Canadian journalists who specialize in health and science reporting are doing a tremendous job of covering their subject matter but need to remain ever-vigilant about asking hard and sometimes uncomfortable questions when presented with new research, according to Brian Goldman.
Faculty
Apr 27th, 2012
A collaborative network will provide UWindsor students, faculty and staff – anyone with an active UWin ID – free wireless Internet access on the campuses of 12 Ontario universities and institutions around the world.
Eduroam gives users roaming wireless Internet connectivity authenticated with passwords from their home institutions, eliminating the time, expense and inconvenience of obtaining a guest account.
In addition to 39 Canadian campuses, its participating institutions span Europe, the United States and the Asia-Pacific.
Apr 27th, 2012
The Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce honoured several members of the UWindsor community Wednesday at the Ciociaro Club during its annual Business Excellence Awards presentations.
Lancer women’s basketball coach Chantal Vallée’s Athena Award and Board of Governors member Fouad Tayfour’s Believe Windsor Essex Award had been announced prior to the formal event.
Apr 26th, 2012
Putting down on paper a vivid description of what might happen if terrorists ever launched an attack on the Windsor-Detroit border is akin to thinking the unthinkable, but totally necessary in order to convince people of the necessity of taking a more holistic approach to counter-terrorism, according to Richard Chasdi.
In what years did Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Francis Crick and James Watson win their Nobel Prizes?
Asking high school students to slot in a series of responses tests their knowledge of science history. Telling them how many they got right and timing them while they switch their answers also tests their ability to solve logic puzzles.
Sometimes it’s good to bend the rules, says Karen Pillon.
Head of the access service department at the Leddy Library, she will discuss that principle in her free public lecture “No student turned away: Using Kohlberg’s six stages of moral development to inform a customer service model,” at 11 a.m. Friday, April 27, in room 302, West Leddy.
Apr 26th, 2012
A search committee invites nominations and applications by May 7 for the position of Director of the School of Dramatic Art.
The position will commence July 1, 2012, for a term of three to five years. Candidates must hold a tenured position in the school. For more information, please see the online posting of the internal search.
When students first asked about renting textbooks instead of purchasing them, he laughed, says University Bookstore sales and marketing co-ordinator Martin Deck: “I didn’t think we’d be able to do so and remain in business.”
But 20 years after it first started selling used texts, the bookstore has added rental to its repertoire.
Paleontologist Robert Reisz is the featured guest of the seventh annual Earth Day Dinner, a fundraising event for Canada South Science City, on Wednesday, April 25.
 Robert Reisz. |
Apr 23rd, 2012
Utility work beginning today in parking lot F should not affect patrons yet, but change is coming.
The lot, located south of Wyandotte Street between Sunset and California avenues, serves faculty and staff permit holders. Contractors will be on site this week, but their work should not restrict parking access.
The site is being readied for the new Innovation Centre and Parking Structure. Plans to relocate the parking are currently under consideration, says Anna Kirby, executive director of Campus Services.