Two programs that send the educators of the future abroad on international missions ultimately make them greater teachers, far better suited for instructing in the diverse, multicultural classrooms of Canada.
Undergraduate Students
Renovating Windsor’s downtown armouries provides an excellent opportunity to create a new “precinct for the arts” that would promote inspiration and serendipitous interdisciplinary collaboration, according to one of the architects overseeing the project.
Over the next five years, Dan Heath hopes to unite the wide variety of researchers across campus studying environmental issues.
“I really want to expand the role of environmental research at the University of Windsor,” said Dr. Heath, a biology professor who takes over as the new director of the University’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in May.
Working on the Residence Life staff offers students an opportunity to build their leadership skills, enhance their university experiences and secure free living accommodations on campus, says manager Sandra Davis.
Applications are open until Friday, January 13, for the 2012/13 school year for these positions:
Students up for an opportunity of a lifetime should consider one of the many academic exchanges open to them, says coordinator Michelle Fitzgerald: “we want to send as many students on exchange as possible.”
The University of Windsor student exchange program offers a wide range of destinations to choose from – with partner institutions in the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Japan, Italy and more.
A physics professor who is researching methods of using laser technology to detect the presence of potentially life-threatening bacteria on the surfaces of materials we commonly touch or in the food and liquids we regularly consume will discuss his work on CJAM today.
Jan 4th, 2012
The Masters of Social Work for Working Professionals program, run by the Faculty of Social Work and offered through the Centre for Executive Education, has reached a new northern milestone. University of Windsor Residence Life Manager and M.S.W. candidate Nicole Clark has broken new ground for the school in completing her required practicum placement in Whale Cove, Nunavut.
When the time came to decide what to do with the money her Dragon Boat team had raised, it only made sense to Alexandra Shoust that it should go to a local researcher trying to help find a cure for breast cancer.
“I think the research that’s going on at the University of Windsor is just awesome,” said Shoust, a former captain of A Breast or Knot, one of two local teams made up exclusively of breast cancer survivors. “We thought, wouldn’t it be amazing if a cure, or a key to a cure, was found right here in our community.”
UWindsor students have the upper hand among Canadian universities when it comes to the publishing process, thanks to a creative writing professor who involves them in his publishing company.
Black Moss Press founder Marty Gervais presents two manuscripts each year to the students in his editing practicum course. They have to go through the complete editing process, giving them a real feel for what the industry is like.
Gervais said it is the only course in Canada that allows students to work with real manuscripts they marshal through the entire publishing process.
It seems only fitting that Debra Hernandez-Jozefowicz would be the featured guest on a radio show on CJAM on the same day the station is paying tribute to Joe Strummer, the former front man of the pioneering British punk band The Clash.
Not only does she conduct research on youth homelessness, an issue that was near and dear to Strummer’s 
heart, but she even quoted him in her own PhD dissertation.