Biological Sciences who devotes much of her lab time to studying the mechanisms that cause cancer cells to divide and grow.