When Ian Campeau hits the stage at the St. Clair Centre for the Arts this Saturday night he hopes to create a vibe that will help aboriginal students get in touch with their roots and stimulate a discussion to bridge the divide between first peoples and the rest of Canadian culture.
The International Wednesdays documentary series presents India Reborn: Manufacturing Dreams, tomorrow at noon in the International Student Centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
India produces an annual output of 1000 films, but obsession with the movies runs beyond watching them. Bollywood—Hindi cinema—has seeped into every aspect of life of people in this vast and diverse nation.
When Lancer women’s basketball player Iva Peklova first spoke with local media, she said she had come to Windsor to win a national championship.
In a profile of the Prague native, Windsor Star sports columnist Bob Duff writes:
“Peklova began her Windsor days by delivering a bold statement. Then she helped deliver the goods.”
Read his article, “Peklova delivers the goods,” on the Star’s Web site.
For feminists like Catherine Hundleby, every day is women’s day. However, having a special day to help others recognize how much progress still needs to be made to create a truly equitable society for women is critical, the professor in philosophy and women’s studies says.
Anyone who didn’t make it to Chicago last fall to see the exhibit spanning the career of conceptual artist Iain 
Baxter& will soon be able to view it a little closer to home.
Engineers of the near future will have plenty of simple solutions at their disposal to help solve environmental and health problems related to poor sanitation in developing countries, according to a visiting lecturer who will speak here today.
Every year between May and July, billions of sardines “run” up the coast of southeast Africa, creating a massive feeding frenzy for the predators that devour them and a natural ecological spectacle that draws thousands of tourists to witness the event.
It’s a migratory phenomenon that could soon earn the distinction of being nominated as a UNESCO Marine World Heritage Site, and if that happens, it may be in part thanks to the contributions of a post-doctoral fellow at the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.
Every morning when they go to work in their Essex Hall biochemistry lab, PhD students Pam Ovadje and Dennis Ma get an inspirational reminder of why they’re there. Mounted on the door to that lab is a plaque dedicating the space to the memory of Kevin Couvillon, who died at the age of 26 in November 2010, after a three-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
A senior advisor to the World Health Organization will discuss the subject of sustainable development and environmental health when he meets with the university’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders next week.
Adrianus (Ton) Vlugman, who is currently stationed at the WHO’s Pan American Health Organization’s office in Guyana, will discuss such technical concepts as sanitation, wastewater and solid waste management – including recycling and management of wastes from health care facilities in the Caribbean – in order to help describe what constitutes sustainable development.
When Visual Arts professor Jennifer Willet pulled together a group of artists and scientists from around the world for a two-week camp last summer in the Rocky Mountains, she was charting new territory in the world of BioArt.
