Lydia Miljan

Josh Allen, Mary BrownlieSelf-defence instructor Mary Brownlie (right) demonstrates a release technique using a kubaton keychain weapon on Sandwich Secondary student Josh Allen during the zombie survival field trip to the UWindsor campus Friday.

University disciplines demonstrate anti-apocalypse utility

The University of Windsor offers a lot of valuable skills to survive a zombie attack, students from local high schools learned during a field trip to campus Friday.

About 70 Grade 11 and 12 students attended workshops highlighting various academic disciplines, explains organizer Lydia Miljan, professor of political science and chair of the interdisciplinary arts and science program.

poster from Zombie Apocalypse conferenceA conference opening October 28 on the UWindsor campus asks what society would be without government, emergency services, military, or commerce.

Conference to explore issues of survival in post-apocalyptic world

A conference opening October 28 on the UWindsor campus asks what society would be without government, emergency services, military, or commerce.

Cross-disciplinary programs to be overseen by academic faculties

Because interdisciplinarity has become so thoroughly integrated across campus, the University no longer needs dedicated body to administer inter-faculty programs, provost Douglas Kneale said Thursday in announcing that programs currently housed in the Centre for Inter-Faculty Programs will be administered by the faculties of education; science; and arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The programs themselves will continue in their present form, Dr. Kneale wrote in a message to the campus community, but effective May 1: