With its theme of “Promise,” the 2017/18 Viewbook lays out the unique benefits of a UWindsor education, says Lionel Walsh, assistant vice president for North American recruitment.

The publication lists admission requirements, application procedures and costs for each of the University’s undergraduate major and minor degree programs, as well as information on financial aid, academic supports, residence life, athletics, campus amenities and more.

“It’s our most important recruitment publication,” Walsh says. “We send it to any high school student anywhere in Canada who enquires about enrolling here.”

This year’s edition, designed by Renee Bombardier of Public Affairs and Communications, highlights a message that will bear repeating at every stage in the recruitment cycle, he says.

“The University of Windsor promise is our commitment to helping each of our students fulfil their own promise,” says Walsh. “We are big enough to offer a wide variety of opportunities and small enough that students won’t get lost in the shuffle.”

He expects the idea will find expression in many aspects of the student experience, making good on the promise the institution offers: “It’s up to each one of us to determine how we are going to live up to the promise within us, and how we will make that promise a reality.”

To get a copy of the UWindsor Viewbook, drop by the Student Recruitment office in the Welcome Centre; it is also available online.

When Brryan Jackson was just 11 months old, his father knowingly injected him with HIV-tainted blood. Five years later, Jackson’s doctors diagnosed him with full-blown AIDS and offered him and his family no hope of survival.

Since then, Jackson has been defying the odds and sharing his story in hopes of inspiring others to overcome adversity.

He will ask members of the UWindsor community “Who do you dare to become?” in a free public presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 15, in the Winclare Room, Vanier Hall.

The Residence Services and Student Experience offices are sponsoring the event as part of Suicide Prevention Awareness Week.

Thomas King—novelist, scholar, activist, and author of The Inconvenient Indian—will present a free public talk as part of Humanities Week activities, at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 15, in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium.

Dr. King is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph and published his first novel, Medicine River, in 1989.

The book is considered an honest portrayal of the day-to-day life of Native Canadians and marked King as an important new voice in Canadian literature. In his 1990 article, Godzilla vs. Postcolonial, King challenged the view that all Native literature is a reaction to colonialism, rather than an extension of longer Native tradition.

He was nominated for a Governor General’s award in 1993 for his second novel, Green Grass, Running Water and followed it in 1999 with Truth and Bright Water.

King is noted for mixing humor, traditional Native mythology and contemporary issues in his work, which also includes children’s literature, a number of anthologies on Native writers, The Dead Dog Cafe series of radio scripts for the CBC during the 1990s, and his more recent novel, The Inconvenient Indian.

Find a complete list of Humanities Week activities on the website of the Humanities Research Group.

UWindsor drama alumna Elley-Ray Hennessy (BFA 1981) will share her expertise in voice acting in a three-day workshop, October 14 to 16.

“The Magic of Voice” will feature exercises to create characters and expand vocal range, techniques to bring a script to life, tips to success in auditioning and the basics of the business, and more.

Hennessy, recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University in 2015, is one of the busiest voice-over artists in North America, appearing in literally thousands of television and radio commercials, animated series and feature films. Her credits include childhood favourites like the Canadian-produced series Franklin, Babar, and the Berenstain Bears.

The workshop is open to faculty, staff, and students in all programs. The cost $250 fee includes the workshop, lunch and snacks for the three days. To register, contact Maureen Haggith in the School of Dramatic Art at mhaggith@uwindsor.ca or 519-253-3000, ext. 2804.

A reception Friday will honour high-achieving student researchers in the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory.

The event gets underway at 3:30 p.m. September 16 in room 1118A, Centre for Engineering Innovation.

All are welcome to attend. For more information about the Turbulence and Energy Lab, please visit uwindsor.ca/engineering/research/.

The Uni-Com Retirement Learning Centre invites seniors to apply for enrolment in its fall courses, covering a wide range of interests.

Study groups convene once a week starting September 19, for five or nine weeks. Available choices include:

• Poetry for All;
• Muslims and Islam in North America;
• An Intimate Experience with Art;
• Modernism and Post Modernism;
• iPads and iPhones;
• Ancient Greek Civilization;
• Fitness and Self-Defence;
• The Two Hundred Year Legacy of Hiram Walker; and
• Albert Camus: the Myth of Sisyphus and the Outsider.

Most classes take place at Iona College, 208 Sunset Avenue. Find more information or enrol on the Uni-Com website, or phone Uni-Com coordinator Bill McRae at 519-253-3000, ext. 3430.