The University of Windsor will issue a call this week for contractors to convert the University Bookstore space in the Odette Building to classrooms, meeting rooms and study and gathering spaces for business students.
According to architectural designs, the $3-million project will include:
Athletics director Gord Grace was recognized by his peers yesterday for leading his department through a transformation that has helped to bring the University of Windsor to the forefront of Canadian university athletics.
Grace received the International Athletics Director of the Year Award from the US-based National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics during a luncheon at its annual convention in Dallas. The association represents more than 6,500 college athletics administrators at 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The 2012 Boiling Point Track Classic, Canada’s premier competition for athletes with a physical disability, is set for the University of Windsor’s south campus stadium Saturday, July 14.
Since 2007, the annual event has attracted competitors from 14 countries and set four world records.
A workshop July 12 promises to provide experiential learning opportunities to help student entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses.
The Centre for Enterprise and Law presents the Business of Innovation Program from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 12, in Alumni Hall’s McPherson Lounge.
Attendees will get essential business and legal insight, as well as free refreshments. To RSVP, e-mail nsleiman@uwindsor.ca.
Windsor based artist and School of Visual Arts professor Rod Strickland will offer examples and basic instruction on how to build a radically sustainable building from recycled materials in a public presentation entitled “Talking About Earthships” on Tuesday, June 26, in downtown Windsor.
His lecture will draw on Strickland’s experiences working with the Earthship Biotecture of architect Michael Reynolds and begins at 7 p.m. in the Community Innovation through Vital Interaction and Collaboration (CIVIC) Space, at 411 Pelissier Street.
If you’re heading to Windsor’s riverfront June 25 for the big fireworks show, keep your eyes open for some University students with a bright idea.
Volunteers with the campus Shinerama campaign will be out in force, selling glowsticks to raise money for cystic fibrosis research. Coordinator Johnathan Weedmark-King hopes members of the campus community will show their support.
Before scientists like Galileo contributed to the development of the thermometer in the 17th century, there was no way to accurately measure and record temperature.
So when it comes to climate change, determining with any certainty whether it’s been naturally occurring over the last few hundred thousand years, or if it’s a more recent phenomenon, can be tricky business in the absence of any precise historical data to cite.
A UWindsor biologist’s efforts to augment the restocking of millions of Chinook salmon in Lake Ontario have received funding from the provincial government for the next five years.
Marianne Grayce, a technical services assistant in the Paul Martin Law Library, knows her Windsor history—and is about to learn a little more. She won Monday’s DailyNews trivia quiz and the fabulous prize of a copy of 500 Ways You Know You’re from Windsor, a hardbound, full-colour collection of more than 650 photographs documenting some local landmarks.
Grayce’s name was drawn from all respondents who correctly identified Epps as a sporting goods store, Hi Ho as famous for its curbside service, and Columbia and St. Claire as the Bob-lo Island steamers.
A team of fourth-year mechanical engineering students hoping to fund their capstone project are taking their show on the road Thursday, June 21, visiting campus offices door-to-door to solicit donations to their bake sale.
“We are going to spread out and hit every building,” says Abou Rkie. “We will offer our supporters a cookie for any donation they can make.”
The team’s project involves the addition of a solar panel to an electric wheelchair.
“The panel will provide extra power to the battery,” Rkie says.
