While many men consider shaving something of a chore, Dave Andrews will be thoroughly enjoying it later this week.
After spending the entire month of “Movember” growing a moustache to help raise funds for prostate cancer research, the Human Kinetics professor will be cheerfully cutting off the cookie duster as soon as he possibly can.
“It’s a lot of work,” he said. “You have to maintain it.”
The International Student Centre’s new space on the second floor of Laurier Hall is “awesome,” says Yousef Abdullah Aldakhelallah.
“It will be very welcoming to students – the old location does not compare,” said the native of Saudi Arabia, currently enrolled in the English Language Improvement Program, as he helped carry some small boxes into the new offices Friday.
The centre has vacated its long-time home in Cody Hall, which is slated for demolition next summer.
Meghan Roney has played plenty of high-contact sports like rugby and lacrosse, but draws the line when it comes to roller derby. Not because she’s afraid of getting hurt, though.
“I don’t skate,” the first-year kinesiology masters student confesses. “It would be interesting to try though. It 
might be fun to give it a shot.”
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the University Wind Ensemble’s fall concert, Friday, November 25, at 7:30 p.m., in Assumption University Chapel.
Admission is $15, with a student rate of $5. Order tickets by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212, or purchase online at www.uwindsor.ca/music. Tickets also available at the door. Find more information on the music Web site.
Lights, excitement and culture are on offer Friday as the International Student Society presents the Festival of Lights, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre Commons.
The event is a multicultural celebration, featuring music and dance performances, as well as food and drink from many lands.
“It is this time of the year that every student feels explicitly grateful for being part of one of the more diverse campuses in North America,” says Shruthi Kubatur, the society’s vice-president administration.
Zebra mussels, round gobies and other invasive species have been living in the Great Lakes and other inland Canadian waters for years now, but could soon spread to the Canadian Arctic according to a leading conservation ecologist and expert on the subject.
A team of students from Electrical and Computer engineering have found a way to take the anxiety out of knowing when and where to charge your electric vehicle by using your smart phone.
“That anxiety is very real,” said Khaja Shazzad a PhD student in associate professor Kemal Tepe’s Wireless Communication and Information Processing Research Lab (WiCIP), located in the new Centre for Engineering Innovation.
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.
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.
