Five students who brought home some of the top awards at a recent undergraduate chemistry conference say they couldn’t have done it if they didn’t study in such a tremendously supportive environment.
Current Students
Apr 11th, 2013
Solo performances by four music students are among the highlights of the University Wind Ensemble’s Spring Concert on Friday, April 12, at Banwell Community Church.
The 24-member ensemble, directed by UWindsor alumnus Ric Moor (BMus 1992, B.Ed 1993), will play a varied program which includes the circus march Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite, the theme from the 1988 film Cinema Paradiso, and Frank Ticheli’s 1999 composition Shenandoah, inspired by the folk tune.
Entire communities will be able to generate their own energy and will do so in the not-so-distant future with a much greater reliance on such renewable sources as wind, solar and biomass, according to Rupp Carriveau.
Relationships are at the heart of two books being launched tonight by Black Moss Press.
Talking Derby, by Kate Hargreaves, explores a young woman’s love affair with her roller skates, and the poetry collection Whisky Sour City, edited by Vanessa Shields, brings together works by Windsor poets to reveal their tangled ties with the city.
Apr 10th, 2013
Actions speak louder than words: that’s the main motivation behind the University of Windsor’s fraternity Pi Lambda Phi’s two-year project on the issue of prejudice within society.
An open house Thursday in the newly upgraded Studio 5 facilities in Essex Hall will give insight into the film production process and some of the resulting student projects, says professor Min Bae.
“We are showing very interesting miniature film sets and a series of student film trailers,” he says, as well as leading tours through an editing suite.
The April 11 event is free and open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. in room 103, Essex Hall.
Watch a brief teaser on the making of the short film Noah, by student Svjetlana Oppen:
Apr 10th, 2013
A free public reception Thursday will showcase the Ford City Project, work by digital journalism students in Windsor’s Drouillard Road neighbourhood.
The event promises a documentary film, a book preview and a photo gallery.
It opens at 6 p.m., April 11, at the Artspeak Gallery, 1942 Wyandotte Street East.
The Leddy Library has begun round-the-clock operations to accommodate study for final exams.
The library will stay open from Sunday at 10 a.m. through Friday, until 2 a.m. Saturday. It will re-open Saturday at 10 a.m. and close at 2 a.m. that night, then re-open Sunday at 10 a.m.
The library will close at midnight Friday, April 26, and maintain the following schedule through its spring recess, which ends Sunday, May 5:
Apr 9th, 2013
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Third-year music student Meghan Chamberlain will perform a solo recital Wednesday, April 10, of varied repertoire for percussion. The free public event begins at 7 p.m. in the Art Gallery of Windsor, 401 Riverside Drive West. |
Environmental engineering Master’s student Taylor Purdy was honoured Friday at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital for her efforts to help the hospital significantly reduce its environmental footprint and save thousands of dollars in annual operating costs.