Mar 12th, 2013
If you can speak fluent French and have been studying science or engineering for at least three years, then you could be a judge at the region’s largest science fair next month.
Undergraduate Students
A brand new local company will soon launch production of an important new automotive suspension component made of composite materials, and say they couldn’t have done it in twice the time without help from the University of Windsor.
“It’s really accelerated our ability to get to market faster,” said Andrew Glover, president of Thunder Composite Technologies Ltd., which will soon begin manufacturing composite sway bars at their new facility on the South Service Drive. “We’d be months behind if we hadn’t done this.”
The Three Minute Thesis competition is a chance for master’s and doctoral student to explain the relevance of their work.
Andrea Landry’s tiny, remote aboriginal community in Northern Ontario isn’t immune to the challenges that plague so many similar places, but regardless of the problems and the external perceptions of her people, she’s still filled with a great sense of optimism for their future.
When the people who run CBC Windsor’s morning radio show The Early Shift decided they wanted to reshape the program in an attempt to broaden the audience, they turned to the expertise of an upper level marketing course in the Odette School of Business for some fresh ideas.
The global economic crisis that began in August 2007 has shaken the belief that financial crises belong only to the past, says Robert Dimand.
“At every moment in the evolution of economics, you could find people who were convinced that the way things were is how they would always be,” he says.
A professor of economics at Brock University, Dimand will explore the value of teaching economic history in his free public presentation “What to tell a Graduate Course in Macroeconomics about Keynes,” at 10 a.m. Friday, March 8, in room 1163, Chrysler Hall North.
Against the backdrop of a city on the verge of financial ruin and staring down the possibility of an even bigger disconnect from its Canadian cousins thanks to a recently approved U.S. budget bill, a group of artists and researchers will gather here this weekend looking for ways to encourage people to think of Detroit and Windsor as a singular cross-border metropolitan environment.
Hoda ElMaraghy and Tarek AlGeddawy figured they needn’t look any further than an ordinary household appliance like a washing machine to demonstrate how manufacturers can respond to growing consumer demand for increased product variety but still remain profitable.
From September 2013 until April 2014, the University of Windsor will commemorate five decades of education, creativity, and innovation—and it is inviting you to join the celebration.
Up to 20,000 alumni, friends and community members are expected to visit the campus for a kick-off weekend September 19 to 22, designed to strengthen Lancer pride and show our appreciation for the continued support of our region.
Meet Mehrdad Shademan for the first time and it’s easy to get the impression he’s a fairly quiet, low-key type of guy. He wasn’t so mild-mannered, however, the day he found out he was the recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
“I was screaming and yelling,” he says in the graduate student office he shares with colleagues in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation. “Everybody was pretty shocked.”