In recognition of her outstanding professionalism, community service, inspiration and mentoring of young athletes -- especially women – the Windsor Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce will confer the 2012 Athena Award on Lancer women’s basketball coach Chantal Vallée during its business excellence awards, April 25 at the Ciociaro Club.
The award honours men and women for business excellence, for community service, and for encouraging women to achieve their leadership potential.
Anne Dennahower, undergraduate secretary in the Faculty of Nursing, won Monday’s DailyNews trivia contest and earned two tickets to see the University Players production of Some Girl(s), the company’s last show of the season.
The Discovery Channel is looking for talented, inventive, technology-savvy women to participate in a television show to identify Canada’s Greatest Know-It-All.
“On this show, being a know-it-all and using your knowledge to get through challenges is good, positive, and smart,” says casting director Irada Seli. “I am looking to cast great role models of smart, outgoing women.”
It’s one of life’s most difficult subjects and many dance around it or don’t even talk about it at all, but Bonnie Pacuta thinks it’s time for people start openly discussing what the end of their lives will look like.
Drawing on inspiration from a futuristic personal transit system being implemented in the United Arab Emirates, four UWindsor Industrial Engineering students came up with a solution to the transportation travails associated with urban sprawl, earning them a second place finish at the Provincial Ontario Engineering Competition and a place at the table for the national competition held recently in Vancouver.
Working with a team of UWindsor engineering students to help his business find ways to be more efficient was an opportunity Angelo Fallone would recommend to any company looking to improve its operations.
Natalie Ethier is really following in her mother’s footsteps.
A senior at L’Essor high school, she plans a career in education like her mother, Rachelle Ethier, a teacher at Tecumseh’s Ecole St-Antonie. And like her mother, Natalie Ethier is a recipient of a Human Kinetics Book Award – one of 25 given out Thursday to the outstanding student-athlete graduating from each area high school.
“I have always had a love for sports and I always wanted to teach,” said Ethier, an all-star volleyball, basketball and soccer player who also maintains an A-average in her classes.
University is not just a place to secure a career, says Tanya Basok, “It’s a place to become a good global citizen and break down the walls of injustice.”
Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, she bestowed its 2012 Student Social Justice Project of the Year Award on the Charter Project. Formed in observance of the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the group promotes understanding of this landmark document.
University Players is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two tickets to see Neil LaBute’s modern comedy Some Girl(s), the last show of the season. The play's run continues through Sunday, April 15, at Essex Hall Theatre. Wednesday through Saturday performances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. For more information or tickets, call 519-253-3000, ext. 2808, or visit www.universityplayers.com.
UWindsor students Paul Peladeau and Steve Nicodemo and their partner in Windsor-based media company LiquidWild, Sean Davidson, have won their way to the business plan competition at the Ontario Centres of Excellence’s 2012 Discovery Conference.
The creative trio entered their business plan through the Centre for Enterprise and Law, where they have been enjoying an OCE-sponsored internship and mentorship to help launch their business to its fullest potential.
