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.
What can contemporary scientific psychology, barely 150 years old, teach us about the emotions that literary and philosophical inquiry cannot? A symposium on the UWindsor campus April 20 and 21 will bring scholars from around the world to explore that question.
Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences is sponsored by the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric and English professor Stephen Pender, research leadership chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
In what organizers touted as a great night for a great cause, the Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience Students’ Association raised about $3500 for the John McGivney Children’s Centre on January 27.
“A Night on the Nile” at Windsor’s Fogolar Furlan Club boasted a formal dinner, dance and silent auction. The John McGivney Children’s Centre provides rehabilitative services to the Windsor-Essex community, enriching the lives of children and youth with disabilities and special needs.
The student association’s president, Julia Mockler, said she was pleased to be able to help.
Preparing his psychology students for clinical practice required them to learn about themselves, says professor emeritus Jim Porter.
“One of the things that was important to me was to focus on training in relationship skills, helping my students learn to connect with the full humanity of each psychotherapy client,” he said. “It required a lot of personal growth on the part of the students.”
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Anne Baird, associate professor of psychology, is conducting a free workshop offering information and skills aimed at those who seek to maintain or improve good memory function and health in the second half of work life and in retirement. The workshop is part of her research study, funded by a University of Windsor internal grant.
Martin Girash, a three-time graduate of the University of Windsor (BSc 1965, MA 1968, PhD 1973), attributes his career success to the foundation he developed during his studies here.
While his roles have changed – from a student to an alum, a sessional instructor and a member of its Board of Governors, taking over as chair November 23, 2011 – he has been associated with the University for more than 50 years.
He says his professors encouraged him to develop a “cohesive philosophy of life” which guided him in making decisions through his professional career.
For a very brief moment, Mia Sisic’s eyes well up ever so slightly when asked what she recalls about growing up in a small town in what was still Yugoslavia in the early 1990s during a bitter war that would eventually divide her home country along ethnic and religious lines.
“I remember a lot but I don’t want to talk about it,” she replies with a quick, smiling recovery. “My parents and I still talk about it, but we try to leave that in the past. I do remember being a very happy kid, playing with kids who were Serbian, Muslim and Croatian. It didn’t matter then.”
Psychology professor Charlene Senn will discuss her study on the effectiveness of a new sexual assault resistance training program when she appears on CJAM 99.1 FM this afternoon.
Earlier this year Dr. Senn received a $1.3 million grant for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study the program as it's implemented at the University of Windsor, the University of Calgary and the University of Guelph. If proven effective at reducing incidences of sexual assault, it will be offered to university campuses right across the country.
An update to the UWindsor e-newsletter, DailyNews, will enable users to share its content more easily, says editor Kevin Johnson.
“The new design takes advantage of syndication tools in the University’s Drupal content management system, and improves integration with social media,” he says. “We’re trying to get more bang for our buck by letting readers distribute our stories across the Web.”
