Francine Schlosser stands in Odette's new Entrepreneurship Centre. She says her appointment will open new doors for additional research funding.
Grad students John Murray, left, Suzanne Ali and Michael Hatten conducted research to learn more about how varsity football players' knowledge and attitudes about concussions influenced their behaviour.
Despite being aware of the long-term consequences of concussions, some football players are willing to continue participating because they’re able to rationalize putting their sport ahead of themselves.
Those were among the findings of a trio of first-year masters students in kinesiology who presented their work yesterday, the final day for their research methods course.
Farrah Chan is currently in South Africa for a workshop at the Centre for Invasion Biology.
Ryan Snelgrove has found an innovative way to incorporate the use of social media in his classroom.
Marketing professor Vincent Georgie was named executive director of the Windsor International Film Festival when it wrapped up earlier this month.
PhD student Michael Miller, left, and chemistry professor Tricia Carmichael examine a piece of silicone rubber with silver nanowires embedded in it. Their method of making the prototype marks an important step towards making stretchable electronics a reality.
Bob Rae will deliver a keynote address at 11 a.m. today in Ambassador Auditorium.
A former premier of Ontario and interim leader of the federal Liberal party will be on campus today to deliver a keynote address at a conference being sponsored by Windsor Law.
Bob Rae will deliver a lecture for the law faculty’s 2013 career conference The Law and Beyond: Justice at Work. His address will be at 11 a.m. in Ambassador Auditorium.
From left, students Kassem Bazzi, Matthew Vong and Tyler Doyle prepare to launch their trebuchet on Friday.
Engineering students were busy launching rubber balls through the industrial courtyard at the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation on Friday.
The students were taking part in an assignment for their course in dynamics, which required them to construct a trebuchet – similar to a catapult that uses counterweights to launch its projectile – out of nothing more than wood, string and pop cans.
Lisa Stomp stands in the field house at the St. Denis Centre, where about 150 area high school students will participate in the Girls in Motion initiative today.
If it weren’t for the fact that Lisa Stomp was a physically active young lady, she might not have withstood a lumpectomy, a partial mastectomy, eight rounds of chemotherapy and 28 doses of radiation therapy.
“If I wasn’t physically active going into treatment, it might have been a different outcome,” the breast cancer survivor and fourth-year human kinetics student said yesterday. “If I wasn’t aware of my own body and what it was telling me, I wouldn’t have known that I was sick.”
Oliver Love was named Canada Research Chair in Integrative Ecology during an announcement in Calgary yesterday.
An important new appointment for a biology researcher will help him connect with colleagues from around campus and around the world to tackle some of the most pressing environmental problems in the Great Lakes and the Canadian Arctic.
Oliver Love, an assistant professor in Biological Sciences was named a Canada Research Chair in Integrative Ecology yesterday. The position brings $500,000 in research funding to the university over the next five years.
