Faculty

The Centre for Enterprise and Law invites you to save the date for its Intellectual Property Boot Camp, a workshop providing an understanding of the theoretical and practical principles of intellectual property.

The workshop runs four days, February 19 to 22, on the UWindsor campus. It will feature a number of speakers from the fields of law and business discussing patents, trademarks, commercialization of technology, and other aspects of intellectual property.

Students in Amr ElRagaby’s graduate course in bridge engineering really dug deep Thursday, as guest lecturer Biljana Rajlic discussed her work as the lead structural engineer and design team project manager of the Right Honourable Herb Gray Parkway.

The 11-kilometre, $1.4 billion project will connect Highway 401 to Interstate 75 in Michigan via a new bridge across the Detroit River.

Rajlic discussed the parkway’s design challenges, providing an overview of the roadways, utilities, geotechnical, structural, traffic management, landscaping and environmental design.

Faculty, staff, and retired members of the University of Windsor retirement pension plans are invited to attend the annual open pension meeting tomorrow—Wednesday, December 5—at 3 p.m. in room 104, Odette Building.

Representatives from the university’s actuarial firm, Mercer, and the investment management firms will make presentations on the university’s retirement pension funds.

Hundreds of students, alumni, staff, faculty and well-wishers cheered as UWindsor president Alan Wildeman accepted the keys to the former Windsor Star buildings from publisher Marty Beneteau on Friday, symbolizing the transfer of the property to the University.

First-year business student Qiaotian Yan said it was fun to participate in the event, which jammed the corner of Pitt and Ferry streets for a photograph and video to document the historic occasion.