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Promotion of physical activity for older adults subject of lecture

Mar 14th, 2013

A lunch-hour lecture Friday on campus will encourage an active, healthy lifestyle for Canadian adults as a way to enhance the dignity of the aging process.

Clara Fitzgerald is program director of the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging at Western University.

In her talk, entitled “Physical Activity and Aging – Research to Action,” she will promote physical activity opportunities for older adults across the spectrum of age and mobility. The event is free and open to the public. It begins at noon in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.

Alcohol education team hoping to pre-empt St Patrick’s Day revelry

Mar 13th, 2013

The Student Alcohol Education Team wants to make sure that UWindsor students have a memorable St. Patrick’s Day, but in a positive sense.

“It’s St. Patrick’s Day! Of course we want people to go out and have fun. We just don’t want anyone waking up the next morning regretting his or her decisions, or even worse—not waking up at all,” says alcohol education coordinator Nevin Macleod. “Luckily, this has never happened at UWindsor, but it has at other schools. We just want to remind people to make smart choices and look out for one another.”

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Nevin MacLeod

Poet laureate to host writer-in-residence

Mar 13th, 2013

Windsor’s poet laureate Marty Gervais will have words with UWindsor writer-in-residence Phil Hall on Thursday, but don’t worry—it’s all in the interests of art.

Both graduates of the University of Windsor, Gervais (MA 1972) and Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) will discuss the latter’s work as part of the “Having Words” series of author talks hosted by the Arts Council Windsor and Region. The series promotes informal discussion about the craft of writing, exploring the challenges and joys related to poetry; events are free and open to the public.

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Marty Gervais
Phil Hall

Student film director casting for actors

Mar 13th, 2013

Ahmed Najdat is looking for a few aspiring actors to form the cast of his current production, Owls, a short drama.

The fourth-year film student is holding an open audition on Thursday, March 14, from noon to 6 p.m. in room 4117, Lambton Tower.

He is looking to fill these roles:

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Ahmed Najdat

Documentary warns of danger of global warming

Mar 13th, 2013

The International Wednesdays documentary series presents the 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth, today at noon in the International Student Centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.

Former US vice-president Al Gore has travelled the world delivering a presentation on the global climate change, proving that humankind must confront global warming now or face devastating consequences. This film—winner of the 2007 Academy Award for best feature documentary—captures his journey as a worldwide environmental champion.

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International Student Centre

Conference to promote non-athletic careers in sport

Mar 13th, 2013

You don’t have to be athletic to work in professional sports, say organizers of a conference on campus this weekend.

The Entertainment Law Society is teaming up with human kinetics to host the UWin Sports Conference, Saturday, March 16, in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium.

Panels will discuss topics ranging from social media and marketing to sports in the courts, player representation and management. Organizers hope to provide a professional environment that will encourage delegates to engage in free discussion.

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Amanda Fowler
Jess Craymer
Matt Kane

Survey to measure quality of campus library services

Mar 13th, 2013

A survey distributed to University of Windsor faculty, staff and students earlier this week is designed to assess perceptions of library service, says Gwendolyn Ebbett, dean of the library.

“This survey will allow us to better understand how the University community rates library services and where we can concentrate our efforts towards improving services,” she says. “It will also let us find out how Leddy Library results compare with those of other libraries and determine best practices.”

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Gwen Ebbett
Leddy Library

Lancer women favoured to three-peat as national basketball champs

Mar 12th, 2013

The two-time reigning titlist University of Windsor Lancers are favoured to repeat as Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball champions, the league announced as it released team seedings for the Bronze Baby tournament.

The Lancers, who claimed the first Bronze Baby Trophy in program history two years ago on home court and were crowned again last season in Calgary, earned the top seed for the 2013 national championship at the University of Regina, March 15 to 17.

The Lancers will open the tournament Friday at 1 p.m. against the wild-card Ottawa Gee-Gees.

Providing energy for developing world aim of local company

Mar 12th, 2013

PhD student Anas Labak worked through an entire night assembling a new portable solar-powered digital LED lighting system for his industrial partners at a local manufacturing firm. The fact that he was able to see what he was doing for all that time – unlike the potential customers the system is aimed at – wasn’t lost on him, or his partner.

“There are two billion people in the world who don’t have any energy at all,” said Steve Pokrajac, president of Tesla Digital Lighting Systems.

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Anas Labak
Narayan Kar