Despite the commonly held stereotype of the battered woman who is too afraid to take action to stop the abuse, many women actually do call the police when they’re being physically assaulted.
Undergraduate Students
A University of Windsor graduate has won a coveted Governor General’s award for his latest collection of poetry.
Killdeer, a book of poems and essays by two-time UWindsor alumnus Phil Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the Canada Council for the Arts announced yesterday.
Eighteenth-century Detroit is often depicted as a fur-trading post in the historiography of the colonial Great Lakes, says historian Guillaume Teasdale, while in fact, hundreds of French families from the St. Lawrence valley settled in the Detroit River region during that time.
“As a result, Detroit developed into a thriving French colony that was connected to the western Great Lakes through the fur trade,” says Dr. Teasdale, a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture at the University of Ottawa.
They call themselves the Faculty of Mo.
Dave Andrews, a professor in the Faculty of Human Kinetics and Phil Graniero, an associate professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, have teamed up to raise funds for prostate cancer research by growing their moustaches during what is quickly becoming universally recognized as the month of “Movember.”
After 50 years in the world of contemporary conceptual art, with exhibits at some of the planet’s best-known galleries, you’d think Iain Baxter& had earned the right to wear a t-shirt like the one he donned for a recent opening of a retrospective collection of his career at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Business student Dane Rife had a big problem. Tasked with promoting the Windsor International Film Festival to his fellow students, he was struggling with how to get around a rule that dictates posters can not be hung on the walls of the Odette Building.
The creative solution he proposed to his team: building their own wall.
“We went to Home Depot, got all the supplies, and put it together right there on the front lawn of Odette,” the fourth-year student said. “We had to do it fast because we didn’t know if we’d be allowed.”
Nov 11th, 2011
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: 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:
The only thing limiting the possibilities of the industrial courtyard is the imagination of the people working there, according to one of the project’s managers.
“It’s a very new type of space and a new idea and I think it’s going to develop a lot as time goes on,” said Mark Beaulieu, owner of JP Thomson Architects Ltd., the architectural and engineering firm hired by the university to oversee the construction of its new Centre for Engineering Innovation. “It’s meant to generate ideas. This is the place to help get them started.”
About 150 local high school girls will come to the University of Windsor Friday to discover that you don’t have to be on a sports team in order to stay fit.
“We want these kids to know that there are a lot of non-traditional ways to stay physically active,” said kinesiology professor Marge Holman. “You don’t have to be on the basketball team, or the volleyball team or the soccer team.”
