Gesu Church
Celebrate Spirit! to be held in Gesu Church
Due to floor repair work in Calihan Hall, the Celebrate Spirit! service on Thursday, Sept. 24 will now take place in Gesu Church, which is one block north of McNichols Campus, on Oak Drive. See Gesu information.
After the service in Gesu, the Celebrate Spirit! picnic and student organization fair will still take place around the Fisher Fountain on McNichols Campus. See the Celebrate Spirit! site for more information.
Stay safe with DPS tips
UDM's Department of Public Safety (DPS) is always vigilant in making the University a safe environment. But there are many things you can do to help them keep you safe on and around campus. See the new Safety Advice page on the DPS site.
Just one of the ways DPS creates a safe campus environment is by keeping an eye on public areas from the DPS Communications Room, pictured below.
An officer working in the DPS Communications Room.
E&S receives $50,000 DENSO grant
UDM's College of Engineering & Science accepted a $50,000 grant from the DENSO North America Foundation, Aug. 10. The grant will fund a proposal by Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Mark Paulik and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Nihad Dukhan to create opportunities for UDM students to work on the issues of thermal energy management in hybrid vehicles, and advanced navigation systems in autonomous vehicles.
At the DENSO check presentation, from left: Dukhan; Barbara Wertheimer, senior program officer, DENSO North America Foundation; Paulik; William Steffan, senior vice president, External Affairs, DENSO International America; Douglas Patton, senior vice president, Engineering, DENSO International America; and Leo Hanifin, dean of UDM's College of Engineering & Science.
New Visual Arts and Architecture program
UDM has partnered with the University of Windsor (UW) to create a new program combining the study of visual arts and architecture. The program, Visual Arts and the Built Environment, or VABE, brings together students from UW's School of Visual Arts and UDM's School of Architecture to study the design of the built environment from the position of both artist and architect.
For an article about the starting of the program, see UW's news site. You can find the VABE program site at www.vabe.ca.
Signing the agreement to create the VABE program are UDM President Gerard L. Stockhausen, S.J., (left) and UW President Alan Wildeman, Sept. 10 at the University of Windsor. Watching are members of VABE's inaugural class.
Thumbs Up!
David Koukal, associate professor of Philosophy, gave the presentation, "Stolen space: the perverse architecture of torture," at the conference, "Flesh and Space: Intertwining Merleau-Ponty and Architecture," Sept. 9 at Mississippi State University.
Barbara Schirmer, professor of Education, authored the book, Teaching the Struggling Reader, published by Allyn and Bacon this summer, as well as the article, "Repeated reading as an instructional intervention with deaf readers: effect on fluency and reading achievement," published in the fall issue of Reading Improvement. In June, Schirmer presented the paper, "Repeated reading as an instructional intervention to improve the fluency of deaf readers," at the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, in Boston.