A physics professor who is researching methods of using laser technology to detect the presence of potentially life-threatening bacteria on the surfaces of materials we commonly touch or in the food and liquids we regularly consume will discuss his work on CJAM today.
Graduate Students
Jan 4th, 2012
The Masters of Social Work for Working Professionals program, run by the Faculty of Social Work and offered through the Centre for Executive Education, has reached a new northern milestone. University of Windsor Residence Life Manager and M.S.W. candidate Nicole Clark has broken new ground for the school in completing her required practicum placement in Whale Cove, Nunavut.
When the time came to decide what to do with the money her Dragon Boat team had raised, it only made sense to Alexandra Shoust that it should go to a local researcher trying to help find a cure for breast cancer.
“I think the research that’s going on at the University of Windsor is just awesome,” said Shoust, a former captain of A Breast or Knot, one of two local teams made up exclusively of breast cancer survivors. “We thought, wouldn’t it be amazing if a cure, or a key to a cure, was found right here in our community.”
What do people hope to find underneath their tree come Christmas? DailyNews asked some students and faculty to share their holiday wishes.
“I'd like to get anything that someone has put in the time and effort to make for me,” said Kate du Toit, a first-year student of digital journalism and communications. “It always means more than a store-bought gift, regardless of what it is.”
Concurrent education and math student Andrew Keller said he has asked his mom for three things: “Skyrim, a new alarm clock, and clothes.”
After 50 years of continuous education, Bernarda Doctor knows what it's like to need a bit of a boost come exam time. So on Monday, the official last day of exams, she bought a bunch of cookies and other treats, set up a table in the Market Place at the CAW Student Centre, and handed them out to gradteful students as they passed by.
UWindsor students have the upper hand among Canadian universities when it comes to the publishing process, thanks to a creative writing professor who involves them in his publishing company.
Black Moss Press founder Marty Gervais presents two manuscripts each year to the students in his editing practicum course. They have to go through the complete editing process, giving them a real feel for what the industry is like.
Gervais said it is the only course in Canada that allows students to work with real manuscripts they marshal through the entire publishing process.
It seems only fitting that Debra Hernandez-Jozefowicz would be the featured guest on a radio show on CJAM on the same day the station is paying tribute to Joe Strummer, the former front man of the pioneering British punk band The Clash.
Not only does she conduct research on youth homelessness, an issue that was near and dear to Strummer’s 
heart, but she even quoted him in her own PhD dissertation.
Dec 21st, 2011
Dave Andrews certainly isn’t trying to create a bar-like atmosphere in his classroom, but there is a line in the theme song from the old television show Cheers that probably resonates with the kinesiology professor: “You want to go where everybody knows your name.”
For any parent who was born in Canada and brought up through the educational system here, discovering your child learns differently that the other students and then figuring out what to do about it can be extremely challenging.
For parents who have recently moved to Canada, the whole process can be especially complicated given all the cultural and language barriers that might exist. According to Cam Cobb, the right kind of relationship between educators and the parents will influence the sort of support they need to be academically and emotionally successful.
Recent nursing graduate Alyssa Thrasher will undoubtedly spend the holidays looking at her family and her living conditions with a greater sense of appreciation after spending several weeks during the fall on two separate trips helping villagers in some of the poorest regions of Central America.