Feb 13th, 2012
It was a visit to a local farm to see children with disabilities riding horses that inspired Soula Serra to get involved – and to stay involved – with the United Way.
Graduate Students
Stephen Loeb is clearly reticent about tooting his own horn, but as far as friends and colleagues are concerned, it’s high time the chemistry professor was recognized for a career of consistently producing cutting edge research and cranking out top quality graduate students from his lab.
Feb 10th, 2012
The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance will make a major announcement regarding its relationship with Transit Windsor on Monday, February 13.
“Just look for the bus in front of Leddy Library at 11 a.m.,” says alliance president André Capaldi. “We invite the entire campus community to join us for this event.”
The English Undergraduate Student Association and Generation magazine are looking for submissions for their upcoming zine, Salt.
Think of blood, sweat, tears, oceans, salt mines and table shakers; anything your mind can create!
The editors will accept up to five pages double-spaced of prose, poetry or artwork on the theme and especially encourage submissions from new Canadian writers of all ages and backgrounds.
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.
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.
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.
Feb 7th, 2012
The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric presents distinguished research fellow Douglas Walton delivering his free public lecture “An Argumentation Model of Defeasible Scientific Knowledge” at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 8, in the seminar room, Parker House.
In his discussion, Dr. Walton presents a model of the procedure whereby argumentation is used to justify the claim that a given proposition should have the status of scientific knowledge.
Feb 7th, 2012
As many as 250 of the top science journalists from across the country will be arriving here this June as the University of Windsor hosts the annual conference of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association.
What does a year in the life of the University of Windsor look like? Photographer Richard Bain is hoping students, faculty and staff will tell him.
Since last fall, he has been taking pictures of campus life for a book to be published by Binea Press. It will be Bain’s sixth project chronicling an Ontario institution of higher learning, following volumes on Western, McMaster, Guelph, Brock, and Fanshawe College.