Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are deliberately avoiding discussing their religious backgrounds in the current U.S. presidential election campaign because they’re keenly aware of the collateral damage it would cause them both, according to a high-profile political scientist from the University of Notre Dame who will deliver a lecture here next week.
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Creating on-going opportunities to provide a secure campus environment for everyone is the impetus behind Women’s Safety Grant funding available annually through the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, says Kaye Johnson, director of the Office of Human Rights.
Applications are now available for the funds, which Johnson says have been used to provide everything from safety cameras and campus emergency phones to Welcome Week outreach programs, personal defense courses for women, and faculty research into student safety needs.
UWindsor president Alan Wildeman is pleased to announce the appointment of K.W. Michael Siu as Vice President, Research, at the University of Windsor, effective December 1, 2012.
A new professor in the Odette School of Business is hoping his business acumen can help build on Windsor’s well-earned reputation for generosity and caring by bolstering the area’s non-profit sector through research and increased collaboration.
“There’s a need for a multidisciplinary approach to some of the contributions the non-profit sector is making to this community,” said Chris Fredette, who comes to UWindsor from the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.
There were a lot of people caught off guard when Dalton McGuinty announced earlier this week that he was resigning as Ontario’s premier, but Cheryl Collier wasn’t one of them.
The University of Windsor’s contributions to the United Way of Windsor-Essex play a critical role in making the community a better place, according to the organization’s CEO.
“The university is a very important partner for us and we’re very grateful for all their contributions,” said Penny Marrett, who along with president Alan Wildeman, was on campus yesterday for a flag-raising ceremony to kick off this year’s annual campaign.
Oct 16th, 2012
A conference being held in Windsor next month will provide a forum for researchers, graduate students and clinicians on both sides of the border to learn and share basic, clinical, and translational cancer research.
Bridging Research and Hope is a one-day conference being organized by the Windsor Cancer Research Group that will be held on Nov. 17 at the Caesars Windsor Convention Centre.
A new faculty member in the Odette School of Business is hoping to build on the department’s existing strengths and make it an even more research-intensive institution.
“There clearly is an intention to change the culture, and I came here with the intent to be a part of that change,” says Alan Richardson an accounting professor and the new Odette Research Chair.
Many kids involved with sports grow up dreaming about being a professional athlete someday, but a group of grad students in kinesiology recently got an inside look at how they can turn their passion into a livelihood by visiting with employees from several sport organizations in Toronto.
Oct 12th, 2012
Embracing technology that relies on high-pressure water injection to make auto parts while other institutions are abandoning their research on it will place the university’s engineering department in the good graces of car companies that need to make components from difficult to form lightweight materials, according to Daniel Green.