Tricia Carmichael wishes people could stop assuming the worst when they hear about chemicals.
“Chemicals are not a bad thing,” says the associate professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry. “There are 300 different naturally occurring chemicals in an apple, but people don’t like the word ‘chemicals’ because it evokes something in their mind that can be very negative.”
Complications from the flu can be very serious, but help is on the way.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit will administer free immunization at flu vaccine clinics in the CAW Student Centre's Ambassador Auditorium:
Drama professor William Pinnell will discuss his new play, Chameleon, to open a new series of luncheon lectures presented by Uni-Com in cooperation with University Players.
The gorgeous early-autumn weather this week has students wearing t-shirts and shorts and everyone enjoying the sunshine.
George Kalivas, the new social media coordinator in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, took advantage of Wednesday’s balmy temperature to hit the campus and record his walk.
The Lancer football team is back in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport top 10 after earning a 4-1 start to the season. The squad is looking to go 5-1 – its best start in 25 years – with a win Saturday, October 8, at home over the Queen’s Gaels.
Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji was just 18 when she threw herself into Ottawa’s Rideau River in March 2008. In May this year, a Minnesota man was sentenced to jail for his role in encouraging her suicide after he struck up an online friendship posing as a young woman and proposed a suicide pact.
A group of UWindsor drama students will explore this tragedy in an original play to be staged October 15 and 16 in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre’s Studio Theatre.
The Centre for Enterprise and Law is hosting a campus luncheon to celebrate the launch of its Business of Innovation Program on Friday, October 14.
The program will nurture the business ideas of young entrepreneurs while offering an experiential learning opportunity to students. A series of workshops will focus on key legal and business aspects of starting an enterprise. They will run 6 to 8 p.m. in Alumni Hall’s McPherson Lounge:
A Collective Agreement has been successfully ratified by CUPE Local 1393, representing 260 technical, professional and skilled trades workers at the University of Windsor.
CUPE 1393 members accepted the agreement in a vote on October 1, and the University’s Board of Governors also successfully ratified the agreement during a special meeting on October 5.
UWindsor President Alan Wildeman expressed his appreciation for the successful completion of bargaining.
Of the three Olympic values – excellence, respect and friendship – it’s the last that might matter the most to Samantha Pang.
A second year master’s student in Human Kinetics who specializes in sport management, Pang spent the entire summer working in the Netherlands researching how to build a marketing strategy to increase the number of visits sport enthusiasts and tourists make to the Olympic Experience, an attraction at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
A marketing campaign rolling out this month depicts the decision process students undertake when choosing a university, and reassures them that they won’t get lost in the crowd at the University of Windsor.
The campaign ranges across a number of media in southwestern Ontario markets, says Holly Ward, executive director of Public Affairs and Communications. Print advertising includes daily and community newspapers, placards in public transit and posters in shopping malls. Commercials will run before movies in cinemas and on radio stations.
