Provost and Vice-President, Academic, Leo Groarke has announced the reappointment of Dr. Alan Wright to another five-year term as Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning.
“Windsor has earned a reputation as a university at the forefront of teaching and learning practices and research,” Dr. Groarke says. “The credit belongs to Dr. Wright and his colleagues in CTL.”
Amanda June Marshal believes in turning her talents to her interests.
When her friend Carolina McGuire was diagnosed with cancer, Marshal developed an interest in treatments for the disease.
The two-time UWindsor grad (BA 2010, B.Ed 2011) has pulled together the Couture for Cancer Gala and Fashion Show to benefit Transition to Betterness and McGuire’s family.
When families in Windsor and Essex gather around their Christmas trees this year, chances are they may open a gift that was purchased on Black Friday, the day after American Thanksgiving and the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.
The University Club will close out 2011 after lunch on Friday, December 16.
The restaurant on the ground floor of Vanier Hall will re-open Monday, January 9.
Consult a schedule of end-of-semester operating hours for every Food Service outlet.
The Lancer women’s basketball team will host their annual Holiday Classic Tournament Christmas week at the St. Denis Centre.
Coach Chantal Vallée and the Women’s Lancers will host three teams from across the CIS in a three-day tournament, December 28 to 30. The #2 ranked Lancers enter the tournament with a 6-2 record to start their season and are led by CIS female athlete of the year, Jessica Clemençon.
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Campus Police Emergency Preparedness coordinator Chris Zelezney would like to remind members of the UWindsor community to familiarize themselves with emergency procedures and take the time to register cell phones and other notification devices with UWindsor Alert, the campus’s emergency notification system.
Her children may have reached the age where they don’t get presents from St. Nick any more, but for Linda Ingram, playing Kris Kringle never gets old.
A secretary to the associate dean and the research leadership chair in the Odette School of Business, Ingram helped coordinate her department’s annual contribution to Children’s Aid Society’s Adopt-a-Family program. Every year, departments from across the campus “adopt” struggling families from the surrounding community, collect donations and buy food, clothing and gifts to ensure they have an enjoyable Christmas.
Friday, December 9, is the deadline for tickets to the Faculty & Staff Holiday Mingle and Jingle, scheduled for noon Tuesday, December 13, in Vanier Hall’s Winclare Room A.
The annual event has been re-invented, with a horse-drawn carriage providing rides to a stand-up reception featuring festive food stations, live entertainment, door prizes and the company of friends and colleagues.
Before he detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building in April of 1995, killing 168 people and injuring more than 800 others, Timothy McVeigh read The Turner Diaries.
A novel set in 2099, the book depicts a violent overthrow of the United States federal government and is based on the premise that a secret cadre of Jews have conspired to create a totalitarian government that has confiscated all civilian firearms and controls both the media and the entire economy.
A horse-drawn carriage will transport celebrants across campus to the Faculty & Staff Holiday Mingle and Jingle on Tuesday, December 13.
“We have arranged for a horse-and-buggy ride as the next best thing to a sleigh,” says catering manager Dean Kissner. “We’re really hoping some jingling bells will help to set the tone for the event.”
