Given that Tom Gideon’s reason for existing is to protect NASCAR drivers, you’d think he might bristle a little more when he hears about stock car fans who say they only watch the races for the crashes. Oddly enough, it doesn’t prompt the kind of reaction you’d expect.
Graduate Students
There’s a difference between math and baking, says Kevin St. Denis: “Math is easier.”
The third-year mathematics major prepared a couple of pies in celebration of Pi Day, Wednesday in Erie Hall.
“It’s just some premade crust and I poured in two cans of filling – cherry and blueberry,” St. Denis said. “I tried to shape them like the letter R because I was going for two pie R.”
A UWindsor art grad’s work as a paleontology laboratory technician has earned him a little piece of immortality.
Ian Morrison (BFA visual arts 1988) has had a newly-identified species of horned dinosaur named after him: Gryphoceratops morrisoni.
“He seemed like the most appropriate person to name it after,” says David Evans, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, where Morrison has worked for more than 20 years. “What better person than the one who puzzled it together?”
Mar 13th, 2012
When Ian Campeau hits the stage at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts this Saturday night he hopes to create a vibe that will help aboriginal students get in touch with their roots and stimulate a discussion to bridge the divide between first peoples and the rest of Canadian culture.
For feminists like Catherine Hundleby, every day is women’s day. However, having a special day to help others recognize how much progress still needs to be made to create a truly equitable society for women is critical, the professor in philosophy and women’s studies says.
Mar 7th, 2012
Karly-Jo Kreitzer found that a two-week expedition to the tropics gave her insights she could never have had in a classroom.
“It's an entirely different world and it was an amazing learning experience,” said Kreitzer, one of 14 students who participated in a University of Windsor field course on the ecology of Costa Rica.
Studying plants and animals in ecosystems ranging from ocean-side mangrove forests to mountaintop cloud forests, the biology students gained a unique firsthand understanding of tropical ecology.
Pride for the University of Windsor is alive and well both on campus and with our 100,000 alumni, says George Kalivas.
That’s why the social media coordinator in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications put together a video featuring some students and alumni declaring their UWindsor affiliation, loud and proud.
“We wanted to show all aspects of being a Lancer,” says Kalivas. “It’s not just for varsity athletes. Whether you’re a first-year drama student or the mayor of Windsor, you can be proud of your alma mater.”
Feb 29th, 2012
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.
Transit Windsor will provide free bus rides to UWindsor students through March 3 as part of an effort to introduce them to its services.
Full-time undergraduates who belong to the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance will vote in a referendum March 7 and 8 to establish a universal bus pass. Under the U-Pass proposal, students would pay $45 a semester, increasing over five years to $57.50 a semester, and would receive a pass for service on all Transit Windsor bus routes.
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.