For a former English professor who never intended to practice law, Windsor’s Edward Ducharme sure has made a mark in the justice system.
Ducharme, 68, holds three UWindsor degrees (BA English 1967, MA 1969, LLB 1985), and entered law only in his mid-40s, yet he was just appointed a judge on the highest court in the province: the Ontario Court of Appeal. He will be officially sworn in May 29 at a ceremony at Toronto’s Osgoode Hall.
A collaborative network will provide UWindsor students, faculty and staff – anyone with an active UWin ID – free wireless Internet access on the campuses of 12 Ontario universities and institutions around the world.
Eduroam gives users roaming wireless Internet connectivity authenticated with passwords from their home institutions, eliminating the time, expense and inconvenience of obtaining a guest account.
In addition to 39 Canadian campuses, its participating institutions span Europe, the United States and the Asia-Pacific.
The Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce honoured several members of the UWindsor community Wednesday at the Ciociaro Club during its annual Business Excellence Awards presentations.
Lancer women’s basketball coach Chantal Vallée’s Athena Award and Board of Governors member Fouad Tayfour’s Believe Windsor Essex Award had been announced prior to the formal event.
Lancers Bojana Kovacevic, Miah-Marie Langlois and Jessica Clemençon will suit up together under familiar leadership when they take to the court Saturday for the fifth annual Ontario University Athletics women’s basketball All-Star game: coaching the West team will be Chantal Vallée and Josh Leeman.
In what years did Albert Einstein, Alexander Fleming, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Francis Crick and James Watson win their Nobel Prizes?
Asking high school students to slot in a series of responses tests their knowledge of science history. Telling them how many they got right and timing them while they switch their answers also tests their ability to solve logic puzzles.
Sometimes it’s good to bend the rules, says Karen Pillon.
Head of the access service department at the Leddy Library, she will discuss that principle in her free public lecture “No student turned away: Using Kohlberg’s six stages of moral development to inform a customer service model,” at 11 a.m. Friday, April 27, in room 302, West Leddy.
Putting down on paper a vivid description of what might happen if terrorists ever launched an attack on the Windsor-Detroit border is akin to thinking the unthinkable, but totally necessary in order to convince people of the necessity of taking a more holistic approach to counter-terrorism, according to Richard Chasdi.
When students first asked about renting textbooks instead of purchasing them, he laughed, says University Bookstore sales and marketing co-ordinator Martin Deck: “I didn’t think we’d be able to do so and remain in business.”
But 20 years after it first started selling used texts, the bookstore has added rental to its repertoire.
People respond to incentives, but sometimes the trick is finding the right incentives, says fourth-year psychology student Ashley Cooper.
She worked with a four-year-old boy with autism, trying to get him to pierce a lump of play dough with a fork as a prelude to mastering table manners. His skills improved as she offered inducements like small toys, but he jumped to perfect mastery when offered a chance to play with an iPad as a reward.
“I had waited three weeks before trying the iPad and I was like: Really? All he wanted was the iPad?” says Cooper.
Lancers took home more than half the hardware April 19, earning 12 of 23 Windsor-Essex County Sports Person of the Year (WESPY) Awards recognizing local athletes for their contributions to sports. The awards were based on accomplishments during the 2011 calendar year.
Jessica Clemençon brought home the evening’s top award as the female athlete of the year after a tremendous 2010/11 season in which she was named Canadian Interuniversity Sport female athlete of the year and helped lead Lancer women’s basketball to its first CIS championship.
