A civil engineer will return to Windsor in mid-December with a wealth of new expertise that will ultimately help Canadian resource managers better cope with potential water shortages caused by climate change.
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International students will get a taste of Canadian culture and food Friday during a grocery store tasting tour.
Oct 31st, 2013
International students will get a taste of Canadian culture and food Friday during a grocery store tasting tour.
Min Bae and Kim Nelson stand in front of the green screen in the university's Studio 5 film production facility. The two faculty members and filmmakers will both be screening new documentaries at the Windsor International Film Festival.
Oct 31st, 2013
A new film that focuses on a pioneer of the women’s movement in Windsor is much more than a lesson in feminism, according to its co-director.
“It’s a lesson in the history of the city, and a lesson about how you can live your life really caring about other people, and have an incredibly fulfilling life,” Kim Nelson says of This is What a Feminist Sounds Like.
"Luteum Papilio Reverence" by Chelsea Greenwell is just one of the 13 bioart pieces from the university's Incubator Lab that are currently on display at the Ontario Science Centre's !dea Gallery.
Oct 30th, 2013
Thousands of visitors to the Ontario Science Centre will get a better appreciation for bio-art when they see the work of University of Windsor students.
At left is an ancient Greek coin, circa 300 B.C., that was identified by professor Robert Weir. The image on the left shows the coin in the condition it was found with the yellow lines indicating traces of the symbols similar to the Poseidon coin on the right, which was was found in 1861 and is currently kept in Berlin.
Oct 29th, 2013
An ancient cultures professor has discovered that what first appeared like a “cruddy piece of bronze” is actually a 2,300-year-old coin, calling in to question previously held beliefs that the Greek city where it was made was completely destroyed by a natural disaster.
Dusty Johnstone's research involved interviewing 10 women who had been sexually assaulted but didn't label their experience as such.
Oct 24th, 2013
Even though by the letter of the law they may have been sexually assaulted, an alarming number of women don’t label what happened to them as sexual assault or rape, according to Dusty Johnstone.
A post-doctoral teaching fellow in Women’s Studies, Dr. Johnstone recently defended her 250-page PhD dissertation, a qualitative study based on interviews of 10 women who technically had been sexually assaulted, but didn’t label their experiences as such.
Poet and comedian John Wing, seated, poses for a shot with the creative students he's been working with in Dillon Hall yesterday morning.
Oct 24th, 2013
A group of English students are editing a collection of poetry by comedian John Wing.
Nigel Hussey and Steve Kessel tag a manta ray in the Red Sea off the coast of Sudan.
Oct 23rd, 2013
A rare type of hybrid manta ray has been discovered in the Red Sea thanks to the work of a trio of University of Windsor scientists and their research partners in Sudan.
The ray, a cross between a Reef Manta Ray (Manta alfredi) and a Giant Manta Ray (Manta birostris), is only the second documented case of hybridization in elasmobranchs, the subclass of fish that includes sharks and rays, according to the group.
Julie Sando types out On The Road for her exhibit called "Tapping Jack."
Oct 23rd, 2013
Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac often told the story about how after several years of mad travels across the United States, he wrote his classic novel On The Road in three weeks, typing continuously onto a 120-foot scroll of teletype paper that he cut to size and taped together.
Third-year history major Calin Murgu holds up a copy of the inaugural edition of The Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History.
Oct 22nd, 2013
Calin Murgu figured it was about time all the great historical research being done by his undergraduate colleagues was given some more permanent recognition.
“A lot of it just gets written up in papers, handed in and read by professors, assigned a grade, and that’s it,” said Murgu, a fourth-year history major. “We just felt that there wasn’t enough attention placed on the works of undergraduates and that there are times when there is some really good research that’s happening.”