Mar 19th, 2012
The School of Music’s Take 4 series will showcase students in recital, Monday, March 19, at 4 p.m. in room 139, Music Building.
The program features:
Faculty
“Can love potions be used to control an invasive fish?” is the title of the next Science Café at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, at Canada South Science City. Biologist and author Lynda Corkum will describe her research efforts to control round goby and keep it from destroying native fish populations in the Great Lakes.
John Powell said it was “truly an honour” to be recognized by the Organization of Part-time University Students at its 20th annual awards dinner Thursday, but that isn’t why he loves his job.
“I have the fortune to be able to play a role in telling the stories of students, faculty and staff across campus,” the University’s director of Web development said. “Certainly the work I do is reflected in efforts to advance the University.”
Mar 16th, 2012
Emilie Cushman, a student at the Odette School of Business, received the 2012 Woman Leader of Tomorrow Award for central Canada from Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship at its regional exposition, March 12 in Toronto.
The Spring 2012 edition of VIEW, the University of Windsor’s alumni magazine, is now available online by visiting www.uwindsor.ca/view. New for the online issue of VIEW is the addition of short videos that accompany selected stories. Look for the triangular “play” button to zoom in and watch the story unfold.
Mar 16th, 2012
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival has named UWindsor drama grad Antoni Cimolino (BFA 1984, hon. PhD 2004) its next artistic director. He will take on the role once incumbent Des McAnuff vacates it at the end of the festival’s 2012 season.
Mar 16th, 2012
The Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball championship tournament may be in Calgary, but that doesn’t mean Lancer fans have to miss their team’s title defense. SSN Canada will webcast every game live.
Saturday, March 17
- 2 p.m. Quarter-final #1: No. 7 McGill vs. No. 2 UBC
- 4 p.m. Quarter-final #2: No. 6 Saskatchewan vs. No. 3 Ottawa
- 7 p.m. Quarter-final #3: No. 5 Acadia vs. No. 4 Windsor
- 9 p.m. Quarter-final #4: No. 8 Calgary vs. No. 1 Regina
Sunday, March 18
Mar 16th, 2012
A group of visual arts students will utilize an unconventional space and alternative materials – including balloons and their own bodies – for a performance work entitled Hot Air, outside 1350 Ouellette Avenue on Saturday, March 17, at 7 p.m.
The collective: April Morris, Fatima Fakih, Elizabeth Lojewski, Michael Feiye Ngo and Victoria Symons will be in discussion with the literal space they occupy.
Several campus projects are using the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day to send a message – you don’t have to drink to excess to have a good time.
“St. Patrick’s Day is the biggest drinking day of the year for university students,” says Catherine Joyce, who works with Campus Police as student alcohol education coordinator. “It’s a nice target for us to get to them before the event.”
She organized an information fair in the CAW Student Centre Thursday, with booths on a variety of topics related to alcohol awareness.
There’s a difference between math and baking, says Kevin St. Denis: “Math is easier.”
The third-year mathematics major prepared a couple of pies in celebration of Pi Day, Wednesday in Erie Hall.
“It’s just some premade crust and I poured in two cans of filling – cherry and blueberry,” St. Denis said. “I tried to shape them like the letter R because I was going for two pie R.”