When Visual Arts professor Jennifer Willet pulled together a group of artists and scientists from around the world for a two-week camp last summer in the Rocky Mountains, she was charting new territory in the world of BioArt.
A senior advisor to the World Health Organization will discuss the subject of sustainable development and environmental health when he meets with the university’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders next week.
Adrianus (Ton) Vlugman, who is currently stationed at the WHO’s Pan American Health Organization’s office in Guyana, will discuss such technical concepts as sanitation, wastewater and solid waste management – including recycling and management of wastes from health care facilities in the Caribbean – in order to help describe what constitutes sustainable development.
Anyone who’s ever driven a truck, a bus or a bulldozer for a long period of time might have considered what kind of long-term damage the constant rumbling and bumping of those massive machines under them might be doing to their bodies.
UWindsor student Milos Savic didn’t just qualify for the Red Bull Crashed Ice finals in Quebec City next month, he practically invented the sport.
“I skied a lot as a kid and I had the idea of skating downhill,” says the first-year arts and sciences student. “I stood at the top of the run and said to my friends Wouldn’t it be neat if it was ice all the way down?”
Students active with campus ministry celebrated Random Acts of Kindness last week, sharing cookies and lollipops with schoolmates deep in mid-term exams, and even contributing change for parking meters.
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The Lancer men’s and women’s hockey teams both swept their quarter-final series to advance to the next round in the Ontario University Athletics playoffs.
The new location of the International Student Centre is “amazing,” says Paran Ahluwalia.
The fourth-year electrical engineering major, a native of India, is president of the International Student Society. She was on hand Thursday for a reception celebrating the grand opening of the centre, on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
“The staff here are so nice,” she says. “I hope the beautiful new space means more international students will come here.”
Iva Peklova says she will be sad when her Lancer career is over, but she doesn’t have time to think about that yet. While the women’s basketball team will play its final game of the regular season Saturday at the St. Denis Centre, Peklova and the rest of the squad plan to enjoy an extended playoff run.
Peklova and co-captain Emily Abbott are both in their fifth and final year of varsity sport. They will be honoured during a ceremony before Saturday’s game against the Western Mustangs; tip-off is at 2 p.m.
It took a tin whistle given to her by her mother, 25 years of practice and a lot of time surfing the internet to teach Janice Waldron that there might be more than one way to teach a student how to play a musical instrument.
Mathematics and statistics professor Myron Hlynka is one of the experts consulted by Macleans magazine for an article entitled “The end of the wait for the elevator: Science and industrial design join together to try to make elevators more efficient.”
He praises “destination-oriented dispatching,” a system which assigns users to elevators depending on their desired final stops.
“It’s fascinating,” says Dr. Hlynka. “It’s almost like preprocessing.”
