The University Bookstore is offering its customers an extra bite of Apple. Students, faculty and staff who buy certain Apple products qualify for giftcards to spend on apps.
Buy a Mac computer and get $100, or buy an iPad and get $50 towards music, movies, books, apps and more at the iTunes Store, the iBookstore or the App Store.
This offer is valid until September 21 and applies only to purchases by individuals, not by University departments.
Chrysler Canada has announced a $100,000 investment in the University of Windsor's Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation.
“This investment in Canadian higher education further signals our strong commitment to ensure engineering students are well-prepared for the integral role they will play in society,” said Reid Bigland, president of Chrysler Canada. “Science and technology is the lifeblood of our future. Working with the University of Windsor, we will develop creative thinkers who will serve as the engine of innovation for generations to come.”
A group of artists from the collective Broken City Lab were busily creating a new installation in a courtyard in Windsor’s downtown core Tuesday afternoon. Known as a ‘text intervention,’ it consisted of a series of 12-inch high styrofoam letters, placed vertically on the ground to spell out the phrase “Hello New Friends.”
It caught the attention of a passenger in a car cruising past on Ouellette Avenue, who stuck her head out the window and waved.
A UWindsor biology professor will discuss his efforts to support wild fish species struggling to survive when a community-based group dedicated to cleaning up the Detroit River meets on Wednesday night.
A graduate student and his team of researchers have turned the chemistry world on its ear by becoming the first ever to prove that tiny interlocked molecules can function inside solid materials, laying the important groundwork for the future creation of molecular machines.
A UWindsor business grad is hoping his alma mater can help get him named Canada’s young entrepreneur of the year. Michael Kaye (MBA 2008) is under consideration for Profit magazine’s FuEL Awards; public voting will count for 20 per cent of the final score.
“If I am selected in the top 20 entrepreneurs it will result in tremendous publicity for Alexa Translations,” the company he runs with fellow Odette grad Gary Kalaci (BSc 2005, LLB 2009, MBA 2009), says Kaye.
Volunteering at convocation gave Danielle Handsor another perspective on the event.
“It was a very rewarding experience,” says the three-time UWindsor grad (BHK 2006, B.Ed 2007, M.Ed 2011). “It was great to interact with our graduates and I learned a lot about the planning and the logistics that go into convocation. It was nice to be behind the scenes.”
The University of Windsor minted more than 3,200 new alumni, and the staff of the Centre for Teaching and Learning was on hand to record the occasion.
View a photo album on the University’s Facebook page with more than 150 images of celebrants, honourees, family and guests at the University’s 2012 Spring Convocation.
View videos of each of the six sessions. The videos will also be aired over TVCogeco’s community channel 11.
As a baseball enthusiast, Dale Jacobs hopes his beloved Detroit Tigers can live up to their pre-season expectations and have a deep run in to the playoffs this fall.
However as an educator, he’s keenly aware that the concept of hope involves much more than his own personal ambitions.
A conference being held in Windsor for the first time ever will provide an excellent chance for young researchers studying the ecology and behaviour of fish to meet some of the top scientists in their field, according to one if its organizers.
The Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes conference, June 17 to 21, will bring together researchers from across Canada and across the world to discuss their work.
