The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance is joining with University administration and local agencies in an effort to foster better relations between permanent residents and students living in neighbourhoods surrounding the campus.
The partners are distributing an information pack to students living in the blocks around the main campus. The pack contains:
The only thing limiting the possibilities of the industrial courtyard is the imagination of the people working there, according to one of the project’s managers.
“It’s a very new type of space and a new idea and I think it’s going to develop a lot as time goes on,” said Mark Beaulieu, owner of JP Thomson Architects Ltd., the architectural and engineering firm hired by the university to oversee the construction of its new Centre for Engineering Innovation. “It’s meant to generate ideas. This is the place to help get them started.”
Second-year law student Josh Price had always admired the United Way but never had any idea the charitable network had such a close connection with the UWindsor’s community garden.
“I’m a big fan of the United Way and the work they do,” said the Toronto native. “I’ve often walked by this garden and wondered what it was all about. Now I know.”
About 150 local high school girls will come to the University of Windsor Friday to discover that you don’t have to be on a sports team in order to stay fit.
“We want these kids to know that there are a lot of non-traditional ways to stay physically active,” said kinesiology professor Marge Holman. “You don’t have to be on the basketball team, or the volleyball team or the soccer team.”
As a young boy, Josh Mellanby recalls being glued to the television, fascinated by the old episodes of The Twilight Zone that his mother had turned him on to.
“It was one of the biggest influences in my life,” the 30-year-old filmmaker says of the old Rod Serling-directed mind-bending science fiction television series. “I loved the twists of fate and the way they could craft these complex stories in such a short amount of time.”
If the role of a documentary filmmaker is to focus the lens on provocative and potentially incendiary subject matter, then Kim Nelson perfectly fits the part.
However, rather than imposing her own personal opinions on the controversial topics of immigration and multicultural assimilation in Germany, she takes a back seat in her film Berliner, allowing instead for the characters’ own personal stories to define the fundamental conflict there.
The opening of an exhibit at the Leddy Library dedicated to the female scientist who discovered radium – which revolutionized diagnostic imaging and the treatment of cancer – provided a perfect opportunity to address the need to encourage more women to pursue studies and careers in hard sciences.
Phil Graniero had a fairly simple motive when he shaved off the goatee he normally wears on the weekend and started growing a new moustache.
“My family hasn’t been touched by prostate cancer and I’d like to keep it that way,” says the associate professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
It’s not too late to save the world from environmental devastation, according to a retired UWindsor professor and leading coral reef ecologist who will speak on campus Thursday night.
