Honour roll students Yasin Avci, Abrial Cooke and Adrian Debiasio, members of the last cohort in interfaculty programs, accept congratulations from professor Lydia Miljan.
The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences celebrated the successes of its honour students at a dinner Tuesday.
Layale Bazzi accepts a semester’s free tuition from UWindsor president Alan Wildeman and Erica Stevens Abbitt, director of the Humanities Research Group.
Disciplines in the humanities provide a frame for her to understand the implications of her work in sciences, says Layale Bazzi. The second-year physics student took top honours in the “Why Humanities” competition for her impassioned defense of their importance.
“Day in and day out, I am differentiating, integrating, rearranging and solving equations that describe the physical world around us,” she wrote. “What I can’t tell you are the ethical implications. All I can provide are facts about nature, and not human nature.”
