It took a tin whistle given to her by her mother, 25 years of practice and a lot of time surfing the internet to teach Janice Waldron that there might be more than one way to teach a student how to play a musical instrument.
The Organization of Part-time University Students (OPUS) invites the campus community to attend the 20th Annual OPUS Awards Banquet, Thursday, March 15, at the Caboto Club.
All faculty, staff, alumni and part-time undergraduate students are welcome to attend and support their peers at this free event, but seating is limited and filling quickly.
To reserve a place, please contact OPUS staff at 519-971-3603 or e-mail opus@uwindsor.ca before Monday, February 20.
This year’s OPUS award recipients are:
Three varsity squads will open their post-season campaigns this week, while the men’s and women’s basketball teams will close out their regular seasons Saturday at the St. Denis Centre.
In her book Moving Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora, historian Karen Flynn uses oral narratives to examine the experiences of Black women who trained as nurses in Windsor and Chatham hospitals following the Second World War.
Music instructor Sean Kim will discuss the compositional process in producing his works Piano Quintet No.2 and An Aftermath in a presentation today – Wednesday, February 15 – in the Music Building’s Recital Hall.
The International Student Centre invites the campus community to celebrate its new location during an official opening ceremony on Thursday, February 16.
An grand opening reception runs 2 to 4 p.m. with the ceremony scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
The centre, located on the second floor of Laurier Hall, is accessed through a dedicated entrance toward the north end of the building’s west wall. To arrange for access to an elevator, please phone 519-253-3000, ext. 3938.
Summer 2008, a year before Hydro-Québec starts building an 8-billion dollar hydroelectric project, Alexis de Gheldere and Nicolas Boisclair decide to canoe down the Romaine River with two environmentalists… a “river trip” of 500 kilometres which will take them from the source in Labrador to the mouth in the Gulf of St-Lawrence.
For a tiny creature with such a cute and seemingly harmless name, the sea squirt has done a lot of damage in a relatively short time.
Now thanks to modern genetic analysis techniques, a trio of researchers from the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research have identified three previously unidentified sub-types of sea squirts, commonly known as the golden star ascidian, and discovered new clues about their capacity – and possibly the capacity of other organisms – for invading various ecosystems.
A provocative collection of photographs is displayed alongside more tactile works in fabric, metal, text and even baked goods in the student exhibition “No Touching!” at the LeBel Building’s SoVA Projects Gallery through February 18.
Participating artists Kacie Auffret, Erica Douglas, Brendan Greenwell, Esther Rabinovitch, Amy Simon and Victoria Symons will attend a closing reception at 7 p.m. on Friday, February 17.
The university has declared an HP Laserjet colour printer CP4005N for sale by bid as Disposal File 864 Revised. Please click here for details.
