UWindsor biology professor Lisa Porter will provide an update on the state of the battle against cancer in a free public lecture in the Freed-Orman Centre on Wednesday, April 18, at 5 p.m.
A cell biologist, Dr. Porter holds the Assumption University Chair in Cancer Research.
A discussion and refreshments will follow her lecture, entitled “Making Strides in the Fight Against Cancer: What has Research Done for You?”
It’s time for society to consider a new definition of materialism and re-think what constitutes ‘the good life,’ according to a philosophy professor who has written a new book on the subject.
In its standard interpretation, materialism says the only things that truly exist are matter and energy and that our reality is defined by them. Ethically, the term has come to be negatively associated with material greed and a fascination with amassing wealth and commodities.
Two one-hour wellness sessions offered this week by the University’s employee assistance provider are tailored to help staff and faculty manage change and loss.
Welcoming Change into Your Life
Wednesday, April 18, 9 a.m., Centennial Room, Vanier Hall
What can contemporary scientific psychology, barely 150 years old, teach us about the emotions that literary and philosophical inquiry cannot? A symposium on the UWindsor campus April 20 and 21 will bring scholars from around the world to explore that question.
Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences is sponsored by the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric and English professor Stephen Pender, research leadership chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Drew Verdam is looking for the Wow! factor.
The University’s executive chef, he will lead a team from Food Services in the Battle of the Hors D’oeuvres, April 26 at the St. Clair College Centre for the Arts – and he’s in it to win.
“I want people to know that we do high-quality work here,” says Verdam. “It’s a big local event that allows us to get our name out in the community.”
Forward-thinking municipalities may one day be able to generate revenue from an unavoidable process on which they already spend millions of dollars if a UWindsor scientist can develop a process to create eco-friendly fuel from organic waste.
Subba Rao Chaganti, who works in professor Dan Heath’s lab at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, is examining a microbial battery which can convert solid municipal waste in to ethanol.
In an ongoing effort to support its strategic plan, Thinking Forward, Taking Action, the University of Windsor has committed nearly $2.5 million in 2012/13 funding for new initiatives and programs to improve the student experience, pursue strengths in research and graduate education, recruit and retain the best faculty and staff, and engage in and build community and international partnerships.
The next time you’re driving down a gravel road, John Roung wants you to think about the amount of dust that’s flying around.
If there’s not that much of it, there’s a good chance the road may have been sprayed with a new dust control product that was developed for his company in collaboration with a UWindsor chemist.
What if libraries, instead of bringing the world to a community, served to bring the community to the world?
That shift is already underway, says Mita Williams. She will discuss the implications in her free public lecture, “The library as interface to public space and public self,” on Friday, April 13, in the Leddy Library.
Williams, user experience librarian in the Leddy’s information services department, will explore the library’s potential to help bridge the digital divide and help people to engage with each other.
With the amount of money its takes to stage the Olympics, it might be natural to assume that commercial advertising would be increasingly more apparent at the games as a source of revenue to help sustain them.
