Feb 9th, 2012
Do you know students who go the extra mile for others? Perhaps one has shown sincere empathy and support for one or more students during difficult times – or just gives to others in an on-going way.
Faculty
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the faculty concert “Chamber Ensembles and Electronics,” Saturday, February 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
Admission is $15, with a student rate of $5. Tickets are available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212, or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music. Find more information on the music Web site.
The International Student Centre invites the campus community to celebrate its new location during an official opening ceremony on Thursday, February 16.
An open house reception runs 2 to 4 p.m. with the ceremony scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
The centre, located on the second floor of Laurier Hall, is accessed through a dedicated entrance toward the north end of the building’s west wall. To arrange for access to an elevator, please phone 519-253-3000, ext. 3938.
Feb 9th, 2012
The Windsor University Faculty Association’s Status of Women, Diversity and Equity Action Committee is now accepting nominations for the Mary Lou Dietz Equity Leadership Award for 2012.
This award is named to honour Mary Lou Dietz – a late UWindsor faculty member and head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology – and her contributions to the advancement of women in Canadian universities and colleges.
The recipient will be a member of the faculty association who demonstrates the spirit of equity leadership by:
While there is variation between regions, overall Arab women remain near the bottom globally on a variety of indicators, says Adrien Wing.
She will discuss civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights in her free public lecture, “The Arab Season: The Future of Women’s Rights,” Friday, February 10, at 1 p.m. in the law building’s Moot Court.
The Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa’s College of Law, Wing will focus on the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
There’s never been a more important time than now to celebrate the contributions that research makes to improving society, according to Alan Wildeman.
In a climate of funding cuts and increased scrutiny, it’s critical for researchers to share their success stories with a broader audience to convince average Canadians of how it makes their lives better, the University of Windsor president told those who attended the Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Monday.
The Windsor Canadian Music Festival will bring music students downtown for the Phog Phunk Phest, a jam session at Phog Lounge on Wednesday, February 8 at 10 p.m.
The Take 4 series will take the form of a composers’ roundtable featuring David Eagle, Keith Hamel, James Harley, Christien Ledroit and Brent Lee discussing their work and inspiration Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Music Building.
The Humanities Research Group presents Domenico Pietropaolo delivering a free public lecture entitled “Text and the Impromptu Tradition,” Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed-Orman Centre.
Dr. Pietropaolo is principal of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, holds the Goggio Chair in Italian Studies and is chair of the Italian studies department. He is also a professor of drama and is cross-appointed to the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, the Centre for Comparative Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies.
A PhD student who came to Canada in 1883 was so inspired by how settlers were dealing with Aboriginal peoples in the west that he travelled home to Germany to convince authorities there to use the same methods with Poles who had settled in the eastern part of their country, according to History professor Rob Nelson.
Preparing his psychology students for clinical practice required them to learn about themselves, says professor emeritus Jim Porter.
“One of the things that was important to me was to focus on training in relationship skills, helping my students learn to connect with the full humanity of each psychotherapy client,” he said. “It required a lot of personal growth on the part of the students.”