Paleontologist Robert Reisz is the featured guest of the seventh annual Earth Day Dinner, a fundraising event for Canada South Science City, on Wednesday, April 25.
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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.
A video stream over the Internet will allow interested members of the public to watch a Saturday reception celebrating the first graduating class of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry - Windsor Program.
The program will feature remarks by educational and civic dignitaries as well as the introduction of the 24 new MDs.
Engineering and education students have developed a day of hands-on learning activities for children and families, Saturday, April 21, at Canada South Science City.
Bridging Worlds: An Engineering Education Challenge will give children seven years and older a chance to engage in four activities – constructing a boat and setting it afloat, making a working model of a set of lungs, building a tower and testing its strengths, and cleaning spilled oil from water and feathers.
Preliminary renderings of the University of Windsor’s downtown campus were revealed by president Alan Wildeman during a media conference Wednesday, April 17, in the Windsor Armouries.
“The University of Windsor is creating new spaces where our students, faculty and staff can be engaged in innovative teaching, learning and discovery, and where they can more effectively partner with the arts community and social agencies to make a difference,” Dr. Wildeman said.
When Community Living Essex County earns accreditation, it will have a pair of UWindsor students to thank.
Disability studies majors Kelly Bauer and Jenelle Rinkel spent hundreds of hours researching accreditation options for the organization, which provides services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
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UWindsor biology professor Lisa Porter will provide an update on the state of the battle against cancer in a free public lecture in the Freed-Orman Centre on Wednesday, April 18, at 5 p.m.
A cell biologist, Dr. Porter holds the Assumption University Chair in Cancer Research.
A discussion and refreshments will follow her lecture, entitled “Making Strides in the Fight Against Cancer: What has Research Done for You?”
According to the Canadian Cancer Society, 23,400 Canadian women were found to have breast cancer in 2011 -- an average of 64 every day. Learn more about this disease at an information session Tuesday, April 24.
Be Breast Aware will feature a panel of experts covering important topics such as research, detection, and treatment:
When it comes to the making of a hero, timing is everything, and it’s all about location, location, location, says Brian Owens, UWindsor archivist and librarian responsible for rare books and special collections.
Dr. Owens has spent the past five years studying and amassing a large collection of materials in anticipation of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, and he has a surprising take on the big three legends of the conflict – General Isaac Brock, Chief Tecumseh, and Laura Secord.
Members of the Lancer varsity soccer teams will volunteer as referees for the second annual Smiles 4 Miles four-on-four soccer tournament, May 5 at École Secondaire L’Essor.
The event commemorates Zachary D’Souza, a L’Essor student and athlete who died in November 2010 at the age of 17 from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In its first year, the tournament raised $35,000 for the SickKids Foundation, which funds children’s health research, education and care.