The Schulich Windsor Health Lecture Series presents local endocrinologist Raphael Cheung leading a discussion on “New Advances in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes,” at Riverside Public Library on Wednesday, December 14, at 7 p.m.
More than 9 million Canadians live with diabetes or prediabetes. Get your questions answered by an expert at this free public event. Click here to RSVP.
The university has declared one IBM server and two network document servers for sale by bid as Disposal File 858. Please click here for details.
Friday, December 9, is the deadline for tickets to the Faculty & Staff Holiday Mingle and Jingle, scheduled for noon Tuesday, December 13, in Vanier Hall’s Winclare Room A.
The annual event has been re-invented, with a horse-drawn carriage providing rides to a stand-up reception featuring festive food stations, live entertainment, door prizes and the company of friends and colleagues.
A new campaign offers a chance to win prize packages in exchange for repeating tips on fire safety. Windsor Fire and Rescue Services has dubbed its project the “12 Days of Holiday Fire Safety.”
The contest runs until December 20. Find more details on prizes and how to win on the service’s Web site.
The Department of Human Resources wishes to advise members of the University of Windsor pension plans that the following information is available on the HR/Pensions Web site:
Today – Monday, December 5 – is the last day of classes in the fall semester for all programs. Final examinations begin Thursday, December 8 and run through December 19.
Mental health is everyone’s business, says Beth Oakley, director of the Educational Development Centre. That’s why she is hoping for campus-wide involvement in events early next semester meant to raise awareness of these issues.
Mental Health Awareness Week will run January 16 to 19, 2012. Organizers hope to provide education in four key areas: prevention, awareness, destigmatization and resource provision.
In his final public appearance as UWindsor writer-in-residence, Alan Davies will read excerpts from his current writing projects and discuss the experience of writing as an everyday practice.
In his lecture, entitled “The Right to Write,” Davies will consider the ethics of writing as an active mode of articulating and investigating made and given worlds. It starts at 5:30 p.m. Monday, December 5, in room 2101 Chrysler Hall North.
Christmas came early for Peter Marval, media artist in the Centre for Teaching and Learning, as he won yesterday’s DailyNews contest and two free tickets to the Festival of Christmas choral concert, Sunday, December 4, at 3 p.m. at Assumption Church.
So’s name was drawn from all respondents who correctly noted that Merry Christmas wishers demand figgy pudding; that wassailers are generally not picky and will accept cider, mulled wine, punch or spiced ale; and that if you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do.
Researchers should be sensitive to how gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, history and geography influence the production of knowledge, says Snežana Ratković.
A science teacher from the former Yugoslavia now pursuing a doctorate in education at Brock University, she will deliver a free lecture entitled “Employing a Transnational Feminist Research Methodology” on Wednesday, December 7.
