Over the 2011/12 academic year, the UWindsor Senate approved three new graduate programs, a graduate certificate, two undergraduate certificates, four undergraduate degree completion programs, a new program stream, and 59 new course proposals.
The current Senate Report reveals that fact, along with updates on bylaws, changes to Senate policies, other academic news—and even a pedagogic word search puzzle.
Lancer football head coach Joe D’Amore is looking forward to building on what his team accomplished last season.
“I feel we grew as a football team,” he said. “Our players worked extremely hard and are looking forward to taking the next step in our development as a program.”
A trip to Western University last week helped UWindsor staff and leaders of student government learn about other ways to deliver services.
It’s the second year for the “dean’s trip,” said Clayton Smith, vice-provost, students and international.
“It gives my staff to engage with the leaders of each of the student governments so we can build a good working relationship,” he said. “We’re taking it from a formal institutional relationship to gaining understanding of each person’s perspective.”
The transfer of city-owned properties to the University of Windsor will advance planning for the development of its downtown campus, president Alan Wildeman said Monday, after Windsor City Council voted to turn the Armouries, the former bus depot and the Chatham Street parkette over to the University.
The downtown campus expansion plans touches on every goal of the University’s strategic plan, said Dr. Wildeman.
In the scientific race to build smaller, faster electronic devices, the Holy Grail is the development of nano-scale machines that can transmit information at the atomic level.
Placing three UWindsor graduate students among the top award recipients at the North American Ornithological Congress confirms the university as a centre of excellence for bird biology in North America, says professor Oliver Love.
Fourteen researchers represented the University of Windsor, including Dr. Love and students from his laboratory and the laboratories of Dan Mennill and Stephanie Doucet.
The Windsor delegation took three of the 12 awards for the best student talks and posters among the hundreds of student presenters:
Faculty and staff can help to make new students feel at home while gearing themselves up for the new school year by participating in Windsor Welcome Week activities, says organizer Soula Serra of the Educational Development Centre.
“First of all, we hope to get every office or department involved,” Serra says. “So if you have any material you would like us to distribute throughout the first week from the Welcome Tent, please drop off 200 to 500 flyers or items of swag to room 117, Dillon Hall by Thursday, August 30.”
The Athletics Department is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win gold seat tickets to the Lancer football home opener against the Ottawa Gee Gees on Monday, September 3, at 1 p.m.
One lucky winner will receive a package of four tickets in the premium gold section of University of Windsor stadium. Just send your answers to the following trivia questions. The winner will be randomly selected from all correct responses received by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 29. To be eligible, submit your best response to each of these trivia questions:
The Search Committee for the next Vice President, Research, has short-listed two candidates. The UWindsor campus community is invited to a public presentation to be given by each candidate, on the topic of “the role of research in the university today.”
Everyone is invited to attend these presentations. The candidates, and the time of each presentation, are as follows:
Call it velocipedephilia. The gallery SB Contemporary Art is teaming up with Canada South Eco Tours to present “For the Love of Bikes,” a community art exhibition in celebration of Windsor’s 54th Via Italia Race and bicycle culture, through September 22.
The nature of the show will help it to attract a variety of viewers, says Victor Romão, a visual arts instructor and three-time UWindsor grad (BFA 1991, BEd 1992, MFA 2010). He will exhibit a new 22" x 28" drawing, entitled With the greatest of ease, executed in acrylic ink on watercolour paper.
