Amanda June Marshal believes in turning her talents to her interests.
When her friend Carolina McGuire was diagnosed with cancer, Marshal developed an interest in treatments for the disease.
The two-time UWindsor grad (BA 2010, B.Ed 2011) has pulled together the Couture for Cancer Gala and Fashion Show to benefit Transition to Betterness and McGuire’s family.
When families in Windsor and Essex gather around their Christmas trees this year, chances are they may open a gift that was purchased on Black Friday, the day after American Thanksgiving and the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.
The Lancer women’s basketball team will host their annual Holiday Classic Tournament Christmas week at the St. Denis Centre.
Coach Chantal Vallée and the Women’s Lancers will host three teams from across the CIS in a three-day tournament, December 28 to 30. The #2 ranked Lancers enter the tournament with a 6-2 record to start their season and are led by CIS female athlete of the year, Jessica Clemençon.
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Campus Police Emergency Preparedness coordinator Chris Zelezney would like to remind members of the UWindsor community to familiarize themselves with emergency procedures and take the time to register cell phones and other notification devices with UWindsor Alert, the campus’s emergency notification system.
Her children may have reached the age where they don’t get presents from St. Nick any more, but for Linda Ingram, playing Kris Kringle never gets old.
A secretary to the associate dean and the research leadership chair in the Odette School of Business, Ingram helped coordinate her department’s annual contribution to Children’s Aid Society’s Adopt-a-Family program. Every year, departments from across the campus “adopt” struggling families from the surrounding community, collect donations and buy food, clothing and gifts to ensure they have an enjoyable Christmas.
Before he detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building in April of 1995, killing 168 people and injuring more than 800 others, Timothy McVeigh read The Turner Diaries.
A novel set in 2099, the book depicts a violent overthrow of the United States federal government and is based on the premise that a secret cadre of Jews have conspired to create a totalitarian government that has confiscated all civilian firearms and controls both the media and the entire economy.
There is no better way to promote peace than to reach out to citizens of other nations, says Enrique Chacon. That’s why the international students advisor gets excited about the Host for the Holidays program.
“It’s an opportunity for students from around the world to learn about Canadians, and for people here in Windsor to gain an understanding of other cultures as well,” he says.
Certain people may be genetically predisposed to suffering negative side effects of living near wind turbines, according to an engineering professor studying the problem.
A forensics researcher is hoping to gain insight to help authorities solve murder cases and other suspicious deaths when an abandoned house near Barrie is intentionally torched this weekend – with about a dozen dead pigs inside.
One of the challenges in developing wind power is how to store energy generated during off-peak hours. A UWindsor engineering professor’s research into a unique solution will be the focus of a lead segment on tonight’s edition of Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel.
