Professors Finny Cherian and Robert Nelson will receive Alumni Teaching Awards during celebrations of the University’s 101st Convocation this week.
Professors Finny Cherian and Robert Nelson will receive Alumni Teaching Awards during celebrations of the University’s 101st Convocation this week.
It was unfairly dragged into a local sex scandal back in its day, but a demonstration school established in Windsor during the middle of the last century broke new ground and became a model for nursing education in Canada, according to a university historian.
Whenever Gillian Kornacki drives down Goyeau Avenue, she must wonder what life was like for her distant relatives.
“My grandma was a Goyeau, so I grew up with the stories about how that street used to be our farm,” says the fourth-year history major.
Those stories were enough to make her do a little more digging. Several years ago, while visiting her grandfather’s house, she found a genealogy book, compiled by one of her relatives during the 1970s, tracing her family’s history back 12 generations.
When Emile Naicker came to university, he never imagined he’d be able to combine his love for history with his passion for his favourite football club.
But that’s just what the fourth-year history major did when he signed up for an innovative course taught by Heidi Jacobs and Rob Nelson called History on the Web. Designed to teach students how to integrate historical archives and other resources with modern communications technology, the course required each one to create a project demonstrating how they would preserve history on the internet.
Today is an especially rewarding one for Kim and Rob Nelson.
Besides taking home a pair of awards at today’s annual Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, the two professors are celebrating their 14th wedding anniversary.
Second World War enthusiasts won't want to miss an important lecture today about the Nazi's plans to turn Berlin into what was supposed to be the imperial capital of the German racial empire.
African-descended people played an important role in bringing slavery to an end in Canada’s Maritimes, but that came with some cost.
Anyone who ever raised and educated a child with ADHD knows it can be a challenge, but armed with new stimulus funding, a psychology professor is planning to equip parents and teachers with skills to better deal with their demands.
You might think cooking an exotic meal for his family or invited guests would be a welcome distraction from his labour, but it actually brings Rob Nelson closer to his work as an historical researcher.
“Food has so much to do with culture and history, so cooking a recipe from a country like Senegal, for instance, can really enhance your understanding of a place, even if you’ve never been there,” said Dr. Nelson. “You just feel like you have some kind of connection through cooking.”