A panel of leaders from Windsor’s Black community will discuss its long history and advocate for a Black Studies program at the University on Wednesday, March 3.

The online event, organized by a group of faculty and students at the University of Windsor and led by Researchers, Academics, Advocates of Colour for Equity in Solidarity (UWin RAACES), is free and open to the public.

The panel includes:

• Leslie McCurdy, educator and teaching artist, actress, playwright, singer, dancer
• Irene Moore Davis (BA 1993), president of the Essex County Black Historical Research Society
• Kaitlyn Ellsworth (BA 2014), educator
• Marium Tolson-Murtty, UWindsor anti-Black racism strategic planning officer
• Richard Ndayizigamiye, lecturer in modern languages at Brock University

“By learning about the history of Black Windsor-Essex, we can celebrate Black contributions and simultaneously appreciate the continued struggle for Black equality and liberation,” says professor Richard Douglass-Chin, one of the founders of RAACES.

The event will run 7 to 9 p.m. on Zoom; register to attend.

Green Ummah — a non-profit organization co-founded in January 2020 by law alum Aadil Nathani (JD 2020), third-year law student Mariam Rajabali, and LLM student Yousef Wahb — aims to create a green movement among Canada’s Muslim community.

Towards that end, the group will host an online climate forum on Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7, entitled “Building a Greener Community.”

Nathani credits the idea to Windsor Law’s Cities and Climate Action Forum and specifically, a 2019 guest lecture by environmental lawyer Diane Saxe highlighting the need to approach climate change from different angles to truly address the problem.

“From here, the idea was born to look at how climate change can be addressed within the Muslim Canadian community,” says Nathani.

“Our hope is that this digital event will carve a necessary space to speak about how we can integrate inclusivity, allyship, intersectionality, and community-building within the environmental movement in Canada.”

Green Ummah has partnered with Nature Canada and Windsor Law, among other organizations, to host the conference, and built its themes around a four-part curriculum toolkit it is developing for Islamic high schools. This toolkit is expected to be available for testing by September 2021.

Key themes of the curriculum and conference include:

• How do we build a greener community?
• What does Islam say about the environment?
• How can we build an inclusive movement?
• How can we nurture Indigenous and Muslim allyship?

This national event is free and open to the public and will be American Sign Language accessible. Register on Eventbrite.

Varsity student-athletes from the Lancer men’s and women’s soccer teams are seeking support from UWindsor alumni, friends, and the community for an ultramarathon session this week to raise funds for the University of Windsor human kinetics VOICES of Excellence scholarship.

The Lancers are participating in the David Goggins 4x4x48 Challenge: running four miles, every four hours, for 48 hours, March 5 to 7. They have broken themselves into groups, and each group will complete the 48 total miles.

Additionally, head coaches Ryan Mendonca and Daniel Mendonca and assistant coach James Lanbourne will each complete the 48 miles individually.

The scholarship, intended to foster Visibility, Outreach, Inclusion, Community, Equity, and Sustainability, is aimed at kinesiology students who self-identify as Black or Indigenous. The Blue and Gold have already raised more than $10,000 in pledges, says Ryan Mendonca.

“With our recent education initiatives surrounding anti-racism, we saw an opportunity to take lessons learned and turn them into action,” he said. “We believe that we can make a difference at our school and in society, for today and for the future. This is our first step, our first action. This is who we are as Lancer soccer.”

Read the full story at goLancers.ca.

Click here to support this effort by pledging a contribution online.

The Graduate Education Research Conference will be held via the Zoom videoconferencing platform on Monday, April 12.

Presented by the Faulty of Education, it will feature discussion by grad students from varying disciplines on the theme “The Changing Face of Education” and a keynote address by Brock University professor Darlene Ciuffetelli-Parker.

The event was originally planned for March. Attendance is free and open to the campus community.

Find more details and register for a link to attend on the conference website, thegerc.org.

A course in Assumption University’s “Learn for Life” series will chronicle the relationship between Roman Catholics and Jews from the 18th century to the contemporary era.

Principal John Cappucci will lead the class, “Rome and Jerusalem: Catholic-Jewish Relations II,” online via the Zoom teleconferencing platform. It will cover such topics as the Jewish enlightenment, the Montara affair, Pope Pius XII, the Holocaust, the Second Vatican Council, and interfaith initiatives under John Paul II.

It will run 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 20, with a noon-hour lunch break. Find more details and register by Friday, March 12, on the Assumption website.

Fats can add a lot of flavour to food and aid in the absorption of some nutrients, but diets higher in unhealthy fats are linked to health risks, warns a message sent Monday to UWindsor faculty and staff by Human Resources.

It offers some tips to help get good fats in your diet and limit unhealthier ones:

• Flavour your salad with balsamic and or other vinegar, fresh lemon juice, herbs, and spices instead of a store-bought dressing.
• Add mashed avocado to sandwiches instead of butter or mayonnaise.
• For dipping, make your own hummus instead of spinach or artichoke dip.
• Substitute canola or olive oil for butter when stir-frying or sautéing.
• Eat a small handful of almonds or walnuts with a piece of fruit for a simple snack, instead of chips or pretzels.

Find more tips on maintaining a healthy and well-balanced diet in the 3 Keys to a Healthier “U” information sheets and Canada’s food guide.

Lancer Gaming improved its record to 4-2 in National Association of Collegiate Esports competition after the Ryerson Rams failed to show for a League of Legends match Saturday, Feb. 27.

The Windsor side had been looking forward to playing a Canadian team that does not belong to Ontario Post-Secondary Esports, said head coach Ali Abduelmula.

Learn more on the program website.