The Lancer men’s and women’s basketball teams will open the 2011-12 season with a pair of home games this weekend at the St. Denis Centre. Windsor will host the Laurentian Voyageurs on Friday and the York Lions on Saturday; the women will play at 6 p.m. and the men at 8 p.m. both nights.
Fans will want to be sure to attend Friday, as the Department of Athletics honours the University of Windsor’s three reigning Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship teams.
The following Non Union Administration position is available to all applicants through Human Resources.
The following posting closes on November 16, 2011.
#2011-NU-25 Legal Assistant, Department of Legal Services
The Windsor International Film Festival is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win four free tickets to a screening Friday or Saturday at the Capitol Theatre.
The festival will feature more than 30 films from November 10 to 13. General admission is $12. Find more information, including a full list of film titles and times, on the festival Web site.
The Assumption Heritage Trust Foundation presents an exhibition of pieces preserved by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Wednesday, November 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Organizers promise “a peek into the past and a look into the future.”
Connie Giglio, the foundation’s director of public affairs, said the teaching order had touched countless lives since its founding in 1843.
Campus flags will be lowered today in memory of retiree Clarence Weidman, who died November 4. Weidman joined the University’s staff as a stationary engineer in Facility Services, a position he held until his retirement in 1994. Funeral services are planned for today; details are available in his obituary.
The following Non Union Administration position is available to all applicants through Human Resources.
#2011-NU-24 ESL Instructor (Part-Time, 24 hours or less) – Temporary / Contract, Centre for English Language Development; January 11, 2012 to April 13, 2012 (five positions)
The following posting closes on November 16, 2011.
A Collective Agreement has been successfully ratified by the Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) representing 581 full time faculty and librarians and 364 sessional members. WUFA members accepted the agreement in a vote on November 1, and the University’s Board of Governors also successfully ratified the agreement during a special meeting November 2.
UWindsor President Alan Wildeman expressed his appreciation for the successful completion of bargaining.
The United Nations has declared 2011 to be the International Year of Chemistry, marking the centennial of Maria Sklodowska-Curie’s second Nobel Prize. To honour the occasion, the Leddy Library will display an exhibition about the life and achievements of the Warsaw-born chemist.
According to fourth-year nursing students Kelsi Mayne and Mia Milivojevic, environmental noise levels can mean a case of hear today, gone tomorrow, for our ears.
The two invite the campus community to a brown-bag conference on noise-induced hearing loss, Thursday, November 3, from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s second-floor boardroom.
As part of the University’s Fall Open House, members of the public are invited to tour the Centre for Engineering Innovation from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, November 4.
Tours highlights include:
