Students in the Master of Social Work program will showcase ideas for enhancing the Windsor-Essex community and its social service agencies at “The Power of Social Work: Breaking New Ground,” a research proposal poster session, Friday, March 30.
Attendees will be able to:
Campus flags are lowered today in memory of retired food services worker Elizabeth Nehr, who died March 10. She commenced working at the University of Windsor in 1967 as general cafeteria help and retired from that position in 1985. A private family service has taken place. For details, read her obituary online.
Ontario universities welcomed the government’s continued commitment to support projected growth in student enrolment, the Council of Ontario Universities announced in a response to the provincial budget tabled Tuesday.
The City of Windsor planning department is hosting an open house Thursday, March 29, to consider land use issues relating to lodging houses.
City by-laws define a lodging house as a dwelling in which a minimum of four persons receive lodging for hire, excluding places of detention or correction, residential care facilities, groups homes, hotels or motels.
As part of the Seeds4Hope seed grants awards program, now in its fourth year, the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation invites applications for funding of new and innovative cancer research from eligible, locally-based researchers.
The program has changed; applicants must use the 2012 application materials.
The International Wednesdays documentary series presents The Refugees of the Blue Planet, March 28 at noon in the International Student Centre, on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
Rita Irwin, professor of art education and curriculum studies and associate dean of teacher education at the University of British Columbia, will explore the research methodology, creative practice and performative pedagogy of “a/r/tography” in a free public colloquium Tuesday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in room 2222, Neal Education Building.
The event is the last this semester in the Educational Research Colloquium Series.
In accordance with the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, the University of Windsor is releasing a list of all faculty and staff members who earned more than $100,000 in 2011. Click here to view the list.
From a tuba serenade to a violin’s impressions of summer, student musicians will present a varied selection of works in a free public recital Monday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in room 139, Music Building.
Part of the School of Music’s Take 4 series, the program features:
A presentation on Monday, March 26, will summarize the scope of medical error and identify human limitations.
In “Introduction to the Safety Champion Role and Human Factors in Patient Safety,” Jeanette Tanafranca will discuss the role of human factors engineering, as well as contrast faulty systems to faulty individuals.
Tanafranca is a clinical quality facilitator and leads the safety champion program at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health System. Her presentation is set for noon to 1 p.m. in room 203, Toldo Health Education Centre.
