Kristina Verner, research and development officer for the Centre for Smart Community Innovation, will be the featured speaker at a networking meeting of the United Way’s GenNext Committee, Monday, November 21, at downtown Windsor’s City Grill.
Organizers bill the event as an opportunity to meet with local businesspeople, community leaders, and individuals in their 20s and 30s interested in leadership development, volunteerism, and supporting the community.
Music student Melanie Wright – a clarinettist herself – won Thursday’s DailyNews trivia quiz and the prize of two tickets to the Faculty Trio Recital, Sunday in Assumption University Chapel.
The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance is joining with University administration and local agencies in an effort to foster better relations between permanent residents and students living in neighbourhoods surrounding the campus.
The partners are distributing an information pack to students living in the blocks around the main campus. The pack contains:
With a theme of “Making our Mark!” a delegation from UWindsor residence took home several major awards from the Great Lakes Affiliates of College and University Residence Halls conference this past weekend – including the right to host the event next year.
“This is the first time in 20 years that this conference has travelled to Canada and the first time ever hosted at the University of Windsor,” said Jacqueline Mellish, residence life coordinator for Macdonald and Electa halls.
The Faculty of Human Kinetics Distinguished Speakers Series presents Jeff Horowitz delivering a free public lecture entitled “Exercise and Dietary Effects on Fat Metabolism that May Improve Metabolic Health,” at noon on Friday, November 11, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
Keeping the campus beautiful is everyone’s responsibility, says Susan Mark, executive director of Facility Services, and that extends to responsible posting of posters and flyers.
The University adopted a Sign Posting Policy in June 2004 with a stated aim of decreasing paper strewn throughout the campus, but Mark’s department has been receiving complaints about compliance.
“No one enjoys an environment with lots of visual clutter, with litter on the ground, or with chipped paint and smudged windows,” she says.
There’s a popular expression – printed on t-shirts, fridge magnets and other knick-knacks – which urges people to take their moral behaviour up a grade or two: “Be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.”
The only thing limiting the possibilities of the industrial courtyard is the imagination of the people working there, according to one of the project’s managers.
“It’s a very new type of space and a new idea and I think it’s going to develop a lot as time goes on,” said Mark Beaulieu, owner of JP Thomson Architects Ltd., the architectural and engineering firm hired by the university to oversee the construction of its new Centre for Engineering Innovation. “It’s meant to generate ideas. This is the place to help get them started.”
Second-year law student Josh Price had always admired the United Way but never had any idea the charitable network had such a close connection with the UWindsor’s community garden.
“I’m a big fan of the United Way and the work they do,” said the Toronto native. “I’ve often walked by this garden and wondered what it was all about. Now I know.”
About 150 local high school girls will come to the University of Windsor Friday to discover that you don’t have to be on a sports team in order to stay fit.
“We want these kids to know that there are a lot of non-traditional ways to stay physically active,” said kinesiology professor Marge Holman. “You don’t have to be on the basketball team, or the volleyball team or the soccer team.”
