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Curating Below the 6: Alumna named TD Curatorial Fellow at Art Windsor-Essex

Alumni Stories - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 13:04

By Kate Hargreaves 

Art curation, for Talysha Bujold-Abu, is like being a supporting character in a story.  

“I’m not stepping into curation asking what it is I can say about their work, but how can I best share their work with others,” she explains. 

“What opportunities can I find with the way that work can sit together in a room, to propel the storytelling of the featured artist and also insert an aspect of myself into that narrative?” 

New edited collection explores mentorship in teacher education

Alumni Stories - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 13:00

By Kate Hargreaves 

Dr. Clayton Smith, professor in the Faculty of Education, makes sure that his research is always in service of the courses he teaches.  

“I don’t do research that I don’t use in my classes,” he explains.  

With a dearth of material available on mentorship for pre-service teachers, Smith and professor emerita Dr. Geri Salinitri were motivated to co-edit a new collection, Mentoring to Support Teacher Candidate Development, recently published by Springer.  

Doctoral study gives rise to guide for gym accessibility

Alumni Stories - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 10:11

By Kate Hargreaves 

While the benefits of exercise on mental, physical and social well-being are widely known, accessing inclusive and functional spaces to engage in exercise can be a challenge for people with a disability. 

In her doctoral research, recent UWindsor Kinesiology graduate and Vanier scholar Dr. Fallon Mitchell (PhD ’25) explored the accessibility—or the lack thereof—of fitness centres. 

Events to highlight legacy of Underground Railroad and Windsor-Detroit history

Alumni Stories - Fri, 11/28/2025 - 13:00

The Windsor-Detroit region has an extensive and rich history of cross-border connection, including as a key gateway in the Underground Railroad. 

A pair of events next week highlight the longstanding international ties across the Detroit River and the role this region played in helping formerly enslaved people escape to freedom. 

Pinning ceremony marks induction into profession for teacher candidates

Alumni Stories - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 10:33

By Kate Hargreaves 

While September brings the start of the school year, November marks the beginning of practicum placements for teacher candidates in the Faculty of Education. 

On Friday, Nov. 14, more than 350 first-year teacher candidates gathered in the Dennis Fairall Field House at the Toldo Lancer Centre to be officially welcomed into the teaching profession during the annual pinning ceremony. 

December 6 memorial part of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence

Alumni Stories - Mon, 11/24/2025 - 08:41

By Kate Hargreaves 

On Dec. 6, 1989, Charlene Senn was procrastinating finishing her grad school homework when she saw a television news report about a shooting at École Polytechnique in Montreal. 

From the shop floor to the classroom: Tech ed alumni bring industry experience to high schools across Ontario

Alumni Stories - Thu, 11/20/2025 - 08:50

By Kate Hargreaves 

Angela Langlais’s path to becoming a technological education teacher was a journey in more ways than one. 

A 2024 graduate of the University of Windsor's Bachelor of Education in Technological Studies Program (BEd Tech), Langlais is now a hairstyling and aesthetics teacher with the Keewatin-Patricia School Board at Dryden High School. 

What goes up must come down: Education prof explores the AI hype cycle

Alumni Stories - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 12:59

AI Hype Cycle — More than AI Itself — Risks Gutting Higher Education, Warns UWindsor Professor 

By Kate Hargreaves

From search results to article summaries, image generators and facial recognition, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. 

Bonnie Stewart, a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, challenges the idea that this AI omnipresence is inevitable or even something higher education should embrace. 

From the court to the conference: Outstanding Scholar combines varsity athletics with research

Alumni Stories - Tue, 11/18/2025 - 10:32

By Kate Hargreaves

When Abby Scott joined the Outstanding Scholars program, she was not expecting to be listed as first author on a book chapter before she finished her undergrad.  

The fourth-year sport management and leadership student didn’t even know what Outstanding Scholars was until she was invited to enrol in the program during her second year as a student-athlete on the women’s volleyball team. 

Creative writing graduate course celebrates legacy of program

Alumni Stories - Mon, 11/17/2025 - 13:24

By Kate Hargreaves

When professor of English and Creative Writing Nicole Markotić was selecting books for the department’s final graduate-level creative writing class, she knew she wanted to make a big splash. 

“We wanted a course objective that would both celebrate past achievements and project our current student cohort into their own literary futures,” she explains. 

Sport Management and Leadership internship connects students to alumni and industry opportunities

Alumni Stories - Mon, 11/17/2025 - 12:19

By Kate Hargreaves 

When UWindsor Sport Management and Leadership alumna Cailey Theos (MHK ’21) recalls her experience with the program, she describes it as being part of a family. 

From faculty, staff and peers to alumni and internship partners, she says “everybody that works within the program cares so much about everybody’s success. It feels so authentic.” 

Annual HK Scholars’ Evening celebrates student success

Alumni Stories - Mon, 11/17/2025 - 12:10

By Kate Hargreaves 

Students and faculty gathered for the annual Faculty of Human Kinetics Scholars’ Evening on Tuesday, Nov. 11 to celebrate students’ scholastic success. 

A total of 138 students, from undergraduate to doctoral level, received scholarships and bursaries in addition to the 103 students recognized for making the Dean’s Honour Roll, which requires a minimum of an 80 per cent average across five courses. 

Kinesiology professor recognized for volunteer service

Alumni Stories - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 11:03

By Kate Hargreaves 

For kinesiology professor Chad Sutherland, the phrase “volunteer work” is a misnomer. 

“I don’t really view it as work,” he says. 

“I view it as something everyone should be doing: getting involved and helping in the things that you love to do, whether that’s bringing expertise to an area or offering an extra set of hands. It’s all important, and we need it more than ever right now.” 

Decorated former Lancers to be inducted into Alumni Sports Hall of Fame

Alumni Stories - Fri, 10/17/2025 - 13:52

By Kate Hargreaves

Whether on the track, the field or on the ice, former Lancers Corey Bellemore, Brian Jones, Gisèle Poulin and Parker Van Buskirk collected victories, medals, all-star recognitions and records.  

On Nov. 16, they will take home yet another honour as the 2025 inductees into the University of Windsor’s Alumni Sports Hall of Fame. 

Alumni couple vow to never forget their on-campus ceremony

Alumni Stories - Mon, 09/22/2025 - 14:42

By John-Paul Bonadonna

For Jessica Monteith (BA 2015) and Rizki Sirois (BComm 2015), the University of Windsor is more than just where they earned their degrees.  

Campus is the place where their lives became deeply intertwined. 

So much so, that the couple returned to campus on July 31 to exchange vows in front of Dillon Hall, honouring the place where their relationship first blossomed. 

The choice to mark such an important milestone at UWindsor was intentional and symbolic. 

UWindsor grad helps lead business revival and regional growth

Alumni Stories - Tue, 09/09/2025 - 15:00

University of Windsor graduate Clark Wiebe (MBA '18) is helping drive the rapid expansion of one of Windsor’s fastest-growing business groups—Coachwood Group—and leading the turnaround of a major consumer brand.

Wiebe joined Coachwood in 2018 as a sales representative and now serves as chief operating officer.

He played a central role in reviving BioSteel, a bankrupt sports drink brand that became profitable within six months of acquisition.

Alumni Association hosts diploma frame sale

Alumni Stories - Tue, 08/19/2025 - 12:02

Graduates looking to showcase their degrees can take advantage of a limited-time frame sale hosted by the University of Windsor Alumni Association. 

The sale features slightly damaged and plexiglass-only frames at discounted prices, including styles for undergraduate, Law and concurrent education degrees.  

Inventory is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

The sale runs through this week or until supplies are gone.