A UWindsor music student and a recent grad are among the featured performers for a series of educational concerts by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
The 20 concerts will bring the full orchestra to churches, schools and concert halls throughout Windsor-Essex for programs aimed at elementary school students.
Anyone who didn’t make it to Chicago last fall to see the exhibit spanning the career of conceptual artist Iain 
Baxter& will soon be able to view it a little closer to home.
In 1575, the Spanish physician Juan Huarte recorded an encounter with a “rude countrie fellow who made very eloquent discourse” after becoming frantic. According to Huarte, this oratory sprang directly from the man’s fevered state.
In a free public lecture Wednesday, English professor Stephen Pender takes seriously Huarte’s assertion — eloquence is a matter of heat rather than cognition, imagination or memory — and explores an ensemble of neglected ideas in early modern medicine and rhetoric.
The School of Music’s Take Four series presents students in recital on Wednesday, February 29, at 4 p.m. in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, room 139.
Want to cheer on the Lancer men’s hockey team in its conference final series against the Western Mustangs? Of course you do, and if you act fast, you can get a break.
The athletics department is offering a discount for UWindsor faculty and staff members to attend Friday’s game two at Windsor Arena. Tickets, normally $8 each, will be available for $5 – three for $10 – to all employees who e-mail an order to Elisa Mitton by 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Engineers of the near future will have plenty of simple solutions at their disposal to help solve environmental and health problems related to poor sanitation in developing countries, according to a visiting lecturer who will speak here today.
Every year between May and July, billions of sardines “run” up the coast of southeast Africa, creating a massive feeding frenzy for the predators that devour them and a natural ecological spectacle that draws thousands of tourists to witness the event.
It’s a migratory phenomenon that could soon earn the distinction of being nominated as a UNESCO Marine World Heritage Site, and if that happens, it may be in part thanks to the contributions of a post-doctoral fellow at the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.
It’s getting to be a habit.
The Lancer men’s and women’s track and field teams repeated as Ontario University Athletics champions in Toronto on Saturday, the 14th straight team title for the men and third straight for the women – seventh in eight years. Read the full story and individual results on goLancers.ca. Next up is the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national tournament, hosted by the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, March 8 to 12. Both Windsor teams are defending national champions.
Every morning when they go to work in their Essex Hall biochemistry lab, PhD students Pam Ovadje and Dennis Ma get an inspirational reminder of why they’re there. Mounted on the door to that lab is a plaque dedicating the space to the memory of Kevin Couvillon, who died at the age of 26 in November 2010, after a three-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
Professor Praveen K. Saxena will deliver a presentation entitled “Introducing Novel Natural Health Products into the Canadian Market: An integrated system for developing safe and effective plant based medicines,” on March 5 at Leamington’s Roma Club.
The presentation is sponsored by the University of Windsor’s Vice-President, Research, in collaboration with the Windsor Essex Economic Development Commission and is of especial interest to researchers and enterprises involved in the agri-food and natural product industries.
