When Aaron Blata graduates from engineering school he says he’d like to make a career of retrofitting old buildings.
“Either that or demolishing them,” said the Civil and Environmental engineering student.
His destructive streak might easily be explained by the fact that he spent about 100 hours this semester building a model of an ancient device used by medieval warriors to smash the walls of fortified cities during long sieges.
The University Players production of the tragic comedy Crimes of the Heart opened Thursday at the Essex Hall Theatre. Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play depicts three sisters from a small Southern town, reunited after the youngest sister has shot her husband.
The campus production stars Stephanie Bitten as Lenny, Christina Bryson as Meg, and Margaret Evraire as Babe. It runs through November 27; Wednesday through Saturday performances are at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m.
Looking out over the rows and rows of solar panels that line the roof of the Tecumseh Arena, Frank Iakovidis sees a lot of untapped potential.
While it’s true the more than 2,000 panels there provide almost 600 megawatt hours of electricity to the generating grid, the master’s student of engineering thinks there’s a whole lot more energy to be had, if he could only find a way to cool them down in the summer and prevent snow from building up on them during the winter.
Despite the commonly held stereotype of the battered woman who is too afraid to take action to stop the abuse, many women actually do call the police when they’re being physically assaulted.
The Graduate Student Society will host a free public screening of the film Piled Higher and Deeper: the Movie, Thursday, November 17, at 8 p.m. in room 102, Toldo Health Education Centre.
The film is a live-action adaptation of the online PhD Comics by Jorge Cham. The strip explores the culture of academe through the stories of four graduate students struggling to find balance between research, teaching and their personal lives.
Watch the film’s trailer here:
A University of Windsor graduate has won a coveted Governor General’s award for his latest collection of poetry.
Killdeer, a book of poems and essays by two-time UWindsor alumnus Phil Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the Canada Council for the Arts announced yesterday.
Tuition costs remain a hot topic on the University of Windsor campus, and now students are taking those concerns to the streets, joining the “Occupy” movements that were sparked on the streets of New York City.
“Everyone has specific things that they do not like,” says Mohammad Almoayad, one of about 20 students among the protesters camping out in the park in front of Windsor City Hall.
Almoayad supports eliminating tuition altogether, saying it would cost “only $5 billion.”
They call themselves the Faculty of Mo.
Dave Andrews, a professor in the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Phil Graniero, an associate professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, have teamed up to raise funds for prostate cancer research by growing their moustaches during what is quickly becoming universally recognized as the month of “Movember.”
After 50 years in the world of contemporary conceptual art, with exhibits at some of the planet’s best-known galleries, you’d think Iain Baxter& had earned the right to wear a t-shirt like the one he donned for a recent opening of a retrospective collection of his career at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Business student Dane Rife had a big problem. Tasked with promoting the Windsor International Film Festival to his fellow students, he was struggling with how to get around a rule that dictates posters can not be hung on the walls of the Odette Building.
The creative solution he proposed to his team: building their own wall.
“We went to Home Depot, got all the supplies, and put it together right there on the front lawn of Odette,” the fourth-year student said. “We had to do it fast because we didn’t know if we’d be allowed.”
