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.
Graduate Students
It’s one of life’s most difficult subjects and many dance around it or don’t even talk about it at all, but Bonnie Pacuta thinks it’s time for people start openly discussing what the end of their lives will look like.
Drawing on inspiration from a futuristic personal transit system being implemented in the United Arab Emirates, four UWindsor Industrial Engineering students came up with a solution to the transportation travails associated with urban sprawl, earning them a second place finish at the Provincial Ontario Engineering Competition and a place at the table for the national competition held recently in Vancouver.
Working with a team of UWindsor engineering students to help his business find ways to be more efficient was an opportunity Angelo Fallone would recommend to any company looking to improve its operations.
A UWindsor engineer hopes the testing he conducted for a local solar energy supplier will help the firm expand and grow.
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A trio of fourth-year students who recently brought home some impressive awards from the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference say they couldn’t have done it if they didn’t work in such a supportive department.
Not everyone gets to be an Olympian, but thanks to a trip to Montreal and Lake Placid last week, students in Scott Martyn’s graduate course on “Crises, Politics, and Commercialism in the Modern Olympic Movement,” got to feel like world-class athletes for a couple of days.
“Overall this was an unforgettable experience that provided students with an opportunity to supplement the material learned in class with a unique hands-on experience,” said master’s student Ryan McConnell.
A partnership with the de Souza Institute will afford nurses seeking advanced preparation in oncology and palliative care a unique opportunity for professional development at the graduate level, according to the dean of the UWindsor Faculty of Nursing.
Linda Patrick announced Friday that her school will offer a graduate diploma in advanced practice oncology/palliative nursing for students in September 2012.
The Health Research Centre for the Study of Violence Against Women offers research grants for up to $500 for graduate student research on topics related to violence against women.
The spring 2012 deadline has been extended to April 15. Calls for applications will also be made in the fall with a deadline of November 15.
The application is available on the centre’s Web site. For more information, contact Patti A. Timmons Fritz at pfritz@uwindsor.ca.
Mar 30th, 2012
The Paul Martin Law Library will offer extended hours beginning this weekend for exam study.
Its weekend hours of operation will be:
- Saturday, March 31, 11 a.m. to 8:50 p.m.
- Friday, April 6, Closed for Good Friday
- Saturday, April 7 and 14, 11 a.m. to 10:50 p.m.
- Sunday, April 8 and 15, 1 to 11:50 p.m.
It will reduce hours of operation beginning Friday, April 20: