Against the backdrop of a city on the verge of financial ruin and staring down the possibility of an even bigger disconnect from its Canadian cousins thanks to a recently approved U.S. budget bill, a group of artists and researchers will gather here this weekend looking for ways to encourage people to think of Detroit and Windsor as a singular cross-border metropolitan environment.
Current Students
A free public reading of his work will introduce writer-in-residence Phil Hall to the campus community, Thursday, March 7, at 2:30 p.m. in Ambassador Auditorium’s Salon A.
Hall, a UWindsor alumnus (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978), has begun a one-month appointment in the English department. Killdeer, a book of poems and essays, won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, an Alcuin Design Award, and was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Advance tickets are now available for the Ontario University Athletics women’s basketball championship—pitting the Windsor Lancers against the Carleton Ravens in the St. Denis Centre at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 9.
The Lancers are seeking to regain the provincial title, which they won in 2009, 2010 and 2011 before losing in the finals last year. The 2012 team subsequently won a second-straight national championship.
Admission to Saturday’s decider is $10, with a youth and senior rate of $8.
A new associate head coach for Lancer football will be called upon to help with recruiting and fundraising, as well as coordinate the team’s on-field defence.
Friday’s open house is aimed at helping applicants appreciate what the University of Windsor has to offer, but that doesn’t have to mean just first-entry programs, say organizers of a project in the Faculty of Education. They are hoping to attract University graduates interested in pursuing study in education.
“An education degree will enhance graduates’ abilities in leadership, professional development, instructional, motivational and interpersonal skills,” says acting dean Karen Roland.
Is humanity “going the way of the dodo” if it cannot learn to adapt, change and work together?
Artist Lisa Hirmer of DodoLab will discuss her experimental and creative approaches to research and community action in a free public talk at noon Thursday, March 7, in room 115, LeBel Building.
The dodo reminds us that a lack of resiliency and a solo existence is a precarious strategy for survival, Hirmer says.
Mar 6th, 2013
What does feminism mean today? What does it look like?
Writer Nicole Baute will discuss what it means to identify as a feminist today in a free public presentation Thursday, March 7, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
Baute is co-editor of EAT IT, a collection of women’s writing on food and gender politics due out this spring. Her fiction has been published in Joyland Magazine and The Feathertale Review, and her journalism has appeared in Toronto Life, Open Book: Toronto, and several Canadian newspapers.
Hoda ElMaraghy and Tarek AlGeddawy figured they needn’t look any further than an ordinary household appliance like a washing machine to demonstrate how manufacturers can respond to growing consumer demand for increased product variety but still remain profitable.
Organizers of an event Wednesday in the CAW Student Centre promise attendees will enjoy entertainment, free sweets and swag, but remain a little vague on other details.
P.S. is scheduled for 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. March 6. An event page on Facebook has been circumspect, but a Twitter feed has been dropping hints about the nature of the event—it appears to involve music, a light show and free drinks.
Mar 5th, 2013
A team of students from Windsor Law is celebrating their successes this past weekend at the Great Lakes Mediation Moot in Ann Arbor, where they received awards as top mediator team and top advocate.
Members of the team—Matt Dunnett, Amanda Fowler and Jennifer Querney, led by coaches Gerri Wong and Kaitlyn McCabe—took turns acting as lawyer, client and co-mediator.