Staff

Last year’s Mingle and Jingle holiday luncheon for faculty and staff was a great collegial event, says catering manager Dean Kissner—and he is hoping to top it this year.

With a theme of “The Big Chill,” this year’s holiday luncheon is set for noon Thursday, December 13, in Vanier Hall’s Winclare Room A.

“We have a lot of little holiday surprises planned,” says Kissner. “We don’t want to give away too much, because we want our guests to experience delight when they walk in.”

The air in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation is about to get a lot cleaner.

Workers from Nedlaw Living Walls were busy this week installing more than 1,500 plants into the building’s biowall, which will help naturally filter the air that flows through the 300,000 square foot engineering building.

Campus flags will be lowered Friday, December 7, in memory of professor emeritus David Wurfel, who died November 12 in his Seattle, Washington, home.

Dr. Wurfel joined the UWindsor faculty in 1968 as an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. He was appointed to the rank of professor in 1972 and held that position until his 1993 retirement.

Funeral services were held December 1 in Seattle.

Christmas has become too commercial, says Janeen Auld, which makes the Adopt-a-Family program a perfect way for her to celebrate the holiday.

“My family doesn’t exchange gifts,” says Auld, an instrument technician in the chemistry department. “It’s just too much stuff. Buying for people truly in need is the only type of shopping I want to do.”