The International Wednesdays documentary series presents a screening of India on the Move, the third episode in the CBC series India Reborn, April 11 at noon in the International Student Centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
“The elephant is thundering,” says Vineet Agarwal, whose family owns India’s largest freight company, growing at 25 per cent a year.
Drawing on inspiration from a futuristic personal transit system being implemented in the United Arab Emirates, four UWindsor Industrial Engineering students came up with a solution to the transportation travails associated with urban sprawl, earning them a second place finish at the Provincial Ontario Engineering Competition and a place at the table for the national competition held recently in Vancouver.
Working with a team of UWindsor engineering students to help his business find ways to be more efficient was an opportunity Angelo Fallone would recommend to any company looking to improve its operations.
A UWindsor engineer hopes the testing he conducted for a local solar energy supplier will help the firm expand and grow.
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The International Student Society invites applications for 11 bursaries for international students demonstrating academic achievement, financial need and community involvement.
Ten awards of $300 each are available to five graduate students and five undergrads, and one additional undergraduate award is worth $500.
Applications must be submitted to the International Student Centre no later than 4 p.m. April 9. Click here to access the form in MS Word format.
A trio of fourth-year students who recently brought home some impressive awards from the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference say they couldn’t have done it if they didn’t work in such a supportive department.
A video calling for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony ignited unprecedented backlash and counter-backlash and in the process generated a reported 100 million views on the Web site of the sponsoring organization, Invisible Children.
A panel will discuss intervention by non-governmental organizations in third world countries, with a focus on the issues raised by the Kony 2012 video, Wednesday, April 4, at 5:30 p.m. in room 203, Toldo Health Education Centre.
The panellists include:
The International Wednesdays documentary series presents Who Killed the Electric Car? April 4 at noon in the International Student Centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
The EV-1 was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of the electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?
Siyaram Pandey was skeptical when he was first approached by a local oncologist who was curious about cancer patients who had been drinking dandelion tea and seemed to be getting better.
The International Wednesdays documentary series presents The Refugees of the Blue Planet, March 28 at noon in the International Student Centre, on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
