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.
Faculty members who could one day be working downtown are getting the chance to help shape their new digs long before the heavy equipment moves in.
Balloting is underway in the UWindsor Facebook video contest.
Four entries are posted on the University's Facebook page, with students sharing some of the reasons they are proud to call themselves Lancers. Voters are asked to “like” their favourite videos on the social networking site. The creator of the video which receives the most votes will receive an Apple iPad2.
A new partnership between the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) will provide a fast track into chartered accountancy for university graduates looking for a new career path.
The Odette CA Pathway will allow students who already hold a four-year bachelor’s degree to complete the requirements for professional accounting designation without having to earn a second degree.
Roberto Sosa has been to some remote corners of Mexico on his quest to learn more about the songs of the wren, but says nothing compared to the month he spent this summer tracking the birds on an isolated jungle island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
“In my personal experience, this was one of my best field seasons in terms of data collection,” said Sosa, a PhD student in associate professor Dan Mennill’s lab in biological sciences.
It was one of three by students in visual arts professor Rod Strickland’s sculpture class featured at the festival. The event attracted about 2,000 spectators to watch the burning of straw and wooden structures.
Watch a video of the lighting of the sculpture above on the UWindsor YouTube channel.
An early-morning fitness class offered three times a week at the St. Denis Centre offers early risers a workout in what the instructor says is essentially free time.
Third-year movement sciences student Lance Cosgrove leads XRcise at 7 a.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
“This general program combines aerobic activity with muscle strengthening and flexibility exercises to provide a full body fitness experience,” he says. “It’s a refreshing way to start the day.”
He says there are many benefits to the time slot.
The University is offering a break to students with busy schedules on election day in an effort to encourage them to vote.
Senate has declared a day of academic amnesty for Thursday, October 6, the date of the Ontario election. Students who do not have a break of at least three hours between classes may absent themselves from a class in order to cast a ballot.
Students wishing to take advantage of the amnesty will not be penalized, but must inform their instructors a week in advance and provide a copy of their class schedules as proof of their eligibility.
Students in the Odette School of Business raised $300 for the Alzheimer Society this week with a bike-a-thon in memory of benefactor Louis Odette, who died May 18.
With his brother Edmond, Odette founded Eastern Construction Limited, one of Canada's largest general contractors. Their generous support of the UWindsor Faculty of Business led their being honoured with the naming of the Odette Building in 1991 and the Odette School of Business in 2000.
The Fall 2011 issue of Insight, the computer users' bulletin produced by Information Technology Services, is now available at web4.uwindsor.ca/insight/latest.
This issue provides information concerning the upgrade of the learning management system CLEW and a “heads-up” for the Storage Area Network Health Check which is scheduled to take place on June 24, 2012.
