A nod from a national publication came at a perfect time, says BookFest Windsor organizer Lenore Langs—just before the festival opens.
“What an honour to be included in Canadian Geographic’s list of top literary festivals in Canada,” says Langs, a UWindsor sessional instructor of expository and creative writing.
Until 1985, First Nations women who married non-status men lost their status under Canada’s Indian Act, even though men who married non-status women were able to pass their status on to their wives and children. The effects of this discrimination are still being felt in many communities today.
In a free public event, “Aboriginal Women v. Canada,” Jeannette Corbière Lavell and Dawn Lavell Harvard discuss the losses experienced by First Nations women and their children as a result of gender discrimination in the Indian Act.
University Players continues its 54th season with Agatha Christie’s mystery, The Hollow, October 25 to 28 and October 31 to November 4 at Essex Hall Theatre.
This classic murder mystery by the “queen of whodunits” will keep audience members guessing through every twist and turn.
A free public reception Tuesday will launch the latest book by the University’s resident writing professional.
Ghost Road and other forgotten stories of Windsor is a new collection of local legends—only this is the Windsor we don’t know, says Marty Gervais. The best-selling author of The Rumrunners and My Town, he says these stories carry with them traces of the city’s weird and wonderful history.
UWindsor drama grads Mark Lefebvre (BFA 1988) and Kyle Sipkens (BFA 2008) can say that they walked tall on the popular CBC television series Dragons’ Den.
What the Stilt Guys can’t say—yet— is whether they cut a deal with any of the show’s entrepreneurs.
“We signed a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting us from revealing the outcome of our pitch,” says Lefebvre. “Not even my mom knows what went down!”
Are you an employee who tells people great things about working at the University? Do you feel that you can bring forward ideas? Do you know how you and your job contribute to the success of the University?
A new initiative of the Department of Human Resources is aimed at building employee engagement with the University of Windsor as a workplace.
“We Are UWindsor” will promote a work environment where employees find personal meaning and motivation in their work and actively contribute to the success of the University, says Rita LaCivita, chief human resources officer.
With mid-term exams looming, everybody could use something sweet about now. That’s the impetus to Food Service’s “Mid-term Madness” promotion, this week at the Williams Fresh Café.
The sale runs through Friday at the café in the Leddy Library, and promises patrons a medium coffee or tea with a cookie for the sweet price of $2.
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are deliberately avoiding discussing their religious backgrounds in the current U.S. presidential election campaign because they’re keenly aware of the collateral damage it would cause them both, according to a high-profile political scientist from the University of Notre Dame who will deliver a lecture here next week.
Creating on-going opportunities to provide a secure campus environment for everyone is the impetus behind Women’s Safety Grant funding available annually through the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, says Kaye Johnson, director of the Office of Human Rights.
Applications are now available for the funds, which Johnson says have been used to provide everything from safety cameras and campus emergency phones to Welcome Week outreach programs, personal defense courses for women, and faculty research into student safety needs.
UWindsor president Alan Wildeman is pleased to announce the appointment of K.W. Michael Siu as Vice President, Research, at the University of Windsor, effective December 1, 2012.
