Four percussionists will play lead parts in a free public recital by student musicians Monday, April 2, at 4 p.m. in room 139, Music Building.

Part of the School of Music’s Take 4 series, the program features:

• Percussionist Meghan Chamberlain performing movement two, “Allegro,” from October Night by Michael Burritt.
• Percussionist Rashaana Cumberbatch performing “The 1908 rag: Wild cherries” by Harry Breuer.
• Percussionist Aaron Eichler performing “Hymn for an Angelic Child” by Gus Burghdorf.
• Percussionist Jessica Dickie performing “Log Cabin Blues” by George Hamilton Green.
• Violist Fiona Lam performing the first movement of “Concert for Viola in D Major” by Franz Anton Hoffmeister accompanied by pianist Ruth Wiebe.
• Pianist Annabelle Brault performing “über Nel cor più non mi sento” and “La Molinara von G. Paisiello” from Variationen für Klavier: Sechs Variationen by Ludwig van Beethoven and “Não Me Fujas Assim (Don’t Run Away From Me Like That)” by Ernesto Julio de Nazareth.
• Pianist Carl Binasoy performing “Prelude and Fugue in E minor” BWV 855 by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Events in the Take 4 series are free and open to the public.

As the winter semester comes to a close, many students are still looking for a summer job to earn money, develop their skills, and meet valuable contacts. The March Career Information Brief, published by the Centre for Career Education, offers some resources and advice to assist students reach the important goal of finding work this summer.

The centre maintains a job postings site on the myCareer portal, and offers services to help students with career development, including:

• vocational assessments to help identify potential career paths and choices;
• one-on-one career advising;
• experiential learning programs such as the Volunteer Internship Program;
• assistance with resume and cover letter writing, job search planning, and interview preparation and practice through mock interview sessions.

The briefs are aimed at providing faculty and staff with timely information they can use to assist students. Read the current edition, as well as previous briefs, on the centre’s Web site.

The Health Research Centre for the Study of Violence Against Women offers research grants for up to $500 for graduate student research on topics related to violence against women.

The spring 2012 deadline has been extended to April 15. Calls for applications will also be made in the fall with a deadline of November 15.

The application is available on the centre’s Web site. For more information, contact Patti A. Timmons Fritz at pfritz@uwindsor.ca.

Faculty members from around campus doing research or scholarly work related to the environment now have a unique opportunity to be the first recipients of one of two fellowships that would allow them to work at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research for six months.

Last year GLIER received $36,000 from the university’s Strategic Priority Fund to host two UWindsor faculty members from various departments around campus in order to increase interdisciplinary collaborations, broaden the depth of the institute’s work and foster more environmental research across campus.

“If you do any kind of environmental work you’ll make a lot of connections with the faculty and students who work here, you’ll get to explore the facilities and see a lot of the top-notch equipment we work with every day,” said Dan Heath, who will soon take over as GLIER's director. “It’s really a terrific opportunity.”

Environmental scientists are welcome to apply, but the fellowships are also open to faculty members from disciplines that might not typically work with the institute like history, music or visual art, Dr. Heath said. Successful applicants will be awarded $18,000 for teaching release and other costs and will be expected to relocate to GLIER’s Riverside Drive facility for the duration of their fellowship, which will begin sometime this year.

Anyone interested in applying for the fellowship should submit a copy of their CV and a 500 word description of their proposed activity to Mary Lou Scratch at mscratch@uwindsor.ca by no later than May 15.

Read a full description of the fellowship.

To exhibit the wide range of media — from traditional painting and drawing to multimedia and installation art — explored by bachelor of fine arts students graduating from the School of Visual Arts takes more than one gallery.

Students will transform the studio classrooms in the LeBel Building into gallery spaces for this semester’s showcase, Twelve°, April 2 to 5.

After four years of study and countless hours logged in their studios, these students are ready to prove themselves as professional artists. The exhibitors include:

• Hiba Abdallah
• Marcy Boles
• Miriam Brathwaite
• Sara Curley
• Diane Dosen
• Kevin Echlin
• Brandon Lemire
• Dongni Li
• Veronica Murawski
• Ann Roth
• Stephen Surlin
• Jessica Terpstra

A free public reception celebrating the exhibition is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5.

