The Asian delicacy shark fin soup is often served at weddings, banquets and important business deals and symbolizes wealth, power, prestige and honour, but demand for its main ingredient has led to the overfishing and rapid decline of many shark species around the world.
A visiting researcher will discuss his work, which he hopes will help slow that decline, at a lecture this afternoon.
The Campus Safety Audit Committee is seeking applications for funding for initiatives to promote safety for women on campus. The committee encourages creative, innovative proposals from members of the university community, including individuals or groups, faculty, staff and students.
The Campus Safety Audit Committee is a Presidential standing committee established to address personal safety issues on campus, with a focus on women's safety issues. Funding is allocated at the discretion of the committee and supports the following broad categories, which meet committee objectives:
Marshall McLuhan might be considered by many as one of the prominent modern Canadian intellectuals, but he was actually heavily influenced by a lesser-known Swiss art historian and architectural critic, according to a visual 
arts professor who will lecture on the subject today.
Anyone who still believes going to art school is a whimsical flight of fancy that serves little practical purpose with few chances of landing a remunerative occupation should meet Gordon Frendo.
A graduate of UWindsor’s fine arts program, Frendo (MFA 2007) is the creative director of his own media agency and a living affirmation of the notion that artists needn’t starve to keep their integrity intact.
A week of activities to inform UWindsor students, faculty and staff about mental health issues will open this evening with a special presentation by Steven Page.
One of Canada’s best-known entertainers, the former Barenaked Ladies frontman will discuss his own struggles with mental illness battling depression and manic episodes at 7 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre fieldhouse. Admission is free to UWindsor students; $2 for other students, and $5 general admission.
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Nanotechnology is miniaturization taken to the extreme, down to the size of atoms and molecules. Its applications impact a wide range of products from the textile, personal care, pharmaceutical, and electronic industries.
Award-winning chemist Tricia Carmichael will describe nanotechnology in general and in applications such as self-cleaning nanopants in a free public lecture Wednesday, January 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Canada South Science City.
Two programs that send the educators of the future abroad on international missions ultimately make them greater teachers, far better suited for instructing in the diverse, multicultural classrooms of Canada.
Renovating Windsor’s downtown armouries provides an excellent opportunity to create a new “precinct for the arts” that would promote inspiration and serendipitous interdisciplinary collaboration, according to one of the architects overseeing the project.
Over the next five years, Dan Heath hopes to unite the wide variety of researchers across campus studying environmental issues.
“I really want to expand the role of environmental research at the University of Windsor,” said Dr. Heath, a biology professor who takes over as the new director of the University’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in May.
The GATA Network presents two workshops this month on skills for graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants.
Tuesday, January 10, Jessie Beatty will facilitate “The First Day” at 9:30 a.m. Whether this is your first time or fifth time as a teaching assistant, you will learn strategies to engage students in the classroom, studio, and lab.
