UWindsor philosophy professor Christopher Tindale’s rhetorical approach to argumentation has come under critical scrutiny from an unlikely source, says doctoral candidate Justin Ross Morris: feminist theorists working in argumentation theory.
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Information literacy librarian Tamsin Bolton and drama professor Tina Pugliese will discuss their research into the impact of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Mentor Program in a free public presentation Friday in the Leddy Library.
“We have surveyed first-year students, mentors, and instructors who have had mentors in their classrooms to get a full sense of what has been happening,” Bolton says. “We are currently in the process of going through the data.”
The Marketplace food court’s latest addition opened Tuesday. The Second Cup offers self-serve coffees and other hot beverages.
Dave McEwen, Food Services department head, says he had been working to bring the company to campus since early 2010.
“They have a great line of premium coffee products, all certified by the Rainforest Alliance,” he says. “Second Cup really takes into consideration sustainable business practices.”
Uprisings in Arab countries have been a struggle for human dignity, but their successes to date can only be described as modest, in part because of their inability to freeze out sectarian hardliners trying to gain control in the region, according to an expert who spoke on the UWindsor campus Thursday.
“The people have not yet achieved what they were looking for,” said Bahey El Din Hassan, who has won the label “the father of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement.”
May 7th, 2012
Lake Erie may be experiencing some of the worst levels of pollution it has seen since the 1960s, but a regional director of the International Joint Commission is confident that science will be able to turn that trend around by recommending action needed to restore it to a healthier state.
May 7th, 2012
Physics professor Chitra Rangan began a five-year term heading up the department effective May 1.
A member of the UWindsor faculty since 2004, Dr. Rangan holds the rank of associate professor. Her research interests include nanotechnology, quantum information and biomedical physics. Her current area of investigation is the interaction between light and matter at the nanoscale (atoms, molecules and nanostructures), the control of this interaction, and its applications to early cancer detection.
Lancer coaches and athletes turned out May 2 to volunteer for McHappy Day, the annual fundraising event that sees McDonald’s restaurants across the country donate a portion of the day’s sales to local children’s charities.
Special guests, sports and media personalities, politicians and professional entertainers greeted and served customers to help raise money for Ronald McDonald House, which provides families of sick children a home-away-from-home or a place of peace and calm within a hospital.
In donating to the Annual Giving Program, UWindsor employees and retirees do more than support the specific causes most dear to them, says campaign chair Bruce Tucker. This year, they have made a concrete impact on campus beautification.
A reception May 24 to recognize participating donors will also mark the formal dedication of a garden bed that spells out the university’s appreciation.
May 7th, 2012
Maher El-Masri, associate professor and research leadership chair in the Faculty of Nursing, has won recognition from the provincial association of the profession.
 Maher El-Masri. |
The province’s chief nursing officer will discuss ways to promote a research-based approach to the profession during an appearance on the University of Windsor campus this week.
Debra Bournes’ presentation, entitled “Creating a Research Culture,” is free and open to the public as part of the celebration of National Nursing Week, May 7 to 13.
It is set for 4 p.m. Thursday, May 10, in the Oak Room, Vanier Hall. RSVP online at http://uwindsor.fluidsurveys.com/s/chiefnursingofficer/.