Aug 16th, 2012
People who are 50 years or older and who don’t have positive thoughts about aging may want to participate in a free workshop and research study that’s aimed at reducing negative thinking about getting older.
Faculty
A PhD student in biology has spent his summer hunkered down in the lab trying to figure out why an anti-nausea drug used by cancer patients might put more stress on breast cancer cells and make them more resistant to chemotherapy.
A UWindsor law professor believes it’s time to consider compensating people for the emotional loss they suffer when forced to give up their homes to make way for public infrastructure projects like the Windsor-Essex Parkway.
Aug 16th, 2012
The Leddy Library invites colleagues and friends of Johanna Foster to celebrate her retirement after 42 years at the University of Windsor, with a party Friday, August 24.
The event will run 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the library’s fourth floor staff lounge, room 4107.
Everyone is welcome; attendees should RSVP to Yvonne Arnowitz at arnowitz@uwindsor.ca by Friday, August 17.
The distance from the south end of Essex Hall to the new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation is a mere two blocks. You can walk it in less than five minutes.
Try moving 80 faculty and staff members, 247 graduate students, 76 post-doctoral fellows and research associates and about $40 million worth of laboratory equipment over the same distance.
Jason Kiernan is excited to be at the University of Windsor.
He left a position as a nurse practitioner at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital to pursue a new career path as a lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing.
“I wanted to transition into more of a research role and for a number of reasons, that wasn’t going to happen at the hospital,” Kiernan says.
He was one of seven new faculty members attending an orientation session Monday, August 13.
Bearing the message “Here We Grow—another UWindsor improvement is underway,” new signs installed across campus will alert passersby to construction works, says Susan Mark, executive director of Facility Services.
“We have a number of projects on the go, from the temporary parking lot on the former Cody Hall site to the redesign of the Student Centre Courtyard,” Mark says. “We wanted a way to alert the University community that while the loss of access may pose a temporary inconvenience, it will soon result in tangible benefits for us all.”
Aug 16th, 2012
A retired nursing professor who died August 10 made a lasting impact on her students and colleagues, who are working to ensure her legacy lives on.
They have started an organizing effort soliciting donations to sponsor a commemorative bench to honour Anna Temple, outside the Toldo Health Education Centre.
Dr. Temple joined the UWindsor faculty in 1972 and served in the Faculty of Nursing—including a term as its director—until her retirement in 2005.
Marilyn Farnworth (née Morris) counts a meeting with then-Detroit Piston—now Detroit mayor—Dave Bing and an on-campus concert by Ike and Tina Turner among some of her fondest memories of her time at the University of Windsor, but it was the camaraderie among students and faculty support she says best marked her student experience.
Farnworth, who attended UWindsor from 1972 to 1976 as a kinesiology and math student and later a teacher candidate, came home to Windsor following a year at the University of Western Ontario, seeking smaller class sizes and a “personalized atmosphere.”
Instructors looking for new ways to incorporate modern technology into their teaching will want to attend the Summer Series on Teaching and Learning.
The series, which begins tomorrow, offers seven free interactive sessions, and closes with a free barbecue luncheon on Aug. 16.