It’s one of life’s most difficult subjects and many dance around it or don’t even talk about it at all, but Bonnie Pacuta thinks it’s time for people start openly discussing what the end of their lives will look like.
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In recognition of her outstanding professionalism, community service, inspiration and mentoring of young athletes -- especially women – the Windsor Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce will confer the 2012 Athena Award on Lancer women’s basketball coach Chantal Vallée during its business excellence awards, April 25 at the Ciociaro Club.
The award honours men and women for business excellence, for community service, and for encouraging women to achieve their leadership potential.
UWindsor employees are invited to participate in the highlight of the academic year by joining the Volunteer at Convocation initiative.
A joint project of the Department of Human Resources and the Office of the Registrar, it offers staff the opportunity to be involved in a tangible way in the culmination of the student experience.
Drawing on inspiration from a futuristic personal transit system being implemented in the United Arab Emirates, four UWindsor Industrial Engineering students came up with a solution to the transportation travails associated with urban sprawl, earning them a second place finish at the Provincial Ontario Engineering Competition and a place at the table for the national competition held recently in Vancouver.
Working with a team of UWindsor engineering students to help his business find ways to be more efficient was an opportunity Angelo Fallone would recommend to any company looking to improve its operations.
Natalie Ethier is really following in her mother’s footsteps.
A senior at L’Essor high school, she plans a career in education like her mother, Rachelle Ethier, a teacher at Tecumseh’s Ecole St-Antonie. And like her mother, Natalie Ethier is a recipient of a Human Kinetics Book Award – one of 25 given out Thursday to the outstanding student-athlete graduating from each area high school.
“I have always had a love for sports and I always wanted to teach,” said Ethier, an all-star volleyball, basketball and soccer player who also maintains an A-average in her classes.
University is not just a place to secure a career, says Tanya Basok, “It’s a place to become a good global citizen and break down the walls of injustice.”
Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, she bestowed its 2012 Student Social Justice Project of the Year Award on the Charter Project. Formed in observance of the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the group promotes understanding of this landmark document.
A UWindsor engineer hopes the testing he conducted for a local solar energy supplier will help the firm expand and grow.
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Composers ranging from George Gershwin to Count Basie to Wes Montgomery are on the program today, as a student jazz combo performs in recital for the School of Music’s Take 4 series.
The event gets underway at 4 p.m. in room 126, Music Building, and will feature:
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