It’s hard to be sick.

That’s the lesson students in professor Cheri Hernandez’s class “Chronicity in Health Care” took from a project which challenged them to adhere for one week to a regimen prescribed for patients living with chronic illness.

“I wanted them to be better nurses,” Dr. Hernandez said Wednesday, after hearing presentations on the student experiences. “Health professionals who have empathy recognize that complete adherence is impossible.”

The students divided into six groups and devised regimens to mimic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, post-bariatric surgery, chronic kidney disease, and Type 1 diabetes.

Adopting specialized diets, restricted mobility, strict medication schedules, or even mandated rest periods proved difficult. In fact, not one of the students was able to complete the project.

Third-year nursing student Kimberly Mitchell works as a personal support worker at a retirement home, and so was able to access a walker and wheelchair to simulate the experience of late-stage multiple sclerosis. She found that timing posed the greatest challenge.

“Part of our regimen was to get eight hours of sleep a day,” she said. “Between studying, work and family, that’s what I would normally get in two days.”

She said the experience definitely helped her to sympathize with clients.

“You’re producing a better graduating class,” Mitchell said.

One consistent message that Hernandez was happy to hear from the students was that the project is only a taste of what patients must endure.

“I wouldn’t want to think that since they have tried to live by a regimen for one week that they fully shared an illness,” she said. “I was glad to hear them acknowledge they will never know what it is like.”

The charity benefiting from a student-organized dodgeball tournament got an unexpected bonus, as the winning team turned over its $500 prize for the cause.

The tournament -- Saturday, March 24, at Assumption College Catholic High School -- was the brainchild of a group in business professor Martha Reavley’s Management and Organizational Behaviour Class: Zach Braga, Tyler Jahn, Evan Rhyno, Mohamad Zein and Nowshin Nur.

“Overall it went spectacular,” said Jahn. “As we dwindled down to the finals, everyone was duking it out and in the end, Team Meadows won.”

The Meadows members turned the $500 prize over to the Miracle League of Amherstburg. The league’s president, Chuck Bondy, said the donation made an impact.

“It’s fantastic!” Bondy said. “Any time we can get any amount, it’s an impressive thing.”

The Miracle League of Amherstburg maintains a specialized baseball diamond for intellectually and physically disabled players.

— Brendan Johnson

If you want to give blood before exams start, time is running out. The Canadian Blood Service will hold its final blood donor clinic of the semester Tuesday, April 3, in Ambassador Auditorium in the CAW Student Centre from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For this clinic, the Canadian Blood Service will use its appointment system. It encourages donors to book appointments by calling 1-888-2DONATE (1-888-236-6283). Walk-in donors are still welcome but appointments will better accommodate donors' working schedules.

As with previous clinics, the Department of Human Resources encourages all eligible employees to participate in this worthwhile process and asks any employees who wish to donate to make the necessary arrangements with their supervisors regarding the possibility of extended lunch or break periods.

The following union position is available to internal bargaining unit members only. Bargaining unit members interested in this position are requested to apply in writing by completing an 'Application for Transfer' form and forwarding it to: Department of Human Resources or employment@uwindsor.caon or before 4 p.m. on the posting closing date. Please note: Union positions are covered by the union collective agreement, therefore, please be aware that we must allow our qualified unionized staff the first opportunity for transfer or promotion to these positions. This opportunity is not available to external applicants.

CAW 2458 Full Time

#2012-FT-07 General Secretary ‘5’ in the Department of Biological Sciences
The following posting closes April 5, at 4 p.m.

This is one of four positions within the administrative offices of the department reporting to the department head.

This position acts as the receptionist for the department to field and direct inquiries from students and visitors either at the counter or by telephone. This position provides secretarial support for the department including typing, filing, photocopying, scheduling of appointments.

The successful candidate with have excellent organizational skills; good oral and written communication skills; excellent initiative; public relations; and interpersonal skills including experience working with the public and students; high degree of tact and confidentiality; working knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel, email and internet applications, typing speed 40 NWPM. Testing: Typing, MS Word (Basic Level), MS Excel (Basic Level).