The Department of Human Resources invites the campus community to the annual Employee Recognition Awards reception on Wednesday, January 27, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium.

At this event, the Employee Recognition Program Awards will be presented to the following recipients:

• Service Excellence Award (Individual) – Arpa Smith, team leader, client services, Information Technology Services
• Service Excellence Award (Team) – Faculty of Graduate Studies and Office of Quality Assurance team: Carrie Carr , James Gauld, Svetlana Georgieva, Debbie Kane, Erica Lyons Christine Maitre, Angie Penev, Alison Samson , Nancy Steeves, Lisa Timperio and Barbara Zimmerman
• Service Excellence Award  (The First Five Years of Service) – Dana Wiley, undergraduate secretary, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Excellence in Leadership Award – Jessica Raffoul, teaching and learning research and communications coordinator, Centre for Teaching and Learning
• Impact Award – Michelle Freeman, associate professor and graduate coordinator, Faculty of Nursing
• “U” Make a Difference Award – Russell Nahdee, coordinator, Aboriginal Education Centre
• Excellence in Health and Safety Award – Trevor Pittman, concert producer and operations manager, School of Creative Arts

Faculty and staff are asked to RSVP by January 22, online at http://www.uwindsor.ca/hr/rsvp or by contacting Oliga Tserakhava by e-mail at oligat@uwindsor.ca or by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 2044.

Fun and frolics to thaw students’ way into winter semester are the promise of Frost Week, January 11 to 15.

The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance presents a line-up of activities that includes:

• a chance to view live animals, from lizards and snakes to a kangaroo, Monday in the CAW Student Centre Commons;
• a game day and free film screening of the sports drama Southpaw Tuesday;
• two rounds of bingo—dirty and dirtier—Wednesday in Ambassador Auditorium;
• magician and hypnotist Spidey, Thursday;
• a bus trip to the North American International Auto Show Friday.

Find details, including admission prices and ticket info, on the Frost Week Facebook page.

The University Print Shop is offering customers a bonus to open 2016: for every order of $75 or more, receive a free flip desktop calendar.

Designed and printed in-house, they feature a coil binding and measure 7.25 x 5.5 inches. Their tent shape keeps them upright.

Call or e-mail for a quote: 519-253-3000, ext. 3680; printshop@uwindsor.ca.

A panel of jurists will discuss “Lessons learned by holding court within Walpole Island First Nation,” in a free lunch-hour event Tuesday.

Panelists include judge Deborah Austin of the Ontario Court of Justice, indigenous lawyer Matthew Stone, and Donna Day, justice coordinator for Walpole Island First Nation, unceded territory at the mouth of the St. Clair River.

Sponsored by the Transnational Law and Justice Network, the event runs noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Moot Court, Ron W. Ianni Faculty of Law Building.

A free workshop Tuesday in the Leddy Library will discuss how to write an effective summary, or abstract, describing a research project.

Hosted by the Writing Support Desk in conjunction with the UWill Discover conference, it is geared to students planning to submit to the conference or a journal will little or no experience.

The one-hour session will begin at 4 p.m. January 12 in room 302, Leddy West. The March 29 UWill Discover conference is geared toward undergraduate students, but all students are welcome to attend this workshop.

The Justice at Work conference—Wednesday, January 13, on the theme of “Lawyering for Change”—will bring to campus leaders in the public interest arena to illustrate pathways to legal careers that advance social justice.

It will open with a discussion on “How to Use Your Law Degree for Change,” featuring panellists:

• Ari Kaplan, a partner at Koskie Minsky LLP and a former trustee of the Law Foundation of Ontario;
• Alhagi Marong, a legal affairs officer for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and a senior research fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law;
• Sukanya Pillay, a UWindsor alumna (BA communication studies 1987, LLB 1990) and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Education Trust;
• Andrew Pinto, Windsor Law grad (LLB 1993) and a partner at Pinto Wray James LLP practicing in the areas of employment, labour, administrative, civil litigation and human rights law;

• MPP Jagmeet Singh, deputy leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and its critic for the Attorney General.

Activist, author and award-winning journalist Desmond Cole will deliver a keynote address over lunch. A career fair and networking session will follow.

For details, including event locations and registration, visit the conference website.

In December 1976, just weeks before a Jamaican election and two days before reggae superstar Bob Marley was to play a free concert to ease political tensions, seven men stormed his house with machine guns. Marley survived and went on to perform, but the next day he left the country and didn’t return for two years.

In his novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, author Marlon James uses this incident to spin a compelling story that is part mystery, part thriller, and a provocative alternative history. Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, it is the Campus Bookstore’s Book of the Week.

Normally $22, the paperback version is selling for just $15.88 through January 17. The Campus Bookstore is located on the lower level of the CAW Student Centre.