Lancer coaches and athletes turned out May 2 to volunteer for McHappy Day, the annual fundraising event that sees McDonald’s restaurants across the country donate a portion of the day’s sales to local children’s charities.
Special guests, sports and media personalities, politicians and professional entertainers greeted and served customers to help raise money for Ronald McDonald House, which provides families of sick children a home-away-from-home or a place of peace and calm within a hospital.
A new program to conduct psycho-educational assessments of local children and adolescents will provide “a gold-standard service,” says the faculty member heading up the project.
“We can take more time with cases,” says Sylvia Voelker, director of the Psychological Services and Research Centre. “We plan to conduct follow-up to see how the recommendations from the assessments are acted on.”
Two organizers of this year’s Science Rendezvous will appear tonight – Tuesday, May 8 -- on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet to help promote the nationwide May 12 event.
Physics professor Steven Rehse and biotechnology student Florida Doci will demonstrate their “fire tornado” experiment, which is scheduled for display at the CAW Student Centre this Saturday.
Several alumni of the School of Visual Arts are participating in collaborative projects now on display in the Artcite gallery.
A free public reception on Friday, May 4, will celebrate Occupy This! The exhibition features the “Occupy Windsor Documentation Project” by Alana Bartol (BFA 2004) and Collette Broeders (BFA 2006) and “The Break Room” by Teresa Carlesimo (BFA 2011) and Michael DiRisio, an MFA candidate.
The show will be up through May 26; Friday’s reception begins at 7:30 p.m. Artcite is located at 109 University Avenue West.
The five artists participating in the School of Visual Arts’ Emerging Artist Research Residency will discuss their work and practices in free public presentations, May 3 and 4 in the LeBel Building.
The residents will have access to the school’s facilities through the month of May so that they might cultivate new ideas through research, studio production, and the exploration of the Windsor-Detroit border region.
Dramatic increases to the government imposed fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks in the U.S. may decrease the auto industry’s carbon foot print but pose some serious challenges for vehicle and component part manufacturers and the engineers who support them, according to Peter Frise.
“Fuel economy is going to have to improve 40 per cent from 2010 levels by 2016,” said Dr. Frise, the scientific director of the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence. “This is creating profound challenges for the industry.”
UWindsor kinesiology grad Erika Reiser (BHK 2011) is one of 19 top female scholar-athletes from across the province to be honoured as a “Woman of Influence” by Ontario University Athletics at a luncheon May 8 in Huntsville.
The event honours female student-athletes who have excelled in their chosen sports and fields of study.
Canadian journalists who specialize in health and science reporting are doing a tremendous job of covering their subject matter but need to remain ever-vigilant about asking hard and sometimes uncomfortable questions when presented with new research, according to Brian Goldman.
In what years did Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Francis Crick and James Watson win their Nobel Prizes?
Asking high school students to slot in a series of responses tests their knowledge of science history. Telling them how many they got right and timing them while they switch their answers also tests their ability to solve logic puzzles.
People respond to incentives, but sometimes the trick is finding the right incentives, says fourth-year psychology student Ashley Cooper.
She worked with a four-year-old boy with autism, trying to get him to pierce a lump of play dough with a fork as a prelude to mastering table manners. His skills improved as she offered inducements like small toys, but he jumped to perfect mastery when offered a chance to play with an iPad as a reward.
“I had waited three weeks before trying the iPad and I was like: Really? All he wanted was the iPad?” says Cooper.
