An online survey seeks student input on a variety of career-oriented programs and services that are offered to students by the University of Windsor.
The goal is to collect information that can then be analyzed and used to improve these services, says Chris Busch of the Centre for Executive and Professional Education.
“We hope that students will take the time to complete this survey and provide honest answers to the questions,” he says, while emphasizing participation is completely voluntary.
Everything from human-sized robots that can bash in buildings to new devices that help people exercise more efficiently will be on display when the university hosts its annual research showcase at Devonshire Mall this Saturday.
“This will be a wonderful opportunity for members of the community to experience first-hand some of the amazing research that goes on every day at the University of Windsor,” said VP, Research Michael Siu.
While words may elicit mental images, pictures act directly on our sensibilities by actually placing events visually in front of us, as if they were in fact unfolding before our eyes, says Jens Kjeldsen.
This ability to create presence is one of the qualities he will explore in a free public lecture Thursday entitled “Four Rhetorical Potentials of Images.”
A professor of rhetoric at Norway’s University of Bergen and Sweden’s Södertörn University, Kjeldsen is also president of the Rhetoric Society of Europe.
Besides supplying clean, renewable energy, Canada’s rapidly growing wind generation sector can provide plenty of economic benefits for depressed areas, according to a national wind energy research leader who will speak here Wednesday.
 Wind Energy Institute of Canada CEO Scott Harper. |
A professor who specializes in cross-border transportation studies traveled to the nation’s capital last week to have the chance to meet with federal politicians and convince them of the importance of his research.
Registration begins today—Monday, April 22—for LearnIT workshops held during Intersession 2013.
The IT Services program offers a wide variety of free workshops for students, faculty and staff in levels ranging from beginner to advanced in Office Productivity, operating systems, and computer security. All participants will receive a certificate of completion and a handout for the session; lucky winners of raffles in each session will take home a Quick Resource Guide.
A wide variety of animals throughout the natural world pass along signals to their offspring in order to help them adapt to a world that may be much harsher to live in, according to a University of Windsor biologist.
UWindsor doctoral candidates Chris Allan and Rebecca Williams will join 28 graduate students from across the province for the finals of the Three Minute Thesis competition today—Thursday, April 18—at Queen’s University.
The competition challenges researchers to offer a presentation on their thesis or dissertation topic to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.
Sharing her passion for science with elementary and high school youth helped to remind Michelle Bondy why she loved the subject in the first place. Now she is hoping to spread that enthusiasm with the help of student volunteers from the University of Windsor.
A UWindsor biology grad (BSc 2009), Bondy is outreach program coordinator for the Faculty of Science, and has started recruiting for Let’s Talk Science, which offers free hands-on activities to engage children in science, technology, engineering and math.
She’s studied stingrays in the Cayman Islands and caribou in the Canadian boreal forest, but now a predictive ecologist will use her expertise to better understand the ecosystems of the Great Lakes.
