Conflict Kitchen has served food drawn from the cuisines of Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, North Korea, and Palestine—the one constant is that its dishes draw on the cultures of countries with which the United States is in conflict.

“The restaurant rotates identities in relation to current geopolitical events,” says co-director Dawn Weleski. “Each iteration is augmented by events, performances, publications, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus region.”

She will discuss the Pittsburgh-based project in a free public presentation Thursday, March 26. The event starts at 2:30 p.m. in room 115, LeBel Building; a reception to follow will feature homemade refreshments offered by MFA students.

The Enactus Windsor team—led by president Andrew Moukled, mentored by professor Jim Marsh and supported by drama instructor Meaghen Quinn—made an impressive showing recently at the organization’s Central Canada Regional Championships.

Enactus Canada is a community of student, academic and business leaders enabling progress through entrepreneurial action. At the Regional Championships, students showcased their community outreach projects and business ventures to demonstrate their social impact in Canada and beyond.

Following a live, presentation-based competition, judges from the business community awarded UWindsor teams first place in both the Entrepreneurship and Eco-Living categories, while the University’s Financial Literacy team placed second. The winners will move on to the National Exposition taking place in Toronto in May.

Entrepreneurship team members are: Ayat Nizam, Awais Saleem, Giancarlo Iannicello, Katie Zajner, Monica Romero, Dominik Skrzpek and Srushti Thaker.

Eco-Living team members are: Natasha Wasyluk, Alicia Neposlan, Vivek Patel, Kyle Seguin, Hakeem Subair and Brandon Marentette.

Financial Literacy team members are: Neda Demiri, Kevin Hamilton, Alaa Daghache, Scott Sanger and Chris Easby

Daghache was also chosen as one of two regional finalists for the HSBC Women Leaders of Tomorrow award which will be presented at the national exposition in May.

“On behalf of all of us at Odette, I’d like to congratulate Andrew and all of Enactus Windsor for the wonderful work they have accomplished,” says Odette School of Business dean Allan Conway. “I’d also like to especially note Alaa Daghache's recognition in the in the Woman Leader of Tomorrow competition. And I’d like to thank professor Jim Marsh for his ongoing mentoring of Enactus Windsor.”

The Campus Bookstore is offering a special deal on its sweatshirts Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27: buy one, get a second half-price.

“This deal includes our very popular faculty sweatshirts,” says marketing coordinator Martin Deck. “If you’ve been waiting to boast about your program of study—or instruction—now’s your chance!”

This sale excludes the WinCity apparel line. The store is located on the lower level of the CAW Student Centre.

An upgrade to the University’s network architecture will disconnect systems on Saturday, March 28, reports Information Technology Services. The work involves migration to a new network core, says Steve Banyai, assistant director of IT Services. Part of the multi-year plan to refresh campus technology, the upgrade will provide faster, more-reliable connections.

“When fully implemented, the new technology architecture will deliver redundant network connectivity at 10 Gb speeds, 10 times faster than the current network speed,” he says. “This improved performance will enable faster wireless networking and increased use of high bandwidths applications such as video-based distance learning.”

During the migration, users will not have access to a number of systems and services hosted by IT Services, including Internet access. The Business Systems Support lead in each area will contact users affected by system unavailability.

The work will begin at 6 a.m. Saturday and may take as long as eight hours. IT Services staff will be onsite throughout the day and will provide periodic status updates on the HelpDesk phone message at 519-253-3000, ext. 4440.