A person’s vulnerability to a disease like HIV is more rooted in how they fit into a community and less on their individual behaviour – which might explain why youth from African, Caribbean and Black populations have higher rates of infection, according to a UWindsor sociology professor who is studying the problem.
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If it weren’t for the compassion of a complete stranger, Jon Brent never would have lived long enough to experience the simple things in life so many of us take for granted.
“I got to go to high school and be on the wrestling team,” says Brent, a third-year economics major who received a life-saving bone marrow transplant almost 12 years ago. “I got to throw around a football. I got to write all these really difficult economics exams and learn how to take all the bad in life along with the good.”
Phil Graniero is looking for a few mo’ men to join him in his fight against prostate cancer.
A professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dr. Graniero has participated for the last couple of years in Movember. An international effort which calls on men around the planet to grow a moustache throughout the month of November, Movember raise funds for research into a cure for prostate cancer, as well as awareness for men’s mental health issues.
The values instilled in a nursing grad who helped a dying man get the most from his final days and then go on to co-author a book about him were acquired right here at the University of Windsor, she says.
“The University of Windsor has been an indelible part of my career,” says Grace Bradish (BScN, BA, 1977). “It’s been a fundamental part of everything I’ve done. It was a huge gift for me to be able to get in there. It was a very solid nursing program and the university community was really, really tight.”
A tradeshow next week showcasing technology industry leaders is offering discounted admission to UWindsor students.
The Windsor-Essex Leaders in Innovation Technology Forum and Tradeshow, October 30 at the Caboto Club, promises attendees opportunities for networking and learning.
The program includes:
A UWindsor law professor is in western Ukraine as part of a mission to help monitor Sunday’s parliamentary elections amid concerns expressed by the Canadian government regarding the former Soviet bloc country’s commitment to international standards of human rights, democracy and rule of law.
Despite the fact that social media web sites like Flickr are worth millions of dollars, the users who generate nearly all the content for them are surprisingly comfortable with their labour being “unwaged,” according to a new communications professor.
“The thought of someone else making money off their work doesn’t hold much sway with Flickr members,” said Brian A. Brown, an assistant professor who joined the department of Communication, Media and Film this fall.
A free public seminar Friday morning is the latest in a series sponsored by the Windsor History of Economic Thought Club.
David Laidler, a professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, will deliver “Two Crises, Two Ideas and One Question” at 10 a.m. October 26 in room G125, Chrysler Hall North.
When the musicians and artists who make up what is now known as the Noiseborder Ensemble first came together in 2008, they were highly influenced by Windsor’s proximity to an international border crossing.
Oct 22nd, 2012
The University Secretariat invites students interested in the University’s governance to participate in a focus group discussing the composition and mandate of Senate’s Student Committee and Academic Policy Committee.
The session will run on campus from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 1. Students interested in providing constructive feedback should RSVP by Friday, October 26, to alisonz@uwindsor.ca.