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Recital a showcase for student talents

The School of Music’s Take 4 series of student recitals will showcase performances by six students in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, Wednesday at 4 p.m.

The program features:

Basketball coach featured speaker at Chamber of Commerce scholarship luncheon

Chantal Vallée, head coach of the national champion Lancers women’s basketball team, will discuss how she built a winning program and developed the character of her players in a presentation entitled “Lead to Succeed On and Off the Court” today during the 12th annual Athena Scholarship Luncheon.

The event, sponsored by the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce, will honour the three 2011 recipients of the Athena Scholarship:

Bus to shuttle Lancer fans to football semi-final game in London

The athletics department will make a bus available for fans wanting to catch the Lancer football team in action against the Western Mustangs in Saturday’s Ontario University Athletics semifinal.

The cost is $40, $30 for UWindsor students, and includes the bus ride to London and back as well as a game ticket in the reserved section behind the Lancer bench.

Keeping BookFest fresh a key priority for organizer

From a first meeting with Lenore Langs, you might get the mistaken impression she’s not a big fan of dub poetry or graphic novels.

Whether she’s an avid consumer of those genres, however, seems irrelevant. As a key organizer of BookFest Windsor, her interest is in promoting literature in all its forms, and keeping the three-day event fresh and current is her number one priority.

Engineering grad finds national park project demands gentle touch

Every engineering project has its idiosyncrasies. But not all engineering jobs take into account the impact of wildlife and hockey pucks.

Those were just two obstacles faced by the engineers renovating the Marsh Boardwalk in Point Pelee National Park. The park’s kilometre-long boardwalk, which reopened this spring, features a new floating section, a pagoda-style viewing area and a new canoe and kayak dock-all wheelchair-accessible. As soon as the ice thawed in the marsh, the push was on to complete construction before it could interfere with migrating birds.

Free lunch an inducement to University Club membership

Membership has its privileges, and the University Club is offering a special promotion this month to UWindsor staff to encourage their membership.

Dues for the 2011-12 school year have been reduced from $40 to $30 for each employee who joins on a Friday in November: 4, 11, 18 or 25. Every new member will receive that day’s lunch buffet – an $11.95 value – free.

Club members qualify for a number of benefits:

Goudge Inquiry focus of sociology prof's lecture at forensic sciences centre

An invitation to speak to some of the top forensic scientists in the country will provide a UWindsor sociology professor with the chance to impress upon them that there’s a serious disconnect between the goals of social workers and the recommendations of a pediatric forensic pathology inquiry into the wrongful convictions of several Canadians accused of killing children.