The Faculty of Science held its 12th annual Celebration of Success on Friday to recognize individuals who have demonstrated excellence in teaching, research and service. A highlight of the event was the faculty’s donation to the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation’s Seeds4Hope program in lieu of welcome gifts for the event’s attendees.
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A partnership between the University of Windsor, the Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation, Legal Assistance of Windsor, Windsor Police Service, the City of Windsor, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and residents of social housing neighbourhoods has won recognition for the coordinator of field education programs in the School of Social Work.
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.
Nov 17th, 2011
The university has declared 30 Seanix computers with P4 processors and 80 GB hard drives for sale by bid as Disposal File 857. Please click here for details.
Math and statistics professor Rick Caron calls chemistry professor emeritus Roger Thibert one of his favourite people. That is why he was so honoured to be named one of the inaugural recipients of the Roger Thibert Teaching Excellence Award, Monday at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence.
“I thought, if I’m going to get a teaching award, this is the one I want,” Dr. Caron said. “I feel such a kinship with the man for his dedication to his students.”
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.
Nov 16th, 2011
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has been labelled “the worst place in the world to be a woman,” says Kate Murray. So why did this 21-year old social justice student travel to the war-torn African country?
“To promote education,” says Murray, who spent two and a half weeks this summer in the Congolese province of North Kivu.
“Supporting primary education in North Kivu, educating oneself, and supporting the dissemination of first-hand knowledge in Canada are, I believe, integral to eradicating poverty,” she says.