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Holiday host program to provide home experience to international students

Sep 28th, 2011

Opening her home to students from other countries taught her that more unites people than divides them, says Beth Oakley.

She had some special guests last Thanksgiving under the Host for the Holidays program, which matches international students with Windsor families willing share Thanksgiving dinner.

“My extended family was a little reluctant at first, but since I was doing all the cooking they didn't protest too loudly,” recalls Oakley, director of the Educational Development Centre. “Once they met this lovely couple, everyone thoroughly enjoyed them.”

Berm project to shore up southern approach to campus

Sep 27th, 2011

A makeover of the berm outside the south campus stadium will enhance the entrance to the University of Windsor along Huron Church Road, says Susan Mark, executive director of Facility Services.

The construction firm Total Source Contractors is adding a retaining wall and some rock features to the southeast corner of College Avenue and Huron Church Road. New plantings will include low-maintenance groupings of indigenous species.

Field trip gives students hands-on experience with marvel of migration

Sep 27th, 2011

More than 200 species of birds make the annual migration from Canada to the tropics. University of Windsor students had a chance to study 47 of them this weekend when they went on a full-day field trip as part of a third-year class in ornithology.

Almost 60 students watched migratory gulls and hawks at Point Pelee National Park, documented avian biodiversity at UWindsor’s Pelee Environmental Research Centre and banded migratory birds at Holiday Beach Conservation Area. Enthusiastic students were impressed to learn about the scale of the autumnal migration through Essex County.

Psychology student discovers common ground with survivors of war in former Yugoslavia

Sep 26th, 2011

For a very brief moment, Mia Sisic’s eyes well up ever so slightly when asked what she recalls about growing up in a small town in what was still Yugoslavia in the early 1990s during a bitter war that would eventually divide her home country along ethnic and religious lines.

“I remember a lot but I don’t want to talk about it,” she replies with a quick, smiling recovery. “My parents and I still talk about it, but we try to leave that in the past. I do remember being a very happy kid, playing with kids who were Serbian, Muslim and Croatian. It didn’t matter then.”

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Mia Sisic

Auto analyst to address business students

Sep 26th, 2011

Industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers will identify winners and losers in the North American automotive sector over the past two years in a classroom presentation to marketing students in the Odette School of Business on Wednesday, October 5. The class begins at 8 a.m. in room 112, Odette Building.

This lecture is open to members of the public, but space is limited. To ensure adequate seating, RSVP to Barbara Barone at bbarone@uwindsor.ca or 519-253-3000, ext. 3678.

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Visual art students itching to burn fire sculptures

Sep 23rd, 2011

It will take more than a little rain to dampen the spirits of art students participating in the Fahrenheit Festival of Fire Sculpture this weekend. The event, presented by the Artcite gallery, involves the creation of wood and straw structures that are set alight.

Members of professor Rod Strickland’s third-year sculpture class plan to build and burn three pieces.

“I am definitely excited. This is my first time putting an artwork out there for the public,” says BFA student Patrick Bodnar.

He says the medium of fire is unpredictable.

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Campus Community Police warn of locker room thefts

Sep 23rd, 2011

Campus Community Police are investigating several thefts from lockers in the St. Denis Centre changing rooms.

Campus Community Police are advising students, staff and faculty to be extra vigilant and ask anyone with information that may be helpful to investigators to phone them at 519-253-3000, ext. 1234.