UWindsor students who want to enhance their resumes with a professional and rewarding experience should consider the Centre for Career Education’s Volunteer Internship Program (VIP). The application deadline is March 15 to participate in the summer 2012 term.
Participants contribute 40 hours of volunteer work in a non-profit organization in the Windsor-Essex community and attend career development workshops and activities. In exchange, they get work-related experience, networking opportunities, and recognition on their academic transcripts.
Past job titles have included:
Korissa Williams
Mar 2nd, 2012
How can graduate supervisors and mentors adjust their approach in order to communicate more effectively with their students? And what can instructors and supervisors do when an impasse or outright conflict arises?
Tracy C. Davis, professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Northwestern University, will offer a special presentation to faculty and staff on graduate supervising and mentoring, March 16 at 10 a.m.
Mar 2nd, 2012
The Document Imaging Centre is offering a special incentive to use its services this month.
Any order placed in March will earn each customer a coupon worth 25 per cent off the next regular-priced order for black and white and colour impressions on any paper in stock, including wide-format posters.
The coupons are valid until April 27 and may not be used for typesetting, design, CourseWare, stationery or previously quoted jobs.
Mar 2nd, 2012
The Human Kinetics Speaker Series presents Steve Manske delivering his free public lecture, “Learning for Action Systems in Youth Health,” at noon Friday, March 2, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
Mar 1st, 2012
The following Non Union Administration position is available to all applicants through Human Resources.
The following posting closes on Tuesday, March 6, at 4 p.m.
#2012-NU-01 Research Finance Manager, Financial Services – Research Finance
The Marketplace food court’s multicultural week goes south of the border today with a Mexican menu featuring vegetable escabeche Dona Vito; bone-in chicken breast with apricot mole; and beef rib chili.
Thursday’s Italian celebration features chicken marsala with grape vine; homemade porcini-infused beef ragu with fresh egg tagliatelle; and tofu cacciatore.
The Marketplace food court serves lunch and dinner in the CAW Student Centre.
Feb 29th, 2012
Campus flags will be lowered today in memory of retiree Corrado De Concini, who died Monday, February 27.
De Concini commenced working at the University of Windsor in 1969 as a custodian in Facility Services, a position he held until his retirement in 1988.
University Players has dedicated its production of The Seagull, March 1 to 11 at Essex Hall Theatre, to the late David French, a playwright and past UWindsor writer-in-residence.
French died in 2010; this production is his adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece.
It’s billed as the only contest in which a paper airplane could take you around the world, and it’s coming to the University of Windsor campus Tuesday, February 28.
The Engineering Society is hosting a local qualifier for the Red Bull Paper Wings in the CAW Student Centre, noon to 4 p.m. Winners will travel, all expenses paid, to Toronto for the national finals. The winners there will represent Canada for the world finals in Austria.
Engineering Society acting president Lotus Pupulin said the event promises a lot of fun for contestants and spectators.
A campus-wide notification system intended to keep the UWindsor community safe and informed in an emergency while providing real-time information sharing with public safety agencies won accolades at a recent Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in Toronto.