Volleyball players like Paige McDowell have a little more spring in their step out on the court these days thanks to the award-winning research of undergraduate Renee Meloche.
 Renee Meloche. |
Graduate Students
To Chris Zahaluk, architecture is a pure art form that goes far beyond the pragmatic functionality of designing useful buildings.
“Every time I do a project, (visual art) is the first thing I turn to as a source of inspiration,” said Zahaluk, a third year student in Visual Arts and the Built Environment (VABE) and a member of that program’s charter class. “That’s how I integrate creativity into my work. You design spaces for the people who are going to be using them, but it’s not just a building. It’s a whole lot more than that.”
In her highly controversial 1962 bestseller Silent Spring, author Rachel Carson argued that the uncontrolled and widespread use of such pesticides as DDT was killing a wide variety of birds that were facing the possibility of extinction if something wasn’t done to address the problem.
With a theme of “Opening Doors with Technology,” the sixth annual Campus Technology Day is set for Thursday, May 17, in the CAW Student Centre.
The interactive event brings together faculty, staff and students to discuss the impact technology has in enhancing learning, teaching, research and building community on campus.
Organizers have issued a call for proposals, inviting presenters to share their expertise and experiences with colleagues, through:
Sit in Don Clarke’s office for any length of time and it won’t take long to see why he’s considered kinesiology’s “go-to guy.”
.jpg) _Don Clarke. |
After years of conducting experiments based largely on trial and error, chemistry professor James Green has learned to manage his expectations for positive outcomes. However, he can’t deny the fleeting surge of excitement he felt when a compound he helped develop proved effective at killing certain types of cancer cells in preliminary lab tests.
Nothing screams “ugly” like a prostate cancer cell. So who in their right mind would really want a lamp shaped like one?
Well, first-year visual art student Chloe Deroy has a friend who has called first dibs on the lamp she made, which looks like an enlarged image of a microscopic cancer cell – with a purple light bulb sticking out of it.
“She likes it because she thought it was well-executed,” Deroy said, “not because she has a thing for prostate cancer cells.”
Jan 20th, 2012
A team of students from the Odette School of Business has finished third in a cross-province competition of accounting “soft skills” – teamwork, negotiation, communication, and time management – sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario at its Toronto headquarters January 7.
For the last 45 years, Tony Blair has been making the world a better place, one argument at a time.
A professor emeritus in the university’s Philosophy department, Blair is one of the original founders of a school of thought known as informal logic. Simply put, it’s a manner of ordinary reasoning that helps people become more skilled critical thinkers, better able to assess the validity of arguments they’re faced with every day.
Student Health Fair brings campus and community agencies together in one place to answer the myriad of questions students have, says health promotion nurse Judi Wilson.
“So many resources are gathered here for them,” Wilson said Wednesday in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium. “They can wear beer goggles to learn about the effects drinking has on their senses or they can get a relaxing massage.”