Katrina Krawec went from conducting Olympic-related research in Germany this summer to actually attending the Games in London.
A master’s student in kinesiology, Krawec spent several months at the University of Tübingen, just south of Stuttgart, where she participated in a large multi-year study to analyze the health and nutrition behaviours in adolescent Olympic-level elite athletes.
The University of Windsor will recognize a $500,000 donation from the Windsor Family Credit Union (WFCU) towards the new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation with the naming of a state-of-the-art classroom in the building.
“We believe in the future of the University of Windsor and the economic and educational benefits that it provides to our community and beyond,” said WFCU’s president, Martin Komsa. “This is a very significant contribution for the credit union and one that we feel will have long lasting positive effects.”
People who are 50 years or older and who don’t have positive thoughts about aging may want to participate in a free workshop and research study that’s aimed at reducing negative thinking about getting older.
Kyle Asquith has some intimate knowledge about how television markets products to children, but is also quick to dispel the widely accepted notion that it was the TV industry that invented the methods so commonly used today.
“There’s a misconception that marketing to children came in the television age,” says Dr. Asquith, the newest faculty member in the department of Communication, Media and Film. “Most companies already had the tactics and strategies of marketing to children nailed by the 1920s.”
Scientists are hailing the discovery this summer of a new boson as the most significant advance in particle physics in 30 years.
Robert Harr, a professor of physics at Wayne State University and a member of the Collider Detector at Fermilab experiment, will discuss the implications in a free public seminar entitled “Sighting the Higgs boson: a field guide,” Thursday, September 13, at 2:30 p.m. in room 108, Odette Building.
UWindsor alumnus Greg Samek (BMus 2006) will open the School of Music’s fall concert season with a marimba performance on Friday, September 14, at Mackenzie Hall.
Samek is an alumnus of the Detroit Civic Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada; he is currently a member of the Scrap Arts Music ensemble, which performed for the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Speakers and refreshments will mark the launch of the 2012/13 year of programming by the Centre for Enterprise and Law, on Tuesday, September 25, in Vanier Hall’s Katzman Lounge.
The centre’s entrepreneur in residence, Paul Foster, will speak. Founder and CEO of The Business Therapist®, Foster is a coach and advisor for personal and business growth. Using first-hand client knowledge from 30 years of experience, he provides tools and resources for small business owners, business coaching, and entrepreneur mentoring.
A blog by the president of the Engineering Student Society provides a student perspective on the impending opening of the Centre for Engineering Innovation, scheduled for September 17.
All of the dedication and commitment Dennis Ma has put into his research are beginning to pay off, both in his academic career and the progress he’s made in finding new ways to fight cancer.
If you prefer working outdoors and consider yourself something of an environmentalist, UWindsor’s campus now has the perfect spot for you.
A solar bench, which captures energy from the sun and converts it to electricity, was recently installed near the gardens in front of the Leddy library.
Klaus Dohring, owner of Green Sun Rising, the Windsor company that made and donated the bench, said it’s an ideal location to sit outside and work on a laptop or to charge up an electronic device.
