Got pants? The University Bookstore wants to make sure you do, and is offering a 15 per cent discount on all UWindsor-themed pants, today only, at its kiosk in the CAW Student Centre.
The sale is part of the True Savings Tuesdays series, explains marketing manager Martin Deck.
“We’re trying to make sure we offer a special every week at the kiosk, just as a thanks to our customers,” he says.
So if you bought a discounted sweatshirt last week, now’s your chance to complete the ensemble!
Meet Mehrdad Shademan for the first time and it’s easy to get the impression he’s a fairly quiet, low-key type of guy. He wasn’t so mild-mannered, however, the day he found out he was the recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
“I was screaming and yelling,” he says in the graduate student office he shares with colleagues in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation. “Everybody was pretty shocked.”
Steve Kessel was attending a conference in Vancouver last year when he went in to a local restaurant and noticed that shark fin soup had been scratched off the menu. He wasn’t sure if it was simply because it wasn’t available, but the ecologist in him hoped the eatery was taking the moral high ground by voluntary banning it from the establishment.
From September 2013 until April 2014, the University of Windsor will commemorate five decades of education, creativity, and innovation—and it is inviting you to join the celebration.
Up to 20,000 alumni, friends and community members are expected to visit the campus for a kick-off weekend September 19 to 22, designed to strengthen Lancer pride and show our appreciation for the continued support of our region.
University Players will present the thrilling and comedic mystery Nine Girls March 7 to 10 and 13 to 17 at Essex Hall Theatre.
It is a dark and stormy night when eight sorority girls meet at their mountain clubhouse, and discover that their ninth member has been murdered. Their quirky banter makes you forget the seriousness of the situation, and none suspect that one of them could be the killer—until Alice discovers a clue and confides in the wrong girl. Will the girls figure out the true identity of the killer? And how far will the killer go to cover her tracks?
Minimizing the impact of tsunamis on coastal regions and building sturdier bridges are just two of the outcomes a group of graduate student researchers are aiming for now that they have some top-notch new equipment up and running in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation.
“It’s really cutting edge,” PhD student Vimaldoss Jesudhas says of the giant flume he works with, one of two of its kind in the new engineering building.
The Windsor Symphony Orchestra will feature music grad Marc Funkenhouser (BMus 2010) on alto saxophone in four performances this weekend.
Funkenhauser will perform the Concerto in E flat major for alto saxophone and string orchestra, Op. 109, composed by Alexander Glazunov, as part of a program titled “French Connections.” The orchestra will present the concert Friday, March 1, in two performances at Assumption University Chapel; Saturday at Leamington United Mennonite Church and Sunday at St Anne’s Church in Tecumseh.
The Lancer women’s basketball team, ranked number one in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, will face its second post-season test at home Saturday, March 2, when it hosts the McMaster Marauders in the west conference final.
The winner will earn a berth in the Bronze Baby national championship tournament, which Windsor has won the last two seasons.
Saturday’s game starts at 7 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre. Tickets are $10, with a special youth, students and seniors admission of $8.
Three members of the Lancer men’s basketball team have been named west division all-stars by Ontario University Athletics.
Forward Lien Phillip joins the first-team squad after leading the league with 222 rebounds and 14 double-double performances this season. His 14.9 points per game also made him Windsor’s leading scorer.
Guards Josh Collins and Enrico Diloreto were second-team selections. Collins’ 49 steals topped the OUA and Diloreto scored at a 13.9 points per game pace. Read “Lancer Basketball earns three OUA all-stars” at goLancers.ca.
A free public reception Saturday will celebrate the opening of a solo exhibition of paintings by visual arts instructor José Seoane at the SB Contemporary Art gallery.
The exhibition, entitled “Spaces Between,” consists of large abstract works that reflect on a back-and-forth struggle between two very different worlds, says curator Sarah Beveridge.
