A breakfast reception Wednesday honoured 66 Lancer student-athletes for their selection by Canadian Interuniversity Sport as Academic all-Canadians – a new record for the University of Windsor.
Each of the honourees achieved a minimum grad-point average of 80 percent while competing in a varsity sport. Read more, including a full list of the 2011 Lancer Academic all-Canadians, at goLancers.ca.
This year’s AGW Biennial has a great array of works, which curator Iain Baxter& says represent the new energized spirit of Windsor. A professor emeritus of visual arts, he will lead a tour of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor this Friday, October 14.
Baxter& is not the only participant with a UWindsor connection. Most of the more than 30 local artists showcased have studied or taught at the School of Visual Arts.
The Windsor-Essex United Way is seeking a logo for its new Web site linking volunteers with opportunities to serve the community. The charity is holding a design contest to build a brand identity for WEvolunteer.com.
The Web site will assist people looking to volunteer in Windsor-Essex by matching their interests and skills with needs in the not-for-profit sector.
Many animals communicate using sound to attract mates, find food, and avoid predators.
Dave Wilson, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Windsor, says that rising levels of human-generated noise have raised concern for those animals. He is a member of a team of researchers who have published a new study this week in the Journal of Experimental Biology, which shows that traffic noise causes red-winged blackbirds to alter their songs.
Dave Yurkowski learned a great deal about Arctic ecology during his two week journey to the Canadian north this summer to study how climate change affects the behaviour of ringed seals. He also learned a lot about what’s commonly referred to as one of life’s most important virtues.
“You do have to be really patient,” the master’s student said of the time he had spend waiting for a seal to be caught in the nets he helped set. “You can be sitting there for hours. But that’s just part of field work. Once the seal gets caught in the net – that’s when the action starts.”
Night time has long been seen as a problem for cities, a time of danger and disorder, but they are now rethinking the meaning of the urban night, according to a visiting lecturer who will speak here Friday.
Milos Savic doesn’t accept offers from just anyone, but when does, he prefers the University of Windsor.
A first-year student in the Arts and Sciences program, Savic took top honours in the university’s second Facebook video contest and was presented with a new iPad2 yesterday for his winning submission, a spoof of the popular Dos Equis beer commercials.
"I looked around on line to get inspiration and I went off the most interesting man in the world and I gave it a little spin and added a few of my own touches,” he said Tuesday.
The University of Windsor has declared a Pentium M753 Celeron computer for sale by bid as Disposal File 856. Please click here for details.
The Lancer men’s basketball team will host the University of Calgary Dinos for a rare cross-Canada exhibition match-up, Thursday, October 13, at the St. Denis Centre. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Tickets are $5, available at the door.
Head coach Chris Oliver’s squad is well rested after a busy August summer series against NCAA schools Virginia Tech, St. Louis, Oakland and Northern Florida. Coming into the season, the team appears poised for another big year behind the senior leadership trio of Josh Collins, Enrico Diloreto and Lien Phillip.
Mediation between the University of Windsor and the Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) will continue on October 17, 18 and 19.
The association has set a strike date of 12:01 a.m. on October 19, and the University of Windsor remains confident that an agreement can be reached before the deadline. Updates will continue to be communicated as more information about this process becomes available.
