Just a couple of days before the Thanksgiving weekend, Enrique Chacon is starting to worry about finding enough volunteers for the Host for the Holidays program.
He is one of the organizers of the program, which matches international students with Windsor families willing open their homes to share Thanksgiving dinner with a visitor from overseas.
A workshop by fourth-year music therapy student Kylie Klym and professor Amy Clements-Cortes drew television cameras to the Maison Vale Hospice in Sudbury thios week.
Klym is serving a six-month internship at the hospice, providing therapy to its residents and oncology patients at the Regional Cancer Program at Sudbury Regional Hospital.
Engineering professor Rupp Carriveau will discuss his research on a unique solution for storing the wind energy generated by turbines that spin during off-peak hours when he appears on CJAM 99.1 FM this afternoon.
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The University of Windsor Bookstore is joining hundreds of other college stores across North America to celebrate and promote social responsibility during the first annual National Student Day.
A course in kayaking offered through Campus Recreation will include a review of such topics as entering and exiting a kayak, balance, paddling strokes and safety procedures.
The eight-week course begins October 13 and runs Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre pool. Swimming experience is required; a kayak and life jacket are provided.
Saying he loves university life, his students and teaching, English professor Tom Dilworth is glad to have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada but thinks it would be a mistake to think it means much.
The society named him to its academy of the arts and humanities in September; he will be inducted during a ceremony on Saturday, November 26, at the Ottawa Convention Centre.
“It just means that you have worked hard and published a lot,” says Dr. Dilworth. “What does make it important for me is that I was nominated by Byron Rourke.”
Weather permitting, the revised schedule for the Chrysler Hall Tower renovations is for the exterior work to be complete by the end of October 2011, reports Facility Services.
The north/east set of stairs complete with new railings should be open for use around Tuesday, October 11. The south/east stairs will then be closed approximately two and a half weeks for repairs until completion.
Journalist Laura Robinson knows first-hand the challenges of being a woman in sport.
A three-time Ontario cycling champion, 1979 Ontario and Canadian rowing champion, active Nordic skier and runner, Robinson recalls an active childhood in which she was encouraged by her family to pursue her love for athletics. She was surprised and angered to find, even at a young age, that sports were not welcoming to girls and women.
Growing up in what is now Mississauga, Ontario, Robinson discovered her interest in cycling when a group of local boys biked to her house.
A video recording of the September 28 inaugural reading by writer-in-residence Alan Davies is available on the English department Web site.
The entire event, from introductory remarks through Davies’ poetry and a question-and-answer session, is presented in the 68 minute video. Watch it now.
It may be better to give than to receive, but sometimes you can do both. One such occasion is today's retirees barbecue for the United Way.
UWindsor retirees organize the annual event, with proceeds going to the United Way, which funds non-profit organizations in Windsor and Essex County. The barbecue will be held outside the eastern entrance to the CAW Student Centre from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
