PhD student Michael Miller, left, and chemistry professor Tricia Carmichael examine a piece of silicone rubber with silver nanowires embedded in it. Their method of making the prototype marks an important step towards making stretchable electronics a reality.
Bob Rae will deliver a keynote address at 11 a.m. today in Ambassador Auditorium.
A former premier of Ontario and interim leader of the federal Liberal party will be on campus today to deliver a keynote address at a conference being sponsored by Windsor Law.
Bob Rae will deliver a lecture for the law faculty’s 2013 career conference The Law and Beyond: Justice at Work. His address will be at 11 a.m. in Ambassador Auditorium.
From left, students Kassem Bazzi, Matthew Vong and Tyler Doyle prepare to launch their trebuchet on Friday.
Engineering students were busy launching rubber balls through the industrial courtyard at the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation on Friday.
The students were taking part in an assignment for their course in dynamics, which required them to construct a trebuchet – similar to a catapult that uses counterweights to launch its projectile – out of nothing more than wood, string and pop cans.
Lisa Stomp stands in the field house at the St. Denis Centre, where about 150 area high school students will participate in the Girls in Motion initiative today.
If it weren’t for the fact that Lisa Stomp was a physically active young lady, she might not have withstood a lumpectomy, a partial mastectomy, eight rounds of chemotherapy and 28 doses of radiation therapy.
“If I wasn’t physically active going into treatment, it might have been a different outcome,” the breast cancer survivor and fourth-year human kinetics student said yesterday. “If I wasn’t aware of my own body and what it was telling me, I wouldn’t have known that I was sick.”
Oliver Love was named Canada Research Chair in Integrative Ecology during an announcement in Calgary yesterday.
An important new appointment for a biology researcher will help him connect with colleagues from around campus and around the world to tackle some of the most pressing environmental problems in the Great Lakes and the Canadian Arctic.
Oliver Love, an assistant professor in Biological Sciences was named a Canada Research Chair in Integrative Ecology yesterday. The position brings $500,000 in research funding to the university over the next five years.
Minister of Sport Bal Gosal, right, speaks to reporters after delivering a lecture to a first-year sport and ethics class.
The federal Minister of Sport believes the rest of Canada should follow Manitoba’s lead and implement mandatory physical education and activity for school children from the day they begin junior kindergarten until they graduate from high school.
Jacqueline Power recently published the findings of a study which found that many bullying victims share many of the same personality traits as the people who oppress them.
A screening of the Lahore-based film "Bol" will open an Indian film festival Friday.
Justin Mychek-Londer is shown here on the banks of the Detroit River. He's one of nine graduate students who received scholarships from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
