The Celebration of Nations, scheduled for Wednesday, February 29, in the CAW Student Centre, is seeking groups to participate in the festival, which offers the opportunity to explore the diversity of the campus community.
With a theme of “World on Your Doorstep,” the event promises prizes for best display based on hospitality, creativity, and interactivity.
The deadline to register is February 22. Find more information and an online registration form on the event Web site.
To Chris Zahaluk, architecture is a pure art form that goes far beyond the pragmatic functionality of designing useful buildings.
“Every time I do a project, (visual art) is the first thing I turn to as a source of inspiration,” said Zahaluk, a third year student in Visual Arts and the Built Environment (VABE) and a member of that program’s charter class. “That’s how I integrate creativity into my work. You design spaces for the people who are going to be using them, but it’s not just a building. It’s a whole lot more than that.”
In her highly controversial 1962 bestseller Silent Spring, author Rachel Carson argued that the uncontrolled and widespread use of such pesticides as DDT was killing a wide variety of birds that were facing the possibility of extinction if something wasn’t done to address the problem.
Sit in Don Clarke’s office for any length of time and it won’t take long to see why he’s considered kinesiology’s “go-to guy.”
.jpg) _Don Clarke. |
After years of conducting experiments based largely on trial and error, chemistry professor James Green has learned to manage his expectations for positive outcomes. However, he can’t deny the fleeting surge of excitement he felt when a compound he helped develop proved effective at killing certain types of cancer cells in preliminary lab tests.
Nothing screams “ugly” like a prostate cancer cell. So who in their right mind would really want a lamp shaped like one?
Well, first-year visual art student Chloe Deroy has a friend who has called first dibs on the lamp she made, which looks like an enlarged image of a microscopic cancer cell – with a purple light bulb sticking out of it.
“She likes it because she thought it was well-executed,” Deroy said, “not because she has a thing for prostate cancer cells.”
For the last 45 years, Tony Blair has been making the world a better place, one argument at a time.
A professor emeritus in the university’s Philosophy department, Blair is one of the original founders of a school of thought known as informal logic. Simply put, it’s a manner of ordinary reasoning that helps people become more skilled critical thinkers, better able to assess the validity of arguments they’re faced with every day.
The Asian delicacy shark fin soup is often served at weddings, banquets and important business deals and symbolizes wealth, power, prestige and honour, but demand for its main ingredient has led to the overfishing and rapid decline of many shark species around the world.
A visiting researcher will discuss his work, which he hopes will help slow that decline, at a lecture this afternoon.
Marshall McLuhan might be considered by many as one of the prominent modern Canadian intellectuals, but he was actually heavily influenced by a lesser-known Swiss art historian and architectural critic, according to a visual 
arts professor who will lecture on the subject today.
The appointment of Diana Kao as associate vice-provost – international is a big step forward for the University’s internationalization program, says vice-provost Clayton Smith.
 Diana Kao. |
