Having a massive piece of equipment used to test the strength of a wide variety of structures moved to the new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation will give faculty and student researchers a new level of capability they were never able to enjoy in their old facility, according to one engineering professor.
Staff
Aug 20th, 2012
Walking the streets of downtown Hamilton proved educational for a student in the UWindsor master’s of social work for working professionals program.
Jeff Baxter was assigned to study a city neighbourhood and said he was interested in testing his preconceptions of Hamilton.
“As a resident of Guelph—the city with the lowest rating on the crime severity index scale in the country—I always had the perception that Hamilton was a violent city, and so tried to explore this issue further,” he said.
What he found surprised him.
The University Bookstore is open for business at its Odette Building location and will remain so through September, says marketing manager Martin Deck.
“I’ve been hearing questions from students and faculty and want to make sure everyone knows it’s business as usual for us,” says Deck.
A luncheon to celebrate the retirement of kinesiology professor Margery Holman will also help to endow a student award in her honour.
Dr. Holman was a member of the University of Windsor’s first class to graduate from the physical and health education program, and went on to teach in that program over a 42-year academic career that will close with her retirement at the end of August.
Aug 16th, 2012
People who are 50 years or older and who don’t have positive thoughts about aging may want to participate in a free workshop and research study that’s aimed at reducing negative thinking about getting older.
A PhD student in biology has spent his summer hunkered down in the lab trying to figure out why an anti-nausea drug used by cancer patients might put more stress on breast cancer cells and make them more resistant to chemotherapy.
A UWindsor law professor believes it’s time to consider compensating people for the emotional loss they suffer when forced to give up their homes to make way for public infrastructure projects like the Windsor-Essex Parkway.
Aug 16th, 2012
The Leddy Library invites colleagues and friends of Johanna Foster to celebrate her retirement after 42 years at the University of Windsor, with a party Friday, August 24.
The event will run 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the library’s fourth floor staff lounge, room 4107.
Everyone is welcome; attendees should RSVP to Yvonne Arnowitz at arnowitz@uwindsor.ca by Friday, August 17.
The distance from the south end of Essex Hall to the new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation is a mere two blocks. You can walk it in less than five minutes.
Try moving 80 faculty and staff members, 247 graduate students, 76 post-doctoral fellows and research associates and about $40 million worth of laboratory equipment over the same distance.
Jason Kiernan is excited to be at the University of Windsor.
He left a position as a nurse practitioner at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital to pursue a new career path as a lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing.
“I wanted to transition into more of a research role and for a number of reasons, that wasn’t going to happen at the hospital,” Kiernan says.
He was one of seven new faculty members attending an orientation session Monday, August 13.