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still of schoonerCuriosity, great pathos and a liberating splash of humour come together in “Expedition to the End of the World.” The documentary will be screened Thursday.

Film fest and science fest team up for screening

The Windsor International Film Festival and Science Rendezvous are teaming up for a screening of two documentaries Thursday at the Capitol Theatre.

Tim Hortons cupYou can get your Timmies fix in the Odette Building next week.

Coffee outlet to relocate next week

The campus Tim Hortons location will change next week to accommodate the Canada-Wide Science Fair, Food Services has announced.

The outlet in the CAW Student Centre will close and the department will open the outlet at Dividends, in the Odette Building. The Marketplace location will re-open on Tuesday, May 20.

Summer hours for the campus Tim Hortons are 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays.

Steven PalmerSteven Palmer will discuss his research on the Metropolitan School of Nursing when he appears on CJAM at 4:30 p.m. today.

Dogged by scandal, school left positive mark on nursing profession

It was unfairly dragged into a local sex scandal back in its day, but a demonstration school established in Windsor during the middle of the last century broke new ground and became a model for nursing education in Canada, according to a university historian.

Youngsters crowd close to view the principle of angular momentum illustrated by a fire tornado during last year’s Science Rendezvous demonstrations.Youngsters crowd close to view the principle of angular momentum illustrated by a fire tornado during last year’s Science Rendezvous demonstrations.

Festival to bring science up close and personal

The free public festival Science Rendezvous will open doors to discovery, Saturday, May 10, on the UWindsor campus.

Detail of “Eldorado,” oil paint, spray paint and spray foam on canvas, by Pearl Van Geest.Detail of “Eldorado,” oil paint, spray paint and spray foam on canvas, by Pearl Van Geest.

Art student to present thesis exhibition

MFA candidate Pearl Van Geest will display works next week at SB Contemporary Art and at the SoVA Gallery, Lebel Building.

Gillian KornackiBotsford scholar Gillian Kornacki will deliver a lecture on French colonial families in the Detroit River Region at Ducks on the Roof in Amherstburg this Thursday night.

History scholar to discuss Detroit River region's French colonial families

Whenever Gillian Kornacki drives down Goyeau Avenue, she must wonder what life was like for her distant relatives.

“My grandma was a Goyeau, so I grew up with the stories about how that street used to be our farm,” says the fourth-year history major.

Those stories were enough to make her do a little more digging. Several years ago, while visiting her grandfather’s house, she found a genealogy book, compiled by one of her relatives during the 1970s, tracing her family’s history back 12 generations.