Sep 26th, 2011
Poet Alan Davies, the university’s new writer-in-residence, will offer a free public reading of his work this Wednesday.
Graduate Students
Sep 26th, 2011
For a very brief moment, Mia Sisic’s eyes well up ever so slightly when asked what she recalls about growing up in a small town in what was still Yugoslavia in the early 1990s during a bitter war that would eventually divide her home country along ethnic and religious lines.
“I remember a lot but I don’t want to talk about it,” she replies with a quick, smiling recovery. “My parents and I still talk about it, but we try to leave that in the past. I do remember being a very happy kid, playing with kids who were Serbian, Muslim and Croatian. It didn’t matter then.”
Funding agencies seeking to maximize the impact of research are increasingly requiring applicants to submit plans for knowledge mobilization. A one-hour workshop on campus this week will present different approaches to organizing a knowledge mobilization plan.
The workshop, Effective Knowledge Mobilization Plans, is aimed at faculty members and graduate students applying for funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It runs 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 29, in Vanier Hall’s Oak Room.
Sep 23rd, 2011
Campus Community Police are investigating several thefts from lockers in the St. Denis Centre changing rooms.
Campus Community Police are advising students, staff and faculty to be extra vigilant and ask anyone with information that may be helpful to investigators to phone them at 519-253-3000, ext. 1234.
Sep 23rd, 2011
The experience of patients and their families is often the missing ingredient to improve patient safety, says Deborah Prowse. Her mother’s tragic death in 2004 led her to become an advocate for providers to work with patients to make healthcare safer.
In an address to a one-day conference at the University of Windsor on Saturday, September 24, Prowse will discuss her personal journey from harm to healing.
Sep 23rd, 2011
The following union position is available to internal bargaining unit members only. Bargaining unit members interested in this position are requested to apply in writing by completing an 'Application for Transfer' form and forwarding it to: Department of Human Resources on or before 4 p.m. on the posting closing date. Please note: Union positions are covered by the union collective agreement, therefore, please be aware that we must allow our qualified unionized staff the first opportunity for transfer or promotion to these positions.
A filmmaker and a musician have both received federal research funding that will allow them to follow their individual creative inspirations and each others' at the same time.
It will take more than a little rain to dampen the spirits of art students participating in the Fahrenheit Festival of Fire Sculpture this weekend. The event, presented by the Artcite gallery, involves the creation of wood and straw structures that are set alight.
Members of professor Rod Strickland’s third-year sculpture class plan to build and burn three pieces.
“I am definitely excited. This is my first time putting an artwork out there for the public,” says BFA student Patrick Bodnar.
He says the medium of fire is unpredictable.
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to Ascolta La Ciociaria, a celebration of classical Italian music, Tuesday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel. Tickets are $10 general admission, available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212; or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music.
Sep 22nd, 2011
Psychology professor Charlene Senn will discuss her study on the effectiveness of a new sexual assault resistance training program when she appears on CJAM 99.1 FM this afternoon.
Earlier this year Dr. Senn received a $1.3 million grant for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study the program as it's implemented at the University of Windsor, the University of Calgary and the University of Guelph. If proven effective at reducing incidences of sexual assault, it will be offered to university campuses right across the country.