Roberto Sosa has been to some remote corners of Mexico on his quest to learn more about the songs of the wren, but says nothing compared to the month he spent this summer tracking the birds on an isolated jungle island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
“In my personal experience, this was one of my best field seasons in terms of data collection,” said Sosa, a PhD student in associate professor Dan Mennill’s lab in biological sciences.
The University is offering a break to students with busy schedules on election day in an effort to encourage them to vote.
Senate has declared a day of academic amnesty for Thursday, October 6, the date of the Ontario election. Students who do not have a break of at least three hours between classes may absent themselves from a class in order to cast a ballot.
Students wishing to take advantage of the amnesty will not be penalized, but must inform their instructors a week in advance and provide a copy of their class schedules as proof of their eligibility.
Using your UwinCARD to make purchases on campus just got a little more rewarding, thanks to a promotion by Food Services, the University Bookstore and the UwinCARD office.
The Right Back at U deal is offering a five percent discount when you spend UwinCASH or the employee payroll deduction plan at all Food Services outlets, as well as Bookstore purchases excluding textbooks, computers and software.
Political science professor Bill Anderson will discuss his study on the economic impacts of the new Windsor-Essex Parkway when he appears on CJAM 99.1 FM this afternoon.
The UwinCARD can be used to purchase food at the new Huron Church Applebee’s restaurant under an agreement with Food Services. Cardholders can apply UwinCASH or meal plan monies and employees may also charge to the card through payroll deduction.
The restaurant, located at 2187 Huron Church Road, boasts 15 flatscreen TVs and free wi-fi. Lunch combos include the Pick 'N Pair where you can choose two of the hearty soups, savoury sandwiches, and pasta. Check out the full menu and the list of specials at applebeescanada.com.
More than 200 species of birds make the annual migration from Canada to the tropics. University of Windsor students had a chance to study 47 of them this weekend when they went on a full-day field trip as part of a third-year class in ornithology.
Almost 60 students watched migratory gulls and hawks at Point Pelee National Park, documented avian biodiversity at UWindsor’s Pelee Environmental Research Centre and banded migratory birds at Holiday Beach Conservation Area. Enthusiastic students were impressed to learn about the scale of the autumnal migration through Essex County.
Poet Alan Davies, the university’s new writer-in-residence, will offer a free public reading of his work this Wednesday.
For a very brief moment, Mia Sisic’s eyes well up ever so slightly when asked what she recalls about growing up in a small town in what was still Yugoslavia in the early 1990s during a bitter war that would eventually divide her home country along ethnic and religious lines.
“I remember a lot but I don’t want to talk about it,” she replies with a quick, smiling recovery. “My parents and I still talk about it, but we try to leave that in the past. I do remember being a very happy kid, playing with kids who were Serbian, Muslim and Croatian. It didn’t matter then.”
A filmmaker and a musician have both received federal research funding that will allow them to follow their individual creative inspirations and each others' at the same time.
It will take more than a little rain to dampen the spirits of art students participating in the Fahrenheit Festival of Fire Sculpture this weekend. The event, presented by the Artcite gallery, involves the creation of wood and straw structures that are set alight.
Members of professor Rod Strickland’s third-year sculpture class plan to build and burn three pieces.
“I am definitely excited. This is my first time putting an artwork out there for the public,” says BFA student Patrick Bodnar.
He says the medium of fire is unpredictable.
