A UWindsor professor is one of the editors of a book celebrating the talents of poets from the Windsor-Essex region.
Creative writing professor Susan Holbrook and Palimpsest Press publisher Dawn Kresan edited Detours: an anthology of poets from Windsor & Essex County, a showcase of the eclecticism that characterizes the region: the traditional and experimental, the academy and community, the established and emergent, the internationally renowned and promising apprentice.
Sharing her passion for science with elementary and high school youth helped to remind Michelle Bondy why she loved the subject in the first place. Now she is hoping to spread that enthusiasm with the help of student volunteers from the University of Windsor.
A UWindsor biology grad (BSc 2009), Bondy is outreach program coordinator for the Faculty of Science, and has started recruiting for Let’s Talk Science, which offers free hands-on activities to engage children in science, technology, engineering and math.
A cookie tastes a little sweeter when it’s free, says Lindsay Thompson.
The second-year kinesiology major was one of hundreds of UWindsor students to enjoy a freebie from the Leddy Library on Tuesday.
Librarians distributed free cookies, coffee and tea as a goodwill gesture to students preparing for final examinations. Sales of decommissioned books helped to pay for the event.
“It’s awesome,” said second-year environmental science student Colette Drouillard. “It’s very nice for them to do this for us. Plus, I like free stuff!”
Maybe it took a creative mind. Creative writing major Laryssa Brooks was one of a minority of entrants to get all the answers right in yesterday’s DailyNews contest—and her name was the only one drawn from a hat to choose the winner.
To the victor will go the spoils: a prize package of a mini padfolio, a small notebook, a keychain, a pen and a beautiful desktop clock, all bearing the UWindsor logo.
In the not-so-distant future anyone on campus may be able to stroll over to the university’s new engineering building and have a bobble-head made of themselves in less than two hours.
The concept was floated Friday by a group of fourth-year students in Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems engineering who were presenting their capstone projects in the lecture hall of the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation.
Science Olympiad serves several purposes, organizer Paul Preney said Friday as teams from local high schools took part in the event.
“The competitors have fun, learn about teamwork and solve problems,” said Preney, a doctoral candidate in computer science and three-time UWIndsor grad (BSc 1996, MSc 2000, BEd 2006). “Plus they get to see a university campus and meet some of our students.”
Olympian Melissa Bishop was named female athlete of the year and UWindsor women’s basketball was named team of the year, leading a contingent of Lancer athletes to win recognition at the Windsor Essex County Sports Persons of the Year awards ceremony Tuesday.
Bishop (BHK 2010, B.Ed 2011) also won the female track and field athlete of the year award after becoming just the third Canadian woman ever to run the 800 metres in under two minutes and competing for Canada at the 2012 London Olympics.
The transition from high school to university is rarely an easy one, but the process was a whole lot smoother for Joanne Yu thanks to some upper-year students who always had her back.
“There was always someone there who I could ask questions and get good answers,” said Yu, who is just wrapping up her first year in chemistry.
There’s often an expectation that when people move here from another nation they should immerse themselves in Canadian culture, but maintaining a close connection to their home country makes them better immigrants, according to a recent PhD graduate.
And modern communications technology is enabling that connection, says Frances Cachon who recently defended her thesis in Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology and is working as a sessional instructor there.
Our campus is full of heroes, says Jacqueline Mellish.
Residence life coordinator for Macdonald and Electa halls, she says a food drive launched by the Higher Education Reaching Out (HERO) Project on Saturday, April 6, collected 7,200 lbs. of goods—almost double last year’s amount.
“This year’s Day of Action was crazy successful,” says Mellish. “In total, we had 120 volunteers representing all six residence halls, plus staff helping out.”
