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A new professor in the Odette School of Business is hoping his business acumen can help build on Windsor’s well-earned reputation for generosity and caring by bolstering the area’s non-profit sector through research and increased collaboration.

“There’s a need for a multidisciplinary approach to some of the contributions the non-profit sector is making to this community,” said Chris Fredette, who comes to UWindsor from the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University.

A series of images by photographer Dan Reaume documents the current state of progress towards the completion of the Centre for Engineering Innovation.

View more photos in a Facebook album.

The campus community is invited to Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope of Detroit’s Power House Productions for a seminar entitled “In the Neighbourhood” at 10 a.m. Friday, October 19, in room 130, Assumption University.

The principals of the Design 99 studio will lead a discussion on the role and responsibility of artists and designers in the community.

The event is part of the Distinguished Speakers Series of the Humanities Research Group, which will sponsor a reception to follow.

A new faculty member in the Odette School of Business is hoping to build on the department’s existing strengths and make it an even more research-intensive institution.

“There clearly is an intention to change the culture, and I came here with the intent to be a part of that change,” says Alan Richardson an accounting professor and the new Odette Research Chair